Sunday, January 6, 2013

C'mon C'mon Fanfic

So, to fuel my crazy One Direction Obsession, I have been writing fanfics about them...and that sounds really dumb when I write it that way, but I love it!

I wrote this one yesterday, and it was inspired by their really catchy song C'mon C'mon on their Take Me Home album.  Here is where you can watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J79_wSF2vI

It is fairly good, and I am not going to do anything else with it, but perhaps if I get enough views I will publish my other one on here.  :)  I think it is going to be a love story between Zayn (lions, drawing, reading), Liam (movies and sweetness), and Niall (food and fun and a bit shy), but I dunno. 

Enjoy!
-Madeline


“Savy, you really need to get out more,” said Kenzi, plopping on the couch next to me. 
I looked up from my sketching.  “Hmm, hmm,” I said, letting the pencil glide over the paper, adding shadow to the lions’s face.
“Are you even listening?” demanded my room-mate.
“More or less,” I muttered.  I was to focused, trying to capture the beautiful light in the majestic cat’s eyes.
“Savannah!” she said, snatching my pencil away.  
“McKenzi!” I cried, trying to grab my pencil back.  “Why did you do that?  You ruined it!” I said, pointing at the small little wavy line that it had left on the paper.
McKenzi scoffed, and then looked down at my drawing.  “Gosh, you’re so good.  It’s amazing!  Why do you always draw lions though?  Can’t you draw something cute and cuddly, like a kitten or rabbit or something?”
“I do, it’s just lions are my favorite animal,” I said.
“Yeah, yeah,” said McKenzi with a roll of her eyes.
“Can I please have my pencil back?” I asked, holding out a hand.
“Hmm, nope.”
“Kenzi…” I warned.
“C’mon!  Just hear me out!  When you aren’t at the college you are always copped up in here drawing or reading.  You need to get out more!”
“And why’s that?”
“Because it’s fun!” she said, pinching my cheek.  I swatted her hand away. 
“Shopping is boring because the malls are to packed, I prefer watching movies at home where I can eat as much popcorn as I like, and…” I shrugged.
“Oh, please!  The girls and I are going out tonight.  We’re going dancing,” cooed Kenzi.  I bit my lip, if there was more that I liked than, eating, drawing, and reading, it was dancing.  And I was fairly good at it, too.  I wasn’t the main character in the school musicals for nothing, though I didn’t have half a bad voice, either.
“What time is it at?” I said, in spite of myself.
Kenzi grinned with pleasure.  “At eight!  Great!  I have to run down to Victoria’s Secret for my shift, but I’ll be back and then we’ll have some real fun!” she said.
She then dashed away with a squeal while I tried to shout after her that watching Finding Nemo or some other kid friendly movie (any thing worse than that made my stomach ache) would be better than make a fool of herself dancing, but the only answer I got was her shutting the door from leaving our apartment.  
I groaned, and grabbed the eraser, and wiped away the mark on my paper.  “Guess I’m going dancing tonight, huh?” I said to myself.
I then put my drawings away and curled up on the couch, and turned on the TV.  The news said something about the famous British-Irish boyband One Direction being in the city, but I was to busy falling asleep to actually listen.


I watched the dancing, fingering my glass of pink lemonade as the music blared.
I had fallen asleep for way to long, because the next thing I knew was McKenzi waking me up.  She ordered me upstairs to take a shower, and then I remembered the party tonight.  I groaned, but I took an extra long one.
When I came out I dressed in the pretty blue dress that was short and had a sort of sparkly shine to it that Kenzi had laid out.  I put it on, and Kenzi cooed when she say me.  She put on the thick black belt over it and tightened it until I thought I would die of lack of air, and then helped me into nylons and some black high heels of hers.
She then painted my face so much that I thought I looked like a clown, but she insisted I looked stunning.  Then she blow dried my long dark hair, and put it up in a beautiful array of curls on my head, the pins digging into my scalp.  After adding the finishing touches, I stood before her as Kenzi smiled at me, and then said to go draw quietly on the couch like a good girl until she was ready.
I rolled my eyes, but happily took up my pencil and sketch pad, and began to draw the half eaten apple and the glass of water that was left on the table, probably by Ariel, the foodie out of us.  Beautiful Sarah was probably preening herself, and helping Ariel...

In Love with 1D

Yep, I know.  I am crazy.  But I am OBSESSED with One Direction!  They call it the One Direction Infection, I call it the One Direction Obsession!  We--yes, I know, I am one--call ourselves dictioners and call them 1D.  But honestly, they can sing pretty well, and are sooo cute!!

I am just doing this since I haven't posted in a while, but maybe my New Year's Resolution will be to blog every week, eh?

For Christmas, I printed out some photos of One Direction and gave them to my sister on nice paper.  She loved them!  My eight year old and then my two year old sister both love them, and whenever I sing their songs, I can quietly hear my two year old sister singing along with me.  Isn't that so adorable and crazy?

I got some awesome gifts for Christmas this year, but I also got their two albums: Up All Night and Take Me Home.  I love them!  It was pretty funny, but for the past few nights we have been having a Dictioner moviethon, basically watching their music videos:  That's What Makes You Beautiful, One Thing, Live While We're Young, and Gotta Be You.  They also have Little Things but I hate that one, but I am super excited for their new one to come out: Kiss You!  Anyway, I have been listening to them like crazy, and it is really fun, though my family is getting really annoyed by it.

Here are the lads again, just because they are so cute and I have to show them to you!

Zayn Malik is the shy guy in the group.  He loves his hair and likes to read.  :)


Niall Horan.  All the other boys are British, but he is the only Irish lad.  They are better pictures of him where he is actually smiling.  He is my favorite!  FOOD!!  Everyone calls him the cute one.


Liam Payne.  Isn't he the cutest?  He has a buzz cut now, but he looks really cute right here.  They call him Daddy Dictioner, because he is the most mature, well, as mature as you can get while being the part of the world's biggest boy band!


Since Louis Tomilison is so darn cute, I almost had to give him two!  He is the funny one in the group, as well as the oldest, but he is the silliest!  He loves carrots, Kevin, and Superman, and other crazy stuff!  You need to watch the video diaries.  They are HILARIOUS!


When you think of One Direction, you think of Harry Styles.  OK, he has curly hair that is stylish.  Good thing he lives up to his name!  I don't like him, but girls are just crazy about him!  He has a cute smile, no doubt, but even if I did like him, my two sisters are head over heels in him!


So, that is One Direction once more.  Thanks for reading!





Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Pirate Sisters


I really liked my Clara and the Nutcracker story, but it wasn't working for me so I changed it to the 'The Pirate Sisters!'

So, basically, it is about four girls:  Victoria (Tori); Isabella (Bella); Elizabeth (Lizzy); and Brielle (Bree) Bensen.  They are all sisters, and are wild.  Their mother and father love them, but they are worried that they shall never be married right, so they send them to London to their stuffy Aunt Victoria's boarding school for 'Proper English Young Ladies.'  But, along the way, their ship gets attacked by pirates that take them for ransom!
Tori falls in love with the handsome and young Captain Adam Steele, when suddenly their ship is attacked by Captain Kelley, the most ruthless pirate in all the seas.  He wants the map that Tori got from an old, strange salior.

It is actually pretty good and I love writing it!  It takes place in the beautiful Caribbean.  I really, really, really want to go there someday!


So that is my novel that I won with for NaNoWriMo.  I haven't finished it yet, but so far I do have 27,636 words, which is really good!  And this time, it has structure!  The novel that I won with last year--the Endless Golden Sands Race which is about a horse in a fantasy world--I just wrote a lot of 'fluff.'  This time, it was way better!  Though, I have to admit, I just reached the climax in my novel!

Below I have the cover, the prologue, and a lovely drawing of Tori which a girl on NaNo drew for me!

This is the cover I made.  It is bigger, I just couldn't find it on my computer!  Don't you just love that blue in the Caribbean sea?  Ah....

This is a drawing that the lovely Vikipedia drew for me on the YWP NaNoWriMo site!  It is a picture of Tori.  Isn't she awesome looking?  I still need to do my own drawing of her, but I love her in this!  So determined.  Here is Vikipedia's Character Drawing Shop:  http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/node/1340764


All right, and now for the prologue of my novel.  Maybe I will post the first chapter if I get a single comment!  I just love comments!  

Now, do not steal this story or idea.  All the ideas, names, and characters are mine, and if the names belong to you, it was completely accidental and unintentional.  I have never heard of a Victoria Bensen.  There will also be a few grammar mistakes, perhaps, but please just ignore them and enjoy the story!

Thank you so much for reading! :)
-OWNN/Madeline


Prologue



            The mother walked along, stumbling.
            She was a beautiful creature.  Long light brown hair, beautiful kind blue eyes, and a fair face.  Though she was beautiful, she walked with an heir of authority, and had a determination in her eyes.
            Her long hair was scraggly and dirty, her neck and body were covered with purple bruises, and her once beautiful, brilliant, bright red dress in the latest English fashion was torn and muddy, frayed at the bottom.  But she kept on walking, holding the bundle close to her chest.
            Inside the bundle was her son.  He was very young and innocent, but she was worried for his safety, for his father would surely beat him as she beat her.
            She had ran away from him when they landed on the island.  She had managed to build a raft in the night and escape to the nearby island, Amicia.  She had been working all day, and she had nothing to drink, and her milk was weak.  Soon the baby would wake up and be crying, but since she had nothing to eat she couldn’t feed the nursing milk to the twelve month old baby boy.
            Fall had started, and even though it was always warm in the Caribbean, a cold wind swept by, and the woman shivered.
            But she was almost there.  
           
            A few hours later it was dusk.  The sun was setting, creating a magnificent portrait of golden and orange and pink and purple across the sparkling darkening waters of the Caribbean. 
            She paused and looked at the bluff and down at the sea.  Yes, her son would do well her, the people she was giving him to, she knew they were good and rich and would raise him as a servant boy.
            She then rounded the hill and there was the mansion.  It was a magnificent thing, three stories high made out of solid cream colored marble, overlooking the sea on the bluff.  It was huge with lots of balconies and greenhouses, and was a sight to behold.
            She walked up and up the steep bluff, and walked up the marble steps.
            She set down the baby gently on the steps, he was still asleep, but when she him down in front of the solid wooden door that must of been imported from America, he squirmed and began to wave his tiny fists and cry.
            She felt a deep longing in her heart.  She couldn’t leave her baby!  But she knew it would be best.  With tears welling in her eyes, she leaned over and planted a kiss on his soft, baby skin forehead.  “I love you.  You’ll be safe.  Remember who you are, William.”
            She then reached into the front of dress and pulled out a wrinkled piece of paper.  The parchment was old and yellowed, yet still firm.  It was ripped on all corners, as if it had been part of a map but had been ripped apart.  She took out the charcoal stub and wrote a quick note on the back of the parchment. 
            The baby began to cry louder, and she was hearing voices from inside the house.  Frantically, she finished the note, placed it on the crying baby, and whispered goodbye, before she disappeared in the dusk.  She never saw him again.



I Won NaNoWriMo 2012!!

Man, it has been a while since I last posted, but I won NANOWRIMO!!!!

WHOO-HOO!!!

OK, so, halfway through November, I decided I didn't like my Nutcracker novel, so I changed it to...THE PIRATE SISTERS!!  Haha!  This was a story that I wrote a while ago, just the first chapter, and I decided that would be my NaNo novel!  So, I planned it all out and did the character sketches for about...um, maybe five days.  And then, I finally opened the dreaded blank document and just began to write!

My wordcount goal was 30,000 but that was bit high since I decided to change my novel.  So I then did 25,000 but lowered it 23,000 and then won with 24,143 words.  WHOO-HOO!!  XD



So, I won!  Happy happy!  For those of you that did NaNo and got 'inspired by this blog' (actually, haha, nobody probably hasn't actually seen it if you already were a NaNoer since I frequently go on the forums on YWP NaNoWriMo), thanks!


Oh, and you know those 'How To Win NaNoWriMo Tips' that I made?  When I got stuck they weren't very helpful, but I frequently used the friend one!  I talked to my friend Katie quite a lot!  (Her username is Scottlyn on YWP NaNo, by the way!)  She has an awesome story that I just adore which is called 2030.  I love it!!  Plus, she is a fellow Dictioner.

Since I have last been on, I got the One Direction Obsession.  Oh, dear!  But they have such awesome music!  My favorite song right now by them is 'Nobody Compares' and 'Rock Me.'  Katie just loves 'Heart Attack' and I just laugh and laugh when they go 'OW!'

I will post my Pirate Sisters stuff very soon.  Thank you so much for reading this!

-OWNN/Madeline

Friday, November 23, 2012

More NaNoWriMo Character Drawings

Yeah!  I have drawn four more characters for my shop, and plus just another one for fun.

My shop is closed until I start another one, but I hope you enjoy them! :)


Ambrose Taylor for double e.  Isn't she so pretty?  And I love One Direction, too! :)



Emily Rue for pheonixwings.  Sorry she looks a little weird!  But she turned out alright.



Eoin James Latané for Willowth3kitten.  Honestly, I think he is so handsome!  Ha, ha!  Even though he does look pretty somber.  I hope I did a good job on the scar.



Rayn for Zanetia.  I think she is just adorable!!



and a girl for Mdelani28



-OWNN/Madeline

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

One Direction

OK, yeah.  I am a girl, obviously, since I write, have a blog, and like One Direction!

My best friend showed me their song That's What Makes You Beautiful (I'm sure you have all heard it!) and I loved it!  Couldn't get it out of my head!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E

And with their release of their new album (Take Me Home, I think), they had this song called Live While We're Young.  I loved it!!  I cannot stop getting it out my head!  It is just so cute!  It is my favorite!  I am posting the lyrics here, since I can just find it in a snap.  And you have to check out the music video, such fun!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbPED9bisSc




And when Niall (the blonde) took off his shirt in the pool scene my friend and I just gasped and gasped.  Ha, ha! 
From left to right it is Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson.





They are really cute, funny little British boys, that hopefully stick together until 24, and have high standards, but with Those Little Things, I don't know.  They will probably all go down the same road like all those other popstars...ugh...

But until now, I still love you One Direction! :D

Live While We're Young One Direction
LIAM PAYNE:Hey girl, I'm waitin' on ya, I'm waitin' on yaCome on and let me sneak you outAnd have a celebration, a celebrationThe music up, the window's down
ZAYN MALIK:Yeah, we'll be doing what we doJust pretending that we're coolAnd we know it tooYeah, we'll keep doing what we doJust pretending that we're coolSo tonight
ALL:Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sunI know we only met but let's pretend it's loveAnd never, never, never stop for anyoneTonight let's get someAnd live while we're youngWoahhh oh oh ohWoahhhh oh oh ohAnd live while we're youngWoahhh oh oh ohTonight let's get some
HARRY STYLES:And live while we're young
ZAYN MALIK:Hey girl, it's now or never, it's now or neverDon't over-think, just let it goAnd if we get together, yeah, get togetherDon't let the pictures leave your phone, ohhhh
NIALL HORAN:Yeah, we'll be doing what we doJust pretending that we're coolSo tonight
ALL:Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sunI know we only met but let's pretend it's loveAnd never, never, never stop for anyoneTonight let's get someAnd live while we're youngWoahhh oh oh ohWoahhhh oh oh ohAnd live while we're youngWoahhh oh oh ohTonight let's get some
HARRY STYLES:And live while we're young
ZAYN MALIK:And girl, you and I,We're 'bout to make some memories tonight
LOUIS TOMLINSON:I wanna live while we're youngWe wanna live while we're young
ALL:Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sunI know we only met but let's pretend it's loveAnd never, never, never stop for anyoneTonight let's get someAnd live while we're youngCrazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sunI know we only met but let's pretend it's loveAnd never, never, never stop for anyoneTonight let's get someAnd live while we're youngWanna live, wanna live, wanna liveCome on, younnnggWanna live, wanna live, wanna liveWhile we're youngWanna live, wanna live, wanna live
HARRY STYLES:Tonight let's get some
ZAYN MALIK:And live while we're young