Category Archives: writing

Amazing Boyfriend


Posted by Laylian

I love it when people really surprise you. It’s hard to do anymore. I find the older I agent the harder it is.

But m y Dearest has done it. He absolutely surprised me.

Somehow he got me an iPad for my birthday. Never in my wildest imagination would I have ever guessed something like this! I don’t really feel worthy lol. He’s such a good guy. I don’t know how I got so lucky. Sometimes I feel like my life is a Relient K song, the ones where the singer is talking about how he’s so lucky to be part of such a great team/relationship.

I wish I knew how to better express my joy and thankfulness for everything other people do for me. I have all this thankfulness inside me that it feels like I’ll explode, but I don’t how to get it out, haha.

So, thank you, Love, for being awesome and making my life so much more fulfilled than I ever thought it would be. As they say in the Relient K song, everyday I send with you is the new best day of my life. Thank you for being so thoughtful.

And now I’ll be able to write on the go! This keyboard is so much easier to use than my phone’s, haha.


Not With a Bang, But a Whisper


Posted by Laylian

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And so ends Matsuri 2012. I wasn’t there for closing this time around. We had a photo shoot at the garden for a lovely bridal couple who tipped me $5. This means I missed most of the cleanup for the booths. I feel a bit bad, not being able to toil with my coworkers, but I’m sore like someone beat me with a bat.

Matsuri was fun. I worked, played and went to a doll meet. I’m a little hesitant with regards to next week. We gave out quite a few wedding cards, so I’m sure the inquiries will go up again. Maybe we can get December weekends booked.

My online writing class started last week, so I may post some of the exercise on here.

I’ll see you around ~


Smash Journal


Posted by Laylian

Hannah got an e-mail from Michael’s last week. They were talking about these things. Smash Journals. Basically they’re like a a scrapbook, but more active. To me it’s about logging memories as they happen, like writing in a journal at the end of the day. Scrapbooks are where you store memories from big events. I feel like they’re a ginormous project. These Smash Journals feel much more approachable. It could just be that I LOVE journals.

Anyway, Hannah went to the store, but they were all sold out. The guy behind the counter said they’d have more tomorrow.  When Hannah wants something bad enough, it gets done. So she went with mom while I was at work and picked a couple up.

These things are amazing. In their YouTube Video they show a couple of the myriad ways these journals can be used. People track their school progress, their pregnancy progress, showcase their doodles. You could use it to make a timeline of all the movie stub you’ve collected over the years. Your imagination and supplies are the limit. I’m creating a book of things that inspire me, or have inspired me, to feel special. Things that made me feel more than a cog in someone’s engine. Or things that have made me feel in general, good and bad.

Maybe I’ll try to post some pictures of it, haha. But you special people will probably just have to ask me to see it :)

Ta~


And the Time Flies By


Posted by Laylian

I know it’s a long time after November. You can be sure if I’d won, that my silent audience would have known about it. Real life rose up and bit me in two. When it comes down to working to survive and writing to life, I had to forgo having a life for a while.

On a brighter note, the team at Yarny.me has made a great product! It’s an in-browser writing software. Even free it’s fantastic. They’re just out of beta and working on getting some neat features for paid users. Eventually they will be an offline version of the product that syncs up with the cloud when you get back in contact with the internet. I can’t say enough happy things about it.

It’s almost Christmas, work is finally letting me get a handle on it and I have more books to read than the garden has extension cords. For those unfamiliar, it’s an awful lot. Sometimes I miss those time when we were younger, elementary school/junior high, when Christmas Break actually meant being able to rest and have vacation. Now it rolls around and all I think is, ‘Oh good! I can catch up on work’ or ‘Thank God, now I’ll have a couple hours to take for my mental health’. I miss the lack of responsibility we had when we were younger. But that’s what ‘growing up’ is all about, isn’t it?

Bye all~ Happy Holidays!


NaNo 2011


Posted by Laylian

Whelp, here we are. I’ve decided to go with Issachar, Greta and Moak as characters. Yes, it’s the ‘doll story’. I know. I said I would never go there, but here I am. In my defense, they were characters before they were dolls. Not that there’s anything wrong with writing the doll story! I just wanted to keep it as a photo-story, was all. Oh well.

I’m a little busy on one of my other blogs right now and don’t get me started on work, but I’ll try to update throughout the month. Wish me luck!


NaNoWriMo 2011


Posted by Laylian

It’s finally time to start planning~ My course of attack this year will start with reading the ‘No Plot? No Problem!’ book by Chris Baty and watching Whisper of the Heart. After that, I’ll start working on some basic character stuff. I’m trying to be as loose and free as I was that first year. I had the most fun then. And isn’t that the purpose of this? To have fun? It is for me and that’s what I’m going to do.

I’ve decided to go with Issachar and Co. this time around. They were characters before they were dolls. I only have short story snippets and such for them, so it’ll be perfect. I’ve found that if I have established characters, I can get a lot more done than if I actually used an outline. Too much planning when I write bogs me down. I would imagine that makes most professional writers cringe, haha. There’s probably some kind of balance between the perfect amount of research and writing, but I haven’t found it yet. Writing this way is what works for me, it’s what gives me a rough draft to go back and edit. So this is the way I’ll do it.

I’ll probably put some of my planning ideas up here once I get them done, but I’m also on a blog with my friends, so we’ll see what happens XD

Bye all~


August Writing Project


Posted by Laylian

Well, I’m off again. I wrote about 1,400-odd words today. That’s a victory! And Priest made me so angry I had to go clean something. I suppose that’s a good thing, isn’t it? I know he’s actually not a bad guy, but writing this last scene I hated him, haha. My nickname for him is the ‘Snarky Bastard’ and I say it with affection. He’s a good antagonist for Zero, throwing down road blocks and generally keeping the poor elf from accomplishing his goals.

It’s nice to be writing again. During the good times I wonder why I ever thought I couldn’t do this, why I was afraid to put a sentence to a Word document or even long hand it. The secret is copious amounts of caffeine. I’ve had two pots of tea and four or five cups of soda. When you’re that caffeinated it’s easy to have hope for betterment!

And that’s it for now! Nothing is edited, so I’ll not torture the eyes of you imaginary readers.

See ya~


Another Interesting Writing Prompt


Posted by Laylian

Procrastinating today, I found this little segment tucked into my notebook:

‘They thought I charged ahead without caution and waited for the day I would fall. I knew it. I saw it in their eyes. Do the aristocracy not know their people? I knew mine. I knew they wanted what I had.’

And just below that:

‘I felt like I could lie down and sleep forever. Each step down the marble hall reverberated in my bones. Every sound– if there were any in that silent place aside from my own slippered steps– came from a distance, like hearing the ocean’s waves through ears filled with cotton. It felt like a dream.

A dream wouldn’t have hurt.’

Just thought I would share ^^

In other news, Thomas Bergersen released a CD titled ‘Illusions’. Everyone should go give it a listen. The man does amazing stuff. I recommend ‘Promise’ and ‘Soulseeker’.

And I added 650 words to Old Dominion today. Yay~

-Laylian


Ema Eggs


Posted by Laylian

On a gem hunting foray with my mom, we ended up in Black Market Minerals. I found something there called Ema Eggs. From the card that comes with the stone Ema eggs “are quartz stones that are naturally tumbled in the Ema River in Brazil. A flat polished surface has been cut to see the inside. Some call this the original crystal ball. The fortune teller would tell a person’s future by looking into the ‘window’ of the quartz stone”.

The moment I saw them, a scene for Priest and Zero formed in my head. I even found the perfect stone for poor Zero. I’m excited to try and write it. Maybe it’ll end up being a submission for class next semester. If I can, I’ll put up pictures of the stones that Zero uses in the novel.

That’s all for now~