Excerpt from Hero: Acceptance

 An excerpt from my story:

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Nodding, “Like Naomi. But there are those who have a great potential that the gift manifests and becomes a power, a power which could rival the Oracles. Only after a few generations did the Oracles realize this flaw in their gift giving. So to prevent any one human from gaining too much strength, the Oracles would enslave and ultimately conquer all and anyone with enough power to potentially threaten their own power.”

“They enslave people?”

“Well, enslavement is a bit of a stretch. The enslavement is more of a subclass of Oracle. The Oracles locate and place a marker on the individual. This marker not only allows the Oracle to know where this individual is at but also to call them to their presence. The Marker also keeps the individuals power in check. Giving the excess power to the Oracle and depending on which Oracle the individual belongs to can lengthen or shorten their life.”

Hero blew out a overwhelmed breath. “I did not realize how involved we were to the Other worldly ones.”

“As I said before, humans have been ignoring or have forgotten how tangled our destinies are,”

“So where do nymphs come to play in the whole scheme of Oracles and gifts?” Hero asked as she gazed up into Tristan’s uncloaked face.

“The individuals are called many different names to humans. To Fluta her most powerful humans are often ghosts; Clarina’s are sirens; Lumeau controls mermaids, Lumeau was rather jealous and made her power humans suffer the transition to mermaids.” Hero watched Tristan shudder as if he were remembering a rather painful memory.

“Glais holds court over centaurs. Not quite as painful as the mermaid transaction but still not something you want to experience. Xopho loves to make her powerful humans the poor gypsies. Istle and Piccia are rather kind. They both control their powerful humans through connecting them to the joys in their lives. Istle connects hers to the crop seasons. These creatures will live from spring to the end of the harvest when they die. They are eternal, so as long as people crop and harvest crops these creatures will live. Some humans who have had the fortune of see them think of them as the living dead. Piccia connects her powerful humans to a tree.”

Hero sat chewing on her lips thinking of all the information which Tristan had spouted out.

“I do apologize for dumping all the information on to you,”

“It is a vast amount of information,” Hero smiled. “So my mother is a nymph. The Oracle Piccia saw how powerful she was and bound her to a tree.”

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So that is a bit of new writing I have done for my story. The whole story is still really rough and I'm going through for the second time trying to get a smooth flow...We'll see how that goes. 

I need to think of a better title then Hero. Hmmm...need to work on that. 

Tserof

Sixteen years ago I started looking on the internet a lot. As any Middle School girl growing up in the late 90s, the internet, instant messaging and chat rooms were the place to be...at least for me. All my friends would run from the bus kicking up little bits of rock from their gravel driveway to beat their younger siblings to the computer so we had the ultimate computer usage before our parents came home and kicked us off until  they went to bed.

Within this massive waste of time chatting with random people from places I do not know or getting marriage proposals from men who cannot speak or type English well, I found an amazing website which opened a door into the vast world of fan fiction. My journey started with Anne of Green Gables. Using the Anne3 Forum, fan fics would sprout up daily from my computer. Some good, some not so good. How I wish I could have some of those old stories back. From solo fan fics I ventured into two author fan fics with a great friend I had in alie.

From then on, I found my passion for Lord of the Rings. I mean who does not like Lord of the Rings? I joined The Company. All members of the Anne3 Forum who loved Lord of the Rings. We had an on going fan fic about all of us in Middle Earth as a significant other to one of the characters in the vast world Tolkien had developed.

Now, at this moment in my writing journey I asked myself. How amazing is Tolkien? To develop a whole world on his own, in his mind. Then I asked myself, 'do you think you could do that?' And so my dabbling into the sphere of original writing began.

I started out with smaller four to five page stories, I even tried poetry. Putting the poetry up on the shelf, I began to write and so emerged Muse and Hero. Even fifteen years after Muse emerged from my thoughts, she still has no definite world or purpose. A very detailed idea of who she is and what she is to do, but nothing compared to Hero. Hero began as a great idea,  a different view of a fairy tale. Now 128 pages later, Hero is a real thing. Tserof is the home where Hero lives and a very amazing place which is the name sake for this blog.

Dreaming large dreams, I hope people will be able to enjoy Hero someday. But that may be a while. So now I head to bed to dream about Tserof where the Cliff Wizards live in their vast castle and people like Hero and Naomi. Good night!

Summer Reading

How amazing are books?

I've been a bit disappointed in myself for not reading more this summer but I did accomplish one book (Monte Cristo) that I have been reading for a long time. More on that in a bit, but here is my summer list:

Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Wiccaning by Sister Moon
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Currently I am reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, M.D.

So close your eyes and imagine yourself in the student center of UW-Platteville...sitting with Katie (everyone should have a friend like Katie. Katie = Amazing). Anyhoo, the great idea pops into your head about a book club. So you and Katie form Hannibal Livy Charlemagne Tully Book Club. A great cool idea with all the great possibilities of reading everything you couldn't get through without help from someone else!  Our first book: The Count of Monte Cristo. And so started my summer reading.

Rating the books I read this summer:
1.)The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
2.)Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3.)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4.)Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
5.)Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
6.) Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
7.)The Wiccaning by Sister Moon


Well today ends the summer of 2010, but that leads into the fall (best season ever) and another season of reading. Hopefully I can get through our next book club book (To Kill A Mockingbird) I have a lot to catch up on.

But it's time to end this little diatribe. Off to practice and help young runners achieve their greatness!

A New Look

A year from now I will be Mrs. Klein. I will be married. To me that sounds crazy, in an excited and cannot wait for June 11th to get here, crazy. So that leads me to look at my life now and see if I need to make a few changes in order to stay sane during the wedding planning, working two jobs, searching for another job, and keeping up with my interests (running, reading, drawing/painting and writing). So hurray for a schedule! I feel like I am back in middle school when they scheduled every moment of your day in school so you do not stray into the horrors of being a pre-teen. But after five years as an engineering student, I can understand and appreciate schedules. For they never go away and are probably one of the constant things in life...you will always need a schedule, you'll die, you'll pay taxes and 2+2 will always equal 4 (sigh...math).

So where do you start? I love to run. I do not run now because I am always going from here to there for work or back in order to do laundry so my fiancee has black socks for work tomorrow. Sounds like I will be getting up at 5am to go for a run!! :) Anyone want to join?

Next, work from 6-12ish (depending the day).

Now here's where it'll get difficult. Pier 1 will schedule in afternoons and nights. Soooo I guess that means I could get laundry and other chores done in the afternoon if I work at night or later afternoon.  Now for reading/writing/painting/drawing. I feel I must make myself only do them for a half an hour here or there, when I have time to do them.

Then dinner and relax time, if I do not have more chores to do at night.

That seems like a good start. Now I should get a planner. I have a really cool one right now but it doesn't have enough room for my large handwriting and/or the amount of things I would like to put on my schedule. It's more of an appointment book with awesome tips on how to garden and when to harvest, moon signs, etc. Really cool stuff. So maybe that should be my next step in my new look. Get a planner.

So now, I am tired all the time and I love coffee. I do not want to drink it all the time so I get addicted to it. Another problem withe my sleepiness is sweatpants. How I love my UWP Track and Field sweat pants, but I always get sleep when I am in them. so I must wear jeans and look nice in order to stay up and not take a nap. I know that seems like a weird thing to write, because most people love wearing jeans. I really like wearing sweat pants when I relax and am at home. But that must change. Ok, only wear sweatpants after 9:00pm.

There tools to work with and goals to accomplish. Run at 5am; make a schedule; do not wear sweatpants before 9 pm. Now off for some errands....