#and I'm fighting the fact that I've lost my mojo

[my-crazy-obsession-blog1]

OBSIDIAN

Title: Obsidian

Autor: Jennifer Armentrout

Pages: 336

From saga LUX:

●0.5 Shadow prequel

● Obsidian

● Onyx

● Opal

● Origin

●Opposition

Plot

Starting over sucks.

When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring… until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

And then he opened his mouth.

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something… unexpected happens.

The hot alien living next door marks me.

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon’s touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I’m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

If I don’t kill him first, that is.

《《 they're not like us 》》

MY REVIEW!!

Before I read this book i swear I judge it. I thought aliens ewwww, it will be just another boring book about big and green creatures, but guys this book was a fresh air in the face, it's funny and full of emotions, i love it. I haven't read an alien book before and I don't regret it. Armentrout described the characters in a wonderful way, and it's wrote very well.

Katy was a great character, funny a full of life, I love the fact that she had a blog, so this make me love her even more. She read a lot, in fact she had books everywhere around the house.

Katy and her mom moved from Florinda to West"By God"Virginia , how she called it. She and her mom want to start over, and the Only way to do so it move from their hometown to a new beginning.

Here she met her gorgeous annoying rude neighbour Daemon.

《《 Beautiful face. beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.》

《《“Thanks,” I muttered and added under my breath, “Douchebag.

He laughed, deep and throaty. “Now that’s not very ladylike, Kittycat.》》

He tried to keep her away from him and from his sister Dee, and the only way to do so is to act like a jerk. Dee on the other hand forced Daemon to be nice to Katy, which leads to very nice scene like: car washing, swimming lake, and ather scene where Daemon and kate are together.

She promised that will never talk to him, but the attractions between the two was mutual, and he began a jerk they end up fighting all the time. But the time they are swoony like hell !!

But never say never, Katy became hang out with Dee and soon they became best friends. Daemon couldn't stay away to Katy but he didn't prove that to Katy. Scene after scene, Katy became more suspicious about the Black's. In fact one night Deamo saved katy from a terrible accident and the realised he is not like seems. In fact he is an alien!!

《《Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?》》

I really like thee fact that Katy was cool about all the alien things, a i liked how Armentrout described the story about the alien.

The laptop scene, It was magical for me, everything deseppear, there were just Katy and Daemon. No comments!! You have to read it to feel the emotions !!

《《I don't think he meant to kiss me," I said finally.

"What? Did he slip and fall on your mouth? Those things are known to happen.》》

Obviously Katy made excuse to excuse to reject the feeling about deamon.

Well the ending was something really special, I felt all this emotions I really like it.

BEAUTIFUL

Phrases

《《I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.》》

《《Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?》》

《《Daemon: I checked out your blog.

Katy: Stalking me again, I see. Do I need to get a restraining order?

Daemon: In your dreams, Kitten. Oh wait, I'm already starring in those, aren't I?

Katy: Nightmares, Daemon. Nightmares.》》

《《The day my internet was hooked up was better than having a hot guy check out my butt and ask for my phone number.》》

《《Swimming was the last thing I wanted to do. Drowning him? Maybe.》》

《《So the dickhead had a name. Daemon—seemed fitting. And of course his sister would be as attractive as him. Why not? Welcome to West

Virginia, the land of lost models.》》

[mechanicalinertia]

STMPD's Month-end Musings

Jeepers. Jumping Jaloopers. Jinkies, gang. Jeebus Kringle. It's the end of the month.

What has changed? I'm back in school, but that's manageable, somehow. I'm writing less, but that's fine. I'm not doing as much passive media consumption as I ought to - my watchlist / readlist towers up into infinity same as ever - and I haven't exactly lived up to my New Year's Resolution to correct that. But, hey, isn't that just how things are? It's easier for me, when I have the time, to write silly things, these days.

...that being said, what have I written recently? Let's put aside all other thoughts about the month's end and muse solely on this.

1. Divine Patronage: It broke three thousand views on AO3, which is fucking awesome. It's slowed down, but so have I. I finished the first arc of the story, and that did well, and now I'm onto arc 2, as determined by a poll I put up on Sufficient Velocity. I hacked out a prologue and then... silence. Sorry, gang.

For one, I'm in the middle of the term. For another, I can't quite figure out how to write where I want this thing to go - but then again I haven't really sat down and stewed on Divine Patronage the way I have a few other projects after I wrote that prologue. I lost a bit of my mojo there, and then I lost the mojo for this other project, namely...

2. BGC 2068 Screenplay: Thanks to the advice of an internet pal, I rewrote most of the 'first act' of this project. The Sabers are assembling, they're to fight Mason, but now the rewrite puts Mason more front and center in the plot, since he has his Boomer bodyguards (the ladies from OVA 2) kill Priss's friends. It's not shorter, but it is more informationally dense.

The trouble now is that I still am struggling with dialogue-heavy scenes that take up a lot of runtime. Like, I've got this one with Priss and Linna in a beef-bowl place - more Priss's idea than Linna's. And Priss harasses a Boomer waitress in such a way as to highlight said waitress's artificiality, to highlight that these more-human-than-humans are in fact anything but, and that a great many people play with them in ways they shouldn't, a silent symbol of resistance against the crushing omnipresence of GENOM's most valuable product.

It's very clever, but then the second half of the scene needs to be something involving Celia (Sylia, whatever) and Linna (Lena? Rina?), and their past together, since (have I brought this up before?) I'm stealing from the BGC fan audio drama (that I haven't listened to! Oopsie) where the two grew up together, with Celia and Mackie living under the Yamazaki roof until Celia turned eighteen (the way I'm writing it, around the time of the Quake). Needs to be a flashback, then - but what does it show? Celia's a little autistic around this time, but how to display that through Linna's eyes?

I wonder if I should just listen to the inevitably cringey American voice acting just to figure out what the guys behind the audio drama were thinking (and now that I think about it, there should be a new arc coming out this summer! Woo!). Or maybe I should just let this scene rest and get to another part of the script, move forward and fill what I know is there later. Or maybe I should shelve this and get back to Divine Patronage, something people will actually read.

Heh. Speaking of things people won't read...

3. RPG: Shelved. It was, in retrospect, too goddamn long, too much lore for a franchise that doesn't need deep lore. Ah well. If I come back to it, I'll do so in one big rush of useless content, and it will be all my own, no one else's.

4. Terrible BGC Crossover Ideas: I've had a few of these, recently. They're not terrible in terms of concept, more terrible in that no one would read them and they would end up being timesucks with no purpose. Which is a pity, because I'd love to read these stories, but no one is going to write them. I'll list them in a follow-up post.

Soooo... what now? Well, I need to get back to Divine Patronage, that's for sure, because people read that. I think the screenplay is a more interesting concept, it's more interesting to work on because It has to be compact, chunks written and rewritten. But it's not going to see the light of day any time soon.

I really should start building a portfolio of original work. Well - then again, I do have a creative writing class I'm doing right now, and I'm writing something for that, and dare I say it, it's pretty gooooood. We'll see where it goes in the coming month, same as the screenplay and Divine Patronage.