Audience of One

I did say that if I had time to write something I would. I have not actually had much time on my hands, and exams are looming in the distance, but here I am, at 2 in the morning. I guess the cleaned and rearranged room has inspired me, and I am awake, so why not? Either way, staring out of an apartment window down to the cityscape and the lights alone is probably enough incentive to make anyone want to write anything at all.

I have recently been more inspired to write more expressively, which generally means it comes out in poetry, and I haven't had the energy to throw together any prose, so I spout poetry. You can check out some of that stuff out on Dear Life, a lot of the other material will not be posted, but if you want to read it, feel free to ask. Again, the tradition of an audience of one is extraordinarily overwhelming. I have little or no news on Taya, other than to say that it has not yet been continued, but not to fear, in time it shall be completed.

I really don't have much more to say, I am tired, it is late and I am speaking to, well, myself, which is wonderful granted, but I catch myself rambling. So without further adieu, I wish thee a good night.

Cheers!
~B

A Short Ramble

As it turns out, most of my day today will be spent by waiting for my knees to heal, so I thought the next logical thing to do was write something. I found it quite intriguing how childish Taya turned out to be, but at the time the story and the characters seemed so grown up, not only in years but in readership. So in essence Taya is young adult fiction, and part of a tradition that I have wanted to be a part of for quite sometime.

So I felt like rambling on about whatever came to mind, but my mind mostly ends up thinking about the writing process and what is going to happen next in regards to Taya. Unfortunately I cannot reveal what happens next because I don't want to be a spoiler. In other news, thought I don't know how new this is, we will be rewriting/reworking/editingthecrapof the first few chapters and possibly later chapters as well. We realized that our writing style began to develop and improve upon time, meaning that the beginning was significantly worse than the end. This will be changed, not to worry.

Don't all comment at once, my favourite audience. The cliche roar of silence is too overwhelming for me to concentrate. Maybe I'll post again soon, we shall see.

Peace in Peeps,
~B

A Desolated Waste Land

I found it to be almost ironic how the last two posts in this sad looking blog were about keeping the blog alive, and then it was a desolate wasteland of zero posts. Most of that of course is due to the fact that us writers are swamped with our studies as we strive to become more educated and better writers, which indeed is happening.

So I have come to remind you all, you all being probably one, maybe two people who actually care; we appreciate you ever so much. I am reminding you that we are not finished our projects, our 'mission' one might say to complete the saga of Taya the Warrior Princess. Our mission is to finish the writing following the end of exams mid April and then get the final product out for all. Following this, the material of the actually blog the warrior princess shall be terminated. Sad but true.

I know for a fact that Hayley, Grace and Myself shall further pursue artistic merit and publication-in whatever form it presents itself. Hayley has been working on several projects both solo and with friends, Grace and I have a series of short stories, children stories and eventually a novel planned. At some point, when I have built up a large enough repertoire, I plan on compiling several of my own experimental short stories that I have continued to work on in my spare time.

Anywho, now that I feel successful in informing a non-existent audience I can be at ease. Keep it real peeps, peace in.

Your friendly neighbourhood writer,
~B

Growling

This post is an echo and nod and in absolute agreement with Hayley's last post.  A valiant effort (or in my case, more of a mental effort, since productivity has dwindled to a mere trickle), to keep creativity alive has become more like a valiant desire to keep creativity alive.

That valiant desire is being laughed at by this monster thing called 'The List of Things to Do.' Oh you know what's on 'The List of Things to Do,' you have one yourself. Whether it be papers or school or work or... you know. Today I checked off several things on my 'List of Things to Do.' You know, items seem to grow larger and larger, until they hit monster proportions when left on their own for too long. Yeah. And my sword seems to shrink to the size of a nail clipper by the time an item has been left to simmer... simmer, simmer, simmer... for way too long.

That's my long-winded way of saying I have been itching to do something creative, finish up some art, write something and basically put on a beautiful dress with matching Mary Janes, maybe an over-sized sweater, a big fluffy tuque, swap in my red glasses (gorgeous, yes), for big nerdy black ones and... ah there goes that stereotype. Hey, can anyone blame me for describing the quintessential writer or artist living in a haze of creativity?

Okay. So that doesn't happen to me. I'm not the most hip person around, but I do like my daily dose(or weekly dose) of creativity. More recently that fix has been occurring in the kitchen, which thankfully is fun. But the art and words are calling, and like a sourdough starter needs to be fed.

Oh necessity. And List of Things to Do. How you sometimes make the me growl at you. But alas, you are part of life and, at the end of the day, aren't big monsters but little guys with big dancing shadows.

Silly creatures.

- G

Don't Die on Me Blog

Dear Blog, Don't fall apart.

Well it's September and numbers are doing nothing but falling and falling. Our progress on Taya is moving slower than ever, but sadly faster than imagined? Is that a thing? Anyways, it's been a while for updates, I know they are boring updates... but like cut us slack. It's hard balancing school work and social life and a blog. Especially a blog. Especially because our man motivation is each other and we are not really able to do that.

ANYWAYS. I want anybody who takes any amount of time to scan this blog to scan and share our other blogs. The only way we can grow right now is with fans... and we have like two. NOT THAT THOSE TWO ARE CRAZY AWESOME, but like... help us, we like help. Tweet us sometime. We can tell you stuff you wanna know, stuff you don't really care about, and stuff that is just plain fun. We are interesting people... trust me.

Maybe if we get more views we will bring back interesting tidbits. Until then I am going on an Interest Tidbit strike. SHARE SHARE SHARE.

... Oh if you have a peace you want to blog that is creative non-fiction give us a shout and we can post. Then you can share your stuff and it'll be a swell partnership. What do you say?

Holla Bloggers
~H

Pink Shirt

Hello all of you crazy peoples!

I am no longer in the quaint town of that I was once in... I am now in Toronto... the great and power city. UPDATES. So, here is the plan, we are currently working on 20, and that should be done fairly soon... We will continue to post, every Thursday, with some art here and there. Since chapter 15 has just recently been posted, that marks the halfway of the entire book as we intend to write 30 chapters.. chapter 25 should be the final chapter posted online... after that you have to buy the book in order to read the ending... yes I know... sneaky... BUT we need to find a way to live... sooo... Im sure if you have stuck it out as long as we have, you'll be cool with said proposal.

I have my schedule for the semester and I realized that I have a fair amount of time on my hands right now... So I'll try and get some writing in for you peeps.

I do not have a InterestingTidBit for you today... except that I am wearing a pink shirt... awesome...

Anywho! We are very excited to see this work in progress turn into a full blow book! so look out world! If you have any questions... tweet at us at the side... comment... or.... um, I think those are the only two... 'cause google plus sucks and no one uses it anyway... :D

Signing out,
~B

AHHH!

AHHHHHHHHHH!
Everybody!
Dear readers.

So this is the last Thursday before school. Ben has been away since last week, and chapter 20 has been in the works since then, I think today I'll wrap it up and start 21. We are moving stupidly slow and we are sorry. Today I almost forgot it was even Thursday, I forgot posting day *face palm*. Luckily I whipped it up before it was no late. Here's the link.

http://tayathewarriorprincess.blogspot.ca/2013/08/chapter-14-cry-of-warrior.html

Tid bit of Interesting Information!
So let's give you two different types of tid bit (reminds me of tim bit... mmmm tim bit #CanadianProbs)
First off, I shall have you all know that my writing partner and I are best friends, BUT when of at school we maybe contact each other two or three times. Nothing ever changes when we both come home through, and we buy each other Christmas presents. :) Hopefully this year there will be a bit more communication because of the blog. *fingers cross*

TAYA TID-BIT TIME!
Yes yes yes, We know that if you read this you probably don't care about our other pages as much... which you should because they are spectacular. BUT, by popular demand, here is an unknown fact about the warrior princess.
As you know, we do a lot of our writing down at a local coffee shop. We love all the employee's there, and they help us when we are creatively stuck. SO, to honour our friends brewing us coffee and deep frying us fritters we write their names into the story.
Ennadia = Dianne (mixed up letters)
Claire-Marie River = Cliare ... (gee we're creative)
Raymond = Andrew (Raymond is a middle name)

I'm  not sure if there is more, but If there our I will send you another list. :)
Take care, sorry about the craziness.
Hey Howdy Hey.
It's ~H