I started writing stories when I was three. To be more honest, I started dictating stories to my mom when I was three, but the love for making stories has been a part of my life since before I can remember.
Also, I guess I should mention that in grade three my report card read "Jessica has creative spelling skills" and in grade six it read "Jessica has horrible spelling skills" So take your pick... creative or horrible, I'm lost without my spell checker.
Killing Me
I finished writing this story a couple years ago. I was planning on sending it to a publishing house, but decided it needed some major work first, then Method Six came along and I'm far more involved in that one to work on Killing Me.
Anyway, if you'd read it, you've probably noticed that about 10 chapters in the whole story gets turned upside down. At the beginning I really wasn't planning that. But then I had this dream where I was in Ben's world but I kept waking up through it... and that got me thinking about how cool that would be in a story. So I took Killing Me in an ENTIRELY different direction.
Which turned out to be really cool. I like it a lot. But it's still not my best work.
Then The Phone RangThe time has come. I have written my proposals and they are being sent out soon. Hopefully, with luck on my side, this time next year I'll be announcing the release of this as a book. If you were in the middle of reading it here I am very sorry to have rudely interrupted you. I hope you will keep looking for it in book form, however! Thank you for your reviews, I have saved them all, actually some of them made me so happy I want to mention them in the finished product but then I'm getting ahead of myself. Hahaha. Feel free to contact me about anything.
Method Six: MythologyAfter many unsuccessful and near depressing attempts to have it published, I'm re-posting it. There's nothing like feedback to help improve a story.
About Method Six. This is my baby. I've been writing this series for almost 4 years now, and I love all the characters so much. Roun is my little cutie, and Lecoharazon is Me, I inserted most of my own characteristics onto him. Lydia is like my Eve - the mother of this entire story. Dhasop and I are best friends, and Illiberra is so much fun to write about! I feel so sorry for poor Trapesial, and Etrmur is so interesting to me. Even I haven't figured out half of what's going on in his head. Master Tye probably has the most history out of anyone in this story, he's one of only 6 human characters in this book.
A Cold and Rainy Winter is based on a character in Scion, the 3rd book, so if you want a taste of what's to come, go ahead!
I'm also writing a story titled "Another Time Another Place" About Trese, Litny, Bard and Jela before the events of the first book. When it's finished I'll start posting chapter by chapter.
Worlds Collide
This story was one about destiny, and I got my love story in there too, although not until the last few pages. It's about giving your best effort and still failing, about being completely incapable of reaching your goal... and about having things work out all along to bring the perfect solution. I read a quote that really influenced my ending 'It will all be okay in the end, if it's not okay... it's not the end.' I really tried to describe the characters based on their actions. Instead of saying Anna is stubborn, I make sure that everytime she doesn't get her way she has a fit, that she presses her opinion, that she hardly admits being wrong, or apologizes. Any critical read could clearly see that she's stubborn, but as for saying "Anna was a blonde haired stubborn girl." I didn't want to write at that level. I don't think I use many adjectives when describing the characters. I give pysical descriptions, but refuse to fall back on such obvious character traits.
Altogether Wonderful
Astory I asked God to write for me, so if you're reviewing, that was me offering my gift to Him for His glory. And I hope you're able to see that.
The Screename Adventures
Oh where do I start with that bit of lunacy? Well it's really just an extremely stupid thing I write whenever I have writer's block. I don't intend for it to be logical, have any sort of plot, or be funny at all, yet somehow people are amused by it? And I'll admit I make myself laugh sometimes, though usually I'm just writing for the sake of constructing sentences and situations so that I stay in practice when major projects get tedious.
It used to be posted in my livejournal, but after loosing a bet I started posting it on here, and as long as no one is completely disgusted with it's horrible lack of any literary quality, I'll keep it up.
When Character Development Goes Too Far
Started as a writing exercise where I had to have the writer become the victim... and I had a particularly strong case of writer's block. So I wrote the dumbest thing I could think of... then edited it a bit, laughed out loud some, and submitted it hoping my teacher had the same sense of humor as me. (She didn't btw I got like... a 60 on it. I don't blame her, I guess you just have to live inside my brain to know why I'm so amused by that story).
Fate Of Tears
Started out as a present to my friend when I was twelve or thirteen, I can't remember which. It was just the beginning part, a mix of the first two chapters turned into a short story. It started out as a story focusing on Temil, just about how he grew up and was chosen to be in the army, then about him protecting the princess and finding out his past... and holy man did it ever evolve when I took another look at it a few years later. I was sixteen, staying in Sudbury with my aunt for the Summer, and I was BOOOOORED. So I remembered that story, and while exploring the Canadian Shield, I thought about how it resembled the setting of my short story. I started writing it out again since I didn't have the original copy with me, and it sort of - grew. It was originally written on a french keyboard and I was having fun with the accents. So if you find that part way through the story I lose my accents it's because I went back home and couldn't figure out how to get them on an english keyboard (I'm not very computer literate... but I have the accent thing figured out now at least). I read parts of it to my french cousins and my favorite memory is of walking outside one day and watching them playing a pretend game, I asked them what they were doing and they replied "Playing 'Jessica's story'." They were acting out my story.
I don't do this anymore because of characterization problems, but Joel, Felix and Chole are all the real names of the kids in Sudbury who played 'Jessica's Story'. I gave them characters and you have no idea how happy they were to be IN the story.
Poems, etc
Most of the sad ones are written with the single intent to make people feel all sad and angst-y I have a very very hard time with poetry, so I write my images in prose. It's weird to think, but I see all of my stories. I know what the characters look like and what their voices sound like. If I ever got creative rights to a movie based on my book I would be the hardest person to work with because I KNOW what everything should look like and what their voices should sound like, how they smile and the way they carry themselves.
Thanks for reading, maybe on day you'll recognize one of these stories on a book shelf.
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