tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67695987296641296452024-03-21T07:55:12.362-07:00My One Month BookNaNoWriMo! It's one of the best things ever. You get to write a 50,000 word book in the month of November. If you complete the challenge you get your book printed for free.
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Have writer's block? We can help you get over it together!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-57755800980126482512013-12-07T13:46:00.000-08:002013-12-07T13:46:03.220-08:00Snow Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
SNOW DAY!</div>
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For me that means, attempt to make a snow man: </div>
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Admire the pretty, sparkly snow:</div>
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Then decide it's too cold so instead, bundles up in blankets and write.</div>
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Possibly with a cup of hot chocolate.</div>
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Yummy!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-28432313578036405812013-12-07T13:22:00.003-08:002013-12-07T13:24:21.386-08:00Newest Character<div style="text-align: center;">
My character in my newest writing!</div>
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Written with two of my friends plus I.</div>
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I drew the outline free-handed, scanned it onto my computer, then colored it.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-73192691915301877832013-12-07T13:12:00.001-08:002013-12-07T13:12:53.412-08:00Fairies - Part One<div style="text-align: center;">
This is the long overdue fairy story I talked about last year. It actually doesn't have an end currently so I'll be only posting half of it. Enjoy!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the time where fairies hide from humans deep in the forest, it was rare for a fairy to, on their own free will, go into the land of humans. Humans were thought of as repulsive, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Right now in a big hollow tree, where the king lives, three fairies have been called forth to help the king out. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have chosen each of you,” Begins the king, “To help me. I need you to go find the fairy called Margaret. Now this will be a bit hard because,” He pauses, “She lives in the human land.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The three fairies standing before the king all gasp. Rose, the youngest and smallest of the group, looks a bit worried at hearing this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Great! Well then you may be on your way! I hope to see you very soon.” The king says dismissing them from the room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The three-some leave. They start their journey immediately. As they are flying through the long forest the youngest fairy, who is wearing a black cloak which makes an air of mystery around her, was the first to speak up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So since we are going to be traveling together for awhile why don’t you tell me your name? I’ll go first. My name is Rose.” Rose say smiling over at the two other fairies which are both boys.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The older but not tallest fairy was the first one to speak up, “My name is Aelius. I’m 200 years old. I can control the element earth.” He makes a couple of small rocks spin around next to him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We both look over at the last fairy. He was timid to speak but did after a bit, “My name is Overlord.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hrmp!” Rose says and calls up a big wind and shoots past both of them to where they couldn’t see here any more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well I wonder where she went?” Overlord said</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Come on red, we better catch up to her.” Aelius says calling Overlord by the color of his hair. “Well, no more wondering what her element is.” He looks slightly impressed by her power of wind. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wind was the second most rare element to have. Fire was the first. If you were to combine two fairies with the element fire and wind they would be one of the most powerful fairies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aelius and Overlord both flew as fast as they could to catch up with Rose but it seemed she had disappeared. They were about to give up on Rose and just go to the city by themselves when they heard a high pitched scream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They both gave each other a worried glance then quickly flew off toward where to scream had came from. When they arrived at the scene they found Rose stuck upside down in a big spider web. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They watched then both broke out into fits of laughter at her struggle to get out. This just made Rose yell out in frustration as she tried different ways to get out of the sticky web. She try to use a big gust of wind to push her out of the web but, all it did was fiercely shake the web.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the vibrations of the web the web’s owner came out. The big spider slowly walked towards Rose and, Rose being scared of spiders, started freaking out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“YIII! GET ME OUT! GET ME OUT! GET MEEEEE OUUUUUUT!!!!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aelius and Overlord flew down and landed next to her. Overlord was still laughing his head off but Aelius looked a bit worried about her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh that,” Rose said looking away and putting one hand through her hair to smooth it out but find it get stuck. Shock registered across her face when she realized that the sticky web had gotten into her hair. She pulled her hand out of her hair and looks at the little bits of webbing she pulled out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the webbing was out of Rose’s hair they continued on their mission. Rose was always flying slightly ahead of the boys. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nah, I won’t. Also call me Pansycake!” Overlord said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Okay..., but what about Overlord?” Rose asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I want to be called Pansycake!” Pansycake said starting to yell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Alright alright! You don’t have to yell!” Rose says trying not to upset him</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pansycake went back to throwing rocks. One he threw hit a tulip that was nearby. There happened to be a bee in the tulip. He did not appreciate having been jolted around by being hit with a rock.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bee came out of the flower and stinger ready, got ready to attack whoever messed with him. Of course being only about 3 inches tall the bee was huge compared to them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They happened to fly over the tulip before the bee came out so they couldn’t see it sneaking up on them. Fortunately Rose happened to look back and see the bee approaching. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So Over... I mean Pansycake, what would you do if you knew you were about to be attacked?” Rose asked calmly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I would of course pull out a chainsaw and chop them up into little pieces!” Pansycake says enthusiastically then proceeded to laugh like a madman.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well,” Rose says coming to a halt in her flying, putting her hands on her hips and facing the boys, “Here’s your chance now.” She says pointing behind them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They both turn around to see the bee not that far behind them and approaching fast. Pansycake took one look at it, his face fell and his wings drooped down a bit. He then as quickly as he could flew away and hid somewhere in the forest. Aelius didn’t look too thrilled either but he got ready for the attack. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together Aelius and Rose fought the bee with the elements earth and wind. It didn’t take long before the bee finally gave up and left them alone. The whole time Pansycake never showed back up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“SERIOUSLY!?!” Rose yells, “Pansycake wimped out on us!?!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just then Pansycake flew back into the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Good job guys! Okay lets keep going” Pansycake says in a rushed kind of way and quickly fly in the direction they needed to go</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hold up a moment!” Rose barks at him. He freeze but don’t turn around, “What was all that about? You’re so all high and mighty then you BAIL!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh it’s nothing. I was testing your guy’s skills. You did great! Okay lets move on.” He starts to fly again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frustrated and out of words Rose just flies too and of course fly ahead of everyone else. Aelius didn’t say anything but continues on too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the reach the edge of the forest, where the human land is not that far, everyone decides to take a little break. By now the sun is getting low so if they hurry they’ll make it before the sun sets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose, finding that she is hungry, scavenge around for something to eat. She finds some blackberries, picks three and take them back to the others. Aelius was sitting on a rock and Pansycake was up high in a tree staring off into the distance. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose hands everyone a berry then she walks over to a tree, sits down and leans against it. Upon her first bite of her berry she got juice squirted all over her face. Pansycake happened to look at Rose at that moment and broke out into laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is not my day!” Rose mumbles. She gets up and finds a leaf to wipe her face off. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hey Pansycake,” Aelius says, “What is your power? I haven’t seen you use it yet.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh that,” Pansycake keeps looking off into the distance, “Nothing of importance.” He says waving his hand to dismiss the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So, after this we will be in human land.” Aelius states.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Guess so.” Rose says a bit disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I think it will be awesome! We could pull pranks on all those measly underlings!” Pansycake says excitedly looking over to where Rose and Aelius is sitting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well that’s just mean. Just because they are kiy doesn’t mean you get to torture them!” Rose says giving him the famous disapproving look.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Aw but co-” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“NO! And that's the end of that!” Rose snaps at Pansycake. Aelius snickers at Pansycake’s look of total surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well now that that’s settled let's finish this already.” Rose says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone gets back up and flies towards the human land. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When they arrive it was a bit of a shock with people being EVERYWHERE! They kept a low profile while trying to find at least one fairy. Rose kept to the shadows, sneaking around. She had her cloak wrapped tight around her and the hood up to cover her face.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It took about 10 minutes before they found any fairy. When they did the sunset was almost all gone and it was getting dark. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“PLEASE! Just once!” Pansycake pleaded for about the 50th time about pranking a human.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“NO!” Rose yelled!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Why not?!” Pansycake asked in a whiny voice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“BECAUSE! If you-” Rose started but was cut off by Aelius.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hey, look! It’s a fairy!” Aelius said pointing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sure enough it was a fairy and they all made a mad dash for it. The fairy seeing three other fairies rushing for her kinda spooked her and she started to fly away as fast as her wing could carry her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No wait!” Aelius yelled but the fairy was too far away to hear him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose, being a smart fairy, used her element wind to her advantage. Using it to speed up she was able to catch up to the city fairy and even accidentally surpassed her. She quickly backtracked till she was right the front of her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where do you think you’re going?” Rose said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fairy halted before flying into Rose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“YIIII! THE GRIM REAPER IS COMING AFTER ME!!” She screeched.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well you do have to admit it kinda looked like that. Rose was covered in a black cloak and the hood goes over her face so you couldn’t see her eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Whoa whoa! Calm down” Rose said and pulled the hood down so she could see her face, “We just need your help” Rose said motioning to the to guy fairies who were still trying to catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fairy take a deep breath “Oh! You almost got me there for a sec.” She laughs to ease the tension.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“See we aren’t from around here and we are looking for someone. This is Aelius,” Rose said motioning to the shorter of the two guy fairies, who had to just caught up. “And this is Pan-” Rose was cut off by Pansycake</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Klin, very nice to meet you. So can you help us?” Pansycake says in a rushed way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Whoa whoa! Why are you in such a rush Klin?” The fairy asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I just want to get back to the forest as soon as possible, that’s all.” Klin says not really making eye contact.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh! So you guys are forest fairies! Fine, I can help you. I know about almost every city fairy there is!” The fairy replies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Great! We are looking for a fairy named Margaret.” Aelius says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A little bit of shock registered across her face but it quickly disappeared into a smirk, “Why do you need Margaret?” She asks slyly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, the king asked for her.” Aelius said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Okay,” She nods, “Yeah, I know her! I’m not exactly sure where she is right now but I’m pretty sure together we can find her.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Great!” Klin says, “Let’s get this over with as soon as possible!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She sighed “Fine, come with me. I have an idea!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As she lead them around she was so comfortable around the humans while everybody else was still trying to stay hidden. They wouldn’t come out no matter how many times the fairy told them it was fine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She lead them to a restaurant. When entering the restaurant there were humans everywhere pigging out in booths, shoveling as much food as they could into their mouth. This only disgusted everyone but the fairy leading them who acted fine, not even fazed by this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You guys hungry?” The fairy ask. Everyone nodded so she showed them to a booth to sit down and she left to go get them some food.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everybody looked at each other trying to find out what just happened. Just then a little fairy with blonde hair and wearing a blue dress popped out from behind the booth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hiya Emmy!” the little fairy greeted her</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hi Dinky! I see you're up to your tricks again!” Said the fairy who has been leading everyone around, whose name must be Emmy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When do I stop?!” Dinky says and sit down next to everyone else in the booth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ah, the classic, freeze my seat” Emmy said playfully sticking out her tongue at Dinky.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“OF COURSE!” Dinky says smiling, “So who do you have here?” She asks motioning to the group</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m Rose! Very nice to meet you Dinky.” Rose introduces herself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m Aelius.” Aelius says with his mouth full of food.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And I’m Mantis.” Klin says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wait a minute...” Emmy says, “I thought you said your name was Klin?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nope!” Mantis says, “You might want to get your ears checked out because I clearly said Mantis.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Um..” Emmy looks over at Aelius and Rose for help. Rose just waved her hand dismissing Mintis and his confusing identity problems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Very nice to meet you all!” Dinky says, “I’m Dinky if you haven’t figured it out already” She says flashing a smile.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well let hurry up and eat already!” Emmy says, “Are you going to join us, Dinky?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Don’t mind if I do!” Dinky says and dig in too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After everybody finish eating it is dark outside and there wasn’t going back to the forest until at least tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So where do you think Margaret is?” Rose asks Emmy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She gives a side glance at Dinky then responds, “Oh, just wait here for a few more minutes.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh! I have some great stories to tell that will help pass the time!” Dinky says enthusiastically.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So they all sat there while Dinky tells them her adventures here in the human lands. After a bit all the lights dimmed and someone yelled, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“DANCE TIME!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the humans got up from their tables and migrated towards an open area. All of a sudden music unlike none other started playing. This startled the three travelers because they had never heard anything like it. Yes they've heard music before but nothing like this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This kind of music was techno and the music the forest fairies are used to are flutes and other wooden instruments. Soft, calming music, not hard rock! The humans were dancing fiercely and not in calm soothing moves, which is the only kind forest fairies knew.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Come on!” Emmy says</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh no, not me--” Aelius starts to say but Dinky grabbed him by his hands and pulled him into the crowd. He only had enough time to give a ‘HELP ME!’ look back at Rose and Mantis before he disappeared into the crowd. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emmy grabs one of Rose’s hand and one of Mantis’s hand and pulls them out to the dance floor too. Once out there you could see there were other fairies too, all dancing in the same manner.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose stays out there to dance but isn’t quite sure about the moves. Mantis, as quickly as he could, flies over and stands off to the side, just watching. Aelius looked like he wanted to get out of there but Dinky had him pretty occupied. Dinky was dancing all over the place but whenever Aelius tried to step off to the side like Mantis, Dinky would swoop down and pull him back out to the dance floor. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a while Rose actually started enjoying the kind of dancing the humans did, Aelius gave up on escaping Dinky and just danced. Emmy was dancing with Rose and Dinky was doing her own thing all over the dance floor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinky was doing the moonwalk when she happened to bump into some ropes. She glances up to see where they lead and grins mischievously.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emmy decided to try and bring Mantis out to the dance floor. When she flies towards him she barely had anytime to react as something from up above falls and nearly misses her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“YIIII!!! What was that?!” Emmy shrieks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She then hears some giggling somewhere off the side of the dance floor. She looks over to see Dinky laughing her head off and holding rope. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“DINKY!!! I should've known it was you!” Emmy points an accusing finger at Dinky. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinky just burst into harder laughter. Some of the other people and fairies join in on her laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinky, through laughs, speaks, “You... haha... Should've seen...heehee... Your face!!” Then she burst into more fits of laughter, falls to the ground and lays there laughing.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-395a6947-ceb0-a787-f394-c3bb5ed8536a"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> After a little bit everything resumes back to the way it was. Emmy couldn’t convince Mintis to join in on the dancing so she just went back to dancing with Rose and Aelius. </span></span><br />
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To be continued...One day ;)</div>
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Happy April Fools!</div>
Today is the first day of CampNaNo! I'm really glad that CampNaNo is NOT an April fools joke! (Trust me, I checked!)<br />
Have a great day of pranking people and writing!<br />
~SamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-78829681656566376722013-03-06T16:53:00.001-08:002013-03-06T16:54:09.217-08:00Camp NaNo!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Hey everyone! I just found out that we don't have to wait as long for NaNoWriMo to start! If you're like me you are already counting down for NaNoWriMo 2013 :P BUT! Now I am counting down for April! Let me introduce to you Camp NaNo!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Camp NaNo is in both April and July 2013! So you don't have to worry about those huge word count goals, you get to set it! It can be from 10,000 to 999,999 words.</span></div>
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Secondly, you've read about me doing a fairy tale writing. I did it and it turned out great! Everybody loved my fairy that changed his name every time he introduced himself to someone. Sorry for not posting it yet but there are some things I would like to change before I do.<br />
And lastly, my third writing! Two friends of mine had convinced me to watch this anime called Sword Art Online. I really loved it! They have put together a blog where they write a FanFic of it. I'm now apart of it writing about my newest made up character, Willow! You should really check them out!<br />
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First of all I'm sorry for not updating in awhile, I now have more homework than ever! Second I thought I would share with you the note I wrote to the <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forum_comments/2708445">Eugene/Lane County form</a>. </div>
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Congratulation to all who won NaNoWriMo! Even if you didn't get to 50,000 words you are all still WINNERS! I just won about 10 minutes ago with 60,452 words. My book isn't even finished! I can't wait to see it in book form! XD<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Think of NaNoWriMo like being thrown into an Indiana Jones movie. You're being chased by crazy natives with spears, you're running for your life. Words are your footprints in the ground. When you come to a chasm, you don't stop, you just throw a plank across and keep running. In other words, KEEP GOING AND DON'T LOOK BACK. Enjoy the wind on your face, the strange foliage slapping at your thighs, the beautiful feeling of stumbling into camp every 1700 words or so knowing you can sleep the sleep of the brave and fearless another night. In 30 days you will have a sack full of treasure, a new manuscript big enough to bankroll your return to civilization. Oh, and during the moments when you're not busy running, write down everything that comes into your mind about your novel. It might look like a messy list, but it's actually a map. Consult when really lost. And above all, enjoy the experience. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Good luck and good writing,</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">-Badrat</span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-17889227938136840812012-11-14T16:37:00.000-08:002013-03-06T15:48:00.083-08:00Iveritov<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">This past week has been full of all the things that discouraged and defeated me last year. That's right, the real world demanding my time. When I have to go outside, it necessitates all sorts of preparations, such as finding and deciphering the use of pants. I never remember which finger to hold out daintily in opposition to my deathgrip on my coffee jug, or if it's considered good manners at all to do the electric slide on your interviewer's desk.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">But I digress, my real point is that I'm one of those people who has never been good at holding myself to a writing schedule, and encroachments on my time allowed me to excuse myself last year.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Notice I didn't say forced. You see, there are many times when there are days you just have to scrap, and that's ok. You can make up the difference. If you don't, you are leaving a story untold, and that is unacceptable. It is unfair to both yourself and the story in question.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Yesterday was about catching up, today is about finding time, any small niche of time, to write. A half-hour in the car on the way to work with a voice recorder, that works. Waiting for a download, uh-huh. In the margins of the paper you were doodling on while quickly walking to your next class/lunch break/yoga session. Anything.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">And since I want you to think about these little times, today's dare will focus on minutiae. A little question to start: "Do you ever think of your character brushing their teeth?" A lot of the time I read, I find myself wondering about the small things that really make up an individual. The routines, the small divergences from the norm, the quirks and faces in the mirror when no one else is looking. So often, I then look at the characters I'm reading, these wonderfully written, diverse, and complex beings sprung from another imagination, and for a moment, I see a construct, something not as real as it should be. Today, I dare you to write a single scene in which the greater plot fades away and a single character is approached from a new angle that focuses on small things that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Bonus round/alternative dare: Conversations. Characters often speak too perfectly, too thought out for on the fly. They remember everything except when plot-convenient. The alternative dare is to write a conversation in which someone stutters, needs to pause for thought, or forgets something of little consequence that they really should have remembered.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-53536004863175770592012-11-13T19:42:00.000-08:002013-03-06T15:47:32.058-08:00Badrat<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06;">Here is another encouragement note from my NaNo Near You form!</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Today is called, “Who’s in Your Lifeboat?” and it’s dedicated to the artists and writers and others whose image we call up when we find ourselves desperately sinking. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Four days into NaNo is scary, a place people start thinking they might have to give up. After a robust start, suddenly you’ve run out of words. You frantically scour your dwelling top to bottom, throw the pillows to the floor, uproot the cushions on the couch, flail a broom uselessly under the bed, annoying any number of dust bunnies, but there are no words to be found anywhere. And what’s worse, that legion of deep old personal demons, the ones you were going to settle a score with by winning, are rustling in the shrubbery outside. You pull the curtains tighter. The boat is going down. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">So, when the doorbell rings unexpectedly, who’s in the lifeboat floating outside? Who do you picture standing there to help you in, give an encouraging pat on the back, a conspiratorial smile, taking their turn at the oars? The cartoonist Lynda Barry would definitely be in my lifeboat. The woman has guts to the max. She sits down every day with her special ink and brushes and draws, and she litters her drawings with bits of her past, which is as close to working with your own skin and bones as it gets. It doesn’t matter that she can’t draw because her character really move. I look at them and see that’s exactly how they move, that she’s nailed it. She’s wonderful. I think of her and I think, I can do this, I can write this novel if I just keep going. And then I keep going. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-42998978542414848412012-11-13T13:27:00.002-08:002013-03-06T15:47:41.233-08:00Half Way There!<span style="background-color: white;"> So we are now at the half way mark of NaNoWriMo! I hope that all of you are caught up for your word count. I'm at 24406 words so far and I'm still kicking! WriMo won't stop me without a fight! Here is an encouragement note I got off my NaNo Near You form. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and that you'll keep fighting for the win!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">This is my first “dive in head first, don’t look back, keep your chin up” NANOWRIMO. I have to say the first three days went pretty well. I was feeling pretty good but then I started to slip. The following is a somewhat embellished account of what happened next:</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">I paced the floor of my humble cottage, not knowing what to do next. I returned to the NANOWRIMO web site and checked again. My word count was low for this day and the NANOWRIMO Stats taunted me like some Arthurian oracle: </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“Keep up this pace and you will finish on December 3!”</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“I’m slipping!” I said to Scout, my loyal yellow Labrador. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">I worked a little harder the next day to write 1,800 words. After verifying my word count, the NANOWRIMO stats praised me: “Keep up this pace and you will finish on November 30.”</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“See? That’s better,” I told Scout. “The Stats Oracle has smiled upon me. Let’s go play catch.” </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">But the next day, words did not flow freely into my novel. So, I took a break. I became distracted by a holiday mail order catalog. Then I became enchanted with a popular social network site. When my word count was verified that day, the Stats Oracle condemned me: “Keep up this pace and you will finish on December 5!”</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Darkness loomed ahead. How could I avoid slipping further into the Abyss of Incompleteness?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">I caressed my toy dinosaur amulet. I searched for my Grail: The Noveling Affidavit. I rushed to the dining room where I had staple-gunned it to the wall. Like a prayer, I read aloud the third paragraph that says, “I acknowledge that the month-long 50,000 word deadline I set for my self is absolute and unchangeable, and that any failure to meet the deadline, or any effort on my part to move the deadline once the adventure has begun, will result in well-deserved mockery from friends and family.”</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">The words said aloud energized me. I can slay the two-headed dragon of procrastination and embarrassment, I thought. I can prove that I am worthy of this great task before me. And I will again be ready to face the Stats Oracle by midnight.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“I lost today’s battle but I will win the war of words by November 30!” I announced to the dog.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">I sat down at my laptop to write. Scout came over with her tennis ball but I was not to be swayed any longer.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“There will be other days to walk in the light of the back yard, my friend,” I said.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">“Today, I must transport the novel in my head through my fingers into this magic box before me!”</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Scout walked over to her bed and fell asleep. I think she understood.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">Press on, fledgling and experienced NANOWRIMO participants. Together, we can lay siege to the Castle of 50,000 Words and slay that two-headed dragon together!</span></span><br />
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Only less than one day left till NaNoWriMo starts! I'm trying to distract myself with other stuff to keep my mind off my, soon to be, novel.<br />
I think I've been going a little bit crazy! 0.0 One of the people from my school told me I would look at her then break out into an evil grin. Funny, that when I started to think about my book...<br />
I also have a horrible case of book hang over! (Even those it was in July when I last read it)<br />
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My book hangover is about the awesome books Divergent and the second book Insurgent! I can't believe I have to wait a WHOLE YEAR for the last book!<br />
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I get the great idea to carve a pumpkin! Or not, you take your pick...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh well, I just turned it into a cat</td></tr>
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I'm saving the other pumpkin for another day. Oh and this walked into my bedroom after I finished my pumpkin.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I helped out at my school's fundraiser. We had chili, dancing and games! They told us to come dressed up in a cowboy/girl costume so I came to there in this outfit I put together!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cow girl costume!</td></tr>
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Most people laughed but when I went and saw my teacher it went something like this...<div>
Me: "HI! I dressed up like a cow girl just like you told me to!"</div>
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Teacher: "Aaa... I'm just going to ignore that." she said dropping and shaking her head laughing at me.<div>
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Tomorrow is going to be fun. I'm working out at a camp and then I'll probably go to bed and not stay up till midnight to start writing since I have school the next day. Otherwise I would totally do that! Oh ya I made this comic for NaNoWriMo.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-71577969328561757412012-10-25T16:55:00.001-07:002013-03-06T15:48:27.337-08:00One week till NaNoWirMo!<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh my gosh! NaNoWriMo is only one week away!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've been working on my plots, characters and the villein!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here are some cool websites I have found and loved.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />This <span style="line-height: 18px;">website where you make and share comics with friends</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.pixton.com/sign-up?redirect=%2Finvite/from/author/ArgyleSocks"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">http://www.pixton.com/sign-up?redirect=%2Finvite/from/author/ArgyleSocks</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.78333282470703px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Missing something in your book? All the adoptables you could ever need. Find an abandoned plot, a character, a title, or even a catch phrase! Your One-Stop Adoption Shop!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20.78333282470703px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adoption-society" style="background-color: white;">http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adoption-society</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-65493541351845177842012-10-08T09:52:00.000-07:002012-11-13T21:17:35.380-08:0026 More Days! Only <b>26</b> more days till <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a>! I know it's a long time till it starts but I just can't stop thinking about what I'm going to write.<br />
I decided I would write a book about me and two of my friends becoming spys just like how their older sisters had.<br />
Here are some of the charters I've come up with,<br />
<b>Samantha - <i>Sister of Bethany. Age 16. Spy name: Argyle Socks</i></b><br />
<b>Carolyn - <i>Youngest sister of Melissa and her twin Lisa. Age 13. Spy name: Karaoke</i></b><br />
<b>Alainna - <i>Sister of Melissa and her twin Lisa. Age 15. Spy name: Black Rose</i></b><br />
<b>Four - <i>Trainer. Gets very annoyed by Samantha and Carolyn often</i></b><br />
<b>Super Star - <i>Personal driver and all around crazy girl</i></b><br />
That's all I have so far. Let me know about your book.<br />
<i>~Argyle Socks</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6769598729664129645.post-87426107823558061182012-10-06T13:37:00.002-07:002012-11-13T21:17:04.366-08:00NaNoWriMo I'm going to be writing a book in one month. My teacher told me about this. She has been doing the NaNoWriMo project for couple years. I was in yearbook and had to write a column in the news letter. I learned a lot about it I was so exited about it! I signed up to do but didn't get anywhere (to much homework).<br />
This year I'm going to do it. This will be a blog where everybody who is writing can post how they're doing and what their book is about.<br />
Got writer's block? We'll fix that together!<br />
Here's the website for NaNoWriMo where you can sign up and find out more about it,<br />
<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14782883652206632252noreply@blogger.com0