#book project

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I pitch to you: doing an ELA book project on your own book. Take your book (or manuscript if you're unpublished) and fill it with sticky notes and annotations.

You could choose literally any style, but some options are:

Literary analysis essay (symbolism, motifs, literary devices, author's purpose, etc.)

Book float (Create a parade float out of a shoebox inspired by the book)

Slideshow presentation (about maybe a specific part of the book or a general summary to pitch it to the "class")

Board game (Create a board game inspired by your book! I had one of these once, a good game to base it off of is either Life or Candyland!)

Journey box (Full of "artifacts" from the book, and how each object in the box is tied to the book)

Passion project posterboard (think those foldable posterboards in a science fair- but about the book! This one is actually pretty fun ngl)

Pizza box report (you use an old pizza box and you cut up the circle to show each piece of the story- you can look it up for more info)

Alphabet book (word for each letter and how that word fits the book)

These are just the ones I could think of, but feel free to do a project that you find interesting or did during school!!

Why do this?

Well, nostalgia, mostly. That's how I came up with this idea ngl, but it's not the only reason to do it! Personally, I feel like it would be fun to do this for my own story (but that may just be as someone who loved creative ELA projects).

Think about it: your teacher telling you to find the symbolism that the author probably didn't intend. You don't have to take it seriously, you can make up all the symbolism you want out of your own story and stretch it to your heart's content.

I write, and I often procrastinate writing, and here's my current project...

It is a historical fiction set in the late 19th century world of opera. We follow the story of a renowned prima donna, someone who thrives on stage, but fights what seems to be a never-ending battle after curtain call.

Her rise to the top was not by pure chance, but rather highly thanks to a contract made between her desperate father and her patron–an older gentleman with money, a title, influence, and his own troubles. He once brought her to where she now stands and funds her lavish life...and, in return, controls it in any way he pleases. From the way she dresses to whom she spends her time with and how, he gets to have a say. She faces his abuse, both psychological/emotional and sexual daily, and it has become as much a part of her as the rest of her life. The outside world considers her lucky, when in reality this is hardly true–they don't know even half of the truth she lives with. She is prisoner of a contract with fine print at the bottom of it, any of which she never had any control over, and she wants out, away from him.

The answer to her problem seems to have come in the form of a kleptomaniac conductor and a group of thieves gathered around him. The group, consisting of musicians and backstage workers alike steals from their rich clientele, each with their own intended use for the money they set aside in secret. She has joined in, hoping to one day have saved up enough to flee and never look back.

However, the price one must pay for freedom is hardly ever quite as fine.

At the end of 2025 I got a flash of inspiration for my next one, which I started back in January. And usually I don't share my projects until they're over if I share them at all, but since I think this one is going to eventually become something I publish in some form, I want to share it as it's in progress.

Basically, I'm going through the Rider-Waite tarot deck and writing a spell for each card, but not based on the meaning of the card. That's been done at least once, probably many times. I'm looking only at Pamela Coleman Smith's illustrations and interpreting them as if they were a pictoral guide to a spell. Then, of course, doing the spells that come out of that process to see how they work.

So far I've written the spells for Fool through Hermit and done all of them through Hierophant except High Priestess (haven't had the right situation come up yet to use it for). Plus I skipped ahead and did Strength because a great opportunity arose to use it. It's a great proect for pushing me out of my routines and sometimes my comfort zone - for instance I'm not used to doing magic out in public places, but sometimes that's what the spell calls for.

Hi there! I'm back with another iteration of Re:Vamp in development after 6 years of letting it rest. Woof. It's been a while. Nearly everything about the concept has changed except for 3 core things i always intended: A grumpy messy-haired co-protagonist, vampires in a modern setting, and political allegory that is unflinching in its criticism of modern (blood-sucking) society.

This time Charlie will be sharing the stage with a dead-smiled shapeshifting Vampire named Elliott and she's not the only one unnerved when their eyes meet.

How will they get along when they're both trapped in a 'rehabilitation' center designed to weed out bad apples who haven't bought into the way the Ancient Vampire Families have run Earth?