Nat: *sigh*

Pottermore is a disappointment...

Sorry if you aren't in yet, and I don't want to influence your opinions. But I feel like all the excitement and build-up for what was supposed to be really amazing - is actually a huge let-down.

On the plus side, I have 2 seasons of Criminal Minds to watch.

-N

Ned Can't Make up Her Mind.

Soo... I started working on Unwanted again.

I honestly can't make up my mind every time I start working on something I have an idea for something else, ugh.

Ohwell, just thought I'd let you know.

Also I'm working on Tracks and putting Little Miss Hero aside for a little bit. <3

Kas; Nilah.

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They're kind of blurry, cause she wouldn't stop moving...

Her compared to my other all black cat, Baby J. :D

She's really small...

-Kas

Kas: Nilah.

Hey guys, so today as I was driving home from a friends house a motorcycle in front of me hit a cat. I got out of my car to see if I could help, but the cat was dead. I saw that there was also a baby kitten in the road as well, also dead. so, the guy who hit the cat left, leaving me in tears about the poor darlings, and then I heard a weird noise off to the side of the road. I went over, and found another kitten, alive. I tried to find it owner, asking all the people in the houses around me, but no one claimed it. So, now she's mine. My dad agreed to let me keep her, as we already have 3 cats, and I couldn't just leave her there...

So, I named her Nilah. Which, as you may remember, is the name of the main country in Malkini. She's not very old, maybe 5 or 6 weeks, and shes completely black with bright blue eyes. I love her so much, which isn't something I can say for my other cats because they hate her. Haha.

(I'll post a picture of her later.) :D

-K

Cori: PKZ is an awesome band!!!

The night before school started, I accidentally ran my iPod through the washing machine. It's kinda dead to me right now, so my older brother (bless him) gave me his old Nano, since he has an iPod Touch now.
Well, I was looking through his songs when I found a huge playlist of French songs--French rap, French pop, French tecno...you name it.
I found an awesome one, by a band called PKZ. It's called Comme ça, and it's amazing. You guys need to look it up. x)

Nat: MY new obsession. ;)

Since I haven't watched The Glee Project (but in my opinion: I think Cameron is the hottest, although Damian is awesome 'cuz he's Irish!) I figured I would tell you about my newest obsession: Criminal Minds.


And more specifically:
Matthew Gray Gubler (aka Dr. Spencer Reid).



Yummmmmmm.

Ned. My Favourite People on The Glee Project.

Over all, these are my four favourites.

It took a few watches to decide, other than Damian being my number one I wasn't sure.

So this is what I decided.

Sorry Kas, Samuel didn't make the cut, lol.

Cori: Learned a song about a dead rooster today

Like, I seriously did. It was in French class, and Madame Cupps was like, "Are you all ready to sing a French song?"
The class: "Ughhh...."
Madame Cupps: "Oh, come on! Get up! We're going to sing a cool song about a dead rooster!"
The class: "O.o"

Yeah. Kinda weird. And now it's stuck in my head...Anyway! I just now finished the Cause and Effect thing, for my character Altrius. I really understand him now. ^^
I want to add some more parts of his teenage years, of course, but for now...I'm pretty happy with what I've got. Do you guys think that I should write his childhood sometime? I was thinking of writing a prequel before, called Dystopia, but...I dunno.
Hey, you guys don't even know what Altrius LOOKS like! I just realized that. Well, here he is!

He's pretty cute. x)

Kas: Nat is soooo neglecting the most amazing person ever.

Two words; Samuel Larsen.

He is the other winner of 'the Glee Project'

Both Damian and Samuel both won 7 episode parts on Glee, and two other contenders won 2-episode parts.

Anyways, the point to this post is just to make sure Sam gets some love as well as Damian. Damian is absolutely amazing, but Samuel is a god. A freaking GOD.

Don't believe me? Look at these...

Sex. On. legs.

Still don't believe me? watch this...

That was his final performance; the one that won him a spot on this season of Glee. And I couldn't breathe the first time I watched it. My cousin and I literally just stared, completely silent. Which doesn't happen often. in case you're wondering, the people in the audience, other than the ones who are on Glee now, are the eliminated contenders who came back for the finale. The men who talk at the end.. and I think the beginning are the creators/ writers/ choreographer/ casting director for Glee. And ignore the 'Alex' thing at the end, that's another contender, who won only a two episode part. And he's stupid anyways. :P

Now, Ryan Murphy said that Sam will most likely play a church-going christian boy/ rocker guy on Glee which I'm not sure if i like. Since, you know, his entire persona just screams Sex God... but we'll see. Damian's most likely going to be a foreign exchange student, but thats all they really said about their characters.

Anyways, I just thought I would give Samuel some much deserved love. Because he's amazing.

But, just as a side note, my absolute favorite contender was Cameron, who actually chose to go home because he felt like kissing the girls on the show was kind for like betraying his GF. Which, I hated him for at the time, but I kind of understand now... especially because his GF is super pretty and can sing really well. This is Cameron...

^ before he was on the show.

^with Damian while he was on the show.

I also love Lindsay, who is like a real-life bitchy version of Rachel Berry. She's Adopted, was on Broadway, and can belt a song like a boss. She was one of the ones who won a 2 episode part, and I think she'll be amazing.



I won't even show you Alex, because I hate him with a fiery passion. Just think of an extremely annoying love child between Mercedes and Kurt. Bleck. So, yeah, I'll be cringing through his 2 episodes.

<3

-Kas.

Ned: New Obsession.

Hello all, I know I sort of disappeared but I believe you will forgive me because I have a new obsession.

His name is Damian, he was on the Glee Project and won.

Yes that's right, he will be on glee!

(Did I mention he's Irish?)

YUM.

SEXY.

HAWT.

I claim him. lol.

Nicole: Bra shopping!

For English we had to write a short story on a moment (so something that happens in minutes rather than hours or days) to do with "coming of age" (the extremely tedious topic we've had all year). It had to be more descriptive rather than telling an actual story. It was really hard for me to think of an idea, so I thought back to Lizzie McGuire because it's full of growing up moments. Then I remembered when her mum took her bra shopping, so that's what I did. Here's the story if you're interested!

The agonizing walk of shame through the department store felt as if it were in slow motion. The sound of my heart banging against my chest was all I could hear. It drummed and echoed in my ears. My shoes felt liked they weighed down my feet and I dragged them along the floor.

Each time we passed someone, I thought that it was a face I recognized, and my stomach dropped. Once I realised that it was merely my paranoia, my eyes continued to dart across the store. I could’ve sworn that every other person was sniggering at me like they knew exactly why I was there.

The heater made me feel as if my jumper was clinging to my chest, and a bead of sweat rolled down my face. When we turned into the destination that was my own personal hell, I saw my life flash before my eyes.

I remembered, “seeing the light” when I first came into this world. I remembered my first unrequited love in primary school, and the first excruciating day at high school, with my school dress below my knees. All of the important moments of my life. I remembered when I was eight, and the time my mother found my face smeared with chocolate cake that was meant for my brother’s birthday. I thought my life was going to end then and there by the look on her face. I survived… but this was definitely it. This was the end of me.

I stopped and gulped. My throat was dry.

“Is everything okay sweetie?” Mum put her arm on my back. I nodded. “Oh, this is such a big and exciting day – becoming a young woman!” My mother stood beside me with a proud grin plastered on her face. I cringed in embarrassment.

I stood there for a moment, frozen and mortified. Finally, with the little push from my darling mother, I stepped forward into the bra department.

The frills and lace filled my vision, and the infinite colours made me dizzy. Luckily, there weren’t very many women, and they couldn’t scorn me either because they were there for that exact reason. That still didn’t stop me from bowing my head and stress creating a tight knot in my stomach.

The first thing we passed was the stringy underwear, and my face heated. I knew that I would be as red as a tomato. They were tiny and looked extremely uncomfortable. I wondered then why girls would even bother wearing them…

We turned into another isle and I was bombarded by the biggest knickers I’ve ever encountered. There were rows and rows, and they were a pooey brown, which seemed only fitting for the types of women that would wear them.

Once we passed the mammoth bras that matched the underwear, we rounded yet another corner. I felt as though my mother was doing this to taunt me further, but if I confronted her I knew she’d say it was innocent and all for “experience”. Finally we stopped at the sports bras. My mood dropped further. I thought this was supposed to be a holy, sacred moment in the process of becoming a young woman, and my mother didn’t even want me to get a padded bra like all of my friends already had.

I looked up to see a familiar face, and my nerves almost made me barf. Just when I thought we were safe in the secluded section, my next-door neighbour, who was a year younger than me, smiled at me composedly. She was holding purple bras that were padded. I died... Maybe not literally.

Yay for over dramatic teenage girl cliche ;P. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with it so that's why I thought I'd share.

Heather: It's Back!... Kind of.

Merlin. Season. Four.

It airs in the UK in the fall, and since I'm horrible person and watch it online.... I DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE. Granted, the rest of you (who watch it) probably have/will do that too. Anyway, the video is super crappy quality, but the content is there. And it's real. :D

On the writing front: Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

On the Heather-is-about-to-vanish-off-the-face-of-the-Earth front: I'm going to my (*cough grandmother's *cough) cottage for like oh... ten days-ish. We leave tomorrow morning, and the cottage does not have power. (Aside from a small generator run to charge cell phones for an hour or so at night.) It's in the middle of the woods. You either have to walk six km in, or boat in. Seriously. No roads. It's super amazing- minus the outhouse. Anyway, what I was getting at with the whole 'no power=no technology' thing is that I shall not update... until I get home.

On the Kas-would-already-know-if-she-you-know-ever-came-online front: The title of this front sums it up preeeeetty well. ;)

Later ladies! Have a good ... two weeks? (If that's even possible without me. I mean, I know I light up your world. (; )

-H

Jamie: 1st day of school...

    Well... today was the first day of school... what to say, what to say. Lemme start off by saying, that is was good, bad, terrifying, boring, annoying, and all of the above again once or twice more. Normally I love school, but today was just a terrible time and place to start out at.
    
    Allow me to explain. I was up to 1:30AM Pacific Coast time, finishing up my summer homework, so I was tired. I started off the day with (H) Precalculus, and boy was that fun. :P (Hear the sarcasm.) Then, I was worrying about a quiz in AP English 11 that was my fourth period class, so I had all that time to dwell you know. Second, I had Physics, with a bunch of girls and guys I hate, but it's alright, I have one guy friend, David, who sat by me that made it bearable. :D He's awesome.... Anyways! Then I had APUSH, which is my AP US History class where we turned in our three one pagers. It wasn't... horrendous, but could've been better. Then I had the dreaded AP English class, oh how badly I really wanted to run. The rumours are true about it, how hard it is. We took the quick quiz of only two questions on our summer reading, and a friend of mine had an embarrassing moment for her, which I will not post nor tell anyone about that was not in that class. Finally that was over, and Spanish 3 came along with my stupid teacher, who I despise so much and then band which wasn't too bad.

    Sorry for just throwing that all out there, but I had to get it out someway, and I figured I might as well make a post on it. By the way, thanks Nicole for the welcoming, and it's no problem for missing the day of my arrival!

    My plans on the 500 word count.
         Well, seeing as how that hasn't gone well lately, I am hoping to either start that tomorrow or today, depending on how badly I need sleep, which is pretty badly. Anyways, I hope to update more on my book now, and add stuff about it and such...

     Oh, and Cori, I remember that email with the time line, I liked it and will most definitely use it!

    Sorry for the long post!

~~Jamie

Cori: Cause and Effect

Lately, I've been working on a new way to develope my characters past the point that most authors develope them--besides J.K. Rowling, of course, whose characters could simply walk off the page if they so wished.
I've been wondering why is it that my character, Altrius, acts like he does, and what parts of his life made him that way. So, wanting to know more, I made a Cause and Effect template.

Cause: The thing that happens.
Effect: How the characters around him react to it.
How This Affects Him: How this affects the way Altrius acts, looks, thinks and even dresses.

Pretty cool, eh? I've done the first ten years of his life, and I'll be ending it when he becomes twenty and immortal. My "adopted" little sister, Grayce, hates Altrius because, since I've been working on him for four years now, he's extremely realistic. I think she's jealous xD!
You guys should use the template! It works great.

Nicole: I know, I always seem to die

Sorry I've been so inactive... again. There's just been a whole bunch of changes in my life and I've hardly had time to go on the internet or check here, so I apologise once again! And welcome Jamie(: sorry I missed when you first came.

I'm just posting now to let you guys know that I've developed on one of the ideas I've been sitting on for the past couple of weeks! Here's a small little blurb that I wrote:
There is always goings on in the woods at Eek Creek at night. The lovers meet and canoodle in the dark, while merely a few metres away beasts and creatures prowl. Smugglers go about their business hidden in the depth of the forest, and spies move stealthy through the thickness.

Sixteen-year-old Maggie Peters has no idea of these things that go bump in the night when she’s forced to visit her Aunt Simper for the winter break. She does realise the strangeness of the small town as soon as she enters it, and it makes the whole thing seem even more of a drag.

Things seem to pick up though when she meets her Aunt’s welcoming next-door neighbour Cawley Creswell. He’s lovable and handsome, though she doesn’t realise that Cawley has a big part in the goings on in the woods at Eek Creek at night.

I'm hoping to make it a bit quirky, but I'm just scared that it's going to go off in a weird hillbilly-small town kind of area, but I think that's just because I've been watching way too much True Blood :P. Anyways, that's all for now!

Jamie: Procrastination and Ideas...

     Sorry that I haven't been posting anything lately. I've been tied down with the end of summer homework since I start school Monday. Therefore, I also have not been meeting the 500 words a day count... I am hoping that once school starts and I get into a normal schedule I will be able to do that.

     I guess this is what happens when you're a terrible procrastinator like me. Oh well, I'll get it done one way or another. However, I have had a lot of inspirations in the writing world and am upset that I cannot actually write down my ideas. :( It saddens me that I can't! I'm hoping I would finish the summer homework early, but the rate I'm going... well... It doesn't look too good to say the least.

     I promise there was an actual reason to posting this nonsense! I wanted your thoughts on what you think of the idea, assassin of the night? I had a dream last night where I was one, and thought it might be an interesting idea to start a book on. So... thoughts?

Kas. Wow.

Tom Felton is the sexiest man alive.

Kas.

:)

-K

Cori: Nat has inspired me

...to clean out my computer files! xD!
I just spent about an hour looking through old word documents, musing about how badly written my old stories are and wondering where I learned to write dialogue correctly (I think I was reading and was like, "OH! It's suddenly all so clear to me!" lmao).
I deleted no less than 62 documents, transferred 12 of them to other documents and combined them together, figured out that five documents were the exact same things under different names, and found 1 that was completely blank. I also found 1 that had nothing but swear words on it, but that might have been something my older brother did, haha.
Fascinating, isn't it?

Nat: Refreshing.

I just spent 12 hours completely reorganizing my office and all my computer files. I only had one scary moment where I thought I completely wiped the harddrive and lost all the words I'd written in my life, ever. But everything turned out okay.
And if you had seen how messy everything in my office was before, you would be impressed with how clean it is now. It's quite refreshing, to tell the truth.

Anyway, that's all.

What happened to our SAAWAKM/FB revolution, ladies? Get posting!

Jamie: My friend Elizabeth and I!

So she was over at my house and I was bored, so here's the outcome! :D

Cori: Caged

The new title of my story. ^^
Basically, it takes place in a Dystopian world called Utopia, and it could be considered futuristic I guess. The story is about a demon named Altrius, fifty four years after he unintentionally creates a nuclear war that kills millions and scars tons of people, including the kid now in his care as an apprentice, for life. The end of the war is in the prologue. In chapter one, half a century later, Altrius is pretty much a vagabond and traveling the world.
While traveling, he stops at a city called Karat, and the elder of the city has guards bring him in so he can talk to Altrius. Tresting the elder's family has been keeping the prophecy about Altrius safe for two centuries, but Tresting is dying and he doesn't have an heir. As soon as Tresting dies, the prophecy will be hidden and Altrius and his enemy will each have to gather a group of warriors and set out to find said prophecy before the other one. Zalthar, Al's enemy, will be able to use the prophecy to corrode the planet. Altrius's job is to find and destroy it, after listening to it of course so he can fulfill it properly.
That's basically what book one is about. Altrius and his group of demon warriors, calling themselves the Company, go to find and destroy the prophecy and save the world from another war, and total corruption.

Jamie: Contact Info

Alrighty! So, my contact info is added in! Don't be afraid to say hi, and sorry I have so many fricken' emails! That's not even the first of them! But those are my main!

~~Jamie

Jamie: Plot and Beginnings....

     Okay, so thanks to Cori, I have figured out my plot to my work-in-progress book, Figment; An Unbreakable Novel. I am so happy, you all have no idea! :)

      Okay, well I have a question for my fellow writers. Do you guys have any tips on how to start a book? Like a good intro/beginning? I'm having... difficulties.

Thanks!
~~Jamie

Cori: Snape, Snape, Severus Snape DUMBLEDORE!

Sorry. I'm listening to Mysterious Ticking Noise xD!
Anyway, the 500 word thing sounds great, I'm working on mine right now for the first time today; I spent hours teaching my little brother, Zack, how to properly kill people on Sims 3, and my older brother, Max, was teaching me how to properly kill people on Grand Theft Auto, and my baby brother, Preston, was trying to get me to teach him how to wipe properly.
Um, yeah...Getting off track here.
I DO have a Crapbook, have since I was twelve, so add me there on the book of faces if you guys have one! "Corinne Tufts" is the name, and my profile pic is of my kitten, Weezer. It's sort of a badly taken picture, on a red couch, but the kitty looks nice in my opinion haha.
OOH, big news by the way! As you all know, I'm doing a sixth rewrite of my novel...formerly--yes, formerly--titled Between the Lines. I have changed the title to Caged. =D! Thoughts on this?

Heather: Uh... Oops?

There I was, waiting for Kas to get back, when BAM! I picked up a book.
I couldn't help myself.
It was too good.
So, I made sure the computer stayed on, and started reading while I waited for Kas's return.
Well, as it turns out, I got really, really, really, really caught up in it and WHAM. Next thing I know Kas has already come online, and then left again because she's impatient.
I missed her by six minutes.
That, ladies, is pure, unadulterated talent. And brilliant timing..
 Hopefully she returns while I'm still paying attention, and we can finsh the other two scenes we wanted to get done tonight.


-H

EDIT- I so do not suck!

Kas: Word counts and FB.

So, to start off, Jamie do you have a Facebook? I'm asking because we have a SAAWAKM Facebook group, and if you link me to you FB (that is, if you have one) I'll add you. Cori, you don't have one do you?

Also, Heather and I did some work on Silver today, we wrote around 1,200 words, therefore meeting the 500 word each goal. So, whoop. Ash also made the goal today. Haha.

Okay, well, If Heather would respond, we could get back to writing... but no. Of course she won't respond. Because she sucks.

:D

-K

Ned: 500 Words Per Day.

Alright, so I brought this up before, but now I'm gonna say it again, more fully.

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think we should start up with the 500 words a day thing. 500 isn't a lot, and if you're like me, you can write 500 words pretty quick.

I know we're all busy and schools about to start and all, but its only 500 and I'm positive if you take an hour to sit down and write you'll be done in no time.

Now, I don't want this to be a competition. (even though I'd win.) I just think that seeing as we're kind of... changing, we should take some stuff from the past too. When I joined SAAWAKM was a place were our mission was to write 500 words a day. I want this to return. It was helpful, and we always had stuff to talk about.

I'm going to make a new page called our writing.

Basically, every time you write, you update the page with your new word count. Everyone starts at zero. Again, this isn't a competition, just a way to keep ourselves writing.

So, i'm going to officially start today, but you guys can choose when you start, or if you're going to do it at all.

Kay cool.

-Ned.

Jamie: Banner? Just for fun.

So I saw the banners that you guys were making and I tried my hand at it. Just wanted to share it with all of you! :)

Where writing dreams come true...

Jamie: Hello!

Well, I really don't know how to do posts or anything so I'm just trying it out, saying hello! I really wanted to thank you all for allowing me in, I was so excited! I have a busy schedule so I might not be able to get on daily, but I'll do my best. So, yeah! Thanks again!
~~Kamiella

Cori made a banner, too!

Wow, two posts in one day!
Anyway, everyone was making these awesome banners so I thought, "Why can't I as well?"
Went to Google, typed in "writing" and got this pretty cool image of a quill pen, ink bottle, and open journal page. Went to picnik and used Text to write a quote into the journal, as well as SAAWAKM onto the page next to it.
I think it looks pretty good, so here it is:

Cori: Some stuff about Jamie.

YAY!!! Thank you guys so much for saying yes and all!! I'll have to let her know immediately; she'll be ecstatic. I've shown her the blog before, and she thinks it's awesome.
So I'm going to tell you a bit about her now.
First off, she has a busy schedule. She says she'll try to update as much as possible, but every once and a while she might miss a day or two or be a bit late.
She's really funny, and a great writer; she's almost constantly cheerful, she's completely lovable (of course I would think that, she's like my big sis), and she's just plain awesome. I've told her all about you guys, talked about Silver (she loves the title), and went over some of the stuff that she'll need to know, like putting your name before the post title so we know who's writing it lol.
Jamie and I did NaNo together last year, by the way. We wrote a novel together called To The Countdown. We didn't win it, since I was working on two school projects at the time and she was bombarded with stuff as well, but it was super fun and we had some epic characters.
Also, she's about as obsessed with role playing as I am; she'll probably rant about RPing. xD! Maybe, maybe not though. We'll see.
So that's basically it. Again, thanks so much!!! She'll be really excited. So how does she join, exactly? I forget...It's been a very long time since I joined, and I haven't joined a blog since haha.

Oh my god its NED!

Oh my god its NED!

Soooo here's the banners I said I was making, if you like one, tell me.

I realize some of them are the same picture, but they have different things written on them. <3

They are numbered One to Eight.

One.

SAAWAKM

live life like a fairytale.

Two

SAAWAKM

tell your story.

Three

SAAWAKM

write a novel.

Four

SAAWAKM

like living in a novel.

Five

SAAWAKM

tell your story.

Six

SAAWAKM

write a novel.

Seven

SAAWAKM

writing a novel.

Eight

SAAWAKM

a place we belong.

YAY!

Nat: !!!

Oh my goodness I am soooooo excited!

Alright, so I haven't really told you a lot about the story I'm working on right now (and I'm still not gonna tell you much haha) but I just realized that this story and one of my old stories could be combined so perfectly, and I just spent like an hour fixing them up and combining them and OH MY GOSH!
It's like it was meant to be!
I have a very good feeling about this story. XD

Ned. Change sounds refreshing.

Like Kas and Nat said, SAAWAKM is an amazing place.

It's litterally one of the best parts of my life and even when my life isn't going the way I want it to, I know I can always count on you girls. I love you all, and as Nat said, cannot wait to meet you. (I agree Nat, this will happen. We should all meet up somewhere random though... like Paris. That way we ALL have to travel, not just those of us who live in Australia.)

Kay anyway, Cori, as of your friend, YES. Which I believe brings our vote number to five meaning she's in. Because you know her, I doubt we need that much research, lol. I trust your judgement. As for other newbies, I'm all for. My only worry is that we'll go out of control again. I say we all have to be VERY specific when looking. We should make up a list of things we all have in common and then use that as like... a check list? I'm not sure if I'm making any sense right now. Hopefully, I am. Also, I say we give Cori's friend some time to get used to the blog before we add someone else. Let's get to know her first. (Like... her name. lol) Give it a week or two at least before adding someone new. I also think we should all read something before we ask. Other than those things, I think its a great idea to have some new faces.

On a little bit of a sadder note, I couldn't believe it when we lost an original. Sarah had been here from pretty much the start, but she made her choice, and I think its time we stop avoiding the subject. At first I thought she'd be back, (call it denial) but I'm losing hope in that. She will be missed, and I, like Kas am deathly afraid of losing any of you. To me, you are all official Originals. I mean, you might as well be, if we're adding newbies I suggest we promote the old newbies. lol.

Next, I would like to start up again with 500 words a day. Obviously, we are all really busy so if you miss a day, you miss a day. I just thought it was a good way to show we were a writing blog. I think we should make a page, and update it every time we write. Not as a competition or anything, just as a way to motivate us.

... So what was next on my list...

Oh! Yeah, I think its time to change up the look of the blog a little. I'm thinking lighter. Now because I don't like the look right now, but just as a new beginnings kind of thing. Also, I've been on OSAAWAKMS a lot in the last week because of Tracks, and it has such a nice feel to it. So I'm gonna work on a few new banners, post them and see what you guys think. When we have a new banner, we can use the colours/colors from that to recreate the blog. Of course... if you guys want to that is... I just think it would be a good idea. Tell me what you think, I'll make the banners anyway, but if you guys vote not to change, we don't have to... :)

Change seems like such a nice idea to me though. Fresh starts and all, I haven't been having the best summer. Or year for that matter, but I'm sure I can pull myself out of this rut.

Cori, thank you, so much for the review! Like I said, I'm in the middle of the rewrite, so, it was greatly appreciated. <3

Alright, I think thats all I have to say for now... <3 Love you all.

-Ned.

Nat: In Response to Kas' Post...

Kas, I agree with everything that was said in your post, and I just want to add a few things.

SAAWAKM has seriously been one of the most amazing things that's happened to me in the last few years. I count myself as so lucky that I have this amazing community to support me in my writing and anything else going on in my life. Think about it - through SAAWAKM, we now have friends from Australia and all over the United States and Canada. That's something pretty special that not everyone gets the opportunity to do. I love and admire every single one of you for the people you are, and I can't wait for the day of the first SAAWKM real life meet up. (Because I am determined that it will happen.)

I don't want anything to change what SAAWAKM means to us all, which means that we really need to put a little more effort into this, like Kas was saying.

I think that means that, rather than clicking Awesome on the bottom of the post which takes two seconds, we should actually take a few minutes to write a comment and add something meaningful to the discussion. I believe that every post should have at least 3 or 4 comments, or you could even make a post in response to someone else's post if you have a lot to say.

As for adding new members: I vote yes to Cori's friend, but I think from now on we should be careful with who we ask to join. I think part of the problem last time was that we went on this crazy spree of asking anyone we could find, without doing a ton of research into who they are/their writing. Just a suggestion, but I think maybe asking them a few questions before inviting them or having everyone read a writing sample before voting yes or no could solve the problem of all the drama we had last time. As well, I don't think we should add more than 2 or 3 members.

I hope all of this makes sense...

-Nat

Kas: I think maybe its time to bring this up.

So, there's been something on my mind lately, pertaining to the blog, and i think its probably time to say something...

Now, before you worry, I'm not leaving or anything. Haha. I could never leave, but when i re-read the first sentence of this, it did kind of sound like the start of a goodbye post, so i just wanted to make that clear now. Haha.

I think everyone has noticed lately that the number of posts here on SAAWAKM is steadily declining. And not only that, but the material in the posts is declining as well. Its seems like we're very much posting just to be posting, and not because we really want to.

I feel like everyone has been walking around on pins and needles ever since Sarah left. I may just be imagining things, but I feel like there is a bit of tension now. I know that Sarah was the first of our original members to ever leave the blog, I hope that shes the last, and that is a bit scary. I love all of you so much and you've become some of the best friends I've ever had, which is why the idea of anyone else leaving or the blog slowly getting abandoned terrifies me. Hopefully it does all of you too.

Now, the whole reason i decided to make this was to remind everyone what SAAWAKM is here for. In the beginning, when Maiah and I first decided to start the blog, it was just supposed to be a place to talk about writing and give advice/ reviews, etc. But, over the past year and a half its grown to be so much more than that. I've grown so close to all of you, and I know a lot of you better than I know some of my friends from my school. Which i think is amazing.

We've had our drama, and we've had people quit, but most of us have managed to pull through, and I think that if we hadn't had such an amazing first year, this tough second year may have been the end of SAAWAKM. I know that technically Maiah and I began SAAWAKM, but without all of you, it never would have been anything more than just us talking about writing, which we already did. Everyone who has been a part of this blog, whether they're still here or not, has added something of themselves to it. SAAWAKM doesn't belong to me, or to Maiah, it belongs to all of us.

I know all of you love SAAWAKM just as much as i do, and that you don't want it to end either. So, I think we really need to start making an effort to get it up and running the way it was before. And by that i don't just mean more posts, because more posts doesn't make it the same, the posts have to mean something. Right now, however, the posts don't mean anything anymore. I have noticed that almost every post on SAAWAKM now gets less than 2 comments, most don't get even one. I think that is a major contributing factor to why we haven't been posting. Why post if no one is going to contribute, why ask for advice when no one will answer? So, I think we really need to make a bigger effort not only to get the flow of posts going again, but to show interest and participate in what the others are posting.

So, the last thing I want to talk about in this super-long post, is that Cori has a friend she wants to have join SAAWAKM.

I know that the last time we added people it ended up getting very crazy and out of control on the blog, and then the majority of the people who joined ended up quitting... in the span of like, three days. Which is why i can see why everyone might be a bit skeptical about adding anyone new, as right now the blog isn't really up to par and our group now does mesh together pretty well. But, i think that maybe adding a few new fresh faces could be another way to get everyone participating again. Because, as you know, we all tend to be very welcoming people and I know that by adding a few newbies, we would probably strive a bit harder to make SAAWAKM as special for them as it was for us when we started.

So, my answer to Cori's friend joining is Yes.

Heather also said yes.

What does everyone else think. There are 8 of us now, so whenever 4 say yes, she can join.

Also, I think we should add at least one, maybe two more new people. But, other than Cori's friend, I think we should try to shoot for people none of us really know. In real life, I mean. Because I want these to be new people for everyone.

So, any ideas?

-Kas.

Cori: Wrote a review for Ned's "Tracks"

Just sayin' real fast. Keep working on it, Ned! ^^

Cori: The rewrite is going well.

Since I started writing the sixth draft of Between the Lines, I've been taking the things I'll be keeping and doing them over again. Just two hours ago, I rewrote the beginning of chapter one, Ashfall, which used to be a jumbled mess of adjectives. I am now pleased to announce that it looks much better, and actually presentable this time xD!
Also, I wanted to ask you something, Kas. My friend Jamie, who adopted me (in a way) as her little sister, is also a writer. Could she join up on here, if that's okay with you? She's really awesome, I promise. ^^

Heather: And The Mysterious Hum.

There is a mysterious hum haunting Windsor.

It has been for around a year and a half. Seriously, you can look it up. It's real.

They think it might have something to do with something in the states, I think...

But you want to know what my theory is?

I'm sure you do.

I think it's a band of mini Godzillas that live in our sewer systems and attract their prey by humming.

Of course.

-H

Kas: first day of school.

So, my first day of school was today, and it was exhausting.

Which is sad, because I didn't even go to any of my classes. Haha.

I spent the first 3 hours of the day getting my schedule in order, because it was just completely wrong, and then after 4th hour, my dad blue slipped me out so i could go enroll in my college classes.

So, my official schedule for this semester is...

1st hour - Teachers Aid

2nd hour - AP English IV

3rd hour - College Algebra

4th hour - Mentoring

5th hour - _______

6th hour - _______

I leave my school after fourth hour and drive to the local college where im taking,

Introduction to Psychology on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00 - 2:20

& American History 1498 to Civil War Era on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 - 2:20

So, on Fridays I get out of school around noon. Also, my college classes don't begin until the 22nd, so I get out after fourth hour every day until then. :P

So, yeah, I have a pretty full year ahead of me.

-K

Heather Had An Epiphany!

Epiphany - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.

Now, what was this super-awesome-amazing-epiphany you ask?
  

The bottom of the container of honey fits perfectly on top of the lid of the peanut butter container. 

THEY REALLY WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER!
 

Have you had an epiphanies of late?

GO GO GO!

-H

Nat: Pet Peeve(s)

I hate really crappy hand dryers in public washrooms.
And I strongly dislike people that are really rude for no reason.
Also parents that don't bother to discipline their children.

Sage: Please watch this girl sing.

She is AMAZING. here you go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOI-G6e4ts4

Sage: Keep that WET rag away

That is my biggest pet peeve. Allow me to elaborate. I HATE wet towels. The very thought of them touching me makes me want to curl up in a ball. Towels are supposed to be dry, NOT WET. That is all.

<3

Ned's Biggest Pet peeve!

When people are overly pessimistic for no reason!

UGH!

I hate that!

For instance, out of nowhere they'll say something like, "I'm soooo ugly! I hate myself!" and you're just sitting their like, uhhh...

and then you try and complement them and they deny everything you say! UGH! I hate that!

*Shivers just thinking about it.*

ALSO.

Thank you SO much Kas and Nat! Both reviews REALLY helped a lot! Like I said before, it had only been editing it once and reading it over I was feeling really unsure about it, now I am off to sort re write it, keeping your suggestions in mind. I'm gonna keep the chapter up on OSAAWAKMS and you guys can go and read it and give me suggestions.

Thank you.

-Emilie.

Heather Hates When People Overuse Exclaimation Points!

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No, but really.

I think that is my biggest pet-peeve.

And no one has posted today!

What are your pet peeves?

GO GO GO!

Nat: XD

I reviewed Tracks for ya, Ned. :D

And we have certainly been posting a lot (like 10 posts in 2 days).

Anyway - gotta go to bed. G'night.

Kas: Ned

I reviewed your chapter in a post on OSAAWAKMS. So, go read it. :P

Everyone else should review it as well.

Also, im very happy with the amount of posts made today... and yesterday. Bravo, ladies.

-K

Heather: Hallo.

Hallo, god kveld.
Hvordan har du det?
Jeg har det strålende!
Jeg er en student.
Hva gjør du?
Hvor kommer du fra?
Jeg kommer fra Canada.

TRANSLATION:
HEATHER IS LEARNING NORWEGIAN!




... Ahem, actually, it means:
Hello, good evening.
How are you?
I am great!
I am a student.
What do you do?
Where are you from?
I am from Canada.

Feel free not to answer those questions.
I know a bunch more, but that's all for now. I may update you all everyday for practice though! :D Muahhahahahahaha!

-H

Ned: Brothers of Grim

Re reading some of the brothers of grim fairy tales. Found this one, isn't it lovely?

There was once a poor woman who had two children. The youngest had to go everyday into the forrest to fetch wood. Once when she had gone a long way to seek it, a little child, who was quite strong, came and helped her industriously to pick up the wood and carry it home, and then before a moment had passed, the child disappeared. The child told her mother this, but at first she would not believe it. At length she brought a rose home, and told her mother the beautiful child had given her this rose, and had told her that when it was in full bloom, he would return. The mother put the rose in water. One morning the child could not get out of bed. The mother went to the bed and found her dead, but looking very happy. One same morning, the rose was in full bloom.

lol. You thought I actually meant lovely.

<3

-Ned.

Nat: Advice?

I have 3 questions that I would very much appreciate if you girls could answer. They're in regards to my new-ish story.

1.) What is something that a 19-year-old girl could do that would cause her to lose all of her friends?

2.) What kind of adventures could a group of 19-year-olds have on a roadtrip across the US?

3.) How do you guys come up with really unique names for stories? Stuff like Katniss (from Hunger Games) or Keys (from Ned's excerpt, which was amazing, and I'm planning on writing a review later), those kinds of nicknames or whatever, know what I mean?

Thanks in advance!

Ned : Facts? That seems like work...

Why is everyone giving out random facts?! I'm so lost!

Why was my post posted in between two existing posts?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhHHHH

Nicole: No random facts for you!

JUST KIDDING!

- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney animated features in which both the parents are present and don't die throughout the movie
- An oyster takes ten years to produce a pearl that is about the size of a pea
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
- A snail can sleep for 3 years
- Pandas spend about 12 hours a day eating bamboo
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
- Coca-Cola was originally green

And one that's do with my new idea:
- Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses: pupil dilation, sweaty palms and increased heart rate.

Nat: Random Facts (and also a story)

THE STORY
I was at work today (I work at a kids play place), and a little boy came up to me and whispered, "I spilled my drink on the floor." I told him I would come clean it up and he motioned for me to kneel down, then whispered, "You aren't going to call the police, are you?"
No, kid. I'm not going to call the police because you spilled your drink. :)

THE FACTS
~Canadians consume more Kraft Dinner per capita than any other nationality on earth.
~1/3 snake bite victims is drunk.
~There are twelve fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's 'Walk of Fame': Woody Woodpecker, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, the Simpsons, the Rugrats, Mickey Mouse, Kermit the Frog, Godzilla, the Flintstones, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Big Bird.
~Sign language users sometimes sign in their sleep.
~The world's longest movie is called The Cure for Insomnia, and is 85 hours long.
~Snails kiss by rubbing their antennae together. Awwww..
~If a man with normal vision and a color-blind woman have children, the daughters will have normal vision and the sons will be color-blind.
~The most flowers sold in one day in U.S. history was the day after Elvis Presley died in 1977.
~The film Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing – the scene caused an inpouring of complaints about indecency

Sidenote: There has been a very annoying fly buzzing around my head the whole time I've been writing this post. Grrr!

Ned : Tracks

Hey guys! PLEASE go read the first chapter of a new story I'm working on! I put it on OSAAWAKMS so please go read it! It would mean the world to me! Please!

I haven't really told you anything about this one and thats pretty much due to the fact that it only came to me like four hours ago. I instantly started writing, and the first chapter is pretty intense. It's not all like that, I just had to get that part over with. I know everything thats gonna happen in it! I'm so excited!

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE go read the first chapter and tell me what you think! I would appreciate it SO much!

p.s... the first chapter has only been edited once, so if you guys wanna help me out there, that'd be awesome! Tell me what you think.

-Ned.

Heather: Random Facts.

• If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 
• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. 
• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. 
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
• It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace". 
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. 
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• American car horns beep in the tone of F. 
• There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
• The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million. 
• Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. 
• The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
• The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.  
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.

Crazy.

Your turn.

-H

Kas: Random Facts

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana

Most lipstick contains fish scales

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery."

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise]

Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world

Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse

In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries

Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."

Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament

The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle

A leech has 32 brains

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose

Im tired now, so, thats all you get. :P

-K

Heather: This is Seriously Getting on my Nerves.

So, I finally managed to stay up all night for Pottermore.
Woo?
No, because it still hasn't updated and it's almost ten o'clock, and any minute now my g-ma will come knocking at the door, and I got no sleep just for this thing- that I am really, really, really starting to dislike AND IT STILL HASN'T UPDATED.
Anyway, sorry for complaining, but really... My luck sucks.
:(
I hope it updates really freaking soon.

-H

EDIT- I AM IN!
BAM.
EXCITEMENT!
I THINK I WANT TO GO SLEEP NOW....
Hehehe...

-H

Kas: Silver Cover!

So.. Since heather is at her G-parents house for the week, we haven't really been writing much, but I have been stretching out the old Photoshop skillzzz.

I decided to create a new cover for Silver because a really awesome idea just popped into my head.

Im sure you've all read read the synopsis, but, if not, here it is...

Silver Roric is not a spy. At least, not yet. Thrust into a mission that if failed could cost her peop

le the war that has been fought for centuries, she is anything but prepared. Kidnapped by the cruel daemon race, and trapped in a castle where she is nothing more than a prisoner of war, Silver must act as the princess she was

taken in place of.

With her sole goal to gather information to be sent to the capital, and gain the trust of as many daemons as she can; Silver’s life is not going as planned. With the kings nephew, the mysterious Sebastian, impervious to her every move and an entire castle out to get her, even the most simplistic mission can seem impossible.

Then Grint comes, a dark human with an even darker past, he is prepared to bring Silver back to the Domanean rebellion; for a price. Silver is once more thrust into an entirely new mission, except this one involves bringing down two kingdoms… From the inside out.

The concept of the cover is supposed to sort of symbolize the difference between who Silver is when she has to pretend to be Echo (the princess) and who she truly is. So, I took one photo and split it in half, one side is Silver as she really is, and the other is who she is portrayed as to the world.

So, I'm also debating on doing a character profile picture like this for every character in the book... but I still haven't decided.

Tell me what you think!

-K

Nat: I am so very very bored.

Yep, it's true. I'm incredibly bored.
And there's no new SAAWAKM posts, no new tumblr posts, no one interesting on facebook, and I'm not really in the mood to write.
So...I'll just bore you all with a pointless post. Mhm.
Oh! You could go watch the video I posted today. That's something for you to do!
Or maybe I'll post on OSAAWAKMS some of the new stuff I've been working on. Maybe.
Gah, I'm so bored.
I wish I could enter Pottermore already! :(
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
Bye.

Heather: This sucks.

I stayed up like, all night last night (by all night, I mean around one-ish, because I had a really long day...), and they didn't renew the Pottermore registration, so I went to bed, and then got up uber early, and spent all morning doing chores for my grandmother, and now, at noon, IT'S ALREADY CLOSED.

I may cry. Well, it's tempting.

:(

-H

Ned has three words.

I.

Got.

In.