Chaotic Array

Remember my cousin Amelia? The one I went on vacation with this summer? The one I have a matching tattoo with? Well, her new pen name is Winter Rose, and she's making her literary debut in a book we're co-writing together, Mirror, I Am . There's a new page for Mirror, I Am  at the top of the blog. I'd say it's paranormal, but it's more contemporary with paranormal aspects. I mean, it's got full-on magic, a race of psychics called Talents, our main characters are a girl who can astral project and a girl who can track people using their personal possessions. But the main plots are about human things, and relationships between people. It's all about the characters, their families, their grief. Definitely check out the book page here on the blog, as well as the Goodreads page! For now, here's a glimpse at our main characters: Mine: And Winter's: God, it feels good to be a full-time artist again!

I'm going to write The Indigo Horde  back to back with its sequel, and submit the duology to some small publishers, so I won't be posting any more chapters on Wattpad. I will, however, be posting a few snippets. And talking about the process a lot. Today, I chose the soundtrack. I also wrote a chapter, and the query, and refined my outline. I can't share those, but I can share the soundtrack, so I'm doing that here. I'll probably be able to share a Pinterest board with you guys soon, soo! The Indigo Horde -playlist- 1) Sippy Cup by Melanie Martinez 2) Ties by Years and years 3) If You Go Away by Emiliana Torrini 4) Preach by Daniel Johns 5) Becomes the Color by Emily Wells 6) Perfect Life by Red 7) In The Dark by Cathedrals 8) My House by PVRIS 9) Freedom by Anthony Hamilton 10) Bad Habit by the Kooks 11) First by The Cold War Kids 12) Bite by Troye Sivan 13) Revolving Doors by Gorillaz 14) Dangerous by Big Data 15) Without You...

So, my seasonal finally ended, and I'm back to being a full-time slug. At least, until the next semester of school starts. Of course, I'll still be working all day every day; I'll just be doing it at home, in my pajamas. I'm still editing SOSAS, and drafting The Indigo Horde (fun!) but I also have school work, and a new diet, and a new instrument and language to learn. So, yeah. I'm learning French at the moment, and I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas - which I asked for, and am over the moon to get - that I now have to learn. As far as the new diet? I'm cutting out all junk food, all red meat, and adding thirty minutes of exercise a day. In the past I've only been exercising a couple times a week, and then I got my job and stopped altogether, because I figured that was exercise enough - and I was mostly right, since I lost like 8 pounds while working at that store. I started eating a lot as Christmas got closer, especially Chinese takeout and pizza, a...

Chapter 3 of The Indigo Horde is up. You can read it  here.  I wanted to write two tonight, but I worked a longer shift today than I anticipated and it's 3 thirty in the morning and I have to be up at 9 tomorrow morning to go back to the mall by 11, even though I don't work until two in the afternoon (ah, don't you just love rural bus schedules?) which I am not anticipating. On the plus side, my best friend is working tomorrow too - and yes, I am aware of how lucky I am to work in the same store as my best friend - which always makes shifts fly by faster. Work isn't that bad, it's the lack of sleep I hate - bus schedules and writing schedules and anxiety are all working together to make sure I never get another wink. Also, that caffeine addiction. Today I went into a practical coma and slept in for like 3 hours. I was twenty minutes late to work because of it, but I can't say I regret it: I'd been awake for about 30 hours before I went to sleep, so I rea...

I have a new book out that I'm serializing on Wattpad over the course of the next ten or eleven days. It's an urban fantasy called The Indigo Horde  about a private detective, some monster hunters, and a very steamy romance. You can read it free here . But enough of self-promotion. Because today what I actually want to talk about is art. And not the usual type of art I talk about. Nope: it ain't about writing today. I'm talking visual art. Specifically? Sketching. The year ends in like, twelve or so days and I still haven't finished filling up my sketchbook. I have so many empty pages, I'm thinking of lugging it around with me for the rest of the month and just sketching everything I see to fill it up. I hate letting empty pages go to waste, but as soon as the year ends, so does my work in this sketchbook. I'll have to put it on the shelf and grab a new one. Which I will hopefully use more. Also not complete? My 2015 reading challenge. I wanted to re...

I'm sitting here listening to K-pop and playing Candy Crush and trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do with my day. Because I have to do something, and I haven't done much of anything yet. I want to write, but I also have homework to do, and I can't decide which project to work on. I don't want to write anything for Souls of Salt & Seawater because I already worked a bit on that today, but with other projects, I don't want to get tied into anything. I guess I'll do some free writing later. Or clean up my bedroom, move furniture around. Or draw something. Or just jump off a roof and fly into the sunset, never to be seen again. You know, regular day off stuff. But really, I have too much energy and nothing to do with it. This is what I get for coffee overload, but I regret nothing.

I've been awake for a lot of hours. And I just drank like 6 or 7 coffees in the span of two of them. So, as you can imagine, I am fucking bouncing off the walls!  It's fun. I am going to be blogging a lot today, because I need to blog more, and I have the day off, and I'm in the mood to write, but I don't have the attention span to write anything longer than blog posts with all this caffeine in me. That said, I feel fine. Better than fine. I spent some time editing SOSAS last night, which is coming along nicely, and I expanded on the worldbuilding. I've been sitting here for hours listening to Kpop now, though. Mostly f(x) but also a bit of Sunmi. I finished reading the Copper Gauntlet (a pure gem) and made a graphic for it, because I was loving Jasper in this book: We do not froth. I'm going to practice french for a few hours sometime today, as well. I really feel like I need to do a million things all at once, because I have so much energy, and I ...

This post is total filler, because I want to blog more, and I never have time to talk about the stuff I love anymore, so I'm doing that here. I keep telling myself to update this site more, because it's good marketing, and it's a nice connection to my readers, and it's nice to read posts from the past and remember things. But I'm also a lazy, lazy nerd with not a lot of time on my hands. And in that limited time, I would rather do nerdy stuff than talk about doing nerdy stuff. But here's to talking: I'm reading Six of Crows, and it's amazing, and I am blown away by Leigh Bardugo's worldbuilding. I'm binge-watching a bunch of stuff on Netflix; Devil is a Part-Timer, How To Get Away With Murder -- and I just finished Jessica Jones, which was amazing, spoilers or not. I can't wait for Luke Cage. (Is his show going to be self-titled too? I don't know. Who cares? More Luke!) And I'm also trying to fill out my sketchbook before the year...

Yesterday I worked from 6 to 10:30. Today I'm working from 2 to 10:30. I keep working long shifts that end late at night, and I have a really long commute, and I actually didn't sleep last night when I got home because my anxiety was going off of the walls, so I stayed up and now I'm going back to work without any rest, but I really don't care because I can't afford to care because I'm 600 dollars in debut and I still have Christmas gifts to buy on top of coffee and bus money. It's a hard-knock life. The thing is, this hard-knock life is very time consuming. And when I do have free time it's usually spent doing laundry/dishes/homework. I may have underestimated just how heavy my workload was when I mentioned some previous release dates. I wanted to put out the first instalment of ADSD next month, and I've barely started drafting it. I wanted to put out SOSAS on the 15th, but I am nowhere near done editing it. And it's not that the book is bad a...

I called in sick again today. My boss was not impressed. I have no idea what's been going around, because I know it's not just me (probably why she was so annoyed) but there are a few of us out sick. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if I caught it from one of them, but I'm not loving it. I've spent most of the day curled up writing, and I'm about to get back to that, because I have so much to fucking do, but I wanted to stop in and post my first December update! It's almost Christmas . . . which is scary. Because I still have shopping today. And not enough cash to go around. I may go prematurely grey. Or I may rip out all my hair before it gets to that. Either way, back to work!