From Mind to Keyboard: An Aspiring Author

Actually I did two things.

One, I published part of a story on wattspad...check it out. Name’s Kimmy Morsheimer.

Two, there was a writing prompt that I had found on this website like a year or so ago. Something crazy like that. Re-blogged it, wrote my own bit on it and forgot about it.

Well that’s a lie, I forgot about the prompt. I continued the story, modified it into something completely unrecognizable to my response to the prompt somewhere on this blog.

It this one page quick right is currently a 280,000+ word extravaganza that has not reached its conclusion yet.

Maggie’s Explanation of Jenny

I had another sister once, not Pippa who I raised from infancy in Constana, but a sister, only thirteen months younger than I. Jennifer Siobhan is what they called her. Jenny.

One day she just didn’t wake up, that’s what they told me. We shared beds all the time and that night she fell asleep next to me. I woke up, she didn’t.

Some thought we were twins while the boys were a different age, we looked identical except she could hear, I could not. I spoke more languages than she did. We both danced internationally. Jenny was my first friend.

She became apart of the Fitzgerald curse that September day. The Fitzgerald family bought the world peace but what was the cost? Some say the end of the family and there are times when I think that is true. Jenny, Peter, Daisy and the disappearance of Pippa, Liam, Collin, and I. Cursed. That’s what I say.

And of course, this world is filled with so many secrets, including one about Jenny’s fate. I was seventeen, almost eighteen when I found out it wasn’t a failed heart that took her from me.

Inspiration for the lovely Susan Jones from Maggie’s world, granddaughter of the Authority of Geneva, Switzerland. Both of her parents are actors and she comes from a very wealthy family. She is described by Maggie as a girl with long, chocolate brown, curly hair. She is always well dressed with perfect makeup. She is only of Maggie’s first friends in Rome and eventually her roommate. She is described as funny, smart, and an aspiring nurse. Susan will only answer to Susan and not Susie. She also is in a relationship with Jack Wilde, Will Foster’s best friend.

Maggie’s story is my original story and ended up becoming the foundation for a lot of my other projects. While I have rewritten it an upward of seven times now and gone through countless name, plot, and setting changes, I think I am nearing an end finally! Maybe one day I’ll finally have a published novel. One can hope right?

Anyway, during these many rewrites, I came up with a few nicknames for Maggie, two of the most important ones ended up being Gealbhan and Geata beag (Please correct me if my Gaelic is incorrect) or Sparrow and Little Sparrow. This got me thinking and there is now a tentative and very possible title for Maggie’s story, Sparrow, Little Sparrow. I want to say more but it ends up revealing too much of the plot but it works, I think.

Annie’s Story: The Assassin

The first time I saw him, I saw him for what he was. A boy, barely grown. Dark red hair, longer than how Mortals keep their hair and dark eyes. He apologized for killing my parents and for a moment, I believed him.

Then I realize how much he has truly taken from me in my long life, I had just forgotten.

But what is worst is that I am the reason for why he is the Assassin. Why Joshua, the Angel of Life, kills. I created the Apple of Discord, Helen was taken away from him and the Persian War started. He blamed me, everything on me and vowed to take his revenge. The Greek legends lied about the names and how it really happened and nowhere did they talk about the boy who became the Assassin but I know it. 

And I’m one of the few people who knows who he really is. He’s Joshua Nirvana, the Angel of Life, the twin brother of Time

He’s my twin brother. I’m Time, I’m Fate, I’m Death, and I’m the Stars. I’m everything. I’m Reality.

Excerpt from Annie’s Story:

“Why are you looking at star charts?” Jaime asks me leaning over my shoulder.

“Because the answers are always in the stars. Maybe there is a clue above our heads. Anyway, I’m the Mistress of Stars and Fate.” I answer running my finger along the lines reading the ancient inscriptions. This map is especially old, drawn by our ancestors a thousand years ago.

“If that’s the case, shouldn’t you have a map of the stars engraved in your mind?” He asks.

I swat at him. “Shut up, you’re distracting me.”

This isn’t actually related to Christmas but it is December 25th. I, because I love new ideas, came up with another story idea. This one is told in two perspectives, which is different than all my other ones but there is so much going on that it is the only way I can get it to work right now. The story takes place a long time from now after wars plagued the earth and destroyed everything and civilization had to rebuild. In the Western US, the Cities have control. The cities are sorted out by occupations and income. South City is the poorest while Glass City is the capitol.

Perspective 1: Amity (placeholder name) Batten, age 17. She is a girl who grew up near Boston in Eastern territory and was free from the Cities. Her family was found and taken captive and forced to live in utter poverty in South City. At the beginning of the story she had lost her mother and four siblings. She, her sisters June and Mare travel to the Glass City illegally to look for better jobs. They end up working as scullery maids in the President’s household until they meet the Mathis brothers...

Ash Mathis: Age 17. He’s the second born unwanted son who was supposed to be a girl but was a ‘natural birth’. We’re in the future, there are designer babies and such but he’s not what he was supposed to be and has got a few issues. The Regulators, the people who control everything about your life, including death, say he won’t amount to much nor be taller than 5′5″. He’s determined to prove them all wrong and does in subtle ways as he joins forces with his older brother, Cole, to change society. They find the Batten girls in the kitchens and realize they are educated and the two Mathis girls ran their governess out and are in need of a new one.

Everything is slowly coming together. It is a sort of rebel story, love story, sci-fi and all of that. I find the world building of this one to be the most interesting. I sort of know where it’s heading but there are always twist and turns that I randomly come up with. And of course, there are some royals in here too, it’s my thing.

Last year my roommate told me about NaNoWriMo and I decided to try it. I ended up loving the entire thing and even met my goal and everything! I am still working on the piece I started for that... Girls with the Violet Eyes is the current working title. 

So I decided that I should do it again and about twenty minutes later decided I must rewrite Maggie’s story, again. In other words, this November, I am sort of not coming up with an original idea but sitting down, hopefully for the last time, and rewriting Maggie’s story. This poor book has been in the works since my junior year of high school, so it has been close to four years now. 

I did it again, come up with an idea without finishing anything else. 

So this new story takes place in a world that doesn’t exist. The country is known as Istana and it is split up into providences. My main character, whose name I’m not revealing yet, she’ll be known as MC, is from Lemory. She’s the daughter of the Duke and is an only child. MC is invited to an exclusive ball in the capitol and she goes. Her parents want her to get married but she has a strong distaste for all her suitors and is very good at insulting people. 

MC meets other girls her age, including her cousin Samantha, and others Marguerite, Constance and Louise. She also finally meets the royal family of Hinsdale providence, the Blake family. As an Allencourt, she is supposed to hate the Blakes for reasons MC doesn’t quite understand. 

MC eventually becomes one of only a handful of girls invited to stay at the palace and potentially marry the prince. The prince, Nathaniel, quickly takes a liking to her and manages to laugh at her insults and dry humor. Nathaniel’s best friend, however, happens to be Julian Blake. 

The story becomes the stereotypical love triangle but there are a few secrets that make it all fall apart. They learn the truth behind Ophelia Allencourt, MC’s aunt, Nathaniel’s claim to the throne, and the Blake-Allencourt conflict. 

But not before MC finds herself facing death in front of a crowd for treason because she was not allowed to be involved with anyone except the prince...

If you haven’t figured it out already, there is a connection between Maggie’s Story (#1) and Julie’s Story (#3). There are other book ideas on sticky notes that take place in this same alternate future. Anyway, both stories take place after a world war in 2016/17. Maggie’s story takes place first in the timeline and about 50 years later, Julie’s story begins. Both stories make reference to how the countries of their world were founded and I noticed about 20 minutes ago it sounds like one of those New World Order conspiracies. 

Then I went back through some of the excerpts I’ve written about the mythology of this alternate future and realize that that I wrote about how there was a group of families that funded the every side of every war, countries, and programs then became world leaders. The most notable being the Fosters, Hawkins, and Fitzgerald’s. It sounded like a conspiracy theory and then a light bulb went off in my pumpkin head (I’m a red head). And here I am telling you all this. 

Maggie’s and Julie’s stories are apart of a series now known as the New World Order. Eventually Clare Foster and Catherine Welsh will be joining the ranks but I keep insisting on ‘improving’ my writing and by that I mean starting over. 

Anastasia Ellis “Annie”/ Anne Beauchamp 

You are all quite lucky, you get to know the name of my main character. I’m 44 pages into this rewrite (I DELETED THE ORIGINAL, CLEARED THE TRASH THEN REALIZED IT WAS GONE.) and her name isn’t known.

Anyway, this story takes place in our universe, literally the universe. I have a new thing for space, NASA just hired civilians to be astronauts in case you’re wondering. Anyway, space, lots of space. Kenna grew up at the outer edge of our solar system, which is known as the Human System. She’s considered a rebel but because of her young age, 12, she never gets in trouble when the System does get a hold of her. The System wants her because they have a shortage of women at their center and will have her be apart of the Competition where the boys of rich families pick a wife. (Kenna thinks the idea is barbaric) They just don’t know that one of her parents is a humanoid alien (there are a few alien races that are very similar to humans and interbreeding is possible). The question is, which one is the alien? Kenna doesn’t know. All she knows is she was taken from her home planet and eventually ended up in the home of her uncle, Henry, on Earth. Henry Thomas is the chancellor and believes her to be the daughter of a long missing brother and will not consider the fact that his younger sister, Beatrice, was taken from Earth on her wedding day by an alien race. 

Kenna was raised on rebel ships learning to fly and make shady deals before growing up on Earth, in Louisiana, the center and the richest place in the System. Beijing at this point in human history is the capitol of Earth, not just China. After a few years, Kenna’s true parentage is finally revealed on what was supposed to be the last day of her life. Once her secrets are revealed, she is introduced to the family she thought forgot about her and is introduced to the intergalactic politics of our universe. She meets interesting alien races, is introduced to high society, learns that not everything in this universe is perfect and that it is on the brink of war and that there are prophecies out there that could change everything. 

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“That I am neither good nor bad. I just am.” I say softly looking into the eyes of the man who ordered my parents dead.