Today’s prompt is not really all that inspiring. Shonda. The only thing this brings to mind is Grey’s Anatomy and that’s off air, AJ watches, but it’s off air… Waiting for next season.
So that’s my rant! I don’t have anything to add to it. sorry.
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All the different meanings of sharp in pictures:
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So Camp starts next week. AJ’s planning on Editing for the whole month. We’ve decided that we will share with you starting in July the rewrite of the Power of Succession. It was a short book around 40K when last shared, now it’s about 58K which is better. The story is more fluid and things follow the right path.
The rewrite takes into consideration the fact that the Magical book was stole in the prior book where it was not actually mentioned (one of the fixes AJ needs to make)
This is an important fact going forward.
The other thing it doesn’t take into consideration is the fact that Jace is my bully and Venatori as this was a change AJ is making while she editted the first 3 chapters of the Call of the Dragon.
It still feels weird calling it that. It’s been the Last Phoenix since forever. But it fits better with the third book’s events where I actually rise from the dead!!! instead of the name of the clan. We will probably be changing that clan name. So if you have any suggestions on what a cool Dragon Clan name would be I’m all ears.
So coming July we’ll see book posts. in August we’ll see what I offer you if I offer you anything in addition to the story. My goal is to provide something. So we’ll see.
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First things that comes to mind is Johnny Deep’s Captain Sparrow “Stop shooting at my ship!” Or was it stop blowing holes in my ship. Either way cannon.
The second thought was things that were canon in my world that might not actually be known yet.
Did you know Isabel actually remembered her first life and falling in love with Ant. She’s pissed at him because he didn’t recognize her right out of the gate. But in his defense he thought I was his soul mate and he had resigned himself to being alone for my life time. Which now turns out to be a very long time. But that was just another soul connection.
And now that we are souls here is our latest theory on soul energy. Or at least MY soul energy. Energy is neither destroyed or created it only is. It can change forms but split from it’s original form and reused in separate peices equally or unequally.
So the running theory, let me know if I’ve already posted this but it’s kinda a big peice of what’s coming next so it’s on my mind a lot – so it’s possible I’ve already said it once.
Alex and I are soul mates, sharing 1/2 of a soul that was originally together and soul energy is drawn together, the more of it the more powerful the draw – thus you get soul mates.
And we all know Ant, Alex and I share a soul. Which is why Ant was drawn to me and I to him and Alex tolerates vampires – specifically Ant because of that connection. So the triumvirate is 1/3 of a soul energy in each of us.
So that leaves 1/6 of my soul unclaimed (and 1/6 of Alex’s soul). So AJ has this theory that those other size pieces (we are going to split them equally to form a hexad). These six souls form another powerful union if I can find all six. So AJ decided that no matter how much Alex and I fight, we are bound by our entire souls together. He is one of the hexad.
AJ hasn’t decided 100% that Ant is part of it yet. He might be, giving him that extra soul mate draw makes sense. Why he thought the way he did when we met.
So there are 4 other souls to be bound to me. Two of them have already come to me – Alec Moretti, Master Vampire of the Domination Bloodline. Alec came to me freely and willingly because he felt something inside of me. Neither he nor I know about this connection yet, but it is the reason he swore his oath of loyatly to me.
And the second is Darwynn. Who also easily and freely swore his oath to me. That’s vampire and werewolf.
AJ says the other two need to be Venatori and Dragon. AJ’s got all sorts of ideas about who in my life can fill this need. We can introduce new characters, or she can be evil and put in some people we don’t really like…. aka Jace (who is Venatori in the series despite his current human origins in the series – one of the changes coming in the edits. And Margo who is a dragon.
Or do we go off and find two new people to bond with. The search for the two could be fun. It’s actually part of this next arc as this hexad is going to save New York City to some extent.
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I’m sure that’s a quote from somewhere. Or maybe it’s in World of Warcraft. I can see gnomes poping out of machines. Thanks AJ just what I wanted to see.
I don’t play vidoe games, AJ does. She played Dragon Age:Origins on Saturday. Sunday she barely touched her computer. She tried, but nothing really came of it.
My birthday was not about me. It was a bumpy night, but the gathering went well. And on a plus note they had ice-cream!
It wasn’t for my birthday but I’ll take it as a win. AJ didn’t get sick from it either so that’s an even bigger win. It REALLY sucks when your adult tummy dislikes ice-cream (or any milk product for that matter in large quantities.)
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Happy Birthday! yay!
Presents and Birthday cake too.
No frosting for me!Haiki presented with no reason :) Other than AJ will be too busy to post today because of an impromptu family function at her house. (Ten people or less! – Happy Father’s Day!)
Oh and guess what today is?
MY BIRTHDAY!
Today in 2020 I will be 28 years old!
AJ has nothing special planned. She sucks!
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Today’s prompt is flying fish. And the first thing that came to mind was Dr. Suess.
One fish, two fish, red fish blue fish.
I almost forgot to post today. So that’s all ya get.
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Today’s post is brought to you by Google search. And the prompt by Writers Write and the letters W, T and F.
Radial edit:
And so I don’t have to explain to kids younger than AJ
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Today’s prompt is haters gonna.
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Well I can think of a few things with the word pumped.
But I’ll leave you with these fine things from AJ’s past.
and one from the not so far past
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AJ’s dreams last night were relentless. They were all strange and clearly not about me. They were more geared towards Pixels the movie she and her family watched last night (twice cause the end credits played out a pixel version of the whole movie. So a 2 hour move ran for 2.5 mins in the credits – what’s that say about the movie?)
AJ and the family loved it and AJ laughed out loud literally several times – most specific memory was when Qbert peed himself cause it was all pixelated.
The details were pretty amazing if you think about how the’d have to do the pixelating of real life things like fire and stuff.
But her dreams were all in that vein but AJ is horrible at remembering dreams just those vague memories – they were all strange and not about me.
However we did come up with a back story for my AU we get to play with in August – yes we have planned THAT far ahead. June finish the current WIP – Lost in New York – we are really close to the end now. Like I can taste it close (or is that the coffee AJ’s drinking…)
July is for editing The Call of the Dragon (formerly The Last Phoenix).
And August is for a m/m romance for a good romance conflict with a happy ending. We still don’t have a conflict, but my back story is good now. I’m going to have a not messed up life but me I’m still a little messed up – cause what am I if I don’t have have all my little quirks. But you’ll get to see all that later I hope.
So MAYBE in July you’ll get to see the last WIP. AJ, you can make that happen right? She says yeah we can do that. Probably.
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What does that mean?
Today’s prompt has me scratching my head. A night jar… googles it
Not sure what a night jar is. Does anyone know?
Oh yeah, and don’t forget to go read behind the orange door!
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Today’s prompt is pious. And it got me thinking about religion in general. The humans have many religions. And I’m not really going to get into it. It’s not worth the problems that it causes. But it makes you wonder what the religion of the vampires and venatori are. Do they have the same gods?
I know I’ve spoken about them on some level before. That I personally do not have a religion. That the Venatori have no gods. Was their a creator? Yeah in a way. There was the First. Which sort of just come into being. Whehter by evolution or some hand of creation who knows. There were four races – Aeternus, Primeval Vampire, Dragon and Human. The humans were perceived as the weakest of races and the vampires used them for food. While the Aeternus and Dragons didn’t really care. The human’s advantages were that they multiplied quickly and soon they came to take over the world. The other three races were long lived immortal races. Mind you not indestructable – they can die, but not typically of old age.
The First are not so much worshiped but few in number, and in case of the Aeternus they no long exist to anyone’s knowledge. But there is one, but no one knows. It’s a lonely life – and no it’s not me, nor am I an ancestor of the man. Thank god!
But from the four races the other races came. Humans had their own magics, and the Aeternus wanted to harness it and dragon powers. So they bred with them and soon the Venatori were born, they lost their immortality but gained magical abilities. Soon they destroyed their own people.
But we still didn’t worship anything.
The universe is our guide. Order and Chaos – the Venatori are supposed to be agents of order – leveling the playing field, but they are more chaos now than ever before. But we still do not worship the universe or the umbra or order or chaos. The idea that some supreme being is worthy of our devotion just isn’t there.
I’ll have to ask Reginald and Francesco what they think of religion.
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It looks like the Spartan warrior is winning.
I like the idea of a shower but it’s October and chilly and that’s a lot of skin specially with tattoo I don’t know what they mean littering my body. And then there is the whole Alex not liking to share me and all that.
So at least the Spartan can cover most of my body!
So the shower will throw the proverbial towel in and the warrior will be my go to. But I think all of them will make an appearance in the next scene.
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Being walked in on having sex is awkward. What other things are awkward? Talking about someone when they are standing behind you?
Telling someone you love them, and they don’t say it back?
AJ’s feeling a bit awkward too spreading the story she wrote – and having to explain AJ Hunter is a pen name. But she wanted family to read it. Though she wonders how many did. An aunt opened it up so yay! What she thought of five year old me though I don’t know.
I wonder what AJ’s family would think of me.
I like me. AJ loves me. I’m her muse after all. Without me she wouldn’t have all these wonderful stories to tell.
Yes I’m bragging. I’m awesome!
Is that awkward?
Oh, and again Go Read Behind the Orange Door my post from yesterday will lead you there! Go Go Go! smiles it’s not awkward!
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SO the story submission has been published!!!!
The theme was isolation. And you can read it at Short Fiction Break
There is a Reader’s Choice award. If you like it (or another story) go ahead and give it a vote!
But please read. It’s all about me – as usual.
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Today’s prompt is thesaurus. I could post jokes about dinosaurs or whatever but AJ celebrates a very special thing today. For all you Wheel of Time fans out there, today 18 years ago AJ and her friend bonded as Aes Sedai and Warder at Dragonmount.
It was a bond for the game. AJ’s character needed a bond holder that was active on the RP side of things, and so she went looking. Her and Rae didn’t really know each other well at the time but they had a common goal in mind and from there their friendship blossomed (grew :P )
It’s wild when you think about it. But then AJ met her love at Dragonmount too. And they’ve been married for 19 years in a few days.
It’s very cool! One day AJ’s going to be celebrating my creation. She does sorta now on my birthday but I was first created Aug 28, 2014. That’s 6 fucking years I’ve been rolling around in AJ’s head!
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Today’s prompt is NO so no words today. Just a picture.
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AJ needs things to ponder about on those nights where sleep is elusive. She doesn’t have insomnia so much as her anxiety ramps up at night. The weighted blanket has been a god send. But in that it also means that our plotting nights are few and far between.
So AJ doesn’t have as many times where I can go round and round about story elements. AJ’s been having a bit of a sleeping problem as of late so we’ve been formulaing a new world to play in for after camp – and after this WIP is done. As a break, but also as a happy ending.
It’s not really new – it’s bits and pieces of failed romances AJ worked on. And a world where I can be at Alex’s beck and call. His and his alone. Because if you hadn’t realized it Alex is very possessive of me. It’s not rooted in jealousy or malcontent. It’s just something that happened over the years. Alex has an exhibitionist streak and after he met Sage and things changed a little. For all of us. Alex still likes to be the center of all that attention, and he likes to show off what is his, but when it comes to me he has some pretty big limitations on both of those things. He wants to, but he doesn’t want to.
Anyway I digress, when don’t I right?
So AJ’s making me an artist – something she has never written about but that has been written about in the past. The soup kitchen story is still very much drawing me in, but ownning it means I have to work and for Alex to be truly content he wants all my attention. He’s a bit selfish too in that regard if you ask me, keeping me locked up in a tower with a dragon… There is a mideval story brewing too.
Alex is going to be a rockstar – something very dear to both our hearts. And yet another story that we played with – one I was in a model in – a profession Alex definitely does not like me being in.
We haven’t decided on our conflict yet. Or really how we meet. But knowing us we’ll fight and get mad and yeah – us stuff you know… etc etc etc (today’s prompt….)
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I’m not old enough to get this reference. AJ’s only old enough because her parents said it over the years. AJ has seen the snippet of the old movie where this was coined but that’s it – not actually seen the movie. To which her love would probably scoff at.
However today’s prompt of left turn wasn’t what I wanted to talk about so I’m going to take that left turn.
Six years ago AJ found herself crying over a complete stranger. She’d been following a web dev influencer for a while and his daughter had a brain tumor – she would have been twelve yesterday. She lived six beautiful years before her illness took her. It’s devastating. Yesterday he posted a memory. I’d like to share that with you.
This is particularly hard on AJ as she suffered her own brain tumor with much better results. To have had to go through such a thing at such a young age and to leave behind parents to greive. It’s heart wrenching. Last night AJ read the post and had to get up and check on her own kids. It’s a reminder to cherish what you have.
AJ will always remember this little girls strength – right up to the end. And her heart is always with her family even though she does not know them. Its a little strange because AJ was thinking about them a while back. I don’t think there was any particiular reason other than her father had made a post and AJ was wondering how they were doing. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
I’m going to part with the same poem he did in his post. It holds a little bit more meaning now than it did before.
When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I’m as clever as clever,
So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.
—‘Now We Are Six’, A.A. Milne
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