Thoughts of an Aspiring Teenage Writer

***Feb 28,2009***
Okay guys. I am DEFINITELY, NO MATTER WHAT, EVEN IF THE WORLD ENDS, going to finish V.Fia over spring break. Dude! Just when I, like, have time to write, the teachers throw in a huge, mega-important project that makes me feel guilty every time I’m not working on it! D:

Then again, if I finish the illuminated manuscript and the rough draft of the lab writeup, I MIGHT be able to finish it sooner.

Quote for the week of Feb 29, 2009
“We’re camping?” -Sebastian

***Feb 16,2009***
Quote for the week of Feb 15,2009
“Sorry sucker, but this is GAME OVER!” -Fia

***Feb. 7, 2009***
Due to popular demand, I’ve decided to revive the quotes and the V. Fia page. I’m sorry for discontinuing the page for a while, but it was because my January layout didn’t support that many tabs and the “V. Fia” tab was overlapped by the search bar. So, I was like, what the heck and made it disappear in the eyes of the public. (The page was technically still there, just ‘invisible’. lol.)

Also, I thought I should stop doing the quotes for a while because I felt that at the REALLY EPICLY slow pace that I’m wrapping up V. Fia, I’ll probably spoil all the good quotes by the time I finish. But since some time has passed and more pages have been written, I think it’s okay to start the quotes again. (Honestly, I didn’t even know people read/cared about them that much. Thanks for showing your support. )

So without further ado, I bring you the quote for the week of Feb. 8, 2009:

“So he’s like the drug addict and you’re Ecstasy?” I asked, thinking of all the hallucinogen drugs that I learned in Health last year.
“Oh, no,” Sebastian groaned, slipping back on his black leather gloves. “Please don’t tell me that’s an actual drug!”
“Sorry to break it to you, but it is. And there’s many other like that. Heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and so on.”
“And I thought opium was bad.”

 

***Quote for the Week of December 1, 2008***
“Don’t worry, I won’t bite…not yet anyway.” -Vincent

***Quote for the Week of November 17, 2008***
“Dude,” I said breathlessly. “You have GOT to stop doing that. You can’t just pop all over the place like Mr. Darcy!”

***Quote for the Week of November 10,2008***
“I have an idea,” I said. “A very crazy one, and probably totally illegal…but an idea, nevertheless.”

***Quote for the Week of November 3,2008***
“Hey…here’s a question I probably should have asked earlier. Where the hell are my clothes?” I asked.

***Quote for the Week of October 27,2008***
“Dude! Stop killing the trees!” I shouted. “If you have to beat your little brother up, go somewhere with plenty of open space…I can’t burn them if they fall on me, remember?!”

***Quote for the Week of October 20,2008***
“You…wait until I tell Lucius about this, Flamedancer. We’ll see who is abnormally short after Father is through with you!” -Vincent

***Quote for the Week of October 13,2008***
“Damn it, I’m too late. He’s here.”
“Who’s here?”
“I am, my dear.” A hand reached out and grabbed my shoulder.

***Quote for the Week of October 6,2008***
His untrusting eyes slowly looked towards his hand, and then quickly back up again. “It’ll heal,” he simply said, as if it was merely a scratch. “But that isn’t important. What’s important is that you have to get out of here, right now.”

***October 4th, 2008***
Note: PKA= Previously Known As

Since some of the information on Lightweaver also pertains to V. Fia (especially the info below about how I got started writing on it), I have decided to republish this page. In case some of you haven’t heard, I am now in the process of rewriting Lightweaver (and adding major plot changes along the way) in Fia’s point of view.

It’s very different from Lightweaver…I think it has more mature content than Lightweaver. Not that it has sex or anything like that, but just the whole…feel of it…

I am considering on adding little quotes every few days or so from the WIP like Stephenie Meyer did with Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Please feel me to tell me whether this is a good idea or not below in the comments section.

Updates on Lightweaver

***June 30, 2008***
I’m now on the 70th something page. Unfortunately, I probably won’t be writing that much before Thursday because of Foundations. However, I plan on finishing the rewrite before next week. So, stay tuned!                                                                                                        

***June 16, 2008***
Things are speeding up a bit. I’ve finished 30 pages on the re-write…but the bad news is that since I am taking summer school, I now have less time! Ah well, I still have the thirty minutes before I have to get ready for school…at 6-6:30 AM.

***June 13,2008***
Okay, as of today, I’m going to post any updates on Lightweaver here…so stay tuned!
So far, I’ve written 21 pages of the re-write. It’s taking longer than usual because I’m constantly debating on whether or not I should keep this scene, where I should fit certain scenes, etc.

Writing Lightweaver
A lot of people have asked me how I came up with the idea of “Lightweaver”.

I’d like to refer “Lightweaver” as a sort of collage, because it is really a compilation of several years of ideas.

It all started in 4th grade or so (I believe that was 2004). I had this fantastic teacher named Mrs. Brown, who would tell us stories where we would be the main characters. (It was all improv…PURE GENIUS.) Back then, she,too, was an aspiring writer who was trying to get her book published. (I have no idea what happened to her though…she left on maternity leave and I never heard from her…because well, I moved to TX in 5th grade.) Inspired by her stories (and the many books I read at that time) I decided to write my own novel. (Yes, Lightweaver IS NOT my first.)

I basically wrote everyday in a cheap Spongebob spiral notebook. By the end of the school year, I had filled out the entire thing and was sharing with my friends. My friends loved it, and encouraged me, just like you guys do now. I don’t really think I had a title for it, but it was about two twins that fall into the mystic planet of “Octora, Planet of the Eight” and meet this prince/sailor/hottie named Alexander.

I didn’t finish this book, but I became OBSESSED with Alexander. LOL. I just liked him too much. He was brave, courageous, your ideal boyfriend. (Of course, I didn’t think of him along those lines back then…hee hee)

While I was writing, I was also RPing on Neopets. (roleplay, in case you didn’t know). Guess who I RPed as…Yup, Alexander.

For some odd reason, in the course of an year of roleplaying, Alexander matured…(I guess I did, too)and became more…brooding. I then changed him to a fallen angel…who could control the wind. His distinct characteristics were his eyes, which changed color with his mood, and his cloak. Sounds familiar? Yes, Alexander was the basis of Sebastian.

But something was missing. Whenever I was RPing, I kept having to wait for the other people to first come up to me and greet me, because…well, Alexander was more of a lurker type. I wanted someone wild and enthusiastic….a troublemaker that was BOUND to get some reaction.

And thus, Fia was born. But back then, her name was ‘Ryoku’, and she was a fallen fire angel. She was best known for her all-red outfit and…throwing fireballs at random people…including Alexander/Sebastian.

I guess you could say that I loved my characters too much…but even as I moved to Texas, they remained with me…and still do.

In 5th, 6th and beginning of 7th, I virtually stopped writing all together. But then came 7th grade PACE. Call me a nerd all you want, but the short story project (remember that?) helped. When I first set to write it, I wrote about a ‘Chosen’ girl and her sister. She was chosen by an element, and her jealous sister runs away and ends up getting kidnapped by a demon…

It was a good idea, but I realized that it was too long to be a short story. So I saved it, and started a new one…the one I actually turned in. Then, around the end of the year, I decided to start writing again. This was called “The Chronicles of Elementos” where “Chosens” had to save the world by using their elemental powers.

I only got to plan though, I tried to write, but never made past page 15 or so. Some of you might remember it…(it was basically an early version of my novel) I showed it to a lot of people during the second semester.

Then, in the beginning of summer 2007, we went to Colorado. The scenery literally blew my mind. The snowy summits, the deep, evergreen forests…it triggered something in my brain. I could imagine mystical, supernatural creatures living within those woods…I also imagined a guy and a girl flying together in the valley of the mountains…(this later on became the scene of Aurora’s flying lesson) I had found the setting for my novel.

The most fortunate thing happened later on in that summer. I grew EXTREMELY bored. I had nothing to do the entire week except a once-a-week creative writing class and Geo hw. So naturally, I started writing.

This was probably my most productive week. (Last week of July) Within just a week, I’d written 50 or so pages. I was on FIRE. So, by the end of the summer, I completed my first draft…which was about 98 pgs or so.

Then school came around, and I tweaked it a little bit..(remember the binder I brought last semester?) and voila. It was done.