The Greatest Treasure Chapter Seven

The seventh chapter of my Wizard101 fanfiction is finished. Click the tab to read it! I hope you enjoy. :)

~ Sophia-Rose

Blog Update Notes

Hi. *awkward silence*

I made a lot of changes to the blog today! Here's a list of them, using my favorite bullets.

• Switched the blog over to a new account (Sophia-Rose)
• Changed "About Me in a Nutshell" to be my blogger profile
• Changed the About Me page to include my...erm...new situation with my other blog
• Changed the About Me page's top 10. (I forgot to include that I'm left-handed!)
• Added the "Taggy Thingies" widget and labels to all my posts
• Links will now show up in a different color from normal text. Hooray!
• The "Links Warning" widget has been removed.
• A few widgets have been moved around.
• The blog's description has been changed.

I also attempted to add a banner, but when I uploaded it, it looked like this:

Ack!

I didn't want to make you suffer through that, but does anyone know how to fix that? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for reading!

~ Sophia-Rose

Day 24 ~ Victory

You might have been wondering why I haven't been blogging much recently? Reason A: I've been horribly busy. Reason B: I've been writing a lot. So, yeah. I finished the book and won at the same time. :D I'll be able to validate it tomorrow. Final word count? 50,093. I'm honestly relieved that I got it over 50k, and I'll be able to beef it up a little when I edit. I don't have much description at all, it's mostly raw dialogue and action. I had hoped to pull off an early win, and I did. First NaNo? Check.

I'm going to give Legends of Light a long rest. I'll return to it in June. Sadly, July will be really busy so I can't do a NaNo then, but I'll probably still have time to edit LoL.

So, I'd say I'm pretty happy right now. My one little pet peeve? I achieved my word count goal, but my arrow isn't in the middle of my profile target. Just take a look at it if you want, you'll see what I mean.

This means that there won't be many posts on this blog for a while. I'll probably make a new blurb, and maybe give occasional updates on the editing, but that'll be it. I'll see you...later, I guess. And on the other blog.

Happy writing!

~ Sophia-Rose

Day 21 ~ Derail

I took a break yesterday. To be fair, I needed it. I wrote more today, but I'm not satisfied. Why? Well, to reach today's goal, I had to write five scenes. The first four went fine. When I reached the fifth, my day derailed. Why? I was supposed to get 750 words out of an ambush scene where the fight doesn't even begin yet. Here's the catch: If I'm even one little word short, my story will end before 50k. Ugh. So, I put it off until tomorrow. Yeah, I should stop doing that, but I have a good lead. Anyway, highlights:

• Writing wasn't much fun, but...I found my perfect noveling music! It's actually a theme from Wizard101, and it suits Wardiloth perfectly. Really. It's perfect. Here it is: Avalon glorious theme.

Well...all the scenes include spoilers, since I'm really, really close to the climax. Sorry. (These posts just seem to get shorter, don't they? Sad.)

Happy writing!

~ Sophia-Rose

Day 19 ~ Trouble

So, yesterday one of my highlights was that I killed a major character. That was at the very - I mean VERY - end of yesterday's writing, so today I opened with elaborating a little. And there lies my problem. I began to feel horribly guilty. Can't tell you why, but it really made it hard to write. It wasn't a hard decision to kill him, either. I had to do it to move the story forward. But I did have some highlights:

• Wrote ANOTHER whole chapter
• Went over 40,000 words :D
• My characters have finally escaped from their prison
• I developed a lot of characters
• I actually managed to write decent action scenes
• I ended on another great cliffhanger. Dun dun dun!!

It's pretty late right now, so I'm going to end this here. Sorry for the short-ish post. If I keep up at this rate, I'm slated to finish on the 22nd. :)

Happy writing!

~ Sophia-Rose

Day 18 ~ Dullness

Today had a great start. I got inside the head of my favorite character, whose point of view I don't usually do, and had fun with it. Then, my day just...derailed. Writing got boring. I don't know why, but I pushed through. Highlights:

• Wrote mostly hilarious scenes
• Wrote another whole chapter
• Killed a character (gasp!)

Yep, I killed a major character. However, I won't use it as an excerpt because I don't want to share which one I killed. Instead, here's a funny excerpt:

Alcasor sighed and shook his head. 'Peregrine, Peregrine,' he said. 'What am I going to do with you?'

Peregrine turned his grimace into a grin. 'I don’t know. Maybe take me on more adventures after this?'

Alcasor didn’t seem to think it was funny. He frowned at Peregrine. 'This is not a laughing matter!' he hissed, lowering his voice and nervously glancing around. 'We could all be killed, and you got us into it! I expect you to be quiet and cooperative while we try to get you out!'

That isn't the best part of it, but it's the best one I could find without spoilers.

Happy writing!

~ Sophia-Rose

Day 17 ~ Exhausting

I just wrote nearly 5k words in one day, which amounts to the longest chapter in the entire book. That's almost 1/10 of the story right there - I really impressed myself! And it was mostly action, so that was really good. Basically, it was a solo marathon - I wrote for four hours straight, got most of it done in one sitting. I feel good, and I'm three whole days ahead. Highlights:

• Wrote all of chapter 10 (So. Long. Six whole scenes!)
• Showed more of my favorite character ever!
• Had my characters disguise themselves, made some pretty funny scenes
• Set the stage for the next several chapters, building up to the semi-climax

I'm pretty tired right now, so I'll keep this short. No excerpt today, sorry. See you tomorrow.

~ Sophia-Rose