NaNoWriMo Update #2

      Sorry for the lack of videos. My camera is acting up. I  recorded 4 or 5 videos yesterday, but none of them actually saved. It's official: technology hates me!!!

     So, for NaNoWriMo, instead of worrying about word count, me and my best friend was focusing on how both of our stories connect. The way we do things is that we both write a chapter and after we talk about it and combine in the best way possible. Right now, I'm just now starting to write. She's been writing A LOT. Before we started writing together, she had written about 10 pages of her book (which she now decided is going to be a novella) and I had written an introduction, Chapter 1(James Patterson style) and had just started my Chapter 2. What I was writing didn't fit what WE were going to write, so I immediately scraped it. And that's fine because sometimes, you have to make sacrifices.  

     The thing is, we both have COMPLETELY different writing styles. She is a lot more detailed than I am. I used to be detailed, like the kind of detailed that people hate, so I kind of became a minimalist. Kind of. But we're both working on that. So I guess my #1 tip would to be try not to worry about the word count. Quality is way more important if you ask me. You can worry about word count another day.

Book Character Betrayal Tag (By BooKss101)

    Ok, so this tag was originally created by BookTuber Miranda of BooKss101 when she reached 500 subscribers!!!! Congratulations Miranda if you're reading this!!! I saw her do this and thought, "This seems fun. There are some characters that I don’t like at all.”  But I want to change it up just a little. Instead of just book characters, I'm also going to use characters from TV shows because there are  A LOT of characters on TV that I don't  like that much. Here are the scenarios:
     
1) You are at a party playing a game of Spin the Bottle. The bottle lands on you and your dream fictional character partner. You lean in to give a kiss to your dream fictional character partner, while all the while their actual girlfriend/ boyfriend is watching. Which character are you betraying in order to get a kiss from the character of your dreams?
          
       The obvious answer is Tessa from the Infernal Devices Trilogy. I would betray her in a heartbeat in order to kiss Will. I mean come on....He's Will Herondale. Enough said.

2)You just watched Mean Girls and saw Regina George being pushed in front of the bus by Katie. Unlike Mean Girls, you do not feel guilty about pushing a character in front of a bus. Which character would you push in front of a bus? (they are still alive and well after).

      I would push Kelsey from the Tiger's Saga by Colleen Houck.  Kelsey is just an irritating, annoying, and purposefully awkward character. I'd push her in a heartbeat. No need to think about it.


3) It is a life or death situation. You are trapped with a character you hate in the middle of the bush. Suddenly, as you keep walking the woods begin to look familiar and you know the way out. You call it a break for the day and you and the character you hate decide to call it a night. That night you leave sneaking away from the character leaving them to find their own way out. Which character do you betray?
    
      I would leave Bella from Twilight. Don't get me wrong, I love Twilight. There are just some moments where she can get a bit annoying. But don't worry, if she gets lost she can just lay down on the ground and the werewolves will find her.

4) You are trapped in a hole and above you lies the only escape. You ask the character you are trapped with for a lift so you can get out. You tell them when you get out of the whole you will help them out. You make it out of the hole and walk away not helping the character still trapped inside the hole. Which character do you betray?

      Elena from The Vampire Diaries the TV show, not the book. She's not irritating in the book. It's as if the people who worked on the show just wanted to make her irritating and make us hate her, because obviously, nothing terrible is going to happen to her because she's the main character. She's just SOOO irritating in the show. She can't make up her mind about anything and she's always whining about EVERYTHING. "But Stephen. But Damon. I love you both. I can't choose."  Bitch please. Is it really that hard??? No. It's not. Stop overthinking everything.

5) You are in an argument with the character you hate when BANG...you are surrounded by zombies, vampires and wolves. You and this character have to unite to fend off these creatures. You then realize you have magic dust in your pocket that a Warlock gave to you that will help you get out of any situation. You use it and suddenly find yourself in a luxurious environment sipping a drink you love. Which character would you leave to fend for themselves?

     America from The Selection. She too is irritating and can't seem to make up her mind.

      Alright!!! So this tag. It was so much fun to do. I don't know who to tag so..... *Awkwardness* Congratulations again to Miranda for reaching 500 subscribers!!! Got to go guys. Bye!!!!

 

Major Bookgasm

Picture from
Angelic Nephilim's Tumblr

     So, I was on Tumblr just ten minutes ago when I saw the most beautiful thing ever.  A cover for City of Heavenly Fire. I'm not really sure if this is THE actual cover, but it's still very beautiful and I can't stop looking at it. I actually screamed when I saw it. Guys, I'm so excited for this book. So, out of curiosity I went onto Goodreads to find out when the book would be released. The release date is May 27, 2014...... That's too far away!!!!!  And to think that things couldn't get any worse, I looked up the release dates for the Dark Artifices.....It's in 2015. What am I going to do with my life. My whole book world revolves around Cassandra Clare's world and her writing.

     Here's the Goodreads Description:  
     Los Angeles, 2012. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood. Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who caused the death of her parents, the trail they’re following leads back to those they’ve always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with Julian — her closest friend and, because he is her parabatai, the one person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.

     Emma???? Emma Freaking Carstairs???? Did I read that right??? Yes, I did. I just about lost it when I read that name. I kind of regret looking this trilogy up because now I've put myself through the extreme torture of waiting for it, but I'm also glad to have looked it up, because now I have something to look forward to because at least Clary isn't a main character. Obviously, she's going to appear in the series, but at least it won't revolve around her and we won't have to hear her annoying voice. But, while I was reading the description, I was thinking, "You know what, sometimes the Shadowhunter's laws suck." And they do. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that their laws are placed just to make some Shadowhunter's miserable on purpose. Am I right or am I right??? Just kidding. My theory is probably wayyyyy off. But that's okay. We all have our own crackpot theories now don't we?