Why Belinda doesn't have a race?

I likened my character, Belinda to have no race, she's a human and that's all there is to it, I have never said anything in my writing to the likeness of her being white, black, or otherwise, do you want to know why? Because I want her to be someone anyone can relate to.

Belinda is the same age I was when I became an angry teenager, 14, she's the same as any other teenager. She can be anyone really, any group of people, she doesn't even have to be even 100% female, she can be nonbinary even. So look at it that way, I wanted a character who people can pick up a book and go, "hey wow, that's so me," and that's how i thought about my characters.

Heck, I have an openly gay couple in the story, Belsom and his lover, Quil, it isn't as if that's going to be a draw back, its a great characters for them too. They're average people, they work, they live their lives as normally as they can, they're not anything more than who they represent to themselves. They're people you could run into at any event or even a movie theater. So you can place them even if one is an elf and the other is a Cilf, you can tell they care about each other.

Does it matter really what a race is in general for someone? Why would a colour of a character's skin make them any less a person?

Getting Ready for Mile Hi Con

Welcome to this year's belief of trying to figure out how writing is going to help me. I'm sitting through a few more edits and then realize and remember, this is my vacation from work. Yeah, I am not doing what I should...I'm sitting on FB looking at people like they're nuts.

Politicians argue back and forth, people are getting upset and then attacking their friends, here I am recovering from surgery from the 18th still, I'm still in pain. I am one of those who actually prospered from the Obamacare, so is my fiance and yet, there are people who whine that its bad. So I'm sitting there thinking, "Damned if I do, damned if I don't," I'm considering that next time, I'm just going to tell doctors, "Look, Obamacare might as well kill me." I'm just sitting there wondering if it saved my life, but yet I'm just one of the few it helped. Well..that sucks, as a writer I'm just poor.

So I'm sort of wondering what I should do if I work on my book and just put my thoughts into this idea. I'm kind of thinking of what Kestrello's personality of what he believes is right, though writing his character is like watching TV sometimes, especially the news. He's the kind of person who is vindictive, he's a bastard, he's the kind of person who attacks blindly and then believes he's smart without doing his research. He voices opinions of the ideology that as some High Elf that he can make himself look more the ass if you realize it.

I was thinking of sketching him, but I couldn't even do it without staring at an image of Donald Trump and then at Emperor Palpatine, wondering if I should just say flat out, no...no....no...I want to go with something darker and much more evil at times. I'm looking at every book I ever read and thought about the movies..then I remember how I envisioned Thadeous Belsom, who is Kestrello's nephew, a rather kind High Elf, who has the mind set of being honorable, noble in some sense even in a tweed suit, wearing simpler clothes than his high strung uncle. I am basically just doing two different opposing thoughts.

WOW....here I am thinking so highly of each, then realizing that if I use Belsom and just go off the opposite points. I think that might actually save me a lot of time considering I'm working on the roughs for the next book while finishing up the first.

LOA: Last Day

Today is my last day of the Leave of Absence from work, I'm basically getting through my editing, so far though I'm up to Chapter 2 and preparing for the rewriting and seeing what I can edit out or can redo so that it will be a much easier to follow.

I am planning to start putting this on Word and then work toward putting it on Wattpad to see how far the story goes. I'm going to edit through it again before hand too, I'm not going to say why, but I'm wanting to make sure the story is easier to follow...

Yes, I'm really going through a lot of, the surgery is okay, but my body is ready to go back to work, I'm kind of tired of being stir crazy.

LOA: Days coming to a close

Here I was yesterday doing some editing and sitting there watching a movie, I was thinking of all the times i had to sit in my store's break room doing the editing there, but nope! I miss work, but that's just me, I love my job at times, but reading is still not quite as I expected, the place is not quiet.

I have been thinking about all the craziness I have seen on my news feed, surely the idea that this election is going to be nuts. I have thought long and hard about what I would write on the matter, but as a person attempting to be a writer, nope, not happening. I can't sit through a bunch of idiotic people yelling at each other with issues that possibly aren't as big as they are making it.

When I think about the characters I designed from watching all this, I just see a bunch of psycho elves who think they are the master race. We have these people with superiority complexes who believes that he can pay for anything to make things go away.

Day 1: Start of LOA

Here I am working on The Dragon's Library, it was kind of interesting...I was sort of thinking about what I'm going to do after my surgery, I'm sitting here wondering if I should start pitching everything. I'm going to be going to Mile Hi Con and hopefully finding out more about publishing my own stuff, I'm not the kind of person who sends stuff out without finding out how or what an editor needs to know.

I'm not entirely sure how these things work at times, but here I am doing my best to work on something and not focusing on this upcoming event in my life. So far, Tuesday is going to be something a bit shocking and worrying to me.

Also march is going to be interesting, I have to put some suitcases on layaway or at least pick up something at the thrift store. I'm going to be so excited about going to Orlando in March, of 2017. My convention times are going to be different though.

All right, I'm going to announce it now, 2017, my convention schedule is going to be very limited, but I'm going to be at:

StarFest (Saturday Only)
Myth and Legends Con (Whole Con)
Nan Desu Kan (Saturday Only)
Mile Hi Con (Maybe)

Also with this LOA thing, I'm going to be also working on some artwork, but also dealing with cleaning the house.

Editing...more

I was editing and it was still working through some of the strange sentence structure...I can't believe I'm working like this again. I'm still working on everything and then working on editing again while I work.

Then I was working on attempting to get more work done on some artwork ideas, I'm still thinking about how to do this. Then I'm going to laughing through reruns of "Night Court," which is kind of strange to me.

Also I will be working on editing while I'm recovering from my surgery from October 18th till five days later, so I can start working again.This is going to be a time for me to sit down and really get some rest and also try not to think about it. I have not really talked much about what is going on, and seriously need to finish what I'm doing so I can start typing up the rest of it.

I have yet to finish the paper editing and then moving onto putting it on typing and then talk to an editor...I'm not sure where to go from there, but of course my exboyfriend has volunteered a few times.

Creepypasta and editing don't mix

While sitting down listening to the TV, which is a common thing for me while I write, I was editing a bit, usually I don't mind doing three things at once, but last night it was not the smart move. I was watching Sy-Fy Channel's Channel Zero series and it was pretty much the strangest and scariest thing I must have turned on. I am sitting there starting at the whole thing and yes, I set down my editing and was wondering why the hell did I turn on the TV at all. The show was pretty scary and to be honest, I was always reading some of the Creepypasta stuff as well...interesting stuff to look at.

Yes, I'm a horror buff, and yes, I love ghost stories as much as the next person, heck growing up, I was always interested in ghosts. So it isn't surprising I will watch The Conjuring and my sister took me to see The Conjuring 2, we're pretty much horror movie lovers especially haunted stuff. My sister and I would watch Poltergeist, she was the one with that look of "OH COOL," while I hid my eyes. Also I think that is reason she hates clowns, unless you count the miniseries "IT" as well.

As it turns out some of my writing was pretty much at one time not on a horror edge as some people might think, though I did attempt when I was younger to write a horror story. I don't think I ever attempted it again because sixth grade was something of a joke. While a teacher was telling a ghost story, I would knock on the under side of my desk and it caused the teacher to check the door. A classmate told me to knock it off, but the teacher thought it was kind of cool that I could add to a story like that. It was a little prank that I used during April 1st and it did not continue, I never told anyone else about that until later on.

When I think about horror movies and writing, I'm not that kind of person, my favorite writer Koji Suzuki who is a horror writer in Japan who was later dubbed the Japanese Steven King was interesting. If you ever read his stuff, I would say read "Ring," and "Dark Water", those are pretty much the works he's best known for. If you know horror movies, you would best know his for "Ringu" or "The Ring" and also if you want to be really interested, "Ju-on" or "The Grudge" is one of his most famous works. I am pretty much a fan of Japanese horror a bit more than American horror, but again, I don't let it stop me from seeing more.

Trying to find a place to write

Working on a story while at work helps, but honestly, it is a distraction, I'm still trying to find a great place to write...O_O; I'm sorry to say that Burger King is not a great place...neither is the break room at my work. I have tried my bedroom...then I become sleepy girl and fall right back to sleep. So this is just me...I'm waiting for news regarding another surgery coming up in a week or more.

So far I'm kind of tired of trying to find a place to write. I'm not going to be pissed off at people and I'm going to work where I'm going to get ready as well. I have not said why I need a place to work without a problem, but apparently with house guests coming soon...I'm not sure how to respond to this..because I'm not the one that made this choice.

I'm going to go looking yet again.

Welcome to October

So this is my first day off in October and I'm not really doing anything, I'm more or less just reading up on what I'm going to do...I am wishing I could walk around a bookstore, but of course the best book store in Littleton called Tradesmart is closing, which is a sad day...trust me, its sorrowful. I had a dream of waling into that store as a writer and do book signings there, now that isn't going to happen.

That's just me...writer idea...I'm tired of losing places I love...oh well...I will just end up putting Tradesmart into the story sometime...LOL

This is what happens when you write the way I do, places that were once the best place in the world become places in my story...so I'm going to have to come up with ideas...and also I'm still drawing. While writing and drawing is kind of the best way to put my own spin on stories.

What I'm relieved of is that a former friend of mine doesn't know this blogger exists, she's the kind of person who will sue anyone. Then again, I have not spoken to this person almost four years and so its better this way, and with her kid around, she's the kind of person who just uses her family as a shield. I'm not worried if she attempts to make comments to me about my stories on Wattpad or even if she finds me in Littleton, her family is just weird.

I'm kind of relieved also that when I built this to get my ideas out there and also inform people who want to know what is going on in my mind regarding the library. When I was hanging out with my former friend, Danielle, she was attempting to stop the writing the Dragon Library because she said was going nowhere and that the story was just stupid. I was not sure how to respond when I was trying to tell her the story, I really should have stuck with my best friend from school and also her good friends because when I told them the story, I got, "AND?" or "This is great!" I was surprised at how different it was when I really told my story and how developed it became.

So today on October 4th, I'm spending it writing a bit and I'm appreciative of the friends who are yelling at me to continue and to produce new artwork for the story. Also my best friend, Jordan just got me some great ideas for a doll version of Kel'rina from the story. I will post some pictures and ideas of what I'm going to do....I'm thinking of the ball jointed doll that is prefect for this...here I am starting to think of ideas for my writing.