In the dark, there is freedom

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How ironic that this is today's Writer's Block. Zander, bb, take it away.

Day 16 – What was a character’s first romantic and/or sexual encounter like?
( Day 16 )

Day 17 – What are popular sports and hobbies in your setting?
( Day 17 )

Days 18, 19, 20 & 21

I suppose it's only fair that Zander turns over the reins to me since I'm more intimately acquainted with the woman in question, Adelaide Salviati. Ah ha, yes, you might recognize that surname. She is related to Alessandro, my maker. Well, related in the sense that she's another of his progenies, children, whatever you'd like to call us. She was made before me, quite a bit before me, actually. She was born sometime in the 1700s. I'm not sure exactly when, neither Adelaide nor Alessandro have ever given me a clear date.

I do know that she was destined to be a nun but Alessandro took an interest in her. He's got something about religious establishments and "saving people from a horrendous life." I have no idea what that's all about; yet another thing that's never been properly explained to me.

Anyway, a habit and a wimple awaited her, but Alessandro decided to drink from her. He used his power of suggestion (you know, a vampire's natural ability to glamour) to make her fall in love with him and then basically played hard to get and avoided her. Again, I'm not one hundred percent sure of all the details, but I can tell you that he drove her crazy and then turned her.
( Adelaide DeLuca )

Day 10

I don't normally cross post stuff from my fiction journal, didnttakestars, to this journal, but I worked really hard on this vampire fic and I don't think that it's getting noticed in the vampirebigbang comm. Plus I don't know if all of my friends are aware that I have a fiction journal. So, yeah. Cross-posting FTW!

Title: An Unexpected Turn
Author: ibonekoen
Artist: creepylicious
Mixer: slashxyouxup
Fandom: Original
Word Count: 18,517
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Patrick Malden, Jesse Fitzpatrick, Kendrick MacTavish
Warnings Sexual context, some violence, strong language, character death
Summary: Patrick Malden has always dreamed of being a cop, and while the life of a security guard isn't the most glamorous, it's putting him one step closer to his goal. Patrolling the warehouses along the Los Angeles docks isn't his dream job either but it keeps food on his table and a roof over his head. Most nights are pretty routine; most nights, that is, until one fateful night in late June when a group of dock workers are unloading a shipment of electronics straight from Japan. Sounds fairly routine, right? Too bad there's something hidden in the cargo hold, something that is -- judging by the hissing -- pissed.

The discovery sets into motion a chain of events that takes Patrick's life into a direction he never could have foreseen.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to creepylicious for being my beta as well!

( Header under here )

Part 1 ♦ Part 2

Art Post ♦ Mix Post

As an added bonus, likesthesilence made art for me with the actors I cast as Jesse and Patrick. She did this on her own whim, and I thought it deserved recognition too. I am deeply appreciative to all my artists and mixer. Thank you guys so, so much!

Amelia Lansing was not my first love nor will she be my last, but she's easily the most important. Without her, I wouldn't be sitting here speaking with you today. You see, Amelia saved me. I don't mean saved in a Biblical way with baptism and being dunked in holy water and all that. Besides, holy water and vampires don't mix well at all.

No, I met Amelia on the first day I woke up as a vampire. She rescued me from being burned alive. My maker had a...how shall I say this? Accident. Yeah, sure, accident. Let's go with that. Anyway, he had an accident and ended up leaving me in the alleyway where he killed me. I woke up, had no clue what was going on, only that something was burning. Come to find out, that something burning was me.

Enter Amelia.
( Amelia Lansing )
Day 3

Snagging this from the_azure_blue

( 30 Day Original Story Development Challenge )

I was looking at the date I created my journal versus how many entries I have, and apparently I've had this journal for almost nine years yet I only have 544 entries. Pretty sad, huh? I guess my life is just too boring to update about on a daily basis.

I guess most of what I start to write turns out emo in my head, and who the fuck wants to read that, right? Besides, there are much worse things going on in the world than my petty shit.

Work is pretty boring and normal. Frustrating as hell, but whatever, what can you do, right? It's a job, yay. :)

Writing is going okay. I'm a little frustrated with my writing group. I saw a post in a writing comm about a small group forming where the people would post stuff they'd written and ask for critiques. There was a limited number of people who could join, and membership was closed after 29 or 30. Not so bad, right? It was agreed that everybody would get a certain day to post on, and a list was posted.

Well, I forgot for a couple of weeks to post on my day, which is my own fault, but I've been really good about reading other people's stuff and giving my thoughts, copy editing, and all that jazz. I finally remembered to post this week on my day, Friday. It's now Tuesday, and my post still has no comments, and nobody else has posted. I'm trying not to get too paranoid/frustrated, whatever. As likesthesilence pointed out, they could all be on Spring Break or just be busy or something. IDK. I'm just like some feedback on this story I'm writing. It's a vampire novella, untitled at the moment, that I'd really like to get published. E-harlequin is taking submissions, and I think it would be perfect for that. Of course, it's not finished yet, but I'm working on it pretty regularly.

So, after a lot of poking, prodding and puppy dog eyes, likesthesilence convinced me to watch Glee. The singing is okay. The only characters I care about anymore are Kurt, Blaine, Brittany and Santana. Everyone else is kinda "eh."

Blah. IDK.

C'mon, you know you wanna. What's better than spreading around Warm And Fuzzy Feelings? :D

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