30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 8

Happy almost Friday friends,

It's day 8 of the writing challenge wants me to "Share something you struggle with."

OOO well apart from my medical problem , I have an issue of internalizing my anger for the most part. I rather clam up than talk my issues till I burst. Yes I know I should deal with issues, but I'm not good at confrontation.

I hope you have a good rest of the week friends, God bless you guys!
Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer, Vampire >vv< Kitty, and Mousey~C>

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 7

Happy Hump Day my friends,

Well we're seven days into the writing challenge and they've requested me to : "List 10 songs that you're loving right now." So I had try to pick from my current list I'm jamming to.

1. Starlight by Taylor Swift

2. 22- Taylor Swift

3. Drop the Pilot- Mandy Moore

4. First Day of the Rest of Your Life- MxPx

5. Ever Ever After- Carrie Underwood

6. Ordinary Day- Vanessa Carlton

7. Let's Hear It for the Boy- The Stunners

8. This Town- Bryan White

9. Our Lips Are Sealed- Haylie and Hilary Duff

10. Ordinary Superstar- Danielle McKee

Yeah lot a Pop and remakes I know but this is just 10 of the many songs that are getting piped through my earbuds right now. So to my readers what are you go on your play list right now? Have a good day and may God bless you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer  and Vampire >vv< Kitty

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 6

Good evening friends,

It's Day 6 of the Writing Challenge which is to list : "Five ways to win your heart." Hmm.... This may take some thinking.

1. Be Nice- Just be a nice person.

2. Be Respectful- Respect me and my loved ones, otherwise I'll drop you quicker than a hot cake.

3. Don't be dominating- I don't go for the alpha macho male type of men.

4. Be Patient and Understanding- I'm probably gonna be shy at first, then you'll discover I'm weird and geeky, and then there's my inner monkey demons, if you endure those things and still like me, then your defiantly winning me over.

5. If your a bit weird yourself- this isn't mandatory but if your a bit a geeky or whatever your weird, within reason, is that may make warm me up to you more.

Well that was easier than I thought. I hope your having a good week friends and enjoying getting to know me better with these post. spread the love and God Bless You!
Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 4

Blessed Sunday my friends,

The topic of the writing challenge's 4th day is: "Write about someone who inspires you." I have lots of people who inspire me God, Jesus, my family, friends. I'm also inspired by the well known such as Maya Angelou, Dolly Parton, and Shania Twain. But I decided to pick Jewel as my topic of discussion for today.

Why Jewel? When I aspired to get into music once upon a time she inspired me cause she was a singer/songwriter, while I am still  inspired by her music I'm also inspired by the fact she's a poet and observer of her world, given I find myself observing and when inspiration strikes writing poetry. Some of her life mirrors mine: we've both had rural upbringings, we're both Geminis, and we've endured similar hardships. I have read were she's dealt with issues like her anxiety and now tries to help people with like problems.

Back in 2001 after 9/11 happened and I was still in a state of anxiety, my voice teacher was having the Captain and me learn Christmas songs. She chose artists I guess who she felt our vocals were suited for. The Captain was to learn Mariah Carey and I got Jewel. I listened to the album and heard the Christmas version of Hands. The lyrics of that song were comforting words in that dark time.
So yeah, Jewel has been a bit of guidance off and on in my life, a very inspiring person to me, among the many others. So I throw this question back to the readers: "Who are you inspired by?" Let me know in the comments.
I hope you have a good day friends and may God bless you and inspire you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and  Vampire >vv< Kitty

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 2

Happy Friday my friends,

Well it's another day of the Writing Challenge. Today's prompt is: "Write something that someone told you about yourself that you never forgot." Well this may seem superficial, but the answer revolves around me hair, yes me hair.

First let me tell you the tale about my hair. It's frizzy, wild, and destined to swallow a city. My hair has frequently been used when asking strangers if they've seen  me. I think when I was in my teens and college I wasn't crazy about the frizzy mess, I liked the color just not the mess. I mean I wished many times it was more straight, or had cute curls, both I could have achieved maybe with a styling tool, but apparently my hair won't stay styled long. I even tried to use a defrizzing product, it didn't go well. So yes I probably added it to the list of things I wanted to change about myself. I actually think it maybe  reflecting the crap going on inside my head the illnesses and all the thoughts running around up there.

With all that in mind I can move forward to the day my mind got changed about my locks. I think I was in college when the Captain still lived in Asheville and she decided to take my sister and me to this New Age type store she'd gone into. The woman at the counter, probably the owner, looked at my hair and said something along the lines of how she loved how wild and free my hair was. I'd never saw my hair in that way before, and since then because of those words I've come to love a part of me better.

Actually here recently Jewel shared an old video where she does a "Hair Brain Monologue" during a live tapping for her first CD, it kinda fits with this whole idea I guess.
I hope you always know your beautiful friends, and may God always bless you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 1

Hello My Friends,

Welcome to the start of the 30 Day Writing Challenge! As I mentioned yesterday I'm gonna be doings this challenge I found on Pinterest, shared by 3 a.m. Sunshine.

So Day One's prompt for this  30 Day Writing Challenge is: "List 10 Things that make you really happy."

1. God/Jesus- God brought me into this world, decided the world needed a me. His Son willing sacrificed Himself to save us, to give us hope and joy, and peace. I'm not going to lie I don't always feel joy and happiness as I should when it comes to these two, but that maybe due to the emotional scars I suffered from my early anxiety battles as a child . All that aside they belong at the top of this list, cause they are the source of a lasting joy and when you think about all the reason for the existence of the other happy inducing things on this list.

2. Family/Friends- I put these two together because I have friends who are very much part of my family. This includes the pets as well. My peeps have brought me joy in life, and sorrow and anger, but that's true of many things in life, and not the point of this post.

3. Sunny Days- I love beautiful sunny days when the sky is brilliant blue, hence why sky blue is my favorite shade a blue.

4. Night Skies- I love a night with brilliant stars, a lovely moon, and maybe a meteor shower. I also love nights when Orion is hanging out. Sadly the most beautiful night skies occur in the winter, and I don't fancy frostbite.

5. Bubbles- Yes I said bubbles. If I feel down I can grab a bottle or whatever start blowing bubbles and it lifts my soul. Paired with the a fore mentioned Sunny Day, it's a winning combo.

6. Car Rides- Sometimes I just enjoy a good ride, maybe with some music on, and good company.

7. Music- Nothing can lift your mood than jamming out to a good song, preferably a happy song. My taste is broad Country, Christian, Pop, Rock, you get the picture.

8. Doctor Who- I love this show! Yes the feels kill you, but I love it. I see a Tardis or something related to the show when I'm out it's like I'm an excited Pinkie Pie (for you uninitiated that's a My Little Pony Character).

9. Chocolate?- I do love chocolate. What I'm running out of ideas on what's making me happy.
 
10. A Good Book Ending?- I'm really stretching.

Well that kinda proved to be a little tough.  May it's because of my ever changing mind  plus depression/anxiety, I guess it makes it hard in some cases hard to decide on what makes me happy. Or may maybe it's cause I never really thought about it before? Whelp I did the best I could. :P Have a good March my friends and may God bless you.

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and  Vampire >vv< Kitty

A 30 Day Writing Challenge

Hello my Friends,

This is actually an unplanned post. I've decided to do this 30 Day Writing Challenge I found on Pinterest that got shared from 3 a.m. Sunshine blog, the blog's apparently not in use anymore, but I'll give credit to it anyway for at least being where it was saved from. So I'm gonna do a post for each day, on top of my regular posting, I wanted to actually do this I think in December, but as many things that come my way it slipped my mind. Thankfully Boho Berry's Challenge reminded me of it.

I think it'll be a nice little fun challenge to partake in. So check back tomorrow for the first post of the challenge. Have a great day my friends and may God bless you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Mousey~C>

Writing, Words, Women

*Warning this post is long and full of blatherings and wild tangents ;p*

This post was originally suppose to be a post relating to the 4th of July, but it turned into a post themed around women writer's. I also think it has shadows of a post I'd planned to write about words but discarded everything but a couple links. So at the creative juices urging let's get going.

Happy 20th Harry Potter

20 years... I almost can't believe it's been that long since the first Harry Potter Book, also crazy it'll be 10 years the 31st of July since the 7th book came out. I guess time flies like the snitch.

This world is very special to me, because of it I have great memories. Memories involving my friends, the books, movies, various thing other fans have done, and even my 11th grade research paper, yes I geek like that. :P Read my post over at Gilded Wings where I recall two big memories including the first time I read Harry Potter.

Rowling's work also has been known to be a bit of calm in the rough parts of life. In the darkness of anxiety/depression that followed 9/11 her word magic gave my frazzled mind a brief respite.*

Not only do I find Rowling's world amazing, but after watching J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and Me many years ago I was inspired by her creative way of working. She just had piles of papers and scraps with writings, drawings, and information. I think of her as one of those authors that just really knows her world inside out. I think my creative juices just envied that view of scattered piles of creative energy.

I guess the only other thing I can say is thank you Rowling for giving us this amazing world. Keep up the magic!


While I Was Seeking

When I was doing the search for literary magazines to send poems off to on the Poets & Writers website I went found The Columbia Review. There I discovered Nikki Shaner-Bradford's On Hanging Poetry In Your Dorm Room; which really made you think about the relationships between fans and the objects of their fandoms. I also fell (or maybe refell) in love with the idea of putting poems and maybe other words somewhere on your wall. I can't help but think of this Keri Smith blog post when I read about putting stuff on your wall.


Getting a Room

I also suggest you read you Shaner-Bradford's other published piece in The Columbia Review : Finding a Room of One's Own in the Modern Day, which is an interesting read involving a book I like A Room of One's Own by yes another lady writer Virginia Woolf, where actually she discusses women writing in the book. Yes lots of women and words.

Continuing on the A Room of One's Own train, I found myself dying to reread a very short story, by another woman, I've actually just did so right before/during working on this, though I feel I may have to give it another read through when I'm with the post, I feel I was too distracted earlier to have had a good read. It's called 5:00 A.M: Writing as a Ritual by Judith Ortiz Cofer from her book The Latin Deli, though my copy of the story was found on page 529 in the book we used for expository writing class in college called Odyssey- A Guide to Better Writing: Third Edition. I think I found it thumbing through the book, cause what else could you do with a book you couldn't sell during the book buy back, this isn't necessarily bad especially with English books cause you may find you own a treasure of literature now. I actually loved this piece so much I took advantage of the rip outable pages and tore it out, and I guess tossed the book, sadly this left it subject to the perils my void of a room , but as luck had it I think it was Fangirl, who took the same class two semesters later, had her a copy that I think was destined for the garbage, so I got it.

Getting back to the story itself It's about Cofer's writing ritual she established, she even briefly gives a nod the title of Woolf's work. I mean it's a very short, simple work, I don't see it being life altering to most people, but to me I think what make's me revisit it often is the image she gives about her mornings and her writing ritual. I just love that image in my head. I wonder sometimes what would happen if I took myself somewhere with less distractions, I imagine I'd probably focus better on trying to write poems now that I seem to have found my creative urge again.

Scent of the Book

Not long ago I finished a book, that I got as free gift in an Amazon purchase, don't you love when that happens. The book was called Elsie's Tender Mercies- Book Seven of the Elsie Dinsmore®: A Life of Faith® Series based on books by Martha Finley. According to the copyright section of this book it came out, or at least was copyrighted, in 2001, but Finley's books first came out in 1868. So yes been around in some form a while. I read it unsure the age group it was meant for, I'm still not sure though it might be for a younger audience, but I still enjoyed the reading. I learned, or more likely relearned , about life and events in the south during the reconstruction era after the US civil war. Plus it also has lessons of faith, which is why I knew I could read it with no fear of any explicit content. The strange and cool thing about this book is when I opened it up an stuck my nose in to take a good whiff, yes I am a book sniffer guilty as charged, I found instead of the usual booky smells you'd get, it's something I guess homey and feminine. I think maybe akin to going to your Grandparents or getting something from them that's been in their home, and it's a nice little scent of comfort, but that's my Grandparents, you may have a whole different experience. Anyway back on track this lovely scent I don't know if it's the book's natural scent or something that it acquired over the course of it's life, but I feel it's the perfect scent for it and it's main character Elsie®. I feel if I were to run into her, or go to her home, this would be the scent she'd and it would be perfumed in.

Coming Attraction

I'm in the process of reading a book of poetry called A Homespun Legacy by Sarah Sabina McFall. I don't think she was like a well known poet, but I've enjoyed what I've read so far. It's a thrift store find, but one that has an interesting tale beyond the poems within, but I plan on a special post just about it once I'm done chronicling all things around this book.



Crazy Ideas Time: Internet Collage BookAs I was trying to find that blog post for the Keri Smith link. I had this crazy idea hit me. If your like me you probably have a bunch of favorite links saved in your favorites, or pinned somewhere. I started thinking what if someone started going through their texts, social pages, and favorites folder links, and picked out the cream of the crop, got all the permissions they needed and collected it into a book and called it something like My Digital Life or My Internet Life. I just wander what that would be like. I think that would be an interesting view of the collector's life. Why don't you do it yourself you may ask. Simple I'm already prone to being stressed and crazy, that would probably put me in the deep end of the crazy pool.


Ok friends I think that unexpected whirlwind of women writing their words has died down, though I think that tongue twister is there to stay. It just seize me and would let go till it got all those words out of me, some words I didn't even really know needed coming out. So do you guys have any tales of women's word's or word's written about women writing words? Write it in the comments or my socials. Till next time friends may God Bless You!


* Rowling's work joins that of other authors whose works has give my anxiety ridden brain a break since I first had problems when I was 9 or 20. This list includes Ann M. Martin's The Baby-Sitter's Club Mystery # 12: Dawn and the Surfer Ghost and Mercedes Lackey's Vows and Honor books.