Pre-peek on my short story

Well, despite my rather unstable financial situation, I have managed to stay a little productive although I am unable to work on any of my bigger projects. I have tree short stories, and one is closing in on the finish line, so I thought I’d actually use my blog to share some of it, before it enters my wattpad account.

I tried to add a psychological sub-theme to it(I studied psychology after all), but I have never done it before so in the end it will probably just end up as a love story, lol! Oh well, there people who like that too:)

 

Unseen.

 

“Anna has everything a teenage-girl in High School could possibly want. Her best friends are Matthew and Melissa. Matt had been her best friend and neighbor for as long as she could remember. He was a athletic boy with brown hair and eyes. He was friendly, handsome and popular. But just because he was popular, he wasn’t a bully and picked on the nerds or the Emos or anything, he just left them alone. Though, he rarely was able to see things from other people’s perspective. And he never took a hint. Ever.

Melissa joined their duo in high school, and was a super tall girl, taller than Matt. She had legs as long as a year and always wore high heels to show it off. She had long, red hair, long lashes and seductive dark eyes. She had the curves of a Greek goddess and she’d cause a heart attack on a nerd if she passed him in the hall. But she was a Greek goddess with a keen eye. She was the opposite of Matt(opposites attract one-another, huh?), she picked up on every single gesture and eye movement and read anyone like an open book. And boy did she use it to her advantage. That’s how she became friends with Matt in the first place.

Being friends with these two gave Anna access to all the parties, concerts and happenings. Nobody picked on her, no one even spoke to her unless she spoke to them first. People separated when she came walking down the hallway, despite not having the looks like Matt and Melissa. Anna was a plain girl with sleek brown hair and hazel eyes. She was athletic and did good in sports like Matt. Melissa however dreaded them, and rather eat carrots for a whole week to keep her weight than actually exercise. Whenever Anna and Matt ate a burger she’d sit as far away as possible, like the calories could get into her body through diffusion. Not that Anna thought she even knew what that was.

But despite it all, Anna was miserable. It was like having pillowed stitched under your arms and always walking on a gold bar covered road. Everything was just handed to her all the time. Where was the adventure?

And then there was that thing. Anna’s dark secret. Anna has had a crush on Matt since she was 12, and still had not been able to convey the message. But at least she had successfully been able to hide it from gossip queen Melissa. That had to count for something.

But on the other hand, complaining over her situation while others tiptoed through the hallways trying to avoid their bullies, seemed so shallow. Anna felt like a spoiled brat as all she had to do was glare at them and they’d back off. She had the power to stop any bullying, but she didn’t.”

Stay posted for the update!

I am having a really, really bad day. Nothing in particular happened, which is actually the problem. I’m in this odd junction, like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I’m not a student anymore, let’s call that the rock, but I haven’t found a job yet, which would have to be the hard place. So I’m living off my savings which is flying out the window and it is so frustrating! I worked my butt off for those savings and they were suppose to go to financing my future house. Instead I’m buying toothpaste, orange juice and butter!

And all of this is rubbing off on my writing, I just cant seem to focus, not even on writing my resume! And I have two short stories waiting for me to finish them, but it’s like all my creativity is flying out the window with my savings because I have no idea whatsoever on how to end them! Which is sad because I’m so happy with the character description in one of them.

Worst thing is, that it is exactly 10 in the evening as I am typing this… and I have not been able to produce a single viable sentence. I’m not even sure if this blog-post makes sense!

So what am I going to do?

 

 

*SCREAMS!*

 

 

 

Let your friends promote you!

Oh how I love discovering new sites aimed at promoting young writers! Or well, they discovered me honestly. In my last post I shared the discovery of Young Writers of Earth, which will start posting accepted works in October, but now I stumbled over another site with a similar concept. StoryFans simply hosts fiction, and their fans can vote their work up along the ranks! All you need to to is to make an account, write a few words about yourself, and then you can start submitting. Will take you 2 minutes.

There is only one problem…

 

 

 

 

You vote through facebook.

Yes, I’m one of those people who doesn’t like facebook. I’m not going to make a long post on why, but apart from the obvious I’m not sure I want everyone I know on facebook to know I write. And I grew up in a really small town with an impressive jungle telegraph!

I mean, if I show to the world that I write I feel pressured into making it to actual publicizing. The way it is now it could just remain as a hobby since only a handful of my friends know I write:P But on the other hand, I really should stop being such a wuss and make serious of my ambitions. My blog is already linked to my name. And my blog is linked to wattpad where some of my writing is to be found, so tracing me doesn’t exactly require much effort:P

What do you guys think? Am I just being a wuss?:P