You know its really hard to believe that the year only has four months left. It seems like only a month or so ago I was sitting in my grandma's house in Idaho watching the ball drop on January 1st 12:00 A.M. Ahh memories... lol.
And today is the last Saturday of summer, school starts on Monday for me. Though I suppose not everyone starts on Monday so. :P Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging right now is just to update on everything that's been going on in my life lately. I've had a pretty fabulous summer, even though we didn't go camping, so that was disappointing. BUT, my cousins came to visit! And I got to meet my cousin Emily for the first time, she's so great! I love her.
Someday I'll be able to make a trip down to southern California and visit all of my family down there, I haven't been to see them in many-many years. We're always going north to visit my Mom's family.
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| Me and Emily at the beach! So much fun with that girl! :) |
On to the rest of my story!
Horseback has been pretty great lately, though I really need to speed up my tacking time. Because I'm always the last one up there, this last Wednesday it was pretty bad lol. I almost didn't have time to tack up completely. I was just bridling Benny when everyone was going up, but I had no worries about bridling him because he's pretty good about accepting the bit and letting me put his ears in the bridle.
By the way, I LOVE Benny! He's such an awesome horse! :) I also got to ride Tipper a little while ago, and boy did I miss riding him... he was a lot of fun to get on again. I really wish Corrie would let me ride him more often, but I guess she thinks I'm a better fit for Benny and Sunny.
I thought I was doing pretty good on Tippy earlier on, he's a great horse even though he's a pain in my kiester sometimes.
So before I get to how my writing is going, I'm going to tell you about a friendship I rekindled. :) I'm pretty sure I've mentioned my friend Paul on here, but I haven't talked to him in months. So I got up the guts to call him up a few weeks ago and ask him to come on over, so now we're trying to hang out every couple of weeks. And its super fun, I so miss the days of being little kids with him. But I have many fond memories locked away in my head.
And now I'm going to blab all about my writing life.
I'm beginning the long and tedious process of editing my 112K book "The World Within", oh yes, that big sucker. Pretty positive I've mentioned it before, just don't remember when. It is a long book, around 400 pages, and needs some major remodeling. I'm almost tempted to post a sign on my bedroom door when I'm editing it and say "CAUTION: Book remodeling in progress" lol. That's how bad it is, though some people would probably say I'm being to hard on myself, I don't think I am. Because I'm willing to spend the time giving it love and making it the best it can be, it is my baby after all. And a mother should never abandon her baby; she should keep raising the child until its the best it can be.
(This is how much I love this book, and how much faith I have in it. I'm using the application of being a mommy... I am a little cooky sometimes but, whatever. :)
Someday it will be polished to perfection - as close as I can get it - and I will begin the anticipated day of emailing agents with my query letters and book samples. Now if I'm lucky, I can do such a thing my late junior year, or senior year in High school. Though, I have no idea where God is going to take me on this journey, I'm praying that I'll get such a chance to get published. Every author wants to be a New York Times Bestseller, I don't think that'll happen to me, but it will be a blessing just to get my book published and in people's bookshelves for reading.
I would sincerely love it if my book became loved like C.S. Lewis' masterpieces, or Lord of the Rings. (That's a huge dream, but a girl can dream, can't she? ;D )
And to make it even better, I've been re-reading Inkheart (amazing book) and I've been inspired to edit and write in my Amerada books again. I forgot how amazing the Inkworld trilogy is! I might just have to pull out my other two books in the series when I finish Inkheart. And I'm really looking forward to getting farther in TWW and re-discovering the characters I created a couple years ago. Max, Kelly, Arianna, Owen, Ryan, my hotshot Skyeler, and of course my heroine Leslie. :D
Though I'm considering changing the way her name is written to Lesley. It looks prettier, I suppose.
Anyway, on to other writing things. I got to partake in a writer's conference online, which was absolutely amazing and I am so happy I signed up for it. I thought it would just be a waste of time, and far to boring, but I was so wrong. I got so much advice, and websites for people considering publishing and helping them do it. I'm ecstatic to finish the second draft of TWW, which if I get on it I'll finish it in a few months I think. And now the same people that put on the writer's conference, are doing a Query Letter thing on the same website. Query letters are something you must send into an agent when you want to get published, and I posted mine on there and I already got some good feedback. :) Though I'm a little worried now because there are no people besides me and two other people that posted their query letters. I guess we'll just see what happens.
Its exciting knowing that I might be able to get published in the future, I would love to be able to share the stories I've written with the world. If only patience was an easy thing. ha-ha.
Anyway, I hope you liked reading my blabby words about my life. :)
Have a great Saturday everyone!
~Jazz
