Weekend Goals

Hey!  Here's another weekend of my goals!  This weekend is my writing weekend, so I'll be writing every single spare second I have.  My goal, is to get done with everything I usually need to get done with.  And get half way through my Little Mermaid short story re-telling.

Traveling takes Patience

  “Hermes!”  Thacia shouted at the top of her lungs, “We need you!”

  Beside her, Addy shouted also.  Thacia placed her finger in her ear, plugging it viciously, “Do you need to be so loud?!”  Thacia asked, “I’m right here!”

  Addy placed her palms over her ears, “Well, you don’t have to be so loud too!”

  “I can be as loud as I want!”  Thacia shouted.

  Thacia and Addy began arguing until they heard a groan from behind them.  “Girls, I’m right here.  No need to shout so loud.”

  Thacia turned around, at the same time Addy did.  It was Hermes standing in front of them.  “So, what can I do for my two favorite demigods?”  he asked with a smile.

  Thacia smirked at the sentence.  That was right.  She and Addy were his favorites.  Blow that in your face, Dad!  Addy launched into a very detailed and frustrated explanation of how they had gotten left behind.  Thacia put in a few nasty comments directed toward the abandoners too.  “So, we need you to take us to San Francisco,” Addy finished explaining.

  He nodded and smiled, “Anything for my two favorite thieving demigods.”

  “Now, before we go, we’re assuming you have some pretty funny stories of our dads today,” Addy asked.

  Hermes nodded, “Yes.  We were talking just the other day, wondering how you two are not my kids.  I mean, don’t get offended, but you two are more like me than your fathers.”

  “That’s because the world knew it couldn’t handle us as sisters,” Thacia answered.

  Hermes rolled his eyes, “You two pretty much are sisters.”

  Addy leaned into Hermes, raising her brow, “Exactly.  Imagine how much more horrifying we’d be as sisters.”

  Hermes laughed, “Don’t even give me that thought.”

  “So you taken us or what?!”  Thacia asked.

  Hermes nodded, “Traveling takes patience.”

  “Wow, that was a wise saying for you, Hermes,” Addy commented.

  Hermes stopped for a moment, looking away, “You’re right.  I’m getting to old.”

  Thacia crossed her arms, waiting- trying to be patient-for the ride.  Hermes saw how impatient Thacia was getting, and rolled his eyes, “If you have to be in such a rush.”

  Hermes snapped his fingers, and instantly the scenery changed.  It was horrible, loud, and smelly.  It was definitely San Francisco.  Hermes was still in front of us, and he pointed behind us.  “Your friends are right there, surrounded, and about to destroy the world.  Have fun.”  Then Hermes disappears.

  Thacia turned and smiled at Addy, “This looks like fun!”

  At her words, the monsters who surrounded their friends turned to Thacia and Addy.  Two broke off from the group, to run after us.  “Yes!”  Thacia shouted in triumphant glory, and saw Addy smile beside her.  “Let the excitement begin!”

  And it certainly did.  For the next forty-five seconds, they fought the monsters off, and killed them.  When the last of the two were dead, Thacia turned to Addy and high fived her.  “No sweat!”  

  Addy high fived her, than frowned.  “What?”  Thacia asked.

 “They’re leaving us again,” Addy said, as she passed Thacia, and sprinted after them.

  “Again!?”  Thacia yelled, as she turned and followed Addy.

  After a few minutes of running, they caught up, and they all stopped.  Thacia furrowed her brow at the sight of an sea cow in the ocean beside them, and Grover slipping into it.  “What’s that again?”  Thacia asked.

  “That’s an Ophiotaurus,” Addy answered.

  Thacia nodded, and she and Addy cleared their throats at the same time.  Percy, Zoe, and Thalia all turned around to face them.  “All right,” Thacia said.  Addy continued, “Update.”

Weekend Goals

Here is another weekend of my goals!  And this weekend, I have the goal to start the little mermaid retelling I’m working on.  Hopefully, I can start it, and be somewhat into it by the end of the weekend.  I’ll also be finishing up the Realm Walkers post for y’all, and continuing my new project- I have not come up with a name for that yet.  Anyways, wish me luck, and allons-y!!

Revised Resolutions

  Most of you know that I made a list of resolutions at the beginning of the year, and posted it on here.  Well, I’m back now to make a few changes.  Basically, I am going to take a year long break from Dawns Rise, because it’s stressing me out, and it’s making my brain explode from confusion.  Since I’m not going to do Dawns Rise though, I’m making a few changes.  I’m going to write two pages a day for the new project I’m working on, and I’m going back to posting once every week on here.  Anways, those are the updates.  Have a great week, everyone!

Weekend Goals

Hey!  So here is another week of my weekend goals, and I have been feeling very productive lately.  I also, have changed some of my writing schedule around, so I'm going to be updating all of you on that next week.  But this weekend my goal- besides my regular daily stuff- is to get done with Realm Walkers.  I can't get much done this weekend because I'm very busy this weekend.  Thank you, and I'll be starting on my goal now.

Short Story

Life is really just a series of unexpected events.  And for me, this is an accurate description of my life.  People call me, Beebee, but my name is Beatrix.  I remember several odd events which have happened to me through the course of my fascinating life.  A few, for example, is the time I saw someone jump off an ice cream cart, which I then proceeded to imitate.  Another, was when I ran into a mule in New York City, and I then rode on the poor thing, screaming that I was batman.  And to top off with a final cherry, there was a time which I ate a whole table of candy at a really really fancy restaurant- just because I was feeling a bit wild.

  But you’re not here to read about my strange happenings… Well, I suppose you are, but not those ones.  I was planning to tell you about the time that I saw ten different people get electrocuted at the same time, and the events that followed, but I just changed my mind- I’m feeling a bit wild today.  Instead I’ll inform you of the thing that happened to me just the other day, as I was hiking up a gravel road to find my lost turtle, which my cousin had lost three years ago.  And yes, I know it was a long time ago, but there’s always hope.  

  Anyways, I was walking up this gravel road, hoping to find my turtle, Buster.  I had pinpointed the location which seemed the most obvious for him to be after three years.  I was just hoping I wouldn’t find his dead corpse on the road.  Anyways, twenty miles away from my house, on a gravel road, I heard this truck behind me.  So, I turned around, to get a good long look at the truck which would someday do stuff- I didn’t know what the stuff was, I just knew it would see more than a gravel road someday.  But anyways, back to the story, I saw a silver Honda truck driving up the road, ready to run me over, so I quickly made a dramatic jump into the bushes.  

  After bruising a couple ribs from the rocks I had landed on, I quickly jumped up, and raced after the car, to ask if they had seen my pet turtle.  Because, hey, there’s always hope… Plus, I wanted to perhaps engage in an adulty conversation of politics and tea- I don’t really know what adults talk about, I haven’t talked to them for awhile.  But anyways, I ran up the road, after Silver Honda, and I quickly fall behind- because I’m very bad at running.  But I persevered on.  I did look for my turtle on the way up though.  

  Eventually, I caught up to Silver Honda, which had stopped, and some lady was busy filing her nails in the driver’s seat.  She had on a business outfit, and the fancy stuff productive adults wear?  But what do I see on her shirt?  Blood stains!  I gasped, and hid behind a bush, as I watched her file her nails.  My imagination started running wild.  Did she murder someone?  Did she kill them with her claws?  Is that why she’s filing her nails?!  Because they’re actually claws!?  My mind went crazy, and every question from, what is the meaning of life, to, what’s for lunch, to, is she a politician, went through my mind.  At this point I started to think she had a problem.

  Then, finally, the lady got out of Silver Honda.  She walked with her back straight, her nose up in the air, and her high heels stepped on the gravel.  All the way to the back of Silver Honda she walked like this.  She opened up the back.  I held in a breath.  She reached into the back of the truck, and grabbed something that needs both hands.  Several things with that description went through my mind: Bookshelves, chairs, sometimes really big books, a dead body!?... Or a heavy box.  But anyways, while these things went through my mind, she pulled the thing out inch by inch.  I exhaled a small wisp of air, since breathing is required.  My limbs shook with nervous energy, and she almost has the thing out.

  She pulled it out.  It dropped to the ground.  And it’s a dead llama…

  Life is strange and cruel!

Weekend Goals

Hey!  Just wanted to update you all on my progress.  First of all, I did not meet last week’s goal.  However, I have not missed a single day on my new project, and I’m really excited for where it’s going.  Now, lo and behold, another weekend rolls around, and I must prepare for writing with no school as a distraction.  Unfortunately, I will not be able to do much writing, so I will not be doing much writing.  But, I still want to get one page written per day for my new project, and get done with the first chapter of Dawns Rise.  Anyways, geronimo.

Weekend Goals

Hey!  Today is my first weekend goals post.  If you don’t remember, I’m going to be posting these short posts every weekend.  Each post will have a writing goal to get done that weekend.  Anyways, this weekend, my goal is to finish getting Dawns Rise prepared, so next week I can begin the third rewrite.  Ugh!  Can I just say, rewrites are hard!

2016 Goals

Hey!  Happy New Years everyone!  2015 has drawn to a close, and I wanted to create a list of goals for 2016 that I can hopefully get done.  And just to not feel overwhelmed by all of my new goals, I've created a writing calendar to guide me along the challenges.  But I'll get to that later, right now, here are my writing goals for 2016:
1. I want to have the fourth draft of Dawns Rise begun by the end of the year.  I'm hoping to work on Dawns Rise everyday
2. I have a new project which was inspired by a quote I found.  
The quote sparked an idea in my mind, which is that I am going to write one page a day of a story I know nothing about at the moment, and see how it turns out by the end of the year.  I have purposely not thought of the project, just so I can start from scratch.  The only thing I actually know of the story at this moment, are these two things (the first one will be the beginning sentence):
              
3. I have a short fairy tale re-telling that I've been working on recently, and I'm planning to be done with it well before the end of the year, since it's so short
4. I want to meet more people in the writing universe

   And that's all I have for my writing goals, but I also have some revisions I want to make with my writing schedule.  And I'm telling you all the schedule, to keep my accountable.  Once a month I will have a writing weekend, where every single second of my free time I will write as much as possible.  Also, every weekend I will post on here a small writing goal I want to get done that weekend- just a small one, to make sure I'm still walking along in my writing journey.  Also, with my school, this blog, and my writing, I've realized I need to minimize the load on some of my projects.  So, I have changed posting on here from once every week, to only once every other week.  Anyways, that is all of the writing updates to know for the upcoming new year.
   But my life does not all consist of writing, so I have made a few simple life goals for this year.  Here it goes:
1. I want to save the world

 

2. Go to Mexico again
3. Write a letter to some of my favorite authors- Just because I want to
4. Read 45 books
5. Read ten books of the bible
6. Write down every good memory from this year, and put it in a jar

  

7. Start running or do some sort of exercise
8. Learn how to sword fight
9. Go hunting
10. Get my permit
11. Star a diary and write in it every day

12. Live!!!!

You all have a great New Years day!  Allons-y!