Short Stories and DeviantArt

I have a DeviantArt account and I have started posting short stories on it. You can go and read those at dogrules23.deviantart.com I have two posted so far and am working on a third. This third short story is the reason for writing this post. Where I am going in this third story is really good so far so it might end up evolving into a book instead of just being a short story! That would be a third book to work on. It is very interesting so far so I'll post a sneak peek at the first paragraph:

     Under normal circumstances he would speak his mind, but, with a gun against his head, he did so anyway. He really didn’t care what happened next, he didn’t exactly enjoy where his life was going or anything so he just went ahead and spoke when he knew he shouldn’t have, “Where are you taking me?” He asked his captor carefully.

I'm so happy!

Last night, my school computer where I do my writing started acting funny and wouldn't boot up right. This morning I went to my school's IT people to get it fixed and they re-imaged the hard drive. I got it back and was glad I saved my books in Dropbox instead of on my computer. I will be back to writing soon!

Reading/Writing Friday is Almost Upon Us!

Tomorrow is Friday! I think I am going to work on Appocalypse which I am on page 65 of right now. I will work throughout school and also after Academic Decathlon practice when I get home. I probably won't be as successful as last week since I'm at my mom's house and I share a room with my brother who is really loud. I hope to finally get past page 65 though! I will post my status tomorrow after I am done writing!

I need ideas

I would like ideas for short stories that I can write and submit to DeviantArt and possibly publish once I get a collection of them. I need your help for this, you have the power to do this!

Side note: If you give me an idea that I use and post or publish, I will give you credit for it!

Sideways note: Email me the ideas at Dogrules23@gmail.com

Writing/Reading Friday Update #1!

I started writing at 1:30pm Eastern Time and just finished at 3:00pm Eastern Time. That means I wrote for one and a half hours. I worked on The Beginning that whole time and got a lot of work done. If every Writing/Reading Friday goes like this, I will have these books done in no time! I'll just need to edit them after that and then publish them!

The Beginning: page 13 and chapter 2 (Scamandius), 2,678 words now!

Writing/Reading Friday!

I am going to start my "Writing/Reading Friday" at 1:30pm Eastern Time!

The First Writing Friday!

Since my school has an in-service day tomorrow, I think I can start a weekly tradition of writing every Friday for at least an hour. I also plan on reading for the same amount of time. I will call these "Writing/Reading Fridays".  Thursday nights, I will post where I am in the book so I don't have to try to remember after writing. I will then post an update Friday night saying which book(s) I worked on and where I am after writing.

Appocalypse: page 65

The Beginning: page 8

Quote Time!

This quote comes from The Beginning:

     “SCAMANDIUS PEVREL!” Danaë shouts, her face turning red. “Just wait until your father and I are done discussing this situation!”

^dates (Updates)

I really need to think of what I can title these things besides "Updates" every time.

I had my mother read over what I had in Appocalypse over her vacation and I'm not sure if she read it or not. She hasn't told me anything yet so I have no idea if she read any of it. I hope she realizes that I need to have Appocalypse done by next year or I can't graduate. I am still on page 65 however, I need someone who has read it to nag me about writing more. I had someone in my Algebra 2 class last year read it as I wrote it and bother me about it until I wrote more. I need that again!

The Beginning map is going well, I don't remember where I was last time I wrote a post but I am now on page 8 and still going strong when I work on it. I am also having a book cover made for The Beginning by the same person who made the Appocalypse cover. The preview she sent me was looked pretty awesome except the sword blade was too thin and I thought it was too bright and shiny for medieval times. There's a castle in the background with the sword in the foreground, it looks awesome as it is except the sword needs some changes.

I need to play less games on my Xbox and Mac and work more on my books to get them done and edited so I can publish as soon as possible. I hope to publish them either sometime in 2016 or 2017, it will take a lot of work but it will be worth it. I think I'm going to publish on ebook devices first then possibly physical copies.