July 20.09: I'm so so sorry about this terrible wait for anyone who is reading Blood Ties! As mentioned in my July 2 note, I have been plagued with writer's block on an off the past few weeks. And while I've been sitting and staring at my computer screen willing myself to type something, I've come to realize that I'm not happy with what I've been writing. Or, more specifically, I'm not happy about Blood Bound and Blood Ties as a unit. I feel like I've both evolved past what was happening in BB and lost some of the things that I really liked about that story.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Give me some time to think on it. I might write a one shot in the time being, just to cleanse my palette. :P

My friends call me Marie.

In my first year of college my english prof announced that his class was the most dangerous we would ever take - because story making was a like a drug and it would always reel you back in for more. In that case, I am an addict.

As it is, I am notoriously unreliable about finishing stories. So I've taken up the hobby of writing too-long one shots. Hence my account on FP.com.

However, I have recently tried my hand at multiple chapter stories. They're hugely time consuming, aren't they? And exhausting! I prefer to have the majority of the chapters completed before I start posting because I fear writer's block and don't like to torture readers with incompleted stories.

Lastly, I write all my stories in Garamond, so I always find it odd when I review them online and they've been switched to Verdana. I think fictionpress should get a typeface library going, but that's just my inner type nerd speaking.

My Writing

(In Progress) Blood Ties

Vampires were not to be trusted. That is, until Daphne met Greyson. Now she doesn’t know what to think, and nothing is going to wait for her to make up her mind.

The sequel to Blood Bound, in which things get a bit more complicated and a few secrets are unearthed along the way. As of now, I'm about ninety percent complete the first draft with a lot of editing in order.

(Complete) Blood Bound

Daphne knew that vampires weren't to be trusted. Then how could she explain why this one was helping her?

A story about things that go bump in the night - a romance, of course. Heavily influenced by Sunshine, I know. But hopefully you can look past that - not to mention I've become very attached to my characters as I wrote them, more so than in any of my other stories, so I've decided to write a sequel. Hopefully then I can leave them be!

(Complete) Stars

Her sudden desire for kinship overrode her more common sense that told her to avoid strangers at night in empty parks. She figured it wouldn’t matter in a few hours, anyway.

The end of the world told through a teenage girl's eyes. I started this at least two years ago and finished it on a whim in about two hours.

(Complete) The Gift

"I haven't been expelled...I've been expulsed." The peculiar tale of a witch without magic and a boy with too much.

My second foray into original fiction, and my first multi-chaper story. It's a bit of a mess, I admit. It was written in two days during the week leading up to the final #7. I'm somewhat fond of it, but it needs some heavy revision that I'm not quite ready to do yet.

(Complete) Misappropriated

"Jane, I wasn't going to tell you, but there's this guy who's been drawing you for the past half hour or so..."

I really don't know where this came from, other than my experiences with strange boys who have drawn me during Math class.

UPCOMING:

Blood Sucking Parasites

Hopefully this will be my next jump into supernatural fiction. It was an idea that came to me quite randomly and just ended up growing and growing. Here is my working summary:

"Their meeting was unremarkable in every sense of the word. There were no fireworks, no stolen glances from across the room, not even a moment where time seemed to stop. Instead, she was drunk and he was completely oblivious. However, what came after that was more than remarkable. It was a bit frightening."

More Blood Ties!

More one shots!