giveaway!

Hello all my followers and those who do not follow. I welcome you to my 6 month blog anniversary giveaway.

*fireworks and all loud sound making things*

Yay! And for the giveaway item:

A beautiful handmade notebook. The notebook is 5 1/2" long and 3 3/4" wide. It has two 11" ribbons on the ends and could be yours.

Please make a separate comment for each thing you do. Here is how you enter:

Mandatory:

- Comment on something your looking forward to this summer. And leave a way for me to contact you (blog, email, etc.)

Extra Entries:

- Follow Eat...Sleep...Write. (1 entry)

- Put the Eat...Sleep...Write button on your blog. (1 entry)

-Blog, Facebook, Twitter about the giveaway (2 entries each)


The giveaway will end on June 30 and the winner will be announced the next day. I will only be shipping within the United States. Any comments or questions outside of or about the giveaway? Don't hesitate to ask or comment.

I'm back + giveaway

Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted. Life has been pretty crazy. I'm finishing up school, getting a MAJOR head start at the speech season, and of course reading like crazy. Expect some pretty cool book reviews soon. ☺

And guess what?????? A giveaway! To celebrate 25 followers. Yes, you heard right, 25. And to celebrate 6 months of awesome blogging. ☺ The prize being?

You will have to wait till the 31st of May.

*evil laugh*

For that is when the true six month mark of blogging reaches. So be on the look out that day for a giveaway post. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺

I'm reading a book

This is awesome! The end is SO random!

Today I'm 16

Well, it doesn't feel any different! The funnest thing is "everyone" says 16 will feel different, but don't be fooled. Nothing really feels different. And I'm okay with that.

Yep, you read right, I am 16 today.

But the real reason for this post is to infrom you that I will be gone all of next week. From Sunday to Saturday.

*sniff*

But it's okay. It's only a week. I will survive...I WILL survive!

So goodbye for now my dear, faithful, wonderful, amazing followers...For now.

"First Person" writing

The first time I ever even heard of "first person" writing was when I read Suzanne Collins book The Hunger Games. It inspired me to look at how I write and how to approach a character. Because you will never get the same perspective of a character when it comes from the character itself. But what exactly is writing in "first person"? To explain I will show you an example of both "first person" and "third person" writing. I would include "second person" but it's pretty much impossible to write in. The two examples:

Third Person

This kind of writing is the most common in books. It looks at the characters from an outside view as if you are looking into the story. The main character is referred to as (he, his, her, she, it, and they) outside of when characters are talking with each other. And it looks like this:

"Carefully, Aidan untied the lace around the first scroll. As he unrolled it specks of parchment fell to the bed. He caught his breath, fearing the scrolls might be so ancient and brittle that they would crumble to dust if opened.
(taken from "The Door Within" by Wayne Thomas Batson.)

First Person

This kind of writing is not as common but just as fun. First person, sort of, allows you to dwell in the main characters body throughout the book. It takes a look at the problems and situations in the books from the main characters perspective, and looks something like this:

"My dearest friend decided to arrive at the exact moment I was swallowing my sugar cookies down the wrong tube.
COUGH!
"OH, dear, oh dear, dear me. Are you alright?" This was the question my friend decided to insult me with. For anyone who is on her three thousand dollar couch and coughing up numerous amounts of cookie is most likely not, all right! But for the sake of my dignity I put on a smile and swept the cookie mush onto my carpet (the one from India).
(taken from "Nothing of Consequences" by yours truly and my friend, Libby. This short story is not finished)

Both of these styles are so fun to write. And I encourage you to try both of them out.

Any comments or questions? I'd LOVE to hear them

I got a new book today

I got an awesome book today! The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson. And guess what? I will be doing a book review on it soon.

SHOCKER!

Well, anyway, this book has the most amazing quote in it, and I HAVE to share it with you.

"Adventures are funny things.

They may creep out of holes,

appear down a seldom trodden path,

fall out of a tree,

or even arrive in an envelope.

But they always start the same way.

Adventures always begins with the

unexpected..."