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Well, I've decided after a schizophrenic writing spree that I am going to begin work on writing a mini series. By mini series I mean a series of of screen plays that will end up being a show. I may or may not try and use it to create a show on YouTube, but it will get written.

I will be posting updates on this project to see how far it gets. The pilot episode is being gestated (thought through before execution) and will be written soon, as soon as my characters have been developed.

My character profiles will be posted here quite soon, I will be sketching the people and posting the pictures of them here as well, so whoever actually reads this will be able to see how the process goes.

Just so everyone out there knows, I have never done any production work before, so this is a purely new experience for me. I will be writing the first season before any possible production happens.

Train of thought change: If I can't find anyone to actually act these out I will try and do a radio show/podcast thing with it... that would work easily! I need to figure out how to pay actors for this though... meh, all my friends are probably willing to work for food :D so that shouldn't be a problem.

So, aside from that I wanted to write about a new Application I added on Facebook this week. It's called Save the Planet. Basically what happens is you go on and play games to earn virtual money. You then take the money and spend it on various causes: Ending world hunger/thirst, helping homeless people, ending child abuse, saving the rainforest... all kinds of nice things! Then, annually, the creators of the app will do math to convert the virtual money into a real amount of money and write a cheque to each cause with real money to help. It's a great project, and I think that it really makes up for the materialism of the Western world and gives us a chance to help people less fortunate!

So, that is all for right now. I'm working on those characters so sit tight and I will have them up soon. Then I will see what I can do about production of this thing. I will do something. I promise!

Da Svidaniya,
Allie

Keeping Up

I seem to be the only person from my group of friends that has kept up with blogging. Not that I do much of it, it's just nice sometimes to put something up.

I have nothing to say tonight really, I have no inspiration tonight. I've been quite sad today really, and I really wish I could be less sad.

I know why I'm sad, but I won't tell anyone, for some reason. Oh well.

Yours, Allie.

New Background!

Well, I finally got a perfect background AND I made it myself! I found the website pimp-my-profile.com and I love it! I finally got a background completely dedicated to Timothy McGee from NCIS. The background in the picture was actually created by the user bmwf on seanmurray.freeforums.org. I was trying to make the background and the picture just fit!

The Alberta Indoor Archery Provincials were on this weekend. Needless to say; I failed miserably. I have been going downhill exponentially over the last few months. I scored my highest score with my new bow, a 154, then rapidly sank to only being able to score a 25. But, I managed to pull up my socks high enought o score a 150 for the double round (consisting of 60 arrows) It was sad, but it got me 4th out of 6. My friend, Rachel, who finished 5th in our category lost to me by 2 points, after we thought she beat me by 2 points. An addition error occured that caused her to loose four points. She did beat me in the extra eliminator round though. She did fantastically for her first tournament and I couldn't be prouder of her!

Despite my loss, this week has been good. No drama between my friends, no deaths, no injuries... just 2 feet of snow. And that should melt mostly by tomorrow, so I'm not too worried. Then again, looking out the window I notice that the precipitation has restarted. I can only hope that it melts, I hate winter with a passion. I would much prefer summer! No hoodies, nice shoes, and warm sun! Plus, a little spare time to try and overcome my writers' block.

Speaking of which, I have been completing some fanfictions lately. All based on NCIS, unfortunately and only one is really worth mentioning, in my opinion. I guess I should put a link for it: MAGIC LINK!!

Other than that nothing new to report.

Do svidaniya,
Allie

Miley Cyrus' Autobiography

Hello all,

Allow me to warn you in advance: this post will not be pleasant.

It has been brought to my attention that Miley Cyrus has (or is) writing an autobiography. May I be the first to say WTF?!?!?!?! The is 16 years old, stars as a 13 year old on a television show for 8 year olds... what does she have to write about? "Oh... today on the set I dropped my hairbrush. It was mortifying!"

I have read interviews and seen her on tv, this girl was obviously thrust into the spotlight far too early in life. An interviewer from Seventeen magazine did an interview with Cyrus and said: "You're very mature for your age!" To which Miss Cyrus responds: "I know." Did your parents ever teach you to be humble?! You say "Thank you!" when someone compliments you.

On top of her lack of modesty have you seen that photo running around? Yeah, I mean the one right next to this. Was she even 16 when this was taken? This is wrong. Have some class! Put a shirt on! It's not that hard.

Then, while I was looking for this photo I found another one, featured below. I realise that the self-respect rate of teenage girls has gone down but this is revolting. She is in the limelight, so she should at least act like it. She is doing nothing but embarrasing herself in my opinion.

I am not famous. I'm not even particularly religious! But I can say with complete confidence that I don't go parading my bare body through the proverbial town square! Where's your self-respect? You're mentoring 8 year olds, is this how we want them to grow up??

Back to this autobiography, I was going to gripe about. I read a few exerpts from the wonderful Interweb and I am horrified. I know what she spent all this time writing about! Her failed love with Nick Jonas. Needless to say, I find the Jonas Brothers justa s insuffereable as Miss Cyrus herself.

An exerpt for you:
In the beginning, we'd play basketball in my backyard, or play Nintendo at his place. His family always made yummy Italian food for dinner. I love to ride my bike, and he would walk along next to me as I rode, singing "My Girl." But instead of "My Girl," he'd sing "Miley, talkin' bout Miley." Wow! I was so in love. Do you know what i'm talking about? The kind of love where the sun could shine or not shine all day long and you wouldn't care. The kind of love that makes you want to jump in the pool in December. The kind of love that makes you want to dance in the rain. (Who am I kidding? This is L.A. It never rains!) This was the most magical journey of my life and it was a total rush.

Now, regardless of the fact that she used the terms "Do you know what I'm talking about?" and "Who am I kidding?" this was terrible. You are 16 and your talking about the kind of love that makes you want to jump into a pool in December. Some may say I am bitter because I've never had a boyfriend. That might be true, but if I had the conundrum of having to spend the rest of my life with one of the Jonas Brothers I'd hang myself from the nearest rafter! But in her case this "love" cannot be true. Are they still together? No. It couldn't have been that great for both of them if they're split now.

I will stop now before I get into how bad of a singer she is. She's obviously trying that old sex appeal trick in her videos... No. I promised I would stop. Enough starlet bashing for today. She is young, and should not be publishing a memoir. My god... wait until you have something besides a fluffy teenage romance to write about.

Good day, all. Hope any of you who managed to read this all the way through are not mortified at how much hatred someone of my shyness level can hold.

Yours,
Allie

Finally I'm Getting my Groove On...

Hey there,

I finally got my groove back and wrote something. Yes, it is a fanfiction but it's not half bad!


The story is based on the TV show NCIS. The story centres around Timothy McGee, a Probie Agent, who thinks he finds love in an online computer game. Little does he know that the girl he is falling for is only fifteen years old, AND has semi-clairvoyant powers which lead her to become a new youth agent at NCIS, working as an instant human BOLO database. A Navy Lieutenant has been murdered and his son is a prime suspect. When the son proves to be an accomplice in a planned mass-murder at the high school where our young agent, Kitty McKinnon, went only a few days prior to her being hired by NCIS, the team gets involved and McGee's life is put in the balance. The story is here.

I have already written a published sequel as well. In this story, Kitty McKinnon's parents are murdered in a meticulous early-morning killing spree. There is no useful evidence at the scene, and before long the bodies of more of Kitty's loved ones begin to pile up. McGee is taken hostage by the killer and Kitty must risk her life to save him. Will she end up dying in his place? This story is here.

These stories are some of my best work and I'm working on a brand new story at the moment that may outshine even these! Please give them a read if you are so inclined and drop me a review (the link for reviews is at the bottom of the story page).

Other than those, my writing is going slowly. I'm doing a lot of free writing, developing scenes and characters in one page descriptions. I don't have them with me at the moment, but I will post one of them as soon as I can.

See you around!
AlL!3

101 Books to Read Before You Die

So, yesterday I was looking for a list of book to read before I die. I was specifically looking for a 41 book list that my English teacher had brought into class that she was working through, but I found this longer 101 book list instead. I found this on another blog I found on Google called Carlo's. This list is apparently from South Africa, so a few titles are written in Afrikaans so omit (or try) the ones by Dalene Matthee. I'll let you know if I can find those in an English translation. I'll also let you know if any of the others are in Afrikaans that were not mentioned on the other blog.

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Kite-Runner - Khaled Hosseini
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
6. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
8. LIfe of Pi - Yann Martel
9. The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
10. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
11. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
12. Spud - John van de Ruit
13. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
14. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
16. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18. The Catcer in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
23. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
25. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
26. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
27. The Pillars of the EArth - Ken Follett
28. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchel
29. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
30. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
33. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
34. Atonement - Ian McEwan
35. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
36. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
37. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
38. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
39. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
40. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
42. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
43. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
44. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
45. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
46. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
48. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
49. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
50. Possession - A.S. Byatt
51. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
52. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
53. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
54. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
55. Q & A - Vikas Swarup
56. Dune - Frank Herbert
57. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
58. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
59. River God - Wilbur Smith60. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
61. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
62. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
63. Mort - Terry Pratchett
64. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
65. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
66. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
67. The Name of Rose - Umberto Eco
68. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
69. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
70. The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
71. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
72. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
73. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
74. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
75. Animal Farm - George Orwell
76. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
77. Watership Down - Richard Adams
78. Magician - Raymond E. Feist79. Middlemarch - George Eliot
80. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
81. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
82. The Magus - John Fowles
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk
85. The Cout of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
86. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
87. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
88. The Beach House - James Patterson
89. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
90. Kringe in 'n Bos - Dalene Matthee
91. The World According to Garp - John Irving
92. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
93. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
94. Shades - Marguerite Poland
95. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
96. Fiela se kind - Dalene Matthee
97. Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
99. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
100. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
101. Winnie the Pool - A.A. Milne

Carlo's Blog mentioned that this list was from Exclusive Books. I have no idea what that is, but that's where this was originally found.
I have already read the Harry Potter Series, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I must say all three (or technically 9) books deserve to be on this list.
The Harry Potter Books are beautifully written and exceptionally well imagined.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was a remarkably imaginitive piece, and it was very symbolic (as my mother never fails to remind me after we have finished watching the movie) of the story of Christ's sacrifce. I prefer to look at this book as an entertaining tale, not a recreation of my bible, but others may see it as my mother does.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was terribly humerous, and truelly painted a picture in ones mind of the scenes that were described and later carried out in movie form.
I am starting to plow through this list with Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and I must say I was up until 1:30 this morning reading this book, it is enthralling and very picturesque.
I prompt you to read through this list as well and let me know of progress and you're thoughts on the books. Bon chance!

The Wonderful World of High School

Well, I finally started high school in September. The classes are great, the teachers are great (with one exception...) and the homework is not as bad as everyone says it is. I will, however, probably be saying different things next term when I start Pure Math Honours.
The mixture of homework and exahustion (I believe I may be coming down with a cold) has left me no time to write. I have been trying to squeeze in the time to do a little creative writing here and there, I joined teh creative writing club at school so I can get a whole lunch hour in each week, and I am staying up far to late for my liking just so I can get a few messily hand written pages done in the hopes of finding THE muse.
Seeing as it's Thanksgiving weekend I will be thankful for something. I am thankful for the long weekend so I can catch up on some much needed sleep, I am thankful for my mom because she's my best friend and a wondeful cook, I'm thankful for my brother because he is finally being nice to me (he probably hit his maturing stage by now. Yes, he is younger than me) and I'm thankful for all my friends for keeping me sane. I'm sure they all would say the same thing to me.
I found neat new background. Anyone who has been watching my blog earlier will note that is probably the first white one I have ever had. Yes, it is. I'm trying to lighten my blog and my writing experience. Positive thinking should keep my hectic life in more order.
This is all for now, I'm thinking of posting some paragraphs I've written or some poetry. I want to actually prove that I can write things besides rambling blog entries on my frustration.
More soon.
Allie

Updates on Da Poll

So I got some more votes on the poll, I need a few more, but this is going well. Not! I need more votes, oh well. If no one votes I just won't use the votes given, since we need a tie-breaker vote now. But, whatever happens I'll still have more installments of the story.
My origional muse is going well. I'm having fun with it and came up with another, crappy muse so that both is good and sucks at the same time.
I'll have more later.

No More Polls?

I'm thinking of just cancelling the polls, no one is voting, and i need votes to see what the majority wants to see. Apparently, not much. So, I'm cancelling the polls.

On another note, I found a muse and I'm running with it. It's actually an old muse that was returned to me after I pulled an old book from my shelf. So, we'll see where that takes me. Hopefully far, but this optimism is going to break that down.

My mom saw Stephanie Meyer on a talk show the other day and she said something interesting. She said to write a book as though you are the only one who is going to read it. I think I may have taken that to heart... It's advice from Stephanie Meyer! Of course it will be helpful and is probably right, so I should take it to heart.

My series on Ficwad is becoming better and better, even with the (sorry readers) imminent close of the second installment. Archie's secret has been let out of the bag and Atlanta's still sour. Neil lost, and Dani's singing better than ever (if you havn't read the series, you may have figured out that it's a Fan Fiction peice on Class of the Titans. If you don't know who Dani is, you'll have to read for youself :D).

More soon, on the progress of this muse! Chiao!

Great Reviews!

So, as you can possible tell (depending on the time you read this post) from the polls on the side bar I am writing a series on Ficwad.com called "Good Enough" under the Class of the Titans tab.

I recently got two awesome reviews on the sequel "Out in The Park" which have boosted my faith in my writing immensly. Both said that they liked my story even though they normally didn't like aspects I had used in the story! I was very happy to know that I can change som people's minds, that really makes me feel like I'm succeeding in my chosen feild of the arts.

So, if you haven't read my story go to my profile and check out all my stories! If you're only interested in the Class of the Titans ones again they're "Good Enough" and "Out in the Park" by masquerade37.