Something New

I should probably stop starting new projects with some unfinished ones that are crying out my name. But oh well.

So far I've got this:

Wytches live on the moon. We don't see this because of the glamour. The wytches aren't happy with our progress space-wise. Soon we'll discover them and the other worlds out there and their Prophetesses see a war coming when this does happen.

There are two kinds of wytches. Wytchresses and Prophetesses. Wytchresses are born on lunar eclipses and Prophetesses on solar eclipses. My MC, Levana, was born on neither a solar or a lunar eclipse. She is the subject of a prophecy by a Prophetess, and her mother wasn't happy with this as it would take her daughter's free will right away.

Her solution? Send her kid to Earth with a close friend to live in a sort of peace until the time comes for her to learn who she is.

That's all I've got so far. Oh, as well as a best friend romance. But I'm just going to write this all down and save it somewhere I won't look at again until I finish something!

New Design

As you may have noticed--I'd suggest an eye check if you haven't--I've got a new blog design.

*oohs and aahs*

How pretty is it?

The wonderfully talented Mariella H (you may remember her from this post) fixed this all up for me overnight like magic!

I got to choose the picture and she basically made the colour scheme to match the photo which I found off of weheartit.

Snaps for Mariella!!!

Short Story Anthology

OK.
Some of you might know a lovely Australian called Sharon. She's recently had a short story published in the AusLit Reviews Basics of Life anthology, but you might know her better through the writing site inkpop.
Since I found out about AusLit Review I've been trolling their website and I found this.

A science-based Australian anthology call for submissions.
I'm going to enter. I've got till New Years Eve to submit my 4-10k short story and I'm pushing everything else aside to work on it.

I've had a lot of ideas for this and for some reason they've all revolved around scents.

Original Idea: perfuming assassin. Perfuming = chemistry. 

Why I'm not using it? Spray bottles weren't invented until late 20th century and in 1993 the production and selling of poisons in Australia as well as 165 other countries were axed. I'm not enough of a history buff to set a story in a specific year between the two events.
I could have always set it way back in time, but that would mean no spray bottles and I'd have to use essential oils and that kind of thing. Rubbing perfume into gloves and other stuff. Also not enough of a history buff for this. Idea terminated. 


I went along a long line of variations from this idea and eventually got to this:


In the near future scientists have developed drugs that can--

Shoot, I've got to go. I'll finish this post later.

Ciao ciao. 

Pretty Blogs

There's so many out there.

*sigh*

And mine just looks tacky.

My mission for this week (as well as actually doing my homework and cleaning my room and writing a debating speech and practicing clarinet and checking up on violin lessons and writing my resume and searching for awards I stupidly didn't organise and going to Mary's house to help her write her speech and bake muffins and see Harry Potter and...I'll stop now) is to GET A RELATIVELY DECENT LOOKING BLOG.

It's just too plain for me to bear.
The site won't look original, but I'm past caring.

If there's any sites you invisibles would like to suggest for blog designs or anything, comment, please!

The Escapism Project

JOY. HAPPINESS. BLISS. 

I'm now part of The Escapism Project!

What is that?

Well! It's a blog about writing and reading and books in general. I'm doing this with a LOT of friends/friends of friends, and when I say "a lot", I mean it. There's going to be a maximum of 100 bloggers. Why? So you, the readers (subliminal messaging...) will be able to read a number of varying personalities, so there's a good change you'll find someone you can relate to!

There'll be regular bloggers who are assigned days, and then there are odd-jobs like me, who are non conformists and post whenever we damn feel like it XD Within reason, of course. We don't want to clog the site. So if you are one of my ghosts feel free to comment if you have any suggestions to what I should post about! 

A big shout out to Mariella H who organised this whole site, and let everyone know about it. 

So, go read it! Like it on Facebook! Advertise!

And watch out for my name!

Facebook Page

Website

Covers for Ariwriter

Here you go :)

Unfamiliar

Not My Life

Roses by the Lake

Trapped Innocence

Butterfly

Break-down.

Today, I had one.

It was not pretty.

I cried for the first time at school, the first time in front of my friends, and the first time in front of a teacher (that wasn't my mum--Yr 7 teacher :/ Imagine having your mum teach you safe contraceptive and how to put on a condom. That's. Awkward).

Most embarrassing thing of my life...so far.

And what over? Stress. A whole build-up of stress that had curled itself into a tight little ball--a bit like a bomb.

School-work, my upcoming holiday and all the stress of reorganizing due dates, renovation, my English teachers absence and how I'd only be at school on Tuesday next week all contributed to my break down.

Next time, I don't want to collapse into tears. I don't want my little stress bomb to even THINK of blowing up.

So, if anyone actually reads this, do you have any ways that you help relieve stress?