Goodbye

Goodbye Blogger.com. Hello Weebly.com! Just making sure that everyone is up to speed on the move to Weebly. Since I have so few followers I don't want to lose anyone. So far I'm not regretting my move to Weebly, but it is a little sad to leave Blogger because this is where I started. I still have so much to learn on Weebly.
Anyway, here's the link again. http://juniornovelist4christ.weebly.com/

We're Moving!

Okay everyone, the time has come. I have my computer back so I've created my account on Weebly.com. The website should still be called juniornovelist4christ and name of the blog is still named Junior Novelist. I will have shared some of the posts that I may have already shared here, but I'll soon be working on a new post. I'm currently proof reading the beginning of the first chapter of Darkest Before Dawn which I hope to share with you soon. I'm still learning how to use Weebly so you may start to see changes to the website over time.
Here is the link to my new blog Junior Novelist

Book One of the Celestial Trilogy

I had just seen the newest Batman trilogy when I was creating my book Darkest Before Dawn. One of the characters in the movie said, "The night is always darkest just before the dawn." or something like that. Those words got stuck in my head so when thinking of what to name my new book, that came to mind. Hence, the title Darkest Before Dawn. Of course, I have to tie that into my book somehow. That was actually pretty easy because of the storyline. Plus, I wanted the book to be the beginning of a trilogy and the title also worked for that. I quickly decided to name the second book Light of Dawn, but I didn't know what I would call the third book. 

I finished Darkest Before Dawn and had even begun Light of Dawn last year. When I began to exam Darkest Before Dawn more closely I discovered that I had introduced too many characters. I was trying to focus on too many characters in one book. Seeing that I needed to fix that I went back to where I'd begun to stray away from the original plot and deleted everything else. That erased  over half of my book. I decided that I would redo everything in the book from that point on. It was a task that I didn't care to do and so I decided to take short break from writing which resulted in a year long break. 

I began writing other things, but this was the beginning of a long dry spell in writing for me. Every book I began to write, failed. During November I gave a half hearted attempt at writing 50,000 words in a month for NaNoWriMo, but I only got 6,000 words. The book I tried was called Invisible. Needless to say I did not attempt to continue writing in that book. I tried writing with Ginny in her book Classified, but that went down hill. That's when I tried Blue Jay and then Remember Ariel, improving my writing a little as I went. I was trying to reach 45,000 words in a month during Camp Nano when I found myself preferring to edit the book rather than write it. That's when I realized it might be time for me to pick up Darker Before Dawn again. 

During that year I had tried to edit Darkest Before Dawn a few times and got bored with it every time. This time I began by rewriting it from the very first chapter. I'm following the same basic storyline as before, but it's a little different. 

I considered only writing Darkest Before Dawn and then moving on to something else, but decided against that. It's now the first book of the Celestial Trilogy. 

The main character in Darkest Before Dawn is Hannah Dawn Scot, but she goes by Dawn. Her name has no connection to the title, that was purely a coincidence.

I wrote a short, incomplete, and kind of lame synopsis that doesn't really tell you much about the book, but it was fun to write so I'll share it anyway. Synopsis:

 Adam Smith, a man with a difficult past who endeavors to face it again. Dawn Scot, a brave girl who dares to venture into the unknown.The two virtual strangers will go on a life altering journey and only at the end will one's deepest secret be revealed. But will it's revolution cost another their life?

Updates and News

Okay, so now that I've published my last post I can see that the link did not work, but I don't know how to fix that. 

I was finally able to get on a computer today and look at the stats for my blog. (I've been using my iPod) My blogger app doesn't allow me to see the stats. The stats show me how many people have viewed my posts. I was so happy to see that as many as 16 people read one of my post on May 11th. Since no one had commented when I asked them to I was beginning to think no one was reading my blog. Not that I would blame them, I wouldn't read my blog if I were someone else. Now that I know somebody's following me then I will try a little harder to keep up my blog. 

Also, Ginny is creating a blog. She's using Weebly.com and I've been looking over her shoulder as she's making her blog. Weebly looks so cool! It has far more options than Blogger. I would like to start using Weebly instead. That said, once I have my computer back then I plan to create my blog on Weebly. When I'm done then I will share the website with you. I hope I don't lose any of my readers during the move. I'll probably post about it a few times to be sure everyone is aware that I'm moving. I will stick to blogger for a little while longer though, it will take awhile before I can get my computer back. (I should probably say "our" computer because it's Mom and Dad's and I just use it a lot.) The computer is at the repair shop, that's why I can't use it right now.

Ending today's post with a quote I found on a friend's blog. 

"Failure doesn't come from falling down. Failure comes from not getting up." ~ Anonymous

Celestial Trilogy

     Darkest Before Dawn, Light of Dawn, and Night Serene are the three books that will make up the Celestial Trilogy. It's possible I might change their names later on, but that is doubtful. I wanted to call it the Starlight Trilogy, but that was used by several other people. (There's still a 95% chance that I'll call it the Starlight Trilogy anyway.)

     There are two other possibilities for what I could rename the trilogy. I would probably only rename it if my readers wanted me too. My niece and little sister are reading this trilogy, by the way. The books could be called, Coming Darkness, Darkest Before Dawn, and Light of Dawn in that order. Then I would call it the Red Sky Trilogy. The second possibility is Coming Darkness, Haunting Night, and Dawn's Light which would be called the Starlight Trilogy. But like I said, I would only rename it if my readers wanted me to and I agreed with them.

     The Celestial Trilogy is set in a make believe world that's basically a re-imagined earth. Other than farmers most of the people live in the cities. Some cities are more advanced in technology than others. Where one city may have cars, televisions, and phones another might not have any of that and the people might even wear clothes similar to that of the medieval times. 

     I do not have a synopsis for any of these books yet, but I do plan to write one for Darkest Before Dawn soon. My next posts will most likely be focused on Darkest Before Dawn for a while. I will try to edit the first chapter so that I might be able to share some of it with you. If you like Pinterest then you can go to my board called "Novel Inspiration" and get a better idea what the cities and characters look like in Darkest Before Dawn. Here's the link if you're interested ->  http://www.pinterest.com/lizziegirl03/  You may have to copy and paste it if the link doesn't work.

Remember Ariel

I know I said I wouldn't talk about my books, but I'm quickly running out of ideas. I just tried a post about my siblings, but that got really boring. I want to elaborate on Remember Ariel some more because it's easier for me to talk about my books. 

Originally I wanted to name it The Code or something more computer-ish and technological sounding, then I found out there was a book and a movie by that name. The sentence remember Ariel is supposed to be used in two ways in the book. "Don't you remember, Ariel?" is one way it might be used. Ariel lost her memory so that's a question she would be faced with occasionally. "Remember Ariel?" is another question, one I already used in the book. In the book a mysterious little girl asks a woman if she remembers Ariel. 

When I title a book I like to use the title at least once somewhere in the book. I want it to mean something. In this book when the mysterious little girl asks that question it means everything. It's very important. That's also the part of the book where I got my writers block. I have no idea where I was going with it or why the girl is asking that. I just know it's important.

How Remember Ariel came to be. For months I kept coming up with a few ideas for some books I could write. I wanted to do something with technology, I wanted to give some of my characters an ability or "talent" that we don't have in the real world, I wanted them to wear dresses like in fairy tales and the medieval era. I wanted them to use swords and bow and arrows, but I wanted there to be cities, an oppressed people, a sad love story, a happy love story, and I wanted the main character to lose her memory. Instead of writing separate stories I combined them all into one.  Ariel lives on a small farm like many others in the country. She knows little about modern technology, she wears medieval dresses like everyone else she knows, and she's engaged to the man she loves. The people in her land are suppressed and have to pay high taxes. She's taken away by the government that dwells within tall walls and she discovers a modern city within the  towering walls. There she's used in an experiment, a computer chip of some kind is implanted near her brain that gives her the ability to control computer stuff and do other cool things like that. But, the operation erases her memory of everything in her life before that, she doesn't even remember her name. Because she doesn't know she's engaged she'll fall in love with someone else. So there you have it. All my book ideas crammed into one book. 

There's just a couple problems, pretty big problems, actually. A partial or none existent plot and a mysteries girl asking an important question, but I don't know why it's important. I wrote myself into a deep, deep pit and I can't get out. 

Frustrated and tired of trying to think it through I left the book and decided to pick up Darkest Before Dawn. As I mentioned before I hope to pick up Remember Ariel again someday.    

The End or the Beginning?

No matter what I try I can't seem to keep up my blog. I forgot about it yet again. When I did remember my blog I didn't know what to blog about. My only hobby is writing, but I'm quickly running out of things to say about it. Plus, I'm at a really dry spell with my writing, I've had three books in a row crash and burn, mostly because two of them didn't have a main plot. I've picked up an old book of mine that I had started one or two years ago, but I don't want to bore you with the details of that book. I asked some friends for advice on what to blog about, but I only got suggestions to talk about my favorite outfit, cooking, and sewing. I don't sew enough to blog about it. What on earth would I say about cooking? "So, I'm like, cooking dinner again.... I'm making macaroni and cheese.... It's my favorite food." That's so boring! My favorite outfit... I have no idea how to describe it. I could only take a picture and show you, but how dull is that? 

Clearly I have a dilemma. I really want to keep this blog, I love doing it, but with nothing to say what's the point? So, I've made a plan. I have made a list of things that I might be able to blog about. There are six categories with varies topics under each one. I'm going to try to test some of them out and see what works. 

Also, if there is anyone who's reading this blog and you actually like it then please let me know. I want to know if I should bother continue this blog or not.

P.S. I probably won't continue with quotes or verses in my posts. Both Blue Jay and Remember Ariel will probably never be completed. If I pick up Blue Jay a whole lot of it will be changed that you most likely won't recognize it. I would like to finish Remember Ariel some day, but it would receive a lot of revision too. 

P.S.S. I am currently rewriting and editing Darkest Before Dawn which I hope will become part of a series.