Girl, 18, Rises From the Dead Once Again

...Okay, so apparently people are actually looking at this blog that I haven't updated in nearly a year??

Um.

Whoops.

Sometimes I completely forget I have this blog, honestly. I started it for a reason, but I just can't seem to keep it up...

But anyway!

I've been working on some OCs for awhile now, and I want to put them in a story, but I don't know what kind. So I'm gonna look up some writing prompts and write my own stuff here, and maybe that'll give me some insight. Wish me luck!

I Must Be Dead

I mean, I haven't put anything up here in months! Something must've happened!

But no, everything's fine. I've just been busy. I start my first year of college next week (eep!), so I've been trying to get ready for that.

I've also been working on fleshing out my characters, which is going as well as you can expect from an inexperienced writer.

Anyway, I'll try to be here more often, even if nobody's paying attention.

All of the Circles

I wonder if I should expand this short story so that there are more kids making these deals. There are nine circles of Hell according to Dante, so I figure I should create other demons to correspond with these circles and create other kids to make deals with them.

Would that make it too long, though??

Hmm...maybe I should read Inferno and then go from there...

Dealing with the Devil

I've been tossing around an idea for a short story for awhile now. I can't say how it exactly came to be, although Black Butler might've had a hand in it.

Picture this:

Senior year isn't going very well for Whistle. She's had to face more bullying than usual--because she was doing what she thought was right--and she doesn't know how she can make it stop. She knows she can't keep living like this, and she tries to act tough, but it only serves to embarrass her further.

One day, she finds her courage where she least expected it: a summoning spell tucked into a library book. When she reads it, she brings out a demon girl, Nikita, who's in a similar situation to Whistle's. Nikita proposes a deal: if Whistle lets her live in her body and possess her from time to time, then she'll help Whistle get the kids at school off her back. Whistle is desperate to be rid of her weakness, so she accepts.

She doesn't realize just what she's gotten herself into...and when she does, it might just be too late.

*spooky fingers* Whoo, deals with the Devil~!

I don't have a name for the story yet, but I'm making it a two-parter. As for Whistle, she doesn't have a real name; I have no intention of giving her one. I just call her Whistle because it'd be weird to write dialogue directed at her without using her name. (That, and she's on the school newspaper--those kids are known as "whistleblowers.")

Away I go!

EDIT (8-18-2014): I've decided that Whistle's name will be Anita Hawthorne!

Progess Note #4

Words at time of last post: 1,444
Words as of November 30, 2013: 4,003
New words written: 2,559

Well, I broke the 4,000-word mark. That's progress, right?

I don't think I'll ever touch NaNoWriMo again...or at least until I'm out of college.

Progress Note #3

Words as of last post: 1,246
Words as of today: 1,444
New words written: 198

*sighhhhhh* So much for 20,000 words, let alone 50,000. I haven't written anything new in four days! Ugh, if I want to break even 10,000 words, I'd probably have to drop out of school! I've got too much to do to work on this novel. Plus I've been at Kollision Con all weekend. Sue me. (Please don't sue me; I'm poor enough as it is.)

I don't want to give up, though. I still have two weeks, right? I can get in at least 5,000 before the end of the month. I think.

Progress Note #2

Words at time of last post: 1,139 (miscounted last time!)
Words as of tonight: 1,246
New words written: 107

I've reached my first chapter break! Not sure where to go from here, though...