Camp In One Week

So camp's in one week, and I admit that I'm getting kinda excited. I just hope there'll be enough power there for my computer. But that's only if my parents will let me bring it. But that's not why I'm excited, because I admit that staying in the camper is going to be hard with a little brother that has ADHD who. Never. Stops. Talking. I'll be missing my privacy for five days, but it ain't the end of the world. But the reason I'm excited is because it'll be a new place to explore and one of my favourite singers--Canadian Steve Bell--will be there to help run the camp. I love his work and I've been thinking that maybe my family will pull a prank on him. But we'll probably not do it, because I'll need my dad's help. And it would need the help of the WHOLE camp to pull it off. Oh, poor Steve, I can see his face now, pale and worried! Ha ha. Ah, but I'm not that mean. My books, meanwhile, are going slower than planned because Procrastination has come. I should write a story on how Procrastination comes and bugs Blaze whenever she tries to write. Heh, here come the plot bunnies!

The Girl in the Gatehouse

Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse, 2010

Mariah (pronounced: Mir-eye-ah) Aubrey had to leave her home due to her dark past. Never did she know that her new life was going to be so different. The gatehouse provided a perfect home for Miss Dixon, her governess, and herself. It also provides the perfect hide away for Mariah's book writing.

Captian Matthew Bryant leases the estate that the gatehouse is on. He soon finds out that someone's living in the gatehouse and he's drawn to her like a...magnet. But he's on the estate for a reason, and it's not for the girl in the gatehouse. He's there to cover up his orgins--and to get his lady.

I loved this book. I give it 5 stars. If you're looking for a story that'll make it feel like you're actually there, then read this one. My favourite characters were, of course, Mariah and Matthew. There's nothing not to love about them. They both have balanced attitudes; and it is easy to connect with them. I would read this one again, it was just so enjoyable.

What to do...What to do...

I'm kinda mad at myself. I'm always wondering why I'm so different from other kids. Why I can't focus while doing school in my room rather than out in the living room. My parents are going to be really strict next year, and I won't have any breathing room. I even had this vauge idea that I should leave my home and live like a hermit. But I wouldn't do that, I don't want to break my mother's heart. So it'll end up a story idea that'll probably die. I seriously want to push myself so that I can be done my math before the I possibly leave for Ontario with my grandmother. I can't wait to be able to just let my worries fade away for just a bit. I haven't bee able to do that for so long... I worry about a lot...

I wish I wouldn't have to worry, really. I wish I wasn't so disorganized. If Mom hadn't pulled me out of just plain home schooling, I'd probably be done school by now. But Mom put me in on-line school 'cause she thought I "wasn't doing enough school", but I was. I was doing a lot and I was finished before lunch. I could get school done without having to worry about not knowing what I was doing. But as soon as I started on-line school, I was lost. I didn't know how to do half the things the teachers wanted me to do. And I had to do so many essays. Every week there was an essay in English, and they were about hard things. But that may be average in public schools. But then it was PE. PE is about loging how much exercize you've done. But the English teacher was also the PE teacher. So there were essays and projects in THAT class too. It was pure agony.

Now, I'm just writing this post before I go back to doing math. WHAT TO DO! I'm so frusterated at graphing lines! I've been doing it for so long that the information I'm trying to learn is just bouncing off my forehead now.

I'm sad now...

Maybe writing will help me.

I hope I'm in a better mood the next time I post...

No Riding Today, Bro's Sick...

Hey peoples! I was supposed to go riding this morning, but Drew (my brother) threw up. Now I didn't get to ride my favourite lesson horse, Scoot. Well, at least I can get some more math done. You guys may be done school, but I'm behind on math.

The picture on this post is of Asobi the Game-Loving Hedgehog. She's going to be the mascot of my blog until I can get a picture of my main character for my most important book series I'm writing-Mikaela "Blaze" Rose the Cat-drawn. But I can't do that until I get Photoshop. Darn. I'm trying to get my writers block for The Uprising of Dr. Matthew gone, but I'm having trouble. I'm still trying to think if my plot is good enough... Phantom Horse Hollow is going along nice, and the plot is almost complete. I'm just trying to fill in the plot holes properly. Plot holes always give me a pain. I'm also always fighting my ADD (which thankfully, with the help of a Natropathic Doctor by the name of Davis Voji...something, it will be FIXED! Whooo!). But I'm typing away. I just hope my writing isn't being influenced by Video Games. Video Games can be a friend, keeping you occupied, but it can distract you from you writing and influence it. I had gotten a new game by the name of "Sonic and the Black Knight" a couple weeks ago. I have finished story mode, but I'm still working on some of the missions. Well, that game has set off a chain of Sonic-related dreams, and they plauge me every night. Not that I don't like them, they're actually pretty good, but I'm afraid they're influencing my writing.

I've made a world called 'Genivar' if you don't already know. In this world, humans and Humanoid animals live in peace with one another. The humanoid animals are drawn similar to Sonic and his friends, but they are as tall as the average human, and they have necks. Also, their arms aren't as long and they don't have as big of hands and feet. A friend of mine told me that I wasn't stealing SEGA's idea because there are some obvious differences between my characters and SEGA's charaters. But I still don't know...what do you think?

Here's a link to Sonic's page on Wikipedia.

No More Poll?!

Yes, I took down the poll because I thought that I should simply call the horse in my fantasy "King". It will lead on to something else in the story and I'm not up to telling you anything about it yet. But you will still be mentioned in my acknowlegments.

I've got news--lots of it! Yesterday, I rode on my bike through a thunderstorm because I was coming home from the library. One lightning bolt struck so close that I felt the super-heated air whirl around me even before the thunder rolled. It was raining lightly then, but I knew the storm was about to break any minute. I went even faster, and went down a path between two houses. Then I tried to turn onto a gravel path, but ended up crashing into a chain link fence! Ouch... I managed to get home and into the house before the storm broke. As I stepped inside, the heavens opened, and the world outside was drenched. I'm glad I wasn't caught out in that. Man, I was scared for my life! I thought my writing days were over! But as I was biking, I kept saying over and over: "God will protect me, for I am His child." and "Speed is my friend." because I wanted to speed and not be scared. But I'm alive and i'm telling you this, so yeah.

I should go write some more in my story. So, ciao!

Hailed from a Weary, Traversed All-Day Girl

I'm kinda bored, so I'm posting another post. I went to a town named Hinton today, and did it ever smell! The mill is smack dab in the middle of town, that's why!

I've got one vote already in my poll for the name of the horse in the semi-Fantasy: Phantom Horse Hollow, I'm writing. ThunderIce is a nice name...but I would like to know who chose that name. It would be really neat. Then I would be able to acknowledge you in the story! But, those who haven't participated in the poll, please do so. It is vital.

Also:

I'm redoing the characters in The Uprising or Dr. Matthew. The characters are totally different, so I'll leave you in the dark. Yeah, I'm evil like that...heh, heh, heh...

I got to take my computer to Hinton because my dad's truck has a plug-in in it. I got a ton done in Phantom Horse Hollow.

Anyway, I love it that I have readers! See you!

Hey All! Summer's Finally Here!

Here in Alberta, it had been raining for the last few weeks and I was beginning to think that Spring would never end and Summer would never begin. But the sunny weather has gotten me thinking and a new book idea has popped into my head. I've been wanting to write a Fantasy, but I couldn't think of anything. But now that I have brainstormed a bit, a series idea has formed. It all started when I began to read the first book of the "Phantom Stallion: Wild Horse Island" series. I said to myself: "I want to write a story were there is a girl that gets really close to this one horse." I thought about it a little bit more, and another idea came up. What if...the horse she became close to could...talk? Not with its mouth, but mind to mind--telepathically. Then I thought that the horse would have something to do with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table. It all clicked neatly together.

But I can't settle on the horse's name. I picked "ShadowFire" but I'm going to put a poll up of names and I would like you guys to vote.

Thanks for reading!