Writing_Miracles🌹

Next 5 options:
          
          6. After a boy’s father ends up in the hospital, he must figure out how to save the family circus before it’s taken away from them. 
          
          7. Sick and stuck in bed, Billy is given a book that for some reason wants him to jump inside. 
          
          8. Dragons and humans used to live in unity but when human’s turned against them a war begins, and a teenage girl is caught in the middle.
          
          9. She was a beautiful dancer when one day, she was cursed and locked away in a musical box. 
          
          10. A teenage boy, trying to navigate this new phase of life is thrown into a crazy world when he gets sticked into his phone and has to hop from app to app, looking for a way out. 

As the month comes to an end, changes set in motion, I’m thinking about focusing more on the work of children’s books. It’s the genre that rubs the bottom of the barrel, I know, but it’s one that I’ve always come running back to. I don’t enter a contest without having at least one by my side. 
          
          Here are the first 5 options (for anyone interested): 
          
          1. A girl realizes her grandmother’s memory isn’t as good as it used to be so she starts recording valuable moments.
          
          2. Two brothers adopt a cat that’s been abandoned, but this little guy has a past and trouble doesn’t stray far.
          
          3. A boy who has a crush on the new girl at school transforms into a troublemaker, trying to grab her attention. 
          
          4. She stole one little necklace and now she’s stuck in the shadows, trying to find a way out.
          
          5. A medieval world. A child with a gift she doesn’t know how to control and a war closing in on her and the others like her. 
          
          
          All my more mature books will probably find a home elsewhere. Mature is pretty new to me and I want to explore its possibilities without the fear of wrongfully crossing Wattpad’s guidelines and having it removed. 
          
          
          -Than for reading this unnecessarily long message. 

Translating a dream I had last night:
           Cops collaborate with game developers to bring cold cases to life in hopes that obsessive gamers might be able to help solve them. But what if it becomes more of a risk than it is in reward?
          
          13-year old Wayne Orland is one of the many teens posing as an adult so he can explore the world that everyone raves about, but what happens when he gets caught in the crossfires of a serial killer, school and the developers trying to shut his account down? And the cops, well, they don’t believe he is who they say he is.
          
          I got Ready, Player One vibes but if anyone knows any other books or movies that come close, let me know. 

Now I know—
          Excuse me, let’s try that again.
          Somehow, the three stories I entered for round two made it out alive. Somehow, after throwing words on a page the day of the deadline, they managed to stick. It’s almost as if the judges walked right by the mess *hums* 
          
          Anyway, congratulations to everyone who made it through and good luck in round three! *fumbles with the cake*
          
          A storm came through and I’m getting calls left and right so I’ll be cleaning up irl and in these books. 

Finished building a little table today put it in front of the window with my laptop and a chair, sat down for two seconds before my ADHD started acting up. 
          
          After working yesterday, I am all sore.. idk how I had the energy to fiddle with wood but I don’t have the energy to write these books *smacks face*

After pulling back the layers of words, I realized, if I hadn’t already that Outsider will be more than 40,000 words, the max for ONC. 
          
          So what I can do, maybe, is keep this story short, use it basically as a layout and make an offline version.
          
          I already decided that the main character, Iris, her age will drop down to 12 and the POV will change to 3rd. 
          
          

So Timothy “Sticky Hands” got bumped out by a book that wasn’t even planned. “Outsider”
          I feel a bit disappointed because I thought me and him were best friends. He started out so strong. 
          
          Meanwhile I watch one documentary on Meerkats and words just start pouring out for Outsider. Ugh.
          
          Work got the best of me and for some reason, I write the most the day of a deadline. Like why?

TFTF

Sending out congratulations to those that made it through round one of the ONC! 
          
          Continue to take care of your characters and embrace them as they go through this journey! 
          
          And I also want to add how many great… no absolutely mesmerizing stories I have managed to read so far!  Good luck to everyone in the next round.

Hi there!  Thank you for adding my book, Nightwalker, to your reading list! Bust of luck for the ONC!