I just wrote two seperate posts and they each went away because Internet Explorer stopped responding, twice.

Golly!

Anyway, I wrote chapter nine and chapter ten, but chapter nine seems weird, so I think I'm going to re-write the whole thing.  I also feel that the friendships in the book don't seem strong enough so I'm going to work on those.

bye,bye,

Shannie

I READ BREAKING DAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it was awesome.

"And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

the end."

My birthday is on Wednesday.

*hint, hint*

Not that I would want any birthday wishes or anything....*hint*

But in other news (I say that a lot), I made a Livejournal!

So, yeah, visit that, and I'll be really proud of you.

If you don't?  I'll be sad.

:(

-Shannie

Breaking Dawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one week, I will be standing in line for Breaking Dawn.  And I will be in the front of the line, oh, trust me.

And, in other news.  I have written chapters 1-8.  I think that's an accomplishment, considering it took me one year to write that for the last draft.  But the last draft also reflects my silly sixth grade-ish-ness.  The first draft was also never completed.  Draft number 2 is way better.

In other Lily's Tree related news, I had a breakthrough today!  An epiphany, you could call it.

I came up with a plot for the fourth book that actually makes the other books make sense!

It's amazing, I know.

But the problem is, it no longer matches the title of the book: Lily's Sacrifice.  I have a better name for it, but it doesn't go with the whole "Lily series" thing that's going on.

So now, I'm going to rename all the books, except the first.  The only one I'm having trouble with is the second book.  I would ask for your help, but you don't know the plot!  Ha, ha!

If you're wondering, here are the original and new names for each books:

Lily's Tree: Lily's Tree
Lily's Flower: idk
Lily's Krystal: Crystal's Journey or Crystal's Power
Lily's Sacrifice: Katrina's Future or Katrina's Power
Lily's Story: The Grace Story

-Shannie

Wow!  One week until my birthday!

So, I wrote a new song.  It's a Harry Potter paradoy of 7 things by Miley Cyrus.  In one Mugglecast episode they played make the music connection.  One of the songs they had to connect to Harry Potter was 7 things.  The connection made was Harry's feelings about Voldemorts 7 horcruxes.

I'll record the song today and make the music video then post it here.

-Shannie

I'm listening to Mugglecast right now and I'm like OMG!!!!!!!  Harry Potter!!!!!!  I love it!!!!!!

I've been thinking.  My life would be completely different without Harry Potter.  I would be a different person.  Really!  I really, really would!  I don't think I would be a writer.

I love Harry Potter so much.  One year ago I was reading non-stop.  Those 36 hours of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are just a fog.  I can't remember anything except reading.  I don't know if I slept or ate or anything.  I just read.
I'm so nostalgic.
I miss the hype.
But I've still got the next three movies and September 1st, 2017!!!!  Kings Cross, 19 years later!!!!!

I miss one year ago for more than one reason,
Shannie

I figured out how to add a blog, so the homepage is no longer a blog, but it's now a homepage!

In other news...

Two days until the one year birthday of my favorite book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I am a Harry Potter obsessive).  I'm going to have a Harry Potter marathon in honor of it.

I have published chapter five of Lily's Tree onto my blog (in the links section) so you can view it there.  I think I'm going to start putting the chapters on fictionpress.com at some point, so I can get more feedback, but I'm not quite decided, yet.

I'm going to be spending almost three days straight with my friend.  She's coming over all day on the thirty-first for my birthday party, then we're going to the Breaking Dawn release party the next day, all day.  I'm super excited!  Breaking Dawn is going to be almost as exciting as the Harry Potter release party, only I'm more prepared for this.  I'm going to get a wristband and camp out, because I want to be as close to the front of the line as possible.  I'm also going to try to prevent another breakdown, because I had about three last year!

I've been wondering, once I finish my book, how do I get it published?  And how long will it take it to get published?  I don't know.

-Shannie