Update May 2019

What's up, y'all?

Me, I've been busy doing much of nothing, BUT! I am planning on heading to Phoenix Comicon, which is not comicon anymore which is confusing. I mean, it's okay to change the name but PLEASE stop changing it! First it was Comic Fest, then Fan Fest, now Fan Fusion and I'm just gonna stick with Phoenix ComiCon, cuz that's a hell of a lot easier than picking through the names to see which one they pulled out of a hat this time.

Anywho, me, LA Knight, IK Scott, and 5007 will all be heading out to party like nerds for 4+ days in costumes and whatnot.

Other than that I've been mostly reading and watching Supernatural. I didn't expect to become obsessed with this show, but I guess it's the longest running fantasy/sci fi show of all time for no reason (not in terms of time that's Dr. Who, but in episodes. Ther'es more Supernatural to watch than any other show of it's type in the world). I only have a few more seasons before I've caught up in time for the final season.

Other than that life's been pretty boring. I missed the chance to meet one of my favorite authors of all time in March, Anne Bishop, who is the author of The Black Jewels series and The Others series, two series I love. Sadly due to illness I couldn't take time off of work without risking my job.

I hope y'all have had a better time.

I haven't been writing either, thanks to my busted computer. It turns on but I can't do jack diddly on the thing thanks to a full harddrive, which makes no sense as I've uninstalled everything I possible can, and I have 0 files stored on it. I can't even get a program to wipe the harddrive to work, it's so messed up.

*insert growl of frustration here*

I can't find a place to take it to because it's so broken I can't do it myself. It's really hella frustrating.

Wow, this is turning into a rant.

But yeah, I will probably post on here about ComiCon in June, as it's at the end of this month.

I hope y'all check it out and stick with me.

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Megan's 1st Vid and On My Shelf Videos + #AYearAThon Update

Hey guys!!!

So thanks to monsoon season, I've been having trouble being online for a whole day *crosses fingers cuz today's been pretty good*. That means I've cut back everything, including posting videos!

During storms I barely managed to get up Megan's first video, her doing the First Sentence Challenge! She did pretty good, better than even the creator of the challenge, kimberleyreads!

This video also proves that me, Ravyn or LA Knight, and IK Scott SUCK at counting! Oh man, we're so hopeless! ALL THREE VIDEOS we were SO off with our scores! But with this video, we do have a virdict of which of the three of us did the best with this challenge!

IK Scott (Megan) will have more videos, and she wants them all on my channel. I edited this one, but LA Knight's doing the rest. If they come at all. I think I'll post them towards the beginning of each month, and if Ray can't get them done fast enough I'll just take over.






I filmed this video a while back, but didn't post it because I was filming like a maniac back then. You can tell from how my shelves are just how old it is. I was supposed to upload something else earlier, but the formerly mentioned storms really hindered things. And the other video was just out of date. I'm going to refilm it and get it up in the future, but not right now.

I'm also ill right now, battling a pretty nasty cold. I'm feeling better right now than I have in a while, but Monday and Tuesday I was down. I laid for hours in my be Monday night, trying to sleep, but I couldn't. My body was so sick it wouldn't let me! So if this seems a little off in the editing, I was sick while doing this!






Because of the storms I'm uploading only twice a week. Honestly I do enjoy this schedule more, giving me a rest to just read and do other things instead of constantly worrying about being on time with my videos.

This week is #AYearAThon, and this illness isn't making things easier. I gave up reading Sense and Sensibility for now because my pounding head combined with difficult language made it terribly hard to read. I've moved onto The Two Towers. Speaking of which, I need to get back to read that, so that's enough for now.

Oh, and My Week in Pics isn't coming this week. I'm sick, not much to see, except the amazing disappearing tissue paper!

Laters! :)

Yup, Forgot Again (Videos and Updates)

Although I do have an excuse, I was travelling the whole last half of last week, and couldn't get to YouTube or tumblr. So there.

But I couldn't posted something.

Quick update of things: I've been writing in Glenn's Story some more. I need to go through and look at things because the whole first parts of the book have been from multiple perspectives, but where I'm at now that's not really practical, so I'm gonna go over it again before posting it on Figment. In case you don't know you can read Glenn's Story on Figment HERE!

So I'm still writing, but I really need to take things slowly. My hands have been getting worse, flaring up more often. Sometimes, especially while I was travelling, I wake up from my hand(s) bugging me and have to put on my brace. :(

My Week In Pics: I don't know if I'll continue them. I haven't been taking many pictures lately, mostly due to reading and being online a great deal. I guess I can, but there will be a break from it. Gonna admit, some of it is from backlash of certain person getting in my face about my life. I do share some of it on here, but my life is my business, and a lot of it I don't share. A whole lot of it stays between me and a very few people. In fact a good chunk of the pictures and even the videos I shoot are not shared at all and stay for just me.

But this blog will continue on, regardless of anything. I know only 1 person comments, and so long as she continues to do so, I will continue to post. Just like my videos. Sure, they don't reach a large audience. But so long as I have 1 subscriber who likes my videos I will continue to post. And yes, I'm well aware I have 25 lovely subscribers and I love and am very grateful for all of them. So the channel continues while I can post, this will continue so long as I can post.

I've done three videos since I last posted. Two went up while I was away from the computer (thanks to the awesomeness of YouTube), so not surprising I didn't post about them, and 1 went up 15 minutes ago.





This 1st vid is The Writer's Dream Tag. It kind deserves it's own post, but I don't wanna! >:D It's a tag all about writing and goals and dreams and whatnot. So check it!





This one went up while I was in Phoenix, locked away from YouTube, so it doesn't have many views since I couldn't share it in a timely manner. :/

It's a double review of two manga I truly love, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, and the Anne of Green Gables manga. Nura you can get here in the US, though they hadn't started publishing it when I started reading it, while Anne you can NOT get here. It's in Japanese ONLY. :(





Last video to go up is the BookTube Newbie Tag! I wasn't tagged, but hardly anyone is for this tag, since it's for newcomers to the community. I enjoyed doing it as I'm sharing what my goals and hopes are for this channel. LA Knight did it also, but I don't know when her's is going up. Normally we email each other while she's at work, but she's super busy today, so hardly any chat time.


So that's what's been going down lately. :)

Top Ten Most Influential Books Tag (video)

Hey guys!

It's midnight, making it officially Friday! You know what that means? Yes, a week in pics blog (hopefully I'll have one up tomorrow. Why? You'll see :D ) BUT also a new video!

In fact I decided to talk about my posting schedule. I'll post it here first because I've got some vids prefilmed, like, 6 of them, so it'll be a while before I start adding this to my videos. But I'm going to upload every Tuesday and Friday from now on. I'm doing it backwards right now, but soon I'll start having Tag and Challenge Tuesdays, and Reviews and Rants Fridays. How's that sound? I've got a lot of vids filmed already, and I'm doing at least 1 more on Sat, so expect more soon! I also have two more that I didn't edit that I'll post soon. Remember, LA Knight or Ray was editing for me. I'll do the ones that need to be up soon--like wrap ups and #AYearAThon vids, or when I'm low on stuff. Ray takes a bit because she's creating my openings as she goes along. I can't wait to show you guys the others she's done!

I'll do my very best to not let this interfere with this blog. And in case you're wondering about writing, I kinda wanted a break after Warrior. My hands have been bugging me a lot recently too, not sure why. BUT I will continue to work on getting Warrior ready for review by agents and whatnot (I'm actually waiting on Ray to edit some things, but she's super busy right now. She's moving). And I'm going to continue writing other things. But with starting this channel, helping Ray move, taking an institute class, and other things going on I've ending up REALLY busy. Once Ray's back in her apartment and we got the hang of this editing-filming schedule down I can get back to writing. And once my hand's better.

Without any further ado, MY VIDEO! Please give it a thumbs up, comment on the page, and subscribe for more!





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#AYearAThon Day 6 Update and Wrap Up (Videos)

Hey guys!

Sorry for not posting this, but I uploaded them Monday about the end of the #AYearAThon's Reread-A-Thon.

And yes, it wasn't until it was completely done I remembered "reread" is ONE word. o.o"






And here's my wrap up!





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#AYearAThon Updates Days 3 and 4 (videos)

Hey guys!

Sorry for not posting yesterday about my video, but here they are! This is how I've done so far for the past two days! Still in Voyage of Dawn Treader, but I'll finish it today, I promise!







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Another Quick Update!

Sorry for not posting guys! My hand's doing wonderfully, though you may know carpal tunnel can only be cured by surgery, so it's only become dormant and isn't gone for good (dang it).

But things have been crazy with my laptop. It was acting super slow so I dropped back from Windows 7 and went to the Windows the laptop was built for, Windows XP. And now the computer says there's nothing there other than the motherboard and hard drive. Which, to quote my brother, "Which means your SCREWED!"

Thanks David.

Anywho, I'm not sure how long it'll take to go back to Windows 7, then install everything again. Le sigh.

BUT! I will have SOMETHING up this week! Not sure what yet, though.

Please bear with me as I struggle to get my computer revived (again)

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UPDATE

Okay, so if  you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you know that I'm wearing a brace on my right arm because I tried to hand sew, then type up 3 chaps in one week. So my lovely lovely carpal tunnel returned with a vengence, and it's been over a week that I've had to wear this stinky stupid brace. So my hand's shot.

Another disaster is that when my laptop went down, my trained Dragon went with it. While I reload Dragon, training it has been a nightmare. It's deleted documents, locked up and shut down multiple times, and on top of it all, my mic finally kicked the bucket.

So I need a new mic, then to train up Dragon enough for it to work, and THEN I can finish my chapters and post my August Favorites.

Sorry! I guess I need to be less productive, so my stupid wrist can keep up.

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W.i.t.c.h. The Full Story: Part I Chapter 3 - Yan Lin

Hey guys!!!

I have great news:

 

I HAVE MY FILES BACK!!!!

Yes! I also have a new laptop, but it doesn't work very well...I couldn't get it to open ANYTHING when I got up, which was super annoying, but whatevs, it works! I have my files!!!

I'm currently backing up everything, but as you can see, I found time to write some!!! I'll be able to continue my other story as well as Warrior! I got everything I need!!!

Alright, now that you have my awesome update, time to get to my writing!!! Here's the next part, where we see The Heart of Kandrakar!!!

Oh, and I did change Caleb's name back to Kaleb. Since Kandrakar's actually supposed to be spelled Candracar, I'll stick with the K names.
 
***NOTE: I know the spaceing's jacked up. I can't fix it, the stupid thing is glitching. It happens every once in a while ><***

Chapter 3

Yan Lin - Heatherfield

A resounding crash coming from the kitchen had customers looking up from their meals and Yan Lin clenching her teeth until they ached. That was the fourth time this week. Yan held back her sigh as she watched a glum teenager named Stephen slink out of the kitchen, trying to hide behind his long, shaggy blond hair. He seemed to know his third evening of work at the Silver Dragon would be his last.

 

Taoyan, that’s the third one this month! The white-haired seventy-four-year-old thought. Are there no good waiters in this city?

 

Silently cursing, Yan moved toward the kitchen to tell Stephen—

 

—and suddenly she was looking at a young man a little older than Hay Lin, wearing a waiter’s apron, standing over a thirty year old man with blond hair. A strong aura of anger and impatience emanated from him, cowing the gentleman asking about his order. He glanced through his shaggy, brown hair cut similarly to Stephen’s, the rage making his olive-green eyes burn.

 

Yan blinked and suddenly she was looking at nothing, still in the dining room of the restaurant her parents had opened in the 1940s when she was a little girl. The customers made small talk while eating what Stephen hadn’t dropped. Hay Lin, her granddaughter came through the door and greeted Stephen while he continued to clean up his latest mess. The old woman ignored it all, focusing her mind on that very brief vision.

A premonition? I haven’t had one since…Decades. Since my powers were sealed with Cassidy’s death. Tears filled her eyes while a grin of joy spread across her face. They’re here! She realized. They’ve come. The fifth generation is ready!

Without finishing her table’s order, and not a word to Hay Lin, Yan Lin, former guardian of Air shuffled into the private dining room and through a different door that concealed the staircase leading to the family apartment above. As fast as her ancient body would let her, she headed to her bedroom. There, against the wall was an armoire that held her most precious possessions. Her breath caught as she moved some photo albums aside and saw a pink glow coming from the back.

As carefully as she could, she pulled out an old box. It was wooden, painted red with gold embellishments on the edges, which glowed from the light coming from the inside. Yan gently touched the words engraved into the lid.

 

To bring peace and Light
To those in the Dark
Protect the innocent
Stand as hope and justice
Is the Guardians’ Role

Yan stared at those words. When she was fourteen she’d sworn that very oath. She’d watch a friend die for them, and another break them. Thousands of times she’d lived up to the trust placed in her, and now—

 

Now, she thought, it is my turn to teach them to another generation. Reverently, she opened the box, and picked up the glowing necklace inside.

 

Hanging from a silver chain was a glowing, pink sphere with streams of energy moving around inside. Silver encased the bottom and the top, with an incomplete circle connecting them. Where the top broke off, it curled in a swirl. The bottom did the same, but angled in a different direction. It was the heart of Kandrakar, the amplifier of the Guardians’ powers, and it had given Yan Lin her vision.

As she took the gem into her hands she felt its call. Laying down on her bed she murmured, "Show me."

Hay Lin, Yan’s only grandchild, had changed from her uniform into her favorite purple miniskirt and a yellow lace-back shirt, her long, blue-black hair pulled into her favored pigtails. Now she was playing with her hip-length hair while taking the orders of a table that Stephen should’ve been serving. No one could see it, but Yan saw the invisible symbol for air—a sky-blue capital c, whose top came to the center with a dot on the end—hanging from the teenager’s neck. Yan felt a wave of overwhelming joy that her xiao Hay would be a Guardian as well. The old woman watch the air currents flowing about the untrained girl, calming the customers and bringing a bit of fresh air to them. She must’ve had her for some time without knowing it. Hay Lin sneezed, knocking the drinks and menus at a table over. Yan chuckled at Hay Lin’s shocked expression.

The vision changed to another girl the former guardian recognized. The beautiful blonde wearing a coral maxi skirt and white shirt and denim jacket was Cornelia Hale, one of Hay Lin’s good friends. She was at a park, sitting and talking with her best friend Elyon while some boys played soccer. The grass at the edges of the blanket was growing tall, a few dandelions popping up where her long hair fell over the side of the blanket. Cornelia didn’t notice it, nor how the trees seemed to reach for her. It didn’t surprise the old woman that around her neck was the green talisman marked with the dot surrounded by a circle that meant earth. But Yan knew Cornelia’s arrogance and pride, which made her wary.

That one will give me a fight, she thought. And her powers need more control. But that will come in time.

The third girl was just as familiar as Cornelia. She was Irma Lair, another member of Hay Lin’s group of friends. Sassy and tough, Irma had her short brown hair braided into pigtails, showing off the second set of piercings on her ears. Her little brother must’ve tried to pull on one, since Irma was holding him upside down, balancing his weight on her hips while talking on the phone. The Latina seemed immune to her brother’s squirming, shifting around in her salmon Capri’s and olive green tunic. Despite this remarkable feat, there seemed to be no open sign of a particular power. But still, Yan spotted the talisman around her neck in-between the kicking boy’s legs. It was similar to earth’s c, but royal blue, smaller and with the end extending straight out, making it water.

Yan Lin didn’t recognize the last two girls. The first was an African-American girl with dark blue hair that was short, except for one, thick braid in front of her left ear. She continued to pluck at her orange sweater and green cargo pants while out with her family looking at an empty house for sale. While shuffling behind her parents, she sighed next to the fire place, which lit. The girl and her older brother jumped, staring at the flames in surprise. As they raced to join their parents in the next room, Yan saw the blood red, upside down triangle that didn’t connect in the left corner that was the symbol for fire.

Taranee Cook, the heart whispered to her. Her powers were strong, and Yan knew she would need to learn the most precision.

The last one, Yan knew, was the most important. This was the one that the Heart had chosen as its keeper, the leader of the others. Her power was Quintessence, and she alone would be able to wield the Heart. The chosen girl appeared, the pink talisman with the two apostrophes almost forming a circle, the top one with its tail to the left, the bottom’s tail to the right. She was a small red-head, sitting in the Sheffield Institute uniform on her bed, looking lost and defeated. Her brown eyes were dark with memories of pain.

Wilhemina Vandom, the Heart called to Yan. This girl had seen much in her young years, but Yan knew she’d see so much more in the years to come.

The visions faded, and Yan was staring at her bedroom ceiling. She sat up and studied the Heart, which had stopped glowing.

"So," she said aloud, "you’ve chosen these five, eh? I don’t know if they will last in Meridian, but so be it." She gently laid the necklace back in the box and hid it deep beneath clothes and photo albums. "They’ll be tested soon enough."

MySpace Update

Hey ya'll!

Another update, I know, but this one has good news and bad news. Mostly bad news, I guess.

First Bad News: No, I don't have my background and latest writing just yet. My friend is quite busy (wish I knew the feeling) and is doing what he can when he can. So nothing yet, please bear with me, I'm anxious too, but my friend didn't have to do all this for free, and he did.

Second Bad News: MySpace no longer offers blogs on their site. They are all about music, so while I can do some things on there, my links in my table of contents are dead and have been removed. The extension of what I can do, I'm not certain yet, but I hope we can discover it together because--

Third Good News: I'm back on MySpace!!!! YAY! I *love* that site, always have. Being able to customize it, like this site, is awesome and I've always loved it. That's why I've maintained one profile, even if not my personal one. Excited to see how it pans out.

So please join me on MySpace, I promise I won't bite. Maybe I'll update it with special things like I do with Twitter!

Here's where you can find me on lots of sites!

MySpace: https://myspace.com/shining_star_lor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/llobrien13
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/lorien13
DeviantART: http://llobrien13.deviantart.com/

Love ya'll!

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Update: Where'd My Blogs Go to You Ask?

Hey ya'll!

So in case you were wondering what's going on with me, my laptop died just as me and LA Knight were getting started during our Weekly Day-of-Editing. The motherboard fried.

What this means about my writing is that all my files are gone. Yes, I have what I've posted on here and sent to LA, but everything else, all the background notes that I must have updated or I'm writing blind (Pantser is the proper term. It means I write by the seat of my pants), are gone. Writing without them usually results in my work hitting a dead-end with too many mistakes to continue on. So my writing is at a stand still until a wonderful friend of mine gets the files off the hard-drive (thank goodness THAT didn't die too!) and onto the computer he's giving me. YES, he is THAT AWESOME!!! LOVE YOU CHRIS!!!

Anywho, you may also wonder why I don't do "My Week in Photos/Pics" instead. That would be because the computer I'm using now (it's my parents), as well as my brother's computer do not have the drive needed to read the memory card for my camera. So no weekly posts for now either. I'm gonna try to get my pics off using my friend's laptop tomorrow, but there's no guarantee that I'll be able to do that every week. She's got a bad back and when she's in pain she needs to stay in bed at her apartment far from where I live.

So basically until I have the funds to keep writing, I'm out of luck, and so are you. I may pick up an ancient fanfic of mine in the meantime, but that's a BIG maybe.

Hoping the rest of you are having better luck than me,

Lorien

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My Week! 6/23/12 - 6/29/12

Here's my week with pics!

I'm absolutely addicted to this song, Paparazzi by Girls' Generation!

Yeah, Merlin eating with chopsticks??? I think the people doing the Kingdom Hearts Manga got a little bit lazy... -_-'

As someone who has PTSD, I am one hundred percent behind this organization!

Joined deviantART as llobrien13! Found this amazing pic and it's now the cover for Once Upon a Time by LA Knight!

It's Nuada in Exile by LeafOfSteel! Go here to see the rest of her work!

http://leafofsteel.deviantart.com/

Saw The Legend of Korra season 1 finale! One word: EPIC!!!!!

That was my week! Hope yours was awesome too!

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Update! ~

Sorry I haven't posted anything!

I've been doing behind the scenes stuff, mostly character bios. Kinda important. I'm going to continue that for a bit, but I expect to have 13 up this or next week.

Also had a blast at Phoenix Comicon this past weekend. Hit up my facebook for all the pics I got!

Just thought you should know.

I will start working now.

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Whisper

Itch - poem

So, I'm currently battleing some pretty self-destructive tendencies. It's not easy, and honestly, I feel itchy all over. So I wrote this song, I have the melody, (it's a simple), but I don't know how to write music, just lyrics.

Let me know how you think!

I can't help feeling it when I'm here all alone

cuz when

I'm with my girlfriends they say girl leave it alone

it's my itch

it's my itch

late at night when I'm just trying to go to bed

it just

creeps up upon me like a voice inside my head

it's my itch

it says

come on babe, just one more time

you'll be all right

but I can't give in or I'll lose myself

this burning feeling's my living hell

it's my itch

it's like

a broken record whisp’ring just give up the fight

but my

heart keeps on telling me go to bed for tonight

it's my itch

it's my itch

it sings

don't fight me now

just once won't hurt anyhow

but my heart keeps fighting, I won't give up

this girl's no quitter so just shut up

it's my itch

it's my itch

I'm stronger than my body's wants

I won't give in to this stupid taunt

I know I'm better than a destructive need

but it won't go, the feeling won't leave

it's my itch

it's my itch

Mic's Here

My mic has arrived! Soon, I will have chapter 4 written, now that I can write again! I believe I will work on it tomorrow, so expect it soon! ^^