How Time Flies

Hello everyone! ^_^ I hope y'all are doing well.
it's been a while, hasn't it?
Not sure how to start :P So, I will just dive in.

First order of business:
I am sorta sorry that i have not been updating regularly. :O
This blog kinda faded to the back of my mind once school started.

On that note, School is done! haha. today was my last day of school, which means i am now a senior. :)
scary, huh?
I certainly think so.

I have not been writing as much as I would have liked. School has a way of taking over your life :P
lol so I will try to write more this summer, if I have the inspiration and the commitment to do so.
we shall see.
*thinks* not much else to say. my life is pretty boring ;)
haha. until next time!

 Always Hope.

Update

my oh my, it has certainly been a while. i haven't been as vigilant as i want to be in blog posting :P sorry.

*rubs hands together* where to start?  i suppose i could tell you about writing. (you already know what it is :P (hopefully) but i just wanted to tell you about MY writing (this blog is mostly centered around me XP ))
*ahem* recently, i have started a new TSA draft. (the 7th rewrite? i lost count.) this time it WILL be finished. haha, so far, 6k+ words :) im happy with it so far lol.

Life has been good lol. not doing much (no summer school, thankfully) and my  days have been filled with facebook and books. (and the occasional video game :P )

speaking of which, i must return to the library....

*thinks* there is not much to tell, believe it or not.
i just have one question.

Who has ever heard/read the book Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes?
XD I just started it... lets see how it is.

Always Hope.

i was tagged! *GASP*

 Wow, its been FOREVER since I blogged. >_> forgive me.

I was tagged by GA at her blog, Here.
Right. i have to answer some questions here... *looks around* i think... i think... i missplaced them O_o
Ah! here they are >_> right. *ahem*


Are you hot/warm/cold right now? where are you at?
*thinks* well. my feet are cold :| and i am sitting in a chair in my home.

Upload a picture of the wallpaper you are using.
 Well. this is a tough one, actually. i have two screens, and two different wallpapers :P
i will post them both, though.

 

This is from facebook... someone i know posted it, and i loved it. so here it is, my background XD
the next one:

this is the one i am changing it to, actually. pretty, no? XD


When was the last time you ate chicken?
uhhh, a family reunion, if i remember correctly. it was good chicken.


What song or songs have you been listening to recently?
hmmmm... i have actually been listening to some Owl City. Deer in the Headlights has a good intro. also, Take to the Sky has been in my head for a while :P


Do you have any nicknames? if so, what are they?
well, i have a one that comes to mind. SA is the only one, really :P

Nooow i get to tag 5 peoples :D but my immediate choices were taken by GA, so... *thinks*

DJ from Notes of Music.

Misty: Misty's Mind.

Tricia at The Adventures of Us
(Misty is there too, so. Misty, ye have been doubly tagged >:D)

Anduril! ....he has no blog :O >_>

aaaand Squeaks :D The Minstrel Warrior

till tomorrow. (i hope to put up a non-tag-ish post then.)

Always Hope.

Creation Museum/Meeting

Hail all! remember how i said i was gonna blog about the Bryan Davis interview?
seems that never happened :P

sooo, i am gonna blog about this awesome guy and this awesome place and this awesome story i read instead! (due to requests, of course >_> LOL)

*ahem*
so, i am on vacation! *will save that for another blog post*
i am heading back home tomorrow, and today was the last day :)
well, i am about 15 minutes away from.... *dun dun dunnnnn!* Keeneye! *explosive applause*

well, Friday afternoon, i called him up and said. "Hello."
(very dramatic O_o)
we talked a bit about his address and then what we were going to do for supper. din-din. dinner!
*ahem*
soo, we went ot his house and picked him up, heading on over to Golden Corral XD
we had a blast that first meeting. (i think so at least :P)

i know what you are saying - Details man! what were you thinking? feeling? talking about? etc etc??
i am saving those for the next day ;)
we talked for a loong time and then we dropped him off, staying just long enough for him to pass on a *white* binder full of awesome reading material
(which i devoured)

it was awesome. amazing. at first, i paid some attention to detail (which was epic. so vivid! :D ) then i just let myself get drawn in and watched the story unfold in my mind.

such utter brilliance! it was amazing how wonderfully it was all crafter, woven together in a splendid tale.
(ok, im going to stop >_> i am running out of words :O )
it was epic :D

so the next day was Saturday! the day we went to the Creation Museum :O
so we went about 45 minutes early, getting planetarium tickets for everyone. (Keeneye was not there, as he was being dropped off at 10 AM)
then HE ARRIVED (after we waited a bit XD during our wait, we visited the Dragon Hall bookstore! very awesome place :D did not have a whole lot on dragons though :P)

*thinks* where to start... where to begin? we met Keeneye in the front lobby area and we proceeded to this little movie called Men in White. (very awesome :D)

then we walked through the museum, learning a bunch of stuff about Creation, noah, Adam and eve, the flood, etc. etc. :D it was pretty amazing.
especially with Keeneye standing with you the whole way :)

all in all, we had a blast. a big blast. Thursday people said that the world was gonna end cause there was too much awesomeness...
well, An earthquake hit Japan on Firday morning :(
coincidence?

next? we got this show tickets mixed up and had to transfer times and all and it was a gigantic mess.
so we ate food and talked for about 20 minutes about writing and stories ^_^

then we went to that show that was no longer mixed up and learned about gigantic starts and what our entire universe looked like (the parts we could see, at least) .

so yeah :O then we hit the bookstore again, and then we went to this awesome restaruant and had MORE pizza ;) lol

then... then we waited in the parking lot, talking about MORE writing stuffses and tribes and all that :D

now i am here... content? tired...
stuff xD its past midnight so :) perhaps i will edit this when i have time XD there is a lot i have to put in yet...
sorry to end it now! :O

~Always Hope!

Wayne Thomas Batson Interview

Hey all! sorry this is a few days late :P i procrastinated! (don't you love doing that???)
*ahem* anyway, here is an interview i had with:
Fantasy Author Wayne Thomas Batson

(too dramatic? psh. i think its perfect. he is soo awesome, it NEEDS to be dramatic :| )

            SA: What was your first book published? 

       WTB: The Door Within in 2004

       SA:How long did it take to get it published? How does it feel? 

       WTB: Honestly it took about 10 years. Crazy, huh? But the first 8 years I had no idea what I was doing and tried to get published without an agent. {Sigh} Once I got an agent, it was really only about 2 years of sweat to get in print. And it

feels amazingly great--though, now that it's contracted writing, it does

feel like work sometimes. 

       SA: What are the benefits of getting a book published?  

       WTB: Money certainly isn't one of them. You'd be amazed how little the author makes for each book, but that may be changing as eBooks force publishers to change their business tactics. Mainly, the benefit is you get to share your stories with a much larger audience. And for creative types, that really matters.

 

             SA: Who (or what) inspired your writing career? 

        WTB: God first and foremost. The Lord crafted my life in such a perfect way to produce an author. But in the world, I'd have to credit my parents, J.R.R. Tolkien, and two teachers: Mrs. Mangum and Mr. Spero! 

        SA:Why do you like to write? 

        WTB:There's joy in creating. It's what I was made to do, so I feel fulfilled when I write. After all, I can create new people and places--whole new worlds, if I want--and invite others to read and enter in!

        SA:How does it feel to know that your books changed many lives? 

        WTB:It's a bit surreal to be honest. And, you know, sometimes, it's a HUGE relief. As a Christian and an author, I kind of hope my stories glorify God and please Him. Whenever I get an email from someone my stories have touched, I must

admit, it floors me and reassures me at the same instant.

This interview was done for a school assignment, but i asked if i could put it up here :)
Thanks to Mr. Batson, i got an A ^_^ hehe

That's it :) Next post will be a Interview with Bryan Davis!
And I must thank Mr. Batson for letting me interview him :) Thanks!!

Always Hope.

Finally.

Hail people who follow this blog!

Things that will be appearing on this blog in the near future:

• An interview from Wayne Thomas Batson!
• An Interview with Bryan Davis!
• Some stuff that has been going on in my life! (boooorring)
• and other stuff :)

what is this blog post about? that is a good question.

I put up a new poll on the side... took the old one down. When April comes around, I will put the favorite playlist at the bottom of the page. nothing too significant :P And you don't have to do it if you don't wish to.

Life has been busy, as i am sure many of you know! :) School has a way of getting in the way XD
but you should do it anyway :|

Music! i love music :D
http://owlcityblog.com/2010/10/25/my-hope-is-found/#comment-108682
Owl City put this up on his blog, check it out! its a great song :D hehe
so... that is all for tonight. later this week, one of the interviews SHOULD be up XD so stayed tuned :)

Always Hope!

New Year - :)

Hail all! :D Merry Christmas!

oh, and happy new year :)
i have a lot to post about O_o lets see...

Christmas!!
that was pretty epic :) got some awesome stuff and all, but it was great to go around and celebrate Christ's birth with everyone, like relatives and my online peeps XD

(STORY UPDATE!)
Alrighty. about 2 and a half weeks ago, (maybe more) i had a reeeally whacky dream O_o
anywho, i remembered said dream most vividly, and jotted it down on the way to school an hour later :) then i started to outline a story for it, which took a few days and about 14 pages (these are mini-notebook pages FYI :P) and now, i have started the rough draft.
its pretty crazy O_o
I'll tell you what its all about some other time ;)


New Year is fast approaching~!
28 minutes to go and counting :) My new years resolution? To write a book :D at least a full rough draft of a book :) maybe even edit it :P but hey, lets not get too far ahead of ourselves XD

2011 :) man, thats insane.
This year has been pretty good... AWESOME even. :D
why?
cause i met The Elves :) some epic people, if i do say so myself :D

well, thats all for now...
Merry Christmas! XD

and Always Hope :)

Nanowrimo/Tribes

Hello fellow Bloggers!

Life has been busy lately :) as i am sure most of you, if not all, know as well. with tribes, and nanowrimo going on.
Nanowrimo- my terrible attempt at nanowrimo amounted in 1.6k words :P terrible, ik. i hope to finish it once school is over - that is, once i get all those other projects finished... *muttermumblegrumble*
to any who care... its a medieval story about taking back a land that was first taken by a evil knight XD roughly

ahem.

Tribes - AUGH! 6 days left O_o i hope you swiftstormers are working hard >:D bwahahhahaha..

Home - a poem

right. i need to post about my fail at nano, but before i do, here is a poem i had to do for school lol


Home


Welcome to the place of hope.

A place full of light,

A place without darkness,

Without any evil.

A place full of warmth.

Welcome, to your home



This is your home,

Brimming with hope,

Giving you warmth.

Do not fear the Light,

Instead, fear the evil

That hides in the Dark



Don’t go into the darkness,

Come back to your home.

The outside is full of evil,

Without any hope,

Void of light,

Taking your warmth




Cling to your warmth,

For here comes the Dark,

Trying to invade the light,

Trying to destroy your home.

But have hope,

You can defeat this evil



Beware of the evil,

It is without any warmth.

A stealer of hope,

A lover of the dark

It will try to take your home.

But fight back with the light!



Stay in the light,

And you will defeat the evil

Protect your home,

For it is the source of warmth.

It keeps out the darkness

It restores your hope



The Light brings Warmth,

And Evil brings the Dark.

Protect your home, the giver of Hope.

 
to those who care, this is a sestina lol.  XD
what do you think?

Nanowrimo!

Hail fellow elves! :D as many of you may know, this month is National Novel Writing Month! :D HUZZAH!
the month of great anticipation, much, much worry and stress, and the pulling of hair.
to those that are doing nanowrimo: what are you writing about? whats your wordcount? are you handwriting it? do tell! we are all eager to hear you :D

Always Hope!

The Party that is not a Party! (part 2!)

ALRIGHTY! :D

so... after the booksigning was done, we went outside and hung around for a bit before everyone left :) i was FORCED to hold this duct tape thingy and face a fencing master.
*shakes head* why me?

GA can hit hard btw :P its a good idea to turn tail and run right away ahaha

after being humiliated, Whisper and her family met Anduril, GA, Cson, Millard, and me and my bro at Culvers! :D we had the most epic time sitting around and talking about the underground, all you elves, and the like. good times... hehehe

ah, how i miss you all so much! :)

after culvers, we got kicked out (not really) and went to the hotel that Mill and I were staying at :) (which WTB and CH were also staying at)
we played lots of cards, dragged out the laptops and started talking to people on the UG, and just talked a lot more.

ahhh, thanks Whisper, Hark, and The Golux for staying that late (and Sting ;) :D man, that was fun to play ninja! though Hark and the Golux could not stay tooo long...

and of course, Millard :D thanks for letting me bunk with you that night :) (and say hi to your dad and the family for me!)

Mill, his Dad, and I got up around 6:45 to eat :) then at 7:15 or so, we ran out and went around to the different hotels to see if anyone was awake and eating :D

we stopped byt hte hotel GA and Anduril were staying in, then we walked over to where Whisper and them were staying, hopeing we were not tooo late haha. (they had to leave early, you know >_> )

we walked in and HUZZAH! there they were :D (completely shocked, if i may add :P )

we said a quick goodbye to them and then went back to the Wingate (where GA and Anduril were staying, as well as my mother) and sat around for a while. finally, they came down and we got to sit around and watch everyone eat :)

then... twas time to go :)
we all packed up, bid each other farewell, and departed (took a while, let me tell you :P(not that i am complaining XD)

so yeah :) twas prolly much, much better than i described though.

farewell, and goodnight!

Always Hope!

The Party that is not a Party (part 1!)

Greetings fellow elves and peopleses! :D how is everyone doing? lol

GLARFGHAGAHFFFRLARKSGIFKAL!
(literal definition- THAT WAS SO AWESOME I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY AHHHHHHH!)

*ahem*
THAT WAS SO AWESOME!! XD
i am gonna make everyone who was not there so sad that they weren't and everyone who was there sad they are not anymore!

SO! Twas Saturday when i met the first elf :) we met him at lunch even! :D
who? who you say? (who!who! (OO) )
Twas Millard! ^_^ he and his dad walked to Culvers (which was RIGHT next to their hotel) as i impatiantly bounced around outside. soon i saw a blue shirt waving at me from across the road! ^_^ so i waved back ehehhee
then the blue shirt crossed the road in a single bound, flying 50 feet into the air and...
hhhmmm...
so Millard crossed the street and we shook hands and greeted one another xD twas pretty intense really. ^_^

then we sat around for an hour or so and talked lol

then we went to Borders and sat in the cafe to wait around :) then i spotted Anduril come through the front door! so i shot out of my chair and ran over to say hi to him too XD
then.. then... *gasp* then a few minutes of talking and waiting :)

Then we saw WTB and CH outside! :O:O:O and then Jacob Parker and all them guys at the Party came too :D then we helped set up a bunch of chairs! and we sat and... and while i was setting up, i met Whisper! ^_^ we shook hands and introduced ourselves. then i went up and saty down, as it was starting!

well, you all can see at the recording lol

but AFTER! :D after we all got books signed and we talked. and talked and talked and talked and talked....  :D i spoke to everyone except Evergreena and Christian Miles hehe. though they were there! i jsut did not get to talk to them

man... everyone started pulling out notebooks and pens and had all the elves start signing their names down xD twas brilliant! get the names of everyone...

so yeah :) insanity XD

LOOOOOOTS more happened but... i think this blog post is long enough :P i will tell the tale of what happened later in my next blog post... which will be posted tonight ^_^

So! thanks everyone! :D :D

(to see other peoples blogposts about it... - Whispers Blog )
WTB's Blog
Christopher Hopper
The Underground
Always Hope!

randm stuff

alright.... i doubt i am going to do a review of DIOM or anything xD i am terrible at it heh.
but... has anyone heard of Remedy Drive?? :D they have done a few cool songs... like Daylight, All Along, and a few others.

i think they are awesome xD lol
well, i am seeing them in concert on Sunday!!
oh, and ever heard of sixteen cities? they are gonna be there too :D
if you have not heard of them, look up Sing Along :) i love that song.

and...
drumroll please...
(drumroll)
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE TRIBE PARTY THAT IS NOT A PARTY! :D lol
i hope to see most of you there... ^_^
here is a countdown counter! :D

that is all for now :)

Always Hope!
SilverAngel

stuff

a little update... (and a reminder to myself XD)

I may be taking up Fencing in the very near future :O it has piqued my interest, lol.  it was not as i imagined it would be when i went and watched.


also, soon, i shall put up a review of Raising Dragons and/or Starlighter :)

hope to get that done soon...

Always Hope!

War

Tonight, i was reminded why we went to war in the first place.
it was because we as a people, a nation, had to strike out at at the people responsible for the murdering of over 3,000 lives.
Of course, i am talking about the World Trade Center attack.

when i watch what happened that day on the history channel... it just makes me made. very, very mad.

now, there are many, many people who hate it that we are at war. but i bet that if you showed them what happened, reminded the of the pain and suffering that was caused, i think they will change their views quickly.

This is to all the soldiers who have and are risking their lives over seas. to the brave men and women who defend our country, on the inside, and out.
This is to those who fight evil and defend what is right.

Thank you.


Never Alone!
Endurance and Victory!
and Always Hope!

a little catching up to do...

alright, i have not updated for a lonnnng time XD haha
what to post about??
1: Julnowrimo! Augnowrimo! too many wrimos!
yeah, for those not knowing what these are... they be July Novel Writing Month and August Novel writing month... there is one for each moth of the year, actually XD
you have to try to write a novel in the one month haha, the goal can be whatever you want :)
unless it is nano, then it is 50k (if you are over 13, that is. under 13, it can be whatever you want.)
i am gonna do at least 6 Wrimos in a row XD starting with Julnowrimo and ending in... Janowrimo? idk. i am just doing a bunch of em :P that way, i will finally get a bunch of drafts written instead of slacking all the time.

2. I HAVE NOT HAD ANY PIE FOR OVER HALF A YEAR!

3. have i mentioned the fact that our church is looking for a new pastor? our old one left suddenly, went to North Carolina. now the long process of searching has begun...

4. I HAVE NOT HAD ANY PIE IN OVER HALF A YEAR!

5. as far as writing goes, its going.  (does not really want to talk about at all :P)

6.I HAVE- oh enough already.

not much has been happening :P lol ahaha y'all keep living your life and have fun! XD ^_^

Always Hope!

Miracle Worker Award

alright people... i just made an award up haha.

This award goes to Millard. since he is just so epic. XD

that, and his ability to inspire and to encourage are unmatched. (at least, as far as i am concerned)

his compliments rock. if you got complimented by Millard, you sure remembered it for a while. 

he also gives epic advice! and he knows just the right thing to say when it needs to be said.

^_^  if you do not know what i am talking about... you must not have talked to mill haha

you rock man! keep up the epicness. shouldn't be too hard. ^_^

Silver Angel

Always Hope!

That... was pretty insane

Alright, tomorrow is the last day of Summer School. its a phy ed class, so there is something major we have to do tomorrow right? like, run a mile or something?

pffft, nope. we are going bowling

instead, we did a Triathlon today :P we had to run 1 mile, bike 3 miles, and swim 12 laps (idk how long it is :P haha)

I was pretty psyched about it, ya know?
until I woke up the next morning and saw it pouring outside.
yeah...

they told us to grab a partner and to head outside. one partner does the triathlon while you keep track of how many laps they do, etc. (they basically broke us into two groups)

while my partner (a good friend of mine) was running, it was not raining too hard. i actually liked it, until the temperature dipped slightly. (twas like, 60 degrees out :P) so we all started shivering a little.

well, after my partner finished running, he got to bike 3 miles in the rain as well. and after that, he got to swim 12 laps in the pool (i liked that part... the pool room is like, 80 degrees with 100% humidity :P lol)

then it was my turn.

and guess what? The heavens opened up wider and it started to rain much, much harder.

it was INSANE!

I got soaked, needles to say. it felt pretty much like I was underwater :P haha

it started to rain so bad by the time we finished the mile, that we had to skip the biking and head straight to swimming! but because we were not biking, we had to swim 24 laps instead....

yeah D:

well, i finished in 36:29... not bad, considering i am a terrible swimmer. hahaha

^_^ anyone else had to do something like that in the rain? (OO) do tell if ye had :o

Always Hope!

i was tagged (OO)

alright... i was tagged again it seems ^_ ^ yay!
Miss Dixon tagged me over at her blog :) hehe check it out!

totally epic :o :D


now... to answer these totally difficult and strange questions *chews nails*

If you could write one word, what would it be? 

Pie
Use one word to describe yourself. 

odd
What is something random about you/your writing that you'd like to say right now? 

i think that i will totally not hit 30k words by the end of the month (OO)
Think up an absurd title for a book. 

The Dull Mystery of Knife Boy (idk :P)What is the strangest sentence you can think of? 

bark goes the river duck.
What do you write? 

all i have ever written is Christian fantasy and sci-fi-ish fictionish type stuff. yeah XD
If you had a weird disease and could only make one sound over and over, what would it be?

quack 
Here are the rules all ye tagged people must abide by:

1. Post about the award

2. Award 3 other people 

3. Answer the tag 

here be the three lucky peeps who got tagged ^_^

1) DJ

2) Mill :)

3) and Misty again haha

more random stuff

well! i just heard that The Underground has over 3,000 members.... that is totally epic :D (there is a way to get some points eh? ;)


*ahem* anyway! i just thought i would say thank you to everyone for following the blog :) epicness ^_^ thanks a bunch!

now, this week is VBS at my church... i am supposed to help direct games. i have a word of advise... never give 4th graders any leniency regarding water balloons. it hurts! i got pelted by them XD haha. no mercy tomorrow ;) lol
anyone here know what a Culvers is? XD