Friday, December 23, 2011

Ice Flower: Information of La Fayette

Dear Reader,
It's the 2nd post today but I have this urge to write, given the fact I have been in another major writer's block (even blogger's block). The thing is, I managed to get out of it. I just glued my ass to the chair in front of the laptop and promised myself a huge coup of hot chocolate if I write more than 1,000 of words. I guess everyone has a different way of passing over this, but chocolate has always been my thing.
Today I'm gonna tell you 'bout my story, Ice Flower. The cover isn't that pretty or interesting because I did it with old Photoshop cs3 and I can't say I'm Wonder Woman when it comes to it. I'm just good. It is also in romanian, my mother language, so don't scream at me - I've kind of lost the original photoshop file, so I can't change the title to english.
Still, as soon as I convince myself to get rid of the laziness for some minutes and find some good pictures, I will make a brand new english cover.
I'm curently writing this on Wattpad in romanian and I'm planning to translate it as soon as I get my lazy ass to do this have some free time. I am not a busy person. Really.

Basically, all the action is taking place in a very different world called La Fayette, a kind of... parallel world? It's complicated, given the fact that you can get in that world with the help of some old, special books called Portals. I wanted to be a little ironical, so it seems that normal humans (called Exteriors or Earthlings) like to... put some distance between them and these Portals. The humans just don't like them.
The human world is big and has a lot of countries and et cetera, but La Fayette is bigger. Somehow, unseen to the humans and their electronics, La Fayette is a world that covers the Earth, with just kilometers in between. While the Earth is in the middle of the electronical revulotion, La Fayette isn't using computers or other electronic aparature at all - even more, they despise it. It's more like a Middle Age Earth, but with magic (even if not many of them are able to use it, just the ones that are Fey).
La Fayette is somehow the place where all the fairytale creatures have their own haven. There are vampires, werewolves, fairies (pixies and the ones more... scary) and mermaids, spirits of the woods, fox-people or other half-animal half-people, unicorns, any magical creature you know and even more. These folks are all called Fey and don't live in the same places that normal people - or lightlings, people that don't use magic - live. All Fey  use magic, so they are called nightlings.
La Fayette is divided into five Empires: Sariah, Canolia, Va'al, Nariem and Aditi. Every Empire has its Emperor and its divided into smaller regions named differently (In Sariah there are five Kingdoms, in Va'al there are 12 Crowns and 7 Scepters, in Canolia there are four simple Regions, in Nariem there are 35 Domains and in Aditi there are 43-44 Lands).
I think it's enough for today, and thank you for listening.
Reader, you're truly the best.
xoxo
XD
Ann C., off.

Even if it's late, it's nice to say Happy B-day to me

Dear Reader,
Well, I can say yesterday was my birthday. Of course I know there is... no one that actually reads my blog. It's just kind of refreshing to, you know, share with someone that doesn't know you. No strings attached.
I had a nice day, to be honest. Family and stuff, but nothing that exciting and I'm still begging my mom for the second A Song of Ice and Fire book, A Clash of Kings.
I devoured the page-turner the first book was. A Game of Thrones totally deserved every coin.
My cake has to wait for Christmas, because my family thought it would be kind of a waiste to buy a cake for my birthday, and two days later to buy another one for Christmas. So, they will buy ony one, for the Christmas Eve.
So, Reader, I consider you've said Happy Birthday and wished me that warm birthday-ish stuff. If you didn't, it's no problem, I'm used to people forgetting my birthday in favour of the Christmas. It was the time.
Thank you for listening, Reader.
P.S.: By the way, is's that cake awfully good-looking? I would kill for one of those.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Oh, well...

Well, I can see my blog has gone a little... deserted already, now that I haven't been posting for over a month and a half, if I'm counting well (I'm dumb when it comes to maths. For me, one and one make a baby).
Now, I must come up with some good and nice excuses, right? Well, my first one is, of course, school being a good old pain in the... hand. Yep, hand. Maybe there are kids out there reading my post and I really don't want to have some pissed parents on my tail.
Another excuse is... oh, well. None I can think about. Maybe writing on my new-born draft of a book? Well, I find it a pretty good excuse.
Well, I was just stressed. Blocked. Both in writer and blogger's block. And believe me, you do not want to experience it, as long as you're not crazier than me (even if that seems unlikely; no one is crazyer than me).
Well, I gotta go. Must write something before mom begins to pick on my brain and put me to work.
A., off.
(And please note the piggy right near the laptop. Isn't it cute?)
xoxo, XD