OK. I got a challenge for everyone. Yep, Everyone!! Some of you know that I am going to be writing a book. What you didn’t know, is that the book is one of the stories I am writing now.
I got a freaking brainstorm just now. For something in the future.. I need your help. And if you guess the story, no telling. Let it be a surprise.
The challenge? Magic comes back to Earth. Dragons, Centaurs, Sea Monsters, Giants. And the new age starts. What am I asking for? Newscasts!!! How would the human world react? I can do the newscasts, but what I am asking for is: The creature, the country, the language and a picture. Also, you will be in the story as the newscaster, so pick the name you want to show up, because you really will be in the book as this. Nothing but the vampires have come out, so have fun!!!
Someone kindly keep track, I will start the spreadsheet, but I am hoping that there will be a lot of responses. The whole chapter will be the world’s reaction to this.
Memorial Day. A day so many people spend celebrating the beginning of summer. For me, I have remembered the sacrifice of others to give me freedom. But this year, it has taken a brand new meaning to me.
This year I will be making a journey to the Houston VA Cemetery to visit the grave of my grandfather. This will be hard, since I have not been to his gravesite yet.
Not because of me not liking it nor anything like that, but just because I haven’t been able to face he is gone. He is… I know this as well as anyone else. But in my memory he is still the person I saw laughing, playing guitar, even showing me how to do it. Patient as you would never imagine, he gave me his time and love. None of the grandchildren nor his children can say we were not loved by this man.
But this year, because of where he is at now, it reminds me of the sacrifices of those who fight for my freedom to post this post, to write the stories I do, to live my life.
I was not one for being ordered around. My family would tell you this. So while I was not suited for military life, I had given thought to follow my grandfather’s steps and serve in the Air Force. My cousin did follow in his steps, choosing to serve, and to this day is in the National Guard. My other cousin is a Marine. You never retire as a Marine. And I am so proud of both of them!
Both of them, my cousin, who is his actual blood grandchild, who got him a flag from when he served that had flown over a camp, and his other grandchild, who was his brother’s Grandson, who served proudly, he had been very proud of.
He was a quiet man, to the point if he told you he loved you, you treasured it. When he would just shake the hand of his grandsons in pride, they both knew it.
How many other veterans are out there, that people ignore? How many people are buried on soil that is American only because we asked for it to bury our dead? How many countries owe their freedom to our strength to defend the right of humanity?
Many of you rail at the ones still fighting for their country, but would you really want them to dessert their posts? What if those soldiers in the Revolutionary war left their posts for food? Yep, those are some of the ones we are honoring this weekend. How about those that died in Pearl Harbor? That were on the Arizona as she burned from the bombs dropped on her as she lay at harbor from a country we had not declared war on? Those that stormed Normady beach? How about that devastating attack on our soil on 9/11? So many us screamed that we should do something, so we did. And now people yell at them for doing it. For those that fight, they are doing it for us. yep, us, the ones that are sitting at home using our freedom of speech to protest them being where they are defending us?
What about the other soldiers that lost a leg, both legs? Arms and other parts of their body sacrificed to keep us able to have the freedom to yell at them. Think of that next time you talk about the war. People have given their all, their very lives. People who gave their body over to allow us to turn our noses up at them.
So while you are at your parties, at your celebration of summer starting, take a moment and think of those that gave all, for you to be able to celebrate that same freedom in the way you wish.
Tomorrow (or today depending where you are) I will be at the graveside of a veteran that was my grandfather, and saying thank you. And while I am there, I will also be saying thank you to the rest of the soldiers there that served so that I can do what I wished.
That is what I keep telling myself. Today is the last of the yucky pill that has me worn out and feeling blech. The sniffles and fevers and all that have quietly said good bye and departed for other places. Hopefully! But I do feel like the woman above!!
I have learned my lesson from the past and am going to take it easy for a day or so. BUT…I am so freaking bored!!!!!!! I wanna write, do something!!!
So don’t be surprised to see stuff being posted about stories for Beta’s or one of the stories that don’t have a Beta (But sure would love to have one!).
Oh yeah, Bathrooms 2, 8, and umm one other… are winning. I wanna say it is 6. If you haven’t voted, please do, since once I am back writing, then I will be closing the poll. Thanks for voting!!!!! (The Winning Bathrooms are below:) The one I liked the best is not in the running. Told ya I wouldn’t play favorites. But of the three, I know which one I would pick. So, if you want your voice heard, VOTE!
Unfortunately Sick, but hopefully getting over it,
So, I am working on What If, and I need help. You see the bathroom above was chosen to be Bella’s bathroom, but my hubby said there was no way 2 people can comfortably fit in the bathtub. And, as most of you know, Carlisle talked Bella into a redo of the house.
What am I asking from you guys? To, if not narrow the choice down to one, to at least a workable amount? The Bathrooms chosen are ones I like. Ones I found looking for my bathroom on Tea Shoppe. Then for romantic bathrooms. I do have one that is favorited, but I am leaving it up to you guys. You have one week. (Because I want to write the chapter with it in it, and I am not sure beyond this chapter will I write.)
The below is Carlisle’s bathroom in his house. I DO write shower scenes. But I am personally a bath person, and I think I would like some bathtub scenes. So help a poor writer out and vote?? They are only numbered per their names I saved under. NOT by what order I like them in. That is why I asked them to be random.
So here it is, the last chapter of What If. For now. I have two banked chapters but now that this is caught up with FanFiction, I am off to update the next story. Chapter Eight
Never fear for those that are in love with this!! I am working on getting everything caught up, and have some fabulous people who are volunteering for being a Beta for stories. Because, let’s face it, I am human. I have no English degree, only the ability to have fooled all my English teachers with tips from one of my greatest teachers. But if you look for my mistakes, they are there. I promise!!
So that is why I use Beta’s to try to catch the mistakes. If you want to know how bad I used to be, check out Revelations. It starts out when I was still new, and you can watch my improvement. I was bad. Thanks to the ones who helped make me better!
The next group of stories is one I miss writing in. I will introduce you to it when I publish the first chapter.
So, per the poll, you guys wanted What If caught up, and I did so. Any more opinions? It is closing this week…..
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