NUMU - Song writing competition

http://numu.org.uk/artist.asp?lngUserID=85531

Hey, I'm kjate95 and I am a singer-song writer. I play the guitar and sing sort of folk/acoustic and have recently entered a competition in my local area. If you could please have a listen to some of the music and tell me what you think in the comments below that would be really helpful to me. If you click on the link above then you will get sent straight to the site and my page with all my music.

Thanks :D

Harry Potter and the Mortality of Time

Hey guys,

So, this is where you need to come if you want to know what's happening with updates for my harry potter fanfiction 'Harry Potter and the Mortality of Time'. I started this fanfiction for NaNoWriMo but I gave up after 14,000 words, but that does mean that I have got a start on the Fanfiction. I have written four chapters so far and am going to up load one a week for four weeks. After that I'll upload at least once a month. If you want to have a read of the first chapter check out my page titled 'Harry Potter and the Mortality of Time' to the left hand of the screen. I have written a quick summary and warnings for my story at the beginning of the chapter and i shall now relate them back to you here.

Summary:AU. Voldermort reins supreme and Harry Potter is the last of the resistance left. In his grief he searches for a way back into the past to rewrite the wrongs and save his loved ones. Canon pairing. TimeTravel fic. Years 1-7.

Firstly, I would like you to thank you for picking my story to give a try and I hope you find what you're looking for. Here are a few facts about the story before you get started:

-No slash. Not against it but don't want to write it.

-Cannon pairings.

-It will be all 1-7 years. I have read some time travel fan fictions where they take ages to go through each year and don't end up finishing the story. I want this story to be realistic and so I only plan to write about the bits significant to the plot and also I would like to get it finished at some point in the future. You have all read Harry Potter before and so know the finer details of each of Harry's school years meaning the bits that aren't very important will be either touched very lightly or not at all. If there are certain points that you think might be interesting to see then I am open to suggestions.

-This will be over 100,000 words in the end, so you won't get bored with undescriptive scenes or poorly characterized people. If you feel that there is something that could be improved by my writing style then please make a suggestion but don't rip it out of me because, remember, this is only a hobby and harsh words are not necessary.

-I would also like to point out that I am well aware that there are 1001 harry potter time travel fan fictions out there and mine probably sounds very familiar. I wanted to have a go at writing one because I enjoyed this type of story. I will try and make it as different as I can and as the story progresses you will find that I have added in some unexpected things. Please, if you think you have read it before, don't like it or are not willing to give it a go, do not leave a review. Negative, pointless reviews can be big downers when you need inspiration to keep going.

-There might be swearing in later chapters and violent situations throughout. So just a warning now.

-I am currently at school doing exams and so they will come first to fan fiction. I will try and get a chapter out once a month at the very least but that might be difficult at times nearer to exams. You can check out my blog on my profile to find updates to what is happening with this story.

-My spelling and grammar might not be amazing and it is possible I would have missed something. If this is the case please point it out to me and I will happily change it. I have a beta,Beany123, (I love her) and so it shouldn't be too bad.

These are here to make sure no tears are shed and all are well and happy. I hope none of these offend you in anyway but please take them into consideration when reading my story. Now I just hope that you enjoy what you read. I shall post updates about what's going on with the story. If I run over a month I shall tell you my problems and solutions so that you aren't in the dark about what's going on.

Thank you and i hope you enjoy the fanfiction :D

English speech

Of late I have been reading the hitchhicker guide to the galaxy and for our english oral we had to write a speech on anything in the world. This was my speech:

Subject: How to fly

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” These are the very wise words of Douglas Adam who came up with a very interesting and, so to speck, very accurate way to how to fly. Now there are many different types of flying, both real and meteorically, such as for instance;

1. Mentally (For example, under the influence of drugs or in dreams)

2. Through achievements (‘flying through business’ ‘High flying results’ which can mean you are doing something doing very well, very fast or very easily)

3. And then, of course, actually flying. Lifting off the ground, defying gravity and souring off into the sky. This, is the type of flying I am going to discuses for the other two are so far reachable to humans.

Human can only achieve flying through the help of technology like airplanes, hot air balloons and paragliding. We lack the capability like birds do leave the ground without the help of metal boxes or wicker baskets. But with the right science and availability it is possible to achieve this, theoretically.

Step one, throw yourself at the ground.

Luckily this step is made very easy by the invention of gravity. Well I would say this step is easy but mostly only on your first attempt, for when you have failed to achieve flying and smacked your face very hard into some sort of pavement you tend to not want to try it again. But, all in all, the initial theory of this step is easy to come about and easy to achieve.

Step two, miss.

Now for all those people who have managed to not seriously injure themselves during the first process come onto the next step. This one, undoubtedly, causes many problems as to miss the floor when falling is increasingly hard and extremely improbable. So to achieve this second step you must miss the floor by accident.

Can you honestly say you have ever fallen over and not thought about how fast the ground happens to be coming towards you? It is human nature to put our hand out to stop our selves, or to try move into such a position that would break the least bones and so this makes the accidently missing the ground very hard. If you want to be able to fly then you must be able to get rid of that subconscious thought in your head the tries to protect you breaking yourself. Once this has happened you then need to work on distracting yourself.

If, while hurtling yourself at the floor, you are suddenly distracted by, say, a poster of the new harry potter movie, your house being robbed or with cat next door getting hit by a bus, will begin to hover. This is classed as flying.

Step three, remain flying

The trick to remain flying is to not think about it and let what ever happens happen. Your first attempt at flying will fail epically because as soon as you realize you are flying you will start to think about it, get excited, and come crashing back towards reality. If you manage to not think about it just remember you are as light as a feather, weightless, and because of this your thoughts need to also be weightless also. So lightly think ‘Oh, I think I would like to go to my grandmothers’ and you will start to bob lightly in the direction you wish to go. With a light heart do a back flip or a few swoops and dives and you shall be successfully flying.

And, for step three the most important think you need to know is DON’T WAVE. Do you know what happens when flying people wave? They go flying towards the person they have waved to at a very high speed and the outcome has never been good for either party.

Step four, landing.

When landing you need to remember you had a good run in life and not care too much about being permanently Brocken. Nobody really knows how to land when flying as out of the people who have ever managed to fly they have never really gotten round to landing on purpose. But the theory is just get as close to the ground as possible and think. This should do the trick and land you in a safe-ish manor.

Overall I have concluded that flying is a very tricky business and is to be taken to with the utmost thought. If you are not particularly inclined to want to try flying then I would suggest the metaphorical approach or just stick to metal boxes. Otherwise give it a go and I leave you with the words of Douglas Adams.

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Stuff to know...

Hello there,
Okay, I know I haven't written a new post in a very long time, and I want to say it's because I have nothing to write about but that would be a lie... what’s been going on:

FAWM - http://fawm.org/
Febuary Album Writing Month...
So I'm a singer song writers and I decided to take the advice of Jess Morgan to have a go... the idea is to write an album of 14 songs over the month, no matter how crap it had to be done. Well, I managed to get 3 done :D and I am very proud of those 3 because they actually sounded like songs!!! I would show you them but there not recorded :( I will have a go at trying to do it on my computer so you can have a hear. If anyone out there happens to be interested in song writing I suggest next year to give it a go!

CREATIVE WRITING COUSRE
Yes, I am back to doing this again: D and it feels great to be back at college writing and be all-creative again! All the people are great and it really helps you find out a lot about your writing style and how to improve in your plot developments and characterisation. In last weeks course we looked at how to find your inner writing voice and that the rawness of it gets refined with more and more practised. We were told that you shouldn't really try to write like other people but just learn from how they do it and adapt that to fit us. With this it has inspired me to be more open and individual in the way I write.

MELIN FANFICTION
Due to the creative writing course I have decided that for the project we have to do over the 10 weeks I am going to write a MERLIN FANFCITON!!!!!!!!! I have already gotten started and am so far quite proud of what I have done. When I write the first chapter I will be sure to put it up on both here and fan fiction. Can't wait to get some response back for my work!

I have probably done much more but I can't think of anything else at the moment... Oh, and I have added a new fan fiction suggestion up so have a look when you have time. :D

Any Minute Now

Hey everyone, this is a FictionPress I have just recently done, I thought you might want to have a read and tell me what you think. The link is at the bottom of the page if you want to read it on the site and if you go into the 'My Stories' page then you can read the preface there.

Any Minute Now

Summary:

My life has been lost in time since the start. I don’t know where I am from or where I am going, just that each time I die I wake up in a different place, past or future, from where I was before.

Preface - The beginning of the end

I felt my heart running fast in my chest as I turned the next corner into the next street and through the next big crowd that had gathered today to celebrate the queen’s coronation. I had been in London, England for the past 2 years, living as an honest maid and servant to a small mansion that was situated up in Mayfair. For me going 2 years without being shot, stabbed or kidnapped was anything short of a miracle and I have enjoyed living in peace and tranquillity with genuine friends and a real job.

Any who, it was fun while it lasted and I had had a good run living quiet for a while but my past, or I guess you could say future, caught up with me as it has done many times before. I have yet to learn why I have always got a big mafia looking gang chasing after me and wanting my head everywhere I go. It is always such trouble having to hide out so thoroughly all the time, but I have to say at least it keeps me on my toes. Where ever I am, where ever I go, there is always someone who doesn’t like me and doesn’t want me in there era, which would be fine with me if they didn’t make such a fuss about it all.

You see, there are some people who know about my particular ‘gifts’ and don’t like me because of it and think I am a threat to their very being, which makes no sense as I have never threatened or killed anyone... yet. See, this is the problem with being a time traveller, you never know what you’ve done and so when people try to confront you about it you end up apologizing about things you haven’t even done....yet.

“I’m sorry, excuse me,” I said to the people in the street, giving them my utmost apologizes and then running as far as I could until the next gathering of squealing children or gossiping mothers. This was rather easy for me, dodging in and out of crowds as when you have been chased as many times as I have, you tend to pick up a thing or two. Luck was also on my side in the fact that the men who were following after me were great big brutes and so crowd dodging was, I’m guessing, not one of their specialities.

“Got you,” I heard a deep voice from behind me. Well, serves me right for being so arrogant, guess you can crowd dodge, and with this thought I ducked down and crawled under the table that had been so perfectly placed a few feet to my right. You can imagine it, cant you? This beautifully coloured street, full of people on the sunny afternoon of June 2nd, 1953. Just picture the tables and tables lined up against each other on the small council estate, and all the effort that was put in by the community, by every hand that was available so to hang the bangers and balloons. There are drinks and smiles and laughter and joy in every direction as the women talk about how lovely the queen’s dress was, and how the men bragged about being able to get the TV working, after spend hours the night before trying to figure out the bloody thing. Then picture me, oh so sweet innocent me, just come out of work still wearing my maid outfit and a messy bun coming loose as I legged it as far away from the big scary men wanting to kill me as I could, and now as I crawled on my hands and knees though spilt drinks and discarded cakes that had been kicked under the table. Lovely thought, is it not?

As I reached the end of the row of tables I quickly got up from where I was hidden and without even looking back made my way as far away from the men as I could, who were still – hopefully - caught up in the crowds. I saw a huge green just over the road from where I was now, and seeing there was a collective of tree on the other side, decided that was where I should head. Isn’t it funny that when in such times of desperation to preserve your own life, you think of the funniest things to do that make no sense and in doing these things will end up resulting in your immediate death?

The fact with me is that when I die I still live on in a different time zone and so death shouldn’t be such a scary thing for me, knowing I am going to just wake up again when my life ends in this era. But you don’t understand, having to go through death as many times as I have is something horrific as death is not as simple as it might seem, well it may be for everyone else but not for me. Every time I die I feel everything just shutting down and slowly ending, and there is a split second of nothingness. This feeling of nothingness is not relaxing like sleep but fearful like the dark, and in it you don’t know what could come and take you away. Fortunately this feeling lasts for hardly a second and in the next moment I am in some random time, no idea where on the planet I am.

As I ran across this wide open space of grass, I asked myself with utter confusion why I had chosen a wide open space to run across and wondered how hiding in bushes would help me in the slightest. These thoughts, however, didn’t stop me or slow me down. I knew what was to come and, like always the same thoughts crossed my mind, any minute now, any minute now. I ran, hearing to my heart beat speed up and listening out for the tell tale sign of the bang that I knew would be coming soon, but I didn’t hear anything, just a sharp pain in the back of my head and then nothing.

***

I hoped you enjoyed my first attempt at putting something up on fictionpress. It is something that has been mulling around in my head for a while and I figured that this was an ideal place to put it.
I have much more of this story to come and I very much hope you follow me though this journey. I do not wish to give anything away but there will be romance and angst throughout.
This is mostly just a taste of what is to come but I shall very soon get cracking on what to do next. I am aiming to make this a to be a short story, maybe of around 10 chapters, but then again you know how you can either run away with the story or if writers block takes its toll. Chapters will be considerably longer then this in future so please don’t like the shortness of the preface put you off. Please tell me what you think of my writing and where you think this story should go. If you have any ideas please don’t be shy... so please review :)

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2877080/1/Any_Minute_Now

What's going on?

So, Christmas is fast approaching and I haven’t updated in quite a while. Well, here I am and this post is all about two things... how my nanowrimo went and about a site I found called FictionPress.
Okay, first with the nanowrimo... I’m not going to lie but I failed epically at the whole thing. I got to about 5 thousand words out of a possible 30 thousand and stopped. I had it all planned out, I would do 1,500 words a day and so by the time I reached the end of November then I would have it all done and even have time to spare. It didn’t work (if you hadn’t of guessed) and I failed miserably at the challenge, not managing to achieve what I wanted. So what happened was I first did about 2,00 words for a couple of days, and then about 1,000 words and then forgot to do it the next day, then was busy the next and then just didn’t do it... all it was about was finding the time and inspiration, and I just couldn’t find it. I also think it was because I am very critical about my work and so whenever I wrote something I found that it wasn’t good enough by my standards and so that kind of dragged me down. Oh well, I guess there’s always next year... and if you wanted to know what my story was supposed to be about, here is the summary...
Drifter
In this world 10 days before you die a ghost will start to follow you round. Only you can see this ghost, only you can hear this ghost and only you know it is there. A young nurse, Samantha Harris, gets blamed for something she didn't do, and now she has the mafia sharpening their knifes and loading their guns, getting ready to kill her. They decide to give her 10 days to prove her innocence otherwise... But what happens when a ghost starts to follow her around?
Please tell me what you think of the synopsise...

On to other news... I have found out about a site called FictionPress. It is run by the same people who do FanFiction; the difference between the sites is, unlike FanFiction, you put up your own work. That means completely original new stories created but budding young, old, whatever writers. I would very much so like to put some of my work onto it one day, but at the moment I have no work to share that I think anyone would be interested in. There are sections for poetry, fiction, essays... EVERYTHING! I haven’t of yet started reading any but if I do I will be sure to put it on the fic recommendation page. So, keep a look out!
(BTW, if you are a fan of the BBC’s Merlin then check out the Fan fiction I have added to that page. I have just started to get into the fics and now, just like I was with twilight, I am addicted).

Goodbye for now and I will try to get some more posts written soon.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/717794

http://www.fictionpress.com/u/753811/kjate95

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month

Hey all,
I am taking part in something called national novel writing month. To anyone reading this who doesn’t know what this is, it means that within one month, from the 1st to the 30th of November, you have to write 50,000 words of a novel. To anyone who does know what this is and are having a go please add me to your 'Buddies' list - the link at the bottom of the page is to my profile.
Please, I really suggest that you have a go at doing it yourself, especially if you are a writer at all, or if you are stuck with 'writers block'. This task gives you a chance to just let lose all your ideas, because the whole thing is not about quality, but quantity! You make yourself write as much as you can and, frankly, write a load of crap most of the time.
This is my first year doing this but I am already stuck in it! I just can't stop. I have thousands of ideas but never anytime or motivation to do it, also I have a tendency to be very pressure about every single little word and so this makes it so I don’t do that :)
Anyway, I am now going to head off and start writing my book type thing. I have set a target for myself to write 2,000 words a day and have already failed, need to get working :)

Tartar then.

(P.S. check out the link)

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/717794