It's not easy writing a book.
I mean, it's easier than mining coal. It's easier than most factory work. It's probably easier than a lot of office jobs as well.
But STARTING to write a book... those first few inches you have to push that boulder till it hits the edge and starts to roll downhill... THAT'S the hard part.
Not as hard as teaching, granted. Or working on a farm. Or being a doctor or a nurse or a cop or a fireman. I doubt it's as hard as construction, either, or carpentry, or plumbing, or engineering.
But STILL...
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@Gemma: :( Awh.
There's SOOOOOOOOOOO much sun here.
But the past few days for us have been warmish but not sunny, just grey skies but not cold, so if the clouds travelled north or summat then the sun shoudl come out where you are soon. :)
(I also might have finally got sunburnt. Hmm.)
@Jai: :( :( It sucks to be in school when there's weather like htis.
Last year around this time the teachers often let us take our ties off, or let us take our jumpers off if we had no tie . . .
. . .
I miss school . . . I'm ready for my holiday to end already tbh. :(
SHIT.
I may need to change my shorts to some that come below the knee. :/
(I was thinking back in the autumn that this might be an issue when summer arrived. :/)
(Bikini tops are now my friends)
(@Chloe lol. I'd rather wear a giant winter coat right now than a bikini top.)
@Jai: OMG
SAME
*HUGS*
(*hugs back, grinning!* Yep. No way would I wear a bikini top xD)
(Hehe
I long for the beach)
@Jai: :) Me neither!!
I'd quite like the beach too, tbh. :P
My sister just walked in in school uniform hahaha.
I feel grateful I'm done with that.
(I mean, yeah, I miss school, but I don't miss the uniform. :P)
It's normal weather here now. Just started raining.
Jaimie, what RP? We probably have a lot we never finished.
Btw you're going to love this Chapter... it's one of my favorites ;)
(Mums hogging sun chair -_-)
I take that back. My sister looks so pretty in her school uniform. O_O
(thanks i guess.
and aww ok. someone said you mentioned them in it wanted to know if true. guess not
not going to argue it was wrong, but i was her b4 we broke up and I was mostly saying things like if you like the person enough you can get through anything which is true...)
@Gemma: :( Awh.
@Inky: :(
I wish I could do something...
I may post a story that I wrote. A story that I wrote for Alastair's benefit, but it may keep me less bored
(Hello Noelle)
(Sorry, was eating.
@Chione the one where Hecate had Sil bound with shadows, when Kiana had been hit by a truck.
@Adra I'm sorry..)
(Barney is running around like a lunatic)
@Noelle: :) I'd be glad to read it, if you did.
(@Chloe Barney?)
"It seems like life always delivers the hardest blows in groups of threes" dip dip dip "there was a time when I was untfortunate to undergo all three in a month. It began the night the husband left me, and ended with total desolation.." Dip dip dip "I've written in here the events of the evening that Cain deserted me, but I will continue from there.."
-
Adra screamed, writhing on the bloodied hospital bed, hot with sweat from her torture. Her hands were bound to the bed with leather straps- she never imagined that she would have to give birth in this kind of hospital- the mental kind.The nurses hurriedly injected morphine into her veins, to try to offer relief- the binds on her hands and feet hurt the circulation, however. Adra screamed again as she contracted, the pain in her pelvis making her want to vomit. She did vomit. The nurses pressed her back into the bed, so that she could use the force of her body to press the baby out. She had been in labor for nearly thirty six hours now, and she was tired, ill, and ready to pass out.
There was muffled words around her, and she saw two doctors slide into the room, each wearing a scaramouch mask, with long, curled beaks. The typhus outbreak had been hard this year, and they didn't want to risk anything.
There was a sinewy sound of tearing flesh, and Adra felt a dull pain in her abdomen. Through blurred eyes, she saw a bloody scalpel in the Doctor's hand. She kept crying as the stench of her own innards putrified her nose.
"Please..."
There was the squelching sound as the Doctors reached into her ballooned abdomen, and he slid the infant from her. He looked like a skinned rabbit, bloody, with thin legs. His hand was melted to his face.
The doctors began to slap the baby's rear, trying to get him to breathe, but there was no sound from the tiny human. Adra slowly faded in and out of consciousness, not fully aware of the situation yet. She saw one of the doctors faintly throw the carcass of her son into a waste bin, and screamed in pain, thrashing. Something pinned her down As her stomach was stitched up, and she continued to scream and scream and scream, desperately wanting relief from the pain and the heartbreak. She was beginning to understand what had happened- she didn't know why but
Someone just threw her infant in a trash bin.
She continued to scream and scream.
Eventually, she was transferred to another bed- a cleaner bed, and was ordered to bathe. She couldn't move. She was dragged to the bathing house by two of the male nurses, and stripped of her clothes. She couldn't stand. She fell. They dragged her up, and washed her with freezing water, hitting her whenever she screamed in pain. She was nothing but a dog to them- a pathetic woman.
he other men in the showers with her were laughing and ogling her body, despite its disrepair.
She was brought back to her room, stark naked, and forced to lie down on her bed, where they cuffed her once more. All of the patients were kept naked. Clothes were too difficult to supply.
There were two other women and six men in her room with her.
She cried to herself until she fell asleep.
(My sausage dog)
"It was the worst day of my life. I had never experienced such" dip dip dip "humiliation and inhumanity. They thought that I was mentally ill, and not a person." Dip dip dip " so there was no sympathy. I was just their pet." Dip dip dip.
"It was two weeks later when my third tragedy occurred. I'll spare the graphic details, and summarize." Dip dip dip. "Because I was treated like an animal, sex was never something to be concerned about among inmates." Dip dip dip. "I used to try to shower at two in the morning, when everyone was asleep. I have heard of the things that happened to women in there. The showers were co-ed." Dip dip dip.
"I had walked for a long time out to the bath house, where I managed to find hot water. It was so relieving to my soreness. My stomach was beginning to scar, and I had all but lost my baby weight due to the starvation." Dip dip dip. "But an inmate named Saety had followed me. He was institutionalized for the rape of children and infants." Dip dip dip. "He found me, and there was nothing I could do.."
Dip dip dip.
"The following week was Hell. I cried every day. I had three three times to slip my arms, to bleed until death, but was eventually put in the Jacket, in a soft padded room." Dip dip dip. "I was in there for five months. It was their mistake that one day, they gave me a metal tray for the meagre mouldy bread and old apple slices."
Dip dip dip.
"I murdered the guards. I murdered the warden. I murdered my friends, and anyone I could find.
I couldn't find Saety. I never did. He was always gone."
Dip dip dip.
"It was then that I began to develop schizophrenia. I never realized that I had, since by the time I escaped the hospital, I was completely unbalanced and dark. However, recent PET scans revealed that my brain has severely deteriorated." Dip dip dip. "Whether it was due to the trauma, genetics, or medicine of the early nineteenth century, I don't know." Dip dip dip.
the worst time in my life."
Sorry, it's pretty bad, it's just a first draft..
I thought that it may be interesting to mix up the POV from just third person limited omniscient to a mixed epistolary and third person limited omniscient... I thought it would be rather Modernist of me
(I enjoyed it Noelle ^.^)
(Thats really well written Noelle.. poor Adra..)
Sid my new chapter is up.
And oh yeah! that one. I liked that one... where were we though? I just dropped Felix then we paused it...i think.
(I can't remember )
Hellooooooo :)
Flora!!!!!!!!!!!!
*tacklehugs*
That was really sad Noelle but amazingly written.
(Flora! HOW Art thou?)
Hello.
It is really cool how you changed the perspective mid way, Adra. It gives the story a clearer voice.
(Hello moss ^.^)
Helloo!! :D I'm good thanks, how're you all??
Hey Fabi
I'm good Flora, a bit bored :)
You?
(I'm gooood thanks
But hungry)
(Hello.)
Ember: Archeos? We have already discussed this.
Liliana: *she uses her tongue in the kiss*
Parasite: Did Silente put you off a little?
Bethany: *she smiles, holding her close, kissing her passionately*
(Hey Soph ^.^)
(Hello, Chloe.)
Hello Sophia
(Hello, Gemma.)
[Nods]
Hi.
Sorry, I'm a bit distant...
Told you Noelle was brilliant at writing. :)
Sorry. Not really here. Watching TV with my sister & doing Ludo board.
Is everyone on summer vacation/holidays now?
Thank you...
bye
(I am ^.^)
(I have been for ages now...
*goes back to ghosting/ doing other things* MBD MSD)
[hugs Noelle]
Bye
Yeah, I've been on summer holidays for a little over a week now.
@Flora: No. The Americans seem to be, and everyone who's had exams in the UK seems to be, but people below year eleven in the UK aren't. Idk about otehr countries.
Watchign Cowboy Builders.
I've decided I love this program. Not because I particularly enjoy watching it, but because they really help people out who need it.
(Mmmmm
Jaffacakes)
(Star - I do like that programme, also.)
@Sophia: :) Hi.
Glad to find someone who agrees. :)
Me and my sister were just watching The Next Step, actually, adn we've watched the previous thirty or so episodes on our own, so it was weird to start watching it with each other, but we could bring up all the things we've complained about over the past season and talk about it together, and it's just really nice to find agreement and discuss these things. :)
This program makes me lose my faith in humanity.
(Okay. Back. Sorry. Nap and technology glitch.)
Onwa: Mmm..*uses tongue as well, grinning*
James: perhaps
*kisses her passionately back, grinning*
Mmm..
(@Gem Hecate had brought Kiana back)
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY? MMMMMMMM :p :D hey everyone ^_^
@Fera: No, that looks like a face of arrows and underscores. XD
Hi!
(*sighs happily at the breeze*
*debates walking to the school instead of waiting for the bus*
*school is up a big hill*
*bus is late*)
(Hey Fera)
(The bus came. I'm not walking.)
hey clo ^_^ how are you? :)
star: hi! ^_^
(I'm quite impressed that I caught the sun
You?)
(@Jai: Okay.
@Inky: XD I got sunburnt on one arm. Still not tanned. XD XD)
what does that mean? :D I am quite great myself, thank you :) It's pretty warm outside ^_^ and inside :D
oh, i barely get sunburnt as well ^_^
(I went straight to brown XD I didn't burn
And my freckles are visible )
oh right :D
(I actually have tan lines!!)
(I never tan. I occasionally burn, but not a great deal.
Star - I already do not have any faith in humanity.)
Liliana: *she holds Onwa close to her, grinning*
Parasite: Are you still attracted to children?
Bethany: *she holds her close* I love you so much... So very much.
*Finally flops out of bed*
I... am... dead..!
wow, that's unusual for you british people, ain't it? XD :P
@Sophia: Mmh. Sounds like me. I can occasionally get browner, but I've never properly tanned. I'm more likely to burn than tan, but I'm not one of those people who really easily gets burnt.
Yeah. :/ I'm optimistic; I do.
@J: Okay . . . ? XD
@Fera: Yes. XD
(Hey! XD
Hey john!)
hey blake, how's you? other than dead? :D ^_^
star: In hungary, it's unavoidable to get tanned in the summer, it just is :D I remember having very badly burnt, red, itchy skin...yeah nt the best...higher risk of cancer as well ^_^
@Fera: Yeah. :(
i didn't like that climate ^_^ this is much chiller :)
(I have awkward tan lines now
As I was wearing shorts)
(Yes, Star. That is what I am like. Then again, I am rather pale, so it makes sense.)
I dedicate the page I never dedicated to banananwnanananananananananananas. Because why not!!
(Hello duggy!)
meh, if you don't take off your shorts nobody would see :P ^_^
YAAAAASSSSS
(I know
But if I wear a bikini to the beach it's a pain)
(Serial killers are people too
If you take away my voice I'm just like you
I'll hack you up and bury you in my yard
But why does making friends have to be so very hard?)
@Chloe: XD See, I never have that problem.
@Fera: :)
@Sophia: I don't know how pale I am. :S :P
Sorry I disappeared! Went to water the plants and then my mum came home :)
Hello everyone that arrived since I've been gone! :) how're you all?
(Hehe lucky star XD
I've ne'er had this problem before today XD)
hey flora, i don't believe we've met *reaches out for handshake* :)
clo: oh...well it's fine XD :P
star: i bet you're not that pale ^_^
(Nobody can be as pale as me
My friends compare their arms to mine to see how much they've tanned XD)
BTW QUESTION: in what clothes is everyone at home now that this heat wave is happening? :P :D
Hey there! *shakes hand* What shall I call you - Fera?
clo: *laughs a bit* it's fine ^_^ the less u have to worry about people noticing it :P
flora: yeah sure, you can call me fera ^_^ You haven't been on the blog for a long time, huh? :)
(I be mostly dresses it shorts and tshirt a
I shall also be wearing bikini tops if I'm hanging around the house)
(Flora is old gen Fera ^.^)
@Inky: my sister has red hair and freckles so she's uber pale too. I, however, tan so I'm always comparing my tan to her :P
And I'm sat inside writing, playing the Sims, and watching TV :P
i only wear boxers, or sometimes while in my room, nothing XD of course only at home, cuz nobody can see me anyways ^_^
I'm Old Gen now??? Wow, I remember being a newbie!
clo: I could guess clo ^_^
(I am blond (but like, so dark it's almost brown- fair then) and I was called ghost girl and zombie girl XD)
Ohhhh, you said clothes, I totally misread that :P I'm just in a sundress - my house is really old with thick walls so it stays super cool in the summer :)
clo: well that was a bit mean of them ^_^
(Am I old gen? *frowns* I've been here since December 2nd 2011 but I've only become consistent this past year)
what did you read? XD oh...lucky you ^_^ :)
@Inky: I'm blonde too! :D but I've got some Italian roots so I tan fairly easily :)
clo: yeah u'z totally old gen :D i and violet are the only newbie's tbh ^_^ :)
(Awesome ^^. I look brunette but I had blond curly hair as a baby and it darkened)
I had a blonde hair when i was little as well but it turned black brownish ^_^
(I wear lounge pants and a tshirt. sometimes neither if noone is in.
also hey FLora :P
I'm a newbie no? -technically because ghostying :P- only became a commenter in Febuary)
@Fera: I thought you were asking what people were doing now it was super hot outside :P
@Inky: Yeah I think so! You've technically been here longer than me :)
(if outside jeans or shorts and a tshirt)
keiron: I see :D no you're not ^_^
flora: oh right...well the answer to that would be...I am watching animation dance videos and listening to music and talking on here ^_^
@Chloe: I was referring to the fact that I never wear a bikini. XD
@Fera: T-shirts and ripped denim shorts. :P
@Chloe: Hmmmm idek - I feel like I lost track of gens with timezones. XD
I also used to have blonde curly hair. Now I have light brown straight hair. My brotger's the same, but my hair's a bit lighter than his. When I put my hair next to his mine looks really golden - it's great. :)
I'm two and a half blog-years old. O_O
Eek.
(That feels weird O.o)
On contemplation, yeah Chloe, I consider you old gen.:)
star: i never wear bikini either......XD :P
@Lantern: I'm three and a half.D: 'Eek ' perfectly sums it up.
@Fera: :P I would have guessed that. :P
(I came here late 2011 start 2012 but never commented just read the posts then sometimes read the rps and if I had time then i'd read your fanfics. I only commented in Feb 2015 because A I kind of forgot about it and B Gemma told me to.)
I'm two and a half years too! :) Technically longer if you count ghosting, but actually commenting-wise, it's about that long.
@Fera: ahh that's cool! :)
star: i wonder how :D i mean it would look pretty stylish on me wouldn't you say so #fab XD
(Frick
I feel so old O.o)
(I only started commenting because derek posted something about toys and at the time I had so many toys I just had to share that XD)
clo: i am 1 year older than you in irl.... :D
flora: ^_^ what are you doing otherwise? college, 6th form, work? :)
(I meant blog wise Fera XD )
shhh, not allowed :P
(Emmerdale in a few minutes !)
*cries cuz star doesn't agree he would look fab in bikini* ;_; :D
Yeah, ghosting makes it a little longer, and reading posts makes it a lot longer.
@Flora Yay! We're blog-twins (kinda. :-P)!
(*totes mcgots has never tried on a bikini :P*)
I think it would look pretty good... XD
(What about a mankini XD)
(on me or you ?
I'd consider me new then ? right ? only started commenting in February )
oh btw, i've got a good story for every1 :P basically...me and my friends were walking passed the women's clothing in a shop, and we see a guy taking notes on a pad, and observing the underpants very curiously, we slightly stopped to see what he's doing, and he just straight up turns his head, saying "WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR! MMMMM!" and we could barely hold our laugh in XD and the funny thing about it is, we've seen that exact guy doing similar things before... never expected him to talk to us :D
clo: oh yeah, something like what borat has XD
keiron: both of us :D
(Each to their own I always say...)
(I don't like my with a top on i'm not going to like a mankini... each to their own though...
that guy sounds kinda creepy, did you know there is used underwear vending machines in Japan/ China somewhere in asia? Also weird but yeh each to their own I suppose...)
yeah, i know there are those kinda vending machines ins JAPAN obviously XD it is a bit strange, they do strange things...but hey to them it seems normal because they're used to their culture, and maybe we seem weird ^_^
have any of you seen japanese commercials? :D they're pretty weird :D
I've always wanted to go to japan)
(there is not a need for used panty vendy here we;re not the weird ones... and yes I've seen them...
Chloe that was coincidental btw :P "to each their own")
@Fera: Of course you would look fab. XD
same here ^_^ and...i want to go to japan now...like really :)
keiron: that's a close minded point of view ^_^ there are some situations where you'd need one.
star: THANK UUUUU :D
(I wonder why ^.^)
(Yeh me too... Tokyo, mount Fuji... just od like a road trip of the world and go see all the awesome stuff :P)
clo: yeah, idk what got me :) ^_^
keiron: hehe, yeah those are pretty cool places :)
SPOILER
(OMG ! Ross I the father in emmerdale!)
Sorry I disappeared! Went to feed my cats :)
@Fera: I've just finished my third year at university (I'm British, but I had a year abroad) - I'm going into my fourth year this October :)
flora: oh wow, what course are you doing? :)
BA American Studies
(Like 4 and a half years commenting i think. My blogversary is in september or october)
oh...so you murican, or were you just interested in it? ^_^
i believe i've been commenting since 17th of april this year, right? ^_^
(Seems about right, just before I went to CERN ^.^)
clo: yeah :) I am good with dates, i've always nailed history ^_^
(CERN was awesome)
I would've LOVED...to flipping go :D ^_^
(Hehehe XD)
I'm sorry, I seem to be doing a rather rubbish job of sticking around and talking to people. :-/
it's ok *hugs*
clo: :P
(It's okay moss)
(It went wrong xD but we continued.. first half complete.)
Onwa: *smiles, snuggling into her side*
Mmm.. sleep?
James: Somewhat.
I love you too my beautiful Bethy.
(is it weird if I continue to read your writing ? I liked it... )
(RSPCA animal rescue upsets me)
Liliana: *she nods* Yes. Indeed. Once it stops burning.
Parasite: *she takes the form of her younger self* Why?
Bethany: I'm not beautiful...
clo: awww *Hugs*
Onwa: *chuckles*
Mmm..the burn should fade soon.
James: *blinks and shrugs*
I like to corrupt. And the pure ones are such fun, sometimes they cry.
You are in my eyes.
*grins, kissing along her jaw, nibbling slightly*
Mm..
(*huggles*)
holy gosh, the sun was heating my room for about 10 hours straight, it's like a sauna now...plus i am practicing dancing... :D
Sorry, disappeared again! I was sorting out my camp nano :) anyone doing it this year?
@Fera: Just interested. Plus the course is multi-disciplinary so I get to do history, literature, politics, sociology, art, film, psychology, etc. I didn't have to focus on just one topic/aspect.
And I got a year abroad, which was the icing on the cake :P
(My living room is a nice temperature )
(I'm gonna do psychology in UNi ^.^£
flora: nice :) where di you go for your year abroad? :D ^_^
i am gonna do the heck knows what at uni, because i don't even know if i pass these courses :D
(my room is @the north which is wrong and makes it cold mostly but I don't get cold so it''s nice for me :P)
i need air conditioning and very well-sealing curtains :P also a color change...my room is orangish yellow, which makes the room hotter...
(How is everyone?)
i am a bit hot, cuz of room and dancing :P other than that i am great, you? :)
(I am good WBY ?)
My sister did a degree in Psychology, Inky! She got a Masters in Clinical Psychology too :)
I went to the Shenandoah Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia :) It was about two hours west of DC :)
@Silente: I'm good thanks, you?
(Headache
Bad back
But talking to you guys and jack so I'm happy)
Balls... -_-
(@Flower call me Jai :)
@everyonewhoaked I'm okay, somewhat nervous..)
(That's awesome! I want to do educational psychology)
(@Chloe nawww. Chack.)
flora: what about balls? :P
clo: aww *Hugs*
jai: why so nervous? :)
(*blushes and hides * stoooop it!)
(@Fera school concert. It's the finally soon. The first two songs went okay..ish..)
(Nervous ? :/
(*laughs*
*hunts down Chloe*
Heyyyyyy. Don't hide your adorableness!)
jai: you performing? :)
(@Fera yup. For some reason..)
(Eeeek! He's adorable, I'm not!)
jai: hehe, well that's because you're awesome of course :)
(@Chloe you're both adorable!)
(@Fera hahahahaha Lolno.)
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