OK.  I have a plot,a timeline, and some scenes.  But, I need a story!  My characters need to JUMP off the page and the readers need to be on the edge of their seats waiting, needing to see what happens next! 

Looks like play time is over, time to get to work.  Soon, maybe. 

"The Mouse and the Empress" 

Finished the "Get It Down" phase!  This is a fantasy novel; Tolkein-esqe but not nearly as complex as his world.  But there are different twists to my world.  :D  Now I have to do a self-edit then pass is on to other editors.  We shall see what happens!!! 

May post some of it here later. 

Shhhh!!!  

Last project is almost done!  It's due tonight at midnight.  I will post the webpage below, in case it looks interesting to you, the reader.  Working a part-time night shift at a data scoring company for a few weeks before school starts again in August. 

Will post updates on the "get it down" draft of my first completed book currently titled: The Mouse and the Empress. 

http://alearningengagement.weebly.com/index.html

Seems like I don't get much writing done unless its homework.  I need better writing habits. Meh!!! 

This is an amazing book I found while taking graduate class. 

Just got back from Animazement in Raleigh, NC!!!  So many cosplays, so little time!!!  Made me want to find another convention to go to and so I created the list below!!!  Feel free to comment if there is an Anime, Science-Fiction or Gaming convention that you think is missing!!!  Focusing on SouthEast but have listed Origins and GenCon because they are a MUST for die hard gamers!!! 


January
http://ichibancon.dyndns.org/

March
http://www.stellarcon.org/
http://www.megaconvention.com/

May
http://www.animazement.org/  - attended 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010
http://www.balticon.org/
http://imagicon.org/imagine2010/

June
http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/
http://www.originsgamefair.com/ - Want to go!!!

July
http://www.comic-con.org/ - Want to go!!!

August
http://www.gencon.com/ - Want to go!!!
or
http://www.reconstructionsf.org/

September
http://www.dragoncon.org/ - Want to go!!!  Big enuf to have own PARADE!!!  
or
http://www.cumberland.lib.nc.us/ccplyouth/teens-Librari-Con2009.htm

October
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlizzCon - Want to go!!! 

November
http://www.nekocon.com/
or
http://www.justusproductions.com/mace.php
or
http://www.nccomicon.com/

FYI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinoc*con

http://www.renovationsf.org/

http://www.rtsfs.com/links.html

http://alkynthiasoma.deviantart.com/

http://kai-isolated.deviantart.com/

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/880/kaokenpa048tk4.jpg

http://con-news.com/?p=4661

School is back in session and I have a volunteer job, so I am busy again.  Oh, happy day!!! 

I love the books in this new class which just happens to be about teaching writing.  They have introduced me to the works of a great man: Don Murray.  I may post more about the class in the future if something truly worthy pops up.  Here is the wiki for him.  Not much, but it's a start. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Murray_(writer)

I have worked on the novel a little bit so I have broken the writer's block.  Once again, I am inching towards the completion of the first draft!!!  

Still need to find and post in chapters my 2004 NaNoWriMo.  Maybe this weekend because of the holiday. 

OK Now to learn about LJ-cuts so my whole story isn't listed in the Journal! 

http://community.livejournal.com/drabble_writers/3344.html

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75