weathered things

Wow, Olivia, violent title. I know, but I'm blunt and it catches attention so... yeah. Hello Lovelies! Welcome to today's lesson on weapons artfully titled Yayyyyy! Let's learn about the different ways to write wounds and such because if you rip an arrow out it's probably going to leave the arrow head in whatever you ripped it out of. I'm thinking this'll be a series of how to write wounds from different weapons. What do y'all think? >>-arrows-> So, your protagonist (or someone close to your protagonist or really just anyone b/c let's be honest we're a pretty cruel group) has been shot by an arrow. Do you go the normal, awesome route and have them rip it from their shoulder, only to continue and dramatically faint from blood loss or slay the enemy with their own arrow? Or do you go the realistic route, where the character is in great pain and ends up having to undergo a style of field surgery to get it out? First off, ...

This is an extra post that is also my Monday Minute Challenge entry on Tessa's blog (christiswrite.blogspot.com). My prompt entries are below: Picture Sentence: There was no stopping him this time. 3 objects: pen, cast, tree Here is my entry. It is 299 words long (just under the limit). ------- “It’s hard to know you’ll never remember me,” he whispers, “I’m truly sorry.” She lifts her head sharply, jolting the chains; a few links slip through his hands before he can catch them. “Not as sorry as I am.” The words are venom, quickly working their way through his blood stream and stopping his heart. But he keeps walking. The woman some believe to be the prophesied warrior of old trails behind him, chained and bloodied as though she is nothing more than a dog. Her body hits the chair with a dead thud, the chains around her wrists and ankles quickly being replaced with leather straps. The man kneels before her, fury and pain raging in a newly-lit fire behind hi...

I'm an author. I've got a book published, I've got 41 planned, and I write more than I probably should. I'm also an actor. I find solace on stage, in the lives of other people who I get to be--even if it is just for six hours on the weekend. So, inevitably, these two worlds would collide. They first collided when I started looking at colleges. I wanted to be an actor... but I also wanted to be an author. So I settled on an Theatre major with a Writing minor. They most recently collided a few weeks ago on Saturday, when I found some old stories I had written. They weren't the best (they ranged from me at 6 years old to me at 15), but one thing that I found was a one-act script I wrote for Creative Writing my Sophomore year of high school. It was actually pretty good! I mean, I had some awkward sentences and some sage directions were confusing, but it was good. And that's when it hit me: I'm gonna write a play. Not just for the sake of writing a pl...

Okay, I am super excited to share this: Caroline Meek and Olivia Rogers have created a collaborative book written by teen authors for teen authors. It is called: IT'S SO COOL! Basically it's a book for teen authors with tips from other teen authors! There's a section on world building, character development, and loads more! And the most awesome thing is that it's written by us--the teen authors. Have I said that already? Yeah. Lots. This is just such a cool idea, though! Cuz a lot of the time, the how-to books are written by adults. And that's fine, but being a teen you don't necessarily think the way adults do. And in that way, we sometimes figure out more things than them. Not saying that those books are bad. Just saying that this one is going to be awesome. It's going to have international availability, which I think is absolutely genius. But the reason for posting this (other than my OH MY GOSH ISN'T THIS COOL AHH reason) is to ...

Minneapolis Young Writer's Workshop. *deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! It irritates me that the banner spills into the menu, and I'm sorry abut that. BUT IT'S SO EXCITING! So yes, I am going to the Minneapolis Young Writer's Workshop again. It was fantastic the first time, and I'm excited to be back. I really suggest that you attend this, even if you aren't in Minnesota. Get a plane ticket, fly over, write with friends. I met a few people from around the country who have traveled to attend and it's so worth it! I am going to be selling my book there (signing them too, probably) on a tiny little side table (or something, we're still working on exactly how I'll sell them), and I am very excited about that. The authors this year look SO fantastic! Sabaa Tahir ( An Ember in the Ashes ), Shannon Hale ( Princess Academy, Austenland ), Ally Condie ( Matched Trilogy, Summerlost, Atlantia ), Jonathan Frie...

New Year, new format for the monthly wrap-ups! Okay, it won't be too different... but I don't really like the bullet points. I mean, I do because it's nice and organized... but I feel like it's a bit too hard to read. What do you guys think? Also, I'm writing this during homeroom and it's Movie Character Day so I'm dressed as Enjolras from Les Mis because that's a movie and Enjolras is my obsessive, patriotic child. ANYWAYS I'm very late with this and I am so sorry. Busy school and busy book all up in my schedule, messing it up so I have no free time. ANYWAYS! LET'S CONTINUE WITH THE NEW FORMAT! writing This January I didn't do much writing. I know, I know, that's my job , but still. I didn't write a lot, but I did edit a lot. I got through my manuscript twice , and my mom even looked over it once for little errors I may have missed. Mended and Torn  is set to be released in a week or so! I did, however, write the fi...