Romeo and Juilet and how it could have turned out differently

I don't have a Valentine so I thought it might be fun to explore Romeo and Juliet and how it could have turned out differently. The first time I read Romeo and Juliet I was in seventh grade. We had to read it as part of the honors program. The teacher didn't go into much detail about the play, instead she let us watch parts of the movie. She couldn't show us the entire movie because there was nudity, which my male classmates really wanted to see. The second time I read it was after I'd transferred to a different school. I was in ninth grade, and I guess I had a better teacher since she shared her thoughts on the famous play. I remember her saying that Romeo fell in and out of love easily (Juliet was kind of a rebound). She also wondered what would have happened if Romeo and Juliet had just told their parents about their marriage. She thought that would have ended the feud. I think a number of things could have turned out differently. If Romeo and Juliet had been allowed to date I don't think they would have ended up together. I think Romeo would have gotten bored and moved on to the next girl. I'm not sure the parents would have taken it so smoothly if their children came to them with the details of their union, but I don't think they would have died. There was too much bloodshed to be forgiven. I haven't read Romeo and Juliet in years, but I remember thinking their deaths had a lot to do with Friar Lawrence. Maybe he should have just taken Juliet to her beloved Romeo, or explained that the pair was married. Well, those are just my thoughts. Happy Valentine's Day.

About my ebook

I realize that I haven't posted much about what my ebook is actually going to be about. I guess that's because I'm nervous to share. I actually started writing a zombie story, which I plan to finish, just not now. Then I came across a werewolf story I'd started a long time ago. I reread it and noticed that it had a better storyline. Without another thought I started editing it. I'm really pleased with the way it came together, so I decided that it should be the first ebook I release. So what is it about? Well it's not that short story that I linked to the top of my blog. That story was a school project from when my writing was young and immature. I've grown since then. I might go back and edit/complete that story, but if I do that will be my first young adult fiction. Right now I'm putting the finishing touch on a ebook about a werewolf named Anyssa who works for the FBI, her life is turned upside down when her ex-boyfriend is murdered and she's assigned to find the killer. Right now that's all I can say about it, but I am going to try to aim for a release date late this month or early next month. It all depends on how soon I can get a cover.

Bitten Review

I swear this isn't going to become a tv review blog, I just feel strongly about a few shows. As someone who's about to release an ebook, it's one of my dreams to see my writing come to life either on the big or small screen. I actually wouldn't mind my work coming to life as an anime either, that idea is actually pretty cool. Anyway, Kelly Armstrong has achieved that dream for herself when syfy decided to make her book, Bitten, into a tv show. I haven't read Bitten, but I have read Stolen and I had a love/hate relationship with it. I read the book years ago so I won't go into my thoughts on the book, just the tv series. After watching the first episode I found myself thinking, This show wants to be True Blood so bad that they might as well name the main character Sookie. The show opens with the main character about to turn into a werewolf while having sex with her current boyfriend. She literally had to make an excuse while running away from her boyfriend. The episode goes on to show her going about her life and doing normal, boring things. She goes dress shopping, and out for beer with her boyfriend's sister. The only interesting part was the murder which had her and all the other wolves from her pack called back home, but that took a backseat to Elena's boring life. The second episode was only a little better. It wasn't until the third and forth episodes where the show started to get interesting. While there was still some focus on Elena's boring love life(we all know she's going to end up with Clay, even without reading the books), they did focus more on the murders. Someone was turning killers into 'mutts' the pack's term for bitten werewolves. I don't know if I'm going to keep watching this show, but it is nice to see an author getting her dream to come true.

American Horror Story Coven Review

I feel like enough time has passed since the airing of the finale for me to share my thoughts. I've been watching American Horror Story since the first season, and while it took me a little while to get into, I loved the previous seasons. Asylum was my favorite. I remember actually being excited about what was going to happen next, and rooting for some characters while hoping others got what they deserved. Sometimes I would watch the episodes twice since they came on back to back, and I even wished for American Horror Story to get it's own talk show like the Talking Dead. That all changed sometime during Coven. There were some things I liked. I've always liked the pairing of Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga, but the storyline they were part of this season was so immature. Two girls fighting over a zombie boy. The part that annoys me the most is when the girls are sent to their own personal hell and Zoey says her's was Kyle breaking up with her over and over again. I thought to myself, That's the worst thing that can happen to you? Really? In fact, most of the younger girls had storylines about love or wanting to be loved. Even Queenie, who flopped back and forth so much I'm sure the only reason she didn't flop back to Marie was because Marie was nowhere to be found. My favorite scenes in the series were the blossoming friendship between LaLaurie and Queenie, and I really thought LaLaurie was going to see her as a daughter at some point in the series. Another one of the big issues I had with the series was the portrayal of Lavaeu and LaLaurie. Their characters were based on real people, so the writers already had a lot to choose from. I'm from New Orleans so I was excited when I saw Kathy Bates say her character was going to be worse then her character from Misery. I knew they had enough history to make that character worse then the character from Misery, but they didn't use it. Based on LaLaurie's past alone I should have felt a little uncomfortable watching her scenes, but I didn't. I didn't see anything too horrifying. I also feel like everything about Lavaeu was complete fiction. I think the only thing they really got right was that she was the voodoo queen of New Orleans. I think the biggest problem I had with the show was the endings. It seemed like all the good people got good endings and all the bad people went to hell, or in Madison's case, were murdered and never seen again. Misty was the only good person who ended up in hell. Cordelia got to be supreme, which seems like the writers taking the easy way out. Zoey and Kyle ended up together, Zoey and Queenie got to be on the council. The frizzy haired woman got burned at the stake. I think the ending that bothered me the most was Fiona's. She ended up in hell with the axe man, who claimed to love her. If he loved her than why was his hell to be with Fiona? Maybe because Fiona didn't love him? I don't know, the ending just didn't sit right with me. I feel like Fiona should have pulled one more rabbit out of her hat and found a way to stay supreme. That's the ending I was hoping for anyway. I'm still going to tune in next season, hopefully next season will be better.

Could have happened to me, glad it didn't

I've wondered if I should write this post for awhile now. It's been a few days since I've stumbled upon an article in the rolling stone (online) about a girl who almost had her life ruined by the internet. Now I know I made this blog to promote my writing, but no one's going to care about my writing if they don't know me as a person. The reason I cared so much about this article is because I could have gone down the same road if I hadn't had good parents who loved me. The girl in the article turned to myspace for companionship because she was home schooled and didn't have many friends. I can relate. I've been a nerd my whole life, and didn't really fit in with anyone in high school. I had friends, but they were the ones who called themselves goth/emo/punk/whatever other alt label there was. Although I listened to the same music, I have never considered myself any of those things. Some of my friends had a falling out with me, so I turned to myspace. I didn't know much about computers, so I suppose that's why I got so addicted to the little social networking site. I remember going to the library during my lunch breaks to check what was going on. I got excited when cute guys added me. I would spend hours and hours online not doing anything productive. My friend list grew to over 500, and with all those friends came a lot of drama. People started picking fights with me, guys started flirting and demanding that I meet them. The idea of meeting someone from online scares me, even now that I'm an adult. I told myself that it was worth it, but it never is. I got death threats, sent disgusting pictures, and had some idiot edit a picture of me into a clown. It bothered me, but I thought it was worth it for the friends I'd made. I felt like myspace was my connection to the world. My parents found out about everything that was going on and made me delete everything. They were scared for me to go anywhere in public because they thought someone would recognize me from online and hurt me. At first I was upset. I even gave up writing because of what happened, but now I'm glad. Things could have gotten so much worse for me. I don't know why that girl's parents didn't pull the plug, but they should have. Now I only add people that I know on facebook, and I only made a twitter to promote my upcoming ebook.