20 Monday May 2013
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art, chandelier, design, fairytales, forests, furniture, inspiration, lamps, lights, nature, photography, stories
Aren’t these pictures amazing? What a beautiful chandelier! It makes me think of fairytales set in forests or even Lord of the Rings. I found the photographs through this link.
Would you like it in your house? What does it remind you of?
- Ermisenda Alvarez
19 Sunday May 2013
Posted in Eliabeth, Picture it & Write!
I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please 
). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
Clash. Ching. Metal scraped against metal as the dark knight’s sword was deflected. Kiandra stumbled backwards. Her breath was dispelled in a quick burst as her armor failed to pad her landing. Sprawled on her back, she attempted to roll away, but the dark knight’s foot came down hard on her chest. His dagger flashed in the light, aimed at the soft flesh between her chest plate and helmet.
Patter patter patter. Quick steps on the wood dock caused Elise to sigh heavily. She was discovered, her reading now interrupted. Perhaps she should have thought of a more inconspicuous location than the middle of a lake.
“How can you spend hours reading?” her little sister asked.
‘How can you spend hours rotting your brain?’ she thought in response, but instead replied, “how can you spend hours watching TV?” No matter how spectacular the cinematography was, nothing compared to the scenes Elise’s imagination conjured.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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18 Saturday May 2013
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book reviews, booktuber, busy, community, confused baby, crazy ideas, fun, help, life, proposal, q&a, role playing sites, rp sites, stories, writing, youtube channel, youtube project
Dear beautiful followers (I unconsciously typed flowers first, peculiar… 
) and readers. I have a question for you all!
I, Ermisenda, have a crazy mind with too many ideas. Too many projects and sprouting from every pore of my skin. Recently, I have been debating over two new projects to embark on. While they will not be directly Ermilia related (because Eliabeth already has her plate full), I will like it related to writing/books and the like.
I’m confused and need your help.
My two proposals are…
1. Youtube Channel
I feel like there will be a point in my life where I will start a real channel and attempt to win the Youtube channel realm. I’ll be the greatest booktuber ever! I’m not sure how successful that would be though. Since Ermilia runs a blog and naturally we do a lot of typing…do any of you think it would be fun/beneficial/exciting to see some youtube videos from me (Ermisenda)? If so, what would you like the videos to be about?
At the moment I have three broad categories:
2. RP Site (Role Playing Site)
For those of you who are not familiar with this kind of site, get prepared for awesomeness! This type of site is where Eliabeth and I met each other. It is also the crowd I hung out around for many years because I enjoyed writing in these communities so much. Continue reading »
17 Friday May 2013
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book review, dystopian society, indie books, love triangles, mind readers, open minds, psychics, self published novels, strong female characters, strong heroines, susan kaye quinn, teenage protagonist, young adult books
A fantastic concept but very YA. This is why I gave it a 2.5 out of 5 stars!
(Taken from Goodreads)
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.
I recently finished this novel and I was sadly not that impressed. The story is good. The concept is brilliant. The main character (Kira) is likeable. Raf is cool, Simon is terrible. The two-boy love interest is tiring. The execution just felt…so young young adult. I really hated Simon, the “bad boy”. He is the emotionally/mentally abusive kind of guy. Not sure what Kira ever found in him. That truly baffled me.
15 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Ermisenda
Usually our parents tell us not to pull faces. It’s rude, right? And yet, I notice that I pull a whole lot of faces at my laptop when I’m writing. Sometimes it’s because I don’t want to use ‘he frowned’ to indicate anger, I want another facial feature that changes. Maybe scrunched lips?
Does anyone else sometimes pull faces to help better their writing? You might even have the tendency to pull a quizzical expression as you read this!
- Ermisenda Alvarez
13 Monday May 2013
Posted in Eliabeth
When I first saw “Grandmother Power” as this year’s Girl Effect blogging campaign I was confused. The Girl Effect is a global movement to educate girls and help them become community leaders, to break the cycle of child brides, poverty, death, and prostitution that happens when girls have no other options. ‘What do grandmothers have to do with that?’ Well, I had a facepalm moment not long after. “Grandmother Power” is a brilliant campaign for The Girl Effect for two reasons.
1. When girls aren’t able to wait and have children in her own time, they may not get to become grandmothers. Not having the money for proper care puts them at a much higher risk of complications and not being able to afford the expense of a baby pushes them to make dangerous decisions.
2. Grandmothers pass wisdom down to the younger generations. Whether we listen or not, they influence us. I went to the same college as my mother, who went to the same college as her aunt. That’s not why I went there, but consider if neither of them had gone to college. I would not have ended up where I did because what they studied influenced my education choices. When I needed a foreign language credit, I turned to my Mom to see what she could help me learn and that led me to that college.
Though both of my grandfathers died before I was born, I got to know both grandmothers. It’s weird the things I remember. Most of them are silly, like staying with one of them over the summer, having her pressure me into buying Pop Tarts (yes, you read that right) and then calling my mom to ask if she knows how much junk food I eat. But in the big picture, that grandmother was an inspiring influence. She taught me how to cook (or tried, rather). When her husband died, she raised my mom all by herself. Even though we didn’t always get along, it only took one look to make me burst into laughter. I forget sometimes that not everyone is lucky enough to have someone like that in their life.
What about your grandmother? Tell us in the comment’s section or join in the blogging event.
- Eliabeth
12 Sunday May 2013
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addiction, astronomy, books, community, drugs, free short stories, galaxy, photography, picture it & write, poetry, stars, stories, weekly writing exercise, writing
Happy Mother’s Day! Spoil your delightful mum today.
I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please ). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
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You Need More Than This by *tntrekabulator
The pills glowed. It shone so bright I wondered whether it was in fact a capsule full millions of stars, threatening to burst from the plastic cage. My fingers shook as I reached out and took the pills from the man.
“Got the money?” he asked.
I nodded and handed the hundreds my father had stuffed into my pocket. The man with the strange robotic third hand scampered away.
In the darkness of night, alone and shivering from the cold, I gripped the bottle. I popped open the lid. I knew my father would beat me to death if I took any of his pills. I wasn’t sure if it was really happening or I was starting to lose it too, but inside was a galaxy of supernovas. The sight burned my eyes.
- Ermisenda Alvarez
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10 Friday May 2013
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book review, books, crime, ending with a twist, fast-paced stories, stories, ted dekker, thr3e, three, thriller, writing
Action-packed and suspenseful. An easy 4.5 out of 5 stars!
(Taken from Goodreads)
Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.
Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: “You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you’re driving will blow sky high.” Then the phone goes dead.
Kevin panics. Who would make such a demand? What sin? Yet not sure what else to do, Kevin swerves into a parking lot and runs from his car. Just in case.
Precisely three minutes later, a massive explosion sets his world on a collision course with madness. And that’s only the first move in this deadly game.
From the #1 best-selling fiction author comes a powerful story of good, evil, and all that lies between.
I read this book many months ago but I still want to write a review on it. It was one of those novels that I picked up to read, not knowing much about it nor expecting a lot. I wasn’t able to let go of the novel and I ended up finishing it within 48 hours. Continue reading »
08 Wednesday May 2013
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authors, books, country, crime, drama, free book covers, freebies, graphic design, memoir, mystery, novel, paranormal, pretty book covers, romance, sci-fi, thriller, writing
06 Monday May 2013
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I stumbled across a post about 16 words that may not mean what you think they mean. While I knew most of them, I did learn a few things, including:
“Less is often confused with fewer. Use less to refer to quantities that can’t be counted and fewer to refer to numbers. There were less people in the office today is incorrect, because people can be counted. Instead say: There were fewer people in the office today.”
