Sick...

I haven't written Winterlands for atleast a good week. Now I'm sick and stuck at home instead of being in school, learning! I feel aweful, and worst, I wanna write. So what kind of human being rather be in school then laying in bed all day dumping mouthfuls of popcorn into thier mouths? Me.

We have a new addition to our family. A nine week old kitten that is currently "playing" with my dog. I have two Cocker Spaniels and now one tabby cat. They look like this: |
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Yeah...And you wanna know the funny part?
I'm allergic to cats...
Curse thy allergies of pain! Not awesome. Grr, I'll try to make a "vlog" for the first time soon! When i'm not sick!

-Eevee B

YOUR MOJO'S UNDER YOUR BED

I remember telling Eevee that like a few months ago when she got into his writing constipation. She gets it every once in a while, major blockage.

Eevee don't worry! You'll get your stuff back! You always do!

I thought since we were talking about Writer's Block, I shallz share my wisdom....which is nothing.

Writer's Block is mostly when you don't know what to do next! One of the main reasons is because you didn't start out right!

GOOD LUCK EEVEE! I know you can write the Aaron Scene!

-Harmony B.

Writer' Block?

I feel kinda constipated today. Yep, I got a real big 'ol clot in my head. Writer's block. I was writing a scene that needed revisions and all of the sudden, wham!

Constipated.

And I couldn't type anything, if I did it would probably come out like this:

"Janfk afksjhf sjfkgbsd" He said laughing.

No. So I stopped for the day and now I can't get myself to even look at the document without feeling guilty or that horrible feeling that you need to go but you can't. I'm still sitting here and supposed to be writing the scene but instead...I'm wasting time. The scene was coming out petty good until the actual dialog came into play because it had to be like, "Oo, burn! He got soo burned, it's like crispy!"
Instead it's coming out more like, "Man, this is really emo/okay." So I need help.

I tried putting on the music to get me into it. It worked out about half way through until...The dialog problem. Then, I tried being angry! Feeling the character's fuel and going into the material that would be to burn. That didn't work either. So I turned to a friend that said my first draft was better then the current one. "/ Wait a minute...WHAT?!

So I'm stuck and look like a crazy freak pulling out my hairs an mumbling things to myself as I pace up and down the hallway. My brother giving me weird stares.

The thing's we do to make things work huh? I need a break. *Sighs*

Back to the pacing! Stop staring!

Eevee B.

Just thought i'd put this up for future reference

This was over aim:

Her: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ARHGSADFKJALDGHADSF
SEFHKASENGFLD
SDFNLARNGF,ARG
NOOOOO!

Me: I HAVE AN IDEA
IT'S A GOOD ONE
SO SHUSH

Her: WHAT IS IT?!

Me: YOU'LL SEE

Her: NOOO
TELL ME

Me: THE DAY THEY LEAVE, IT'S GONNA BE DAYTIME. THEN I SHALL DO THE MOST KICK-BUTT DESCRIPTION TO EVER WALK THE EARTH!

Her: Ok.

Yeah, we're psycho.

Over and over...Hey look! A distraction!

Well, this is the first post Iv'e ever made and the first time Iv'e written in public. Haha, better get use to it if one day we'll get published. And I strongly belive that we will.

This is me in the mirror to myself:

WE WILL GET PUBLISHED, WE WILL GET PUBLISHED!

Then I chant this a little while to myself until I feel pretty good again. One of the thing's that bother me in the "Writing process" is the over and overs. I guess that's what revisions mean. And this isn't the beginning? It's crazy. But I would give anything to see my little baby published, even if it takes forever. I love them all. Iv'e been through a few stories as you have probably already read, and I haven't felt as pulled in as I do now (probably because I actually think this one has a chance). I'm not as sick of doing overs and overs with this story then with ANY other book Iv'e done with Harmony.

Iv'e been called lazy so many times I an't even count them. I can quote my co-author/best friend and hear the words, "You don't wanna write because you rather play WoW." Yes, Okay I admit it, i'm obssesed with World of Warcraft. If it's not dance or writing it's that game. But sometimes you do need a bit of a distraction, it makes the world go round! Without it, I would be like a little robot glued to a screen, not that I already am or anything...

Anyway! Back to revisions. Revisions are the first steps to anything. And we're going to get there slowly but surley. In fact, I'm doing it right now. As we go along this path of...writer initiation this will be my place to tell everything to. Back to revisions! Urghh. >.<

-Eevee B.

Day one: Oh crap.

This really isn't Day One, Eevee and I (Harmony, the creator of this blog in which I shall spill all my secrets too) have been working on this project for two months now.

I'd just like to say this is for myself, to track how insane I turn from revisions, to editing, to line-edits, to preparing a query, to spazzing, to sending, and everything that might go beyond that.

It isn't the longest we've worked on something, we were on the Wings Saga (insert shudder here) on over 6 months until we realized it was complete and utter crap and what the hell were we doing. Ehh, but you know it gets a few tries to get it right, right? YEAH, LIKE 7. 7 novels before we found the right one which is now project number 8 i've had with my lovely (emo/evil) co-writer.

This was the long, perilous journey of fail:

Project one: Butterfly Wings. 60,000 words. Status: UTTER, COMPLETE PURE CRAP. Shall never be touched again besides to read and mock it.
Project two: Sequel to Wings: Pixie Wings (EVEN THE TITLE IS FAIL) 85,000 words. Status: Same as the first
Project three: (told you it was a saga) Hidden Wings. 110,000 words (of fail) Status: a freakin' fluff cloud. Oh and it's crap.
Project four: (thank god this is the last one) Choosing Wings. 90,000 words. Status: Just....just no.

Project five: A Siren's Song.
OH MY GOD, this one was the troublesome one. With the Wings Saga we flowed through, never stopping regardless of the suckiness but we were smarter now. So we finished it the first time and finished at 60,000 words and said: Wow, that was really big crap. So we wrote it over again. Still crap (better crap than Wings though)

Project six: Sequel to Siren's Song. We tried naming it Banshee's Cry, but that kinda failed. We stopped writing this at 50,000 words because it wasn't good. It was sucking. So our logic was that, maybe if we took a break from writing about Scarlett and Darrian and Shawn for a while, we'd get out game back. So then, this was created:

Project seven: Dark Vampire Story. Words: 58,000 words. Status: Yeah, it never got a name. And YES, we stooped down to writing about vampires. I was ashamed. But you know what? I'm still particularly fond of this one and when everything is done with Winterlands (current project), I think i'd like to go back and take a look at this. I am fond of both the main characters (this was also set in Russia, old times, which I love love love)

Then we went back to Siren Song 2 and wrote some more and realized it wasn't that we needed a break from the character, it was that the first one SUCKED so much, we couldn't write a not-sucky second book.

So you know what we did? WE REWROTE SIREN SONG A THIRD TIME. And the second rewrite, we changed the setting but left the plot and characters alone. We completely changed this one, changed everything except the three main characters. And you know what? I actually LIKED the plot. I dig Arranged Marriages. But we got 30,000 words in and we realized it wasn't the plot that needed fixing, nor the setting, nor anything. It was just that these characters were old, flat, boring. They had lost there favor. So we decided TO NEVER LOOK AT IT AGAIN. Yeah, we tend to do that.

My lover: PROJECT EIGHT. 53,000 words. Status: Being revised. This is the first time we've never gotten past the: Wow, this sucks majorly : stage. AND I LOVE THIS BOOK. So, so much. It's my baby. My very crappy, awesome, wonderful baby. Baby named Winterlands, weird.

That is pretty much it. Peace out.
-Harmony B.

p.s I LOVE HARLOW.