So I finally found what I did with the back story I wrote that I decided needed to be the prologue. If I could expand it into a long enough piece It could just be the opening chapter. I haven't given up on that idea yet. But for now its the prologue. I have edited it. I may post it later. I don't know. That just remains to be seen.
 

Well I did it. I outlined the first book completely. I don't know if I am completely happy with it but it works. Anything I don't like will change as the story goes along right?
 

Well apparently for the individual book, I never really did do step two. So, I need to go back and do that now. I wasn't prepared for that, so it's going to have to wait till tomorrow.
 

The character's name: Maurelle

A one-sentence summary of the character's storyline: A jealous woman who will stop at nothing to distroy the royal family because she was not allowed to become queen due to an odd law.

The character's motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?) She wants to destroy the royal family

The character's goal (what does she want concreatly?) to get the throne back for herself.

The character's conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?) Her childish behavior and that little odd law as well as those who love the current royal family.

The character's epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?) She may learn that you can't play with other peoples lives. But, I doubt she changes. Only death will keep her from her prize.

A one-paragraph summary of the character's storyline: Due to an old law that states that the King of the Fae must be an elf and never a Fae and that the queen can never be an elf and must be a Fae, Maurelle finds herself not being able to inhereit the throne, losing out instead to a distant cousin. When this cousin has only daughters and there are no other male cousins to take the thrown and thus take over the spiritual well being of the people, the law is changed and it is given to one of the two twins born to Maurelle's cousin and his queen.

In a fit of rage at seeing another female holding the seat she sets out to destroy both her own world and the human world. Only a war of that magnitude could cause the people to over throw the royal family. Only her well timed guidance will place her on the thrown. So she recruits Ohanzee to help her bring an end to the Royal family.

The character's name: Tenyane Rosemary James last name is tentative

A one-sentence summary of the character's storyline:having once been Queen of the Fae, Tenyane now finds herself dealing with the mess in the Fae world as the human.
The character's motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)for the war to be over and everyone thing back to normal

The character's goal (what does he/she want concretely?)to go home

The character's conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)she is the soul of her face stuck in human form. She can't go home unless she could transfer herself back to her sleeping Fae form. But, even if she could figure out how to do that there is a very good chance that her human form will die; and until the horde is gone. She cannot abandon the humans.

The character's epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?) Tenyane will learn that upholding the spirit of the law is much more important than the letter of the law. Any law can't be changed if it will have a negative effect on her people. Being human will teach her the importance of variety and allow her to become a better leader.

A one-paragraph summary of the character's storyline:
stuck in the human world, in a human form, Tenyane realizes she's losing everything. It becomes increasingly more obvious that she is going to have to wage a war for the human side of the veil. All she can do is gather the troops she has, search for the troops she needs, and pray the humans are willing to protect themselves without destroying everything. Eventually, she will have to go home but this is much a story about her journey as it is about Hayden and Raven. To save her Kingdom, to save the humans, she will have no choice but follow this path where it leads her.

So, yesterday the De' Javu happened again. I had lost my vitamins. I found them this morning though cause the events continued all night long and I got basicly no sleep. Taking the vitamin hasn't helped so far though. I am still having episodes. They aren't as bad right now but I feel like crap. I will take it again in the morning and hope they go away again. I really hate this. Looking it up I seem to be having what they call a Partial sezure of the temporal lobe. What started out as de jevu a couple of years ago however has grown into de jevu and a sinking feeling in my stomach, this time around, It included nerve endings in my chest tingling, that seemed to burn a bit as it happened. According to the website I was looking at, The symptoms can include Everything in purple currently applies to me

preserved consciousness
sudden and inexplicable feelings of fear, anger, sadness, happiness or nausea
sensations of falling or movement
experiencing of unusual feelings or sensations
altered sense of hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, and tactile perception (sensory illusions and/or hallucinations), or feeling as though the environment is not real (derealization) or detachment from the environment (depersonalization)
a sense of spatial distortion—things close by may appear to be at a distance.
preserved consciousness
sudden and inexplicable feelings of fear, anger, sadness, happiness or nausea
sensations of falling or movement
experiencing of unusual feelings or sensations
altered sense of hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, and tactile perception (sensory illusions and/or hallucinations), or feeling as though the environment is not real (derealization) or detachment from the environment (depersonalization)
a sense of spatial distortion—things close by may appear to be at a distance.
déjà vu (familiarity) or jamais vu (unfamiliarity)
laboured speech or inability to speak at all
usually the event is remembered in detail

When the seizure occurs during sleep, the person will often become semi-conscious and act out a dream while engaging with the environment as normal, and objects and people usually appear normal or only slightly distorted, being able to communicate with them on an otherwise normal level. However, since the person is acting in a dream-like state, they will assimilate any hallucinations or delusions into their communication, often speaking to a hallucinatory person or speaking of events or thoughts normally pertaining to a dream or other hallucination.

While asleep symptoms include:

onset usually in REM sleep
dream like state
appearance of full consciousness
hallucinations and/or delusions
behavior or visions typical in dreams
ability to engage with the environment and other people as in full consciousness, though often behaving abnormally, erratically, or failing to be coherent
complete amnesia or assimilating the memory as though it was a normal dream on regaining full consciousness

Although hallucinations may occur during simple partial seizures they are differentiated from psychotic symptoms by the fact that the person is usually aware that the hallucinations are not real.[6] (familiarity) or jamais vu (unfamiliarity)
laboured speech or inability to speak at all
usually the event is remembered in detail

When the seizure occurs during sleep, the person will often become semi-conscious and act out a dream while engaging with the environment as normal, and objects and people usually appear normal or only slightly distorted, being able to communicate with them on an otherwise normal level. However, since the person is acting in a dream-like state, they will assimilate any hallucinations or delusions into their communication, often speaking to a hallucinatory person or speaking of events or thoughts normally pertaining to a dream or other hallucination.

While asleep symptoms include:

onset usually in REM sleep
dream like state
appearance of full consciousness
hallucinations and/or delusions
behavior or visions typical in dreams
ability to engage with the environment and other people as in full consciousness, though often behaving abnormally, erratically, or failing to be coherent
complete amnesia or assimilating the memory as though it was a normal dream on regaining full consciousness

Although hallucinations may occur during simple partial seizures they are differentiated from psychotic symptoms by the fact that the person is usually aware that the hallucinations are not real.[6]

What happens to me in my dreams is that I have that preserved consciousness
sudden and inexplicable feelings of fear, anger, sadness, happiness or nausea
sensations of falling or movement
experiencing of unusual feelings or sensations
altered sense of hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, and tactile perception (sensory illusions and/or hallucinations), or feeling as though the environment is not real (derealization) or detachment from the environment (depersonalization)
a sense of spatial distortion—things close by may appear to be at a distance.
déjà vu (familiarity) or jamais vu (unfamiliarity)
laboured speech or inability to speak at all
usually the event is remembered in detail

When the seizure occurs during sleep, the person will often become semi-conscious and act out a dream while engaging with the environment as normal, and objects and people usually appear normal or only slightly distorted, being able to communicate with them on an otherwise normal level. However, since the person is acting in a dream-like state, they will assimilate any hallucinations or delusions into their communication, often speaking to a hallucinatory person or speaking of events or thoughts normally pertaining to a dream or other hallucination.

While asleep symptoms include:

onset usually in REM sleep
dream like state
appearance of full consciousness
hallucinations and/or delusions
behavior or visions typical in dreams
ability to engage with the environment and other people as in full consciousness, though often behaving abnormally, erratically, or failing to be coherent
complete amnesia or assimilating the memory as though it was a normal dream on regaining full consciousness

What actually happens to me during a dream state episode is that I have a déjà vu event in the dream along with a sense of dread and a sick at my stomach feeling. Then In my sleep, I will think, Oh God its happening again, and I wake up. But the fact that its happening in my sleep makes me very leary.

There are two causes since I am an adult and these problems began after the age of 35. Its either an electrical problem with my heart or a lack of b complex vitamins. The vitamins help. But, I have always had an electrical system screw up. I can't wear regular watches the batteries stop in less than a day. I can drain a cell phone battery that is fully charged in less than an hour even if its brand.

The weird thing about the watches is if I take them off, they will start working again in a couple of days. Weird...

So I will take my vitamins and pray that it works again and if it does, I will never stop taking them because every time I do they get worse.


 

If it's not one thing it's another. Earlier in the week I had an abscess tooth. It's finally not killing me anymore; but I didn't get any work done on the rest of step three. I did however, manage to write a short piece for my punctuation class that included Hayden and my father of all people. It was an interesting look into both of them and I will make it available after it's been graded.

On the WDC front, I have managed to keep up with all my responsibilities. Right now I am in the process of reformatting the tea garden and the determined dyslexic Society into the writers garden. It will have a section for writers in small groups to work together to improve and finish projects, review contest and raids to help inform the WDC community at large about us, and charity work so that we continue to support all of the groups that we have supported in the past. It's going to be a lot of work. I'm hoping to have it open by March 1st, but that remains to be seen. I still have a lot of work to and I'm not really sure where to start. I will get back to working on my novel when the update is done and I will keep posting here so that you know where to find everything. Until next time…
 

Well, I wrote something. I started the first chapter over again after months of not writing anything. Well, at least not anything on my book. Hayden fighting with Raven at the beginning didn't give enough detail; nor did it set the tone. I was looking for. Bear says that this version is better. It's a start anyway. I will work on it later and post it to my port password-protected soon.
 

Dragon and Failure

Well, I bought Dragon. I can't say I actually like it. It does, however seem to be learning. Of course, that took me reading several chapters of Charle And The Chocolate Factory to make it happen. It would help if I had more, RAM. Training is proving to be frustrating. To show you how frustrating this is getting the next few sentences I won't leave what it high didn't tell you what I wanted to say. Look at Nick
That was suppose to say, "To show you how frustrating this is getting the next few sentences I won't change what it types. Then I will type what I wanted it to say. The Look at Nick was my saying Next line to get it to go to the next line. Apparently, it is supposed to learn not to make these mistakes. I have yet to figure out how to make that happen. In the amount of time it has taken me to do this this blog posts could have been written three times. To say right now, I am not impressed would be the understatement of the month.
I told it that I speak Southern American, but it didn't understand when I said warsh. It has no idea that the wash. People in Arkansas added extra r sounds to their words. So I grew up hearing, 'Are you going to warsh that,' when what people were trying to say was, 'are you going to wash that.' Perhaps, it is set more for people like Paula Deen, y'all. Nope, it didn't know what I meant by y'all.
It is pretty cool that it will open a program as long as you have a browser or WordPad open. I kind of like that. I wonder, if I actually have to keep saying space every time I want it to put a space. Let test that theory. I don't know what to say to test it. Actually I do not have to keep saying space. I do however have to tell it every time I need a comma or a period. I also had to type the words comma and period. If you say them it will type the symbols not the words. It doesn't like the word space either.
On to my failure. I have done nothing with my book. At this rate, I won't be ready for Camp Nano in July. I still don't know how to fix it, but I hope to find the time to figure it out. Please, be patient. Maybe, I will be able to get back to working on the snowflake method soon.
I'll play with generally one of like me