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Monday, 7 May 2012

Life As A Half Goddess- Prologue


Every story has a beginning and this one starts with a question. The question may seem like a simple one, but it’s not. The question is, “who am I?”, not in the general way meaning who you think you are but the question is about me, the narrator of this story.  
        I don’t have a name and I don’t belong anywhere. I am a beautiful girl but I’m a deadly animal. I am a goddess yet I’m mortal. The easiest way to answer the question is a short story about a girl even more dangerous and beautiful than me. Her name changed as centuries went by but the meaning of it was always the same Nature.  Her race of gods was the oldest and was worshiped by people of the Stone Age. Nature was the most loving and beautiful of all goddesses. She had cat eyes and golden hair that that fell all the way down to her feet. She was the human’s favourite god and they worshiped her more than the powerful king of gods. She was a ruler of nature as her name suggests and she cared about everything that was alive. She had the power to bring to life but also to kill. Then only way to kill her was by stabbing her in the heart with a magical dagger but except from that she was immortal. She grew plants for the people and provided them with animals. She cared about everyone and was mostly always happy except when she had o kill. Nowadays she’d be called mother nature and being her didn’t only mean good things but in order to keep the world synchronised she had to also bring death as well as life. Yet she loved her powers and used them as well she could. Nature was also one of the few gods that came down from the heavens to the people. Usually she’d come down in a dress made of leaves and flowers, with her blond hair tied in a plat. Bare footed she walked into the village and help them. But as people became smarter and build civilizations they forgot about the old ways. They believed in new, fake gods and stopped caring about nature. It made the gods angry and most of them never helped people again. Nature was very depressed but tried to keep some nature and pure life in the world. It was a very hard job since people started polluting the earth and killing the forests in it. Of course she never came down in her human form but in the shape of a small brown bird or invisible mist. She hid in the shadows until one day she saw a man. He had coal black hair and ocean blue eyes. He was a ranger with a pure heart; he also loved nature as much as Nature herself. His name was John and he was an extraordinary ordinary human. Nature fell in love with him and came down to earth first as a deer and later as a girl she really was. They loved each other and met in the forest everyday for a few months. One sunny summer day John brought Nature over to a clearing and gave her a rose with a ring on it. Nature accepted the proposal and they got married in a small chapel. Nature knew the other Gods would not be happy with her so the couple kept moving from town to town and lived in small huts in forests, hiding.
      After a few years of running, hiding and loving Nature became pregnant and wasn’t able to move any more.  When the girl was born her parents loved her a lot. She had black hair and clever green eyes. Like her parents she loved nature.  They lived together peacefully until the little girl was 3 months. At that time the Gods found their location and attacked. The man knew nothing about his wife’s magic until the other Gods came down. Luckily Nature hid her daughter before they came for her. The girl was very little but not stupid. She knew she had to be quite and all she could do was listen to the screaming above her as she sat in the basement. Her mother fought bravely but unfortunately her killing powers didn’t work on other gods. She managed to take down some minor gods but then the powerful ones came and killed her husband. Nature’s heart broke and she stopped  fighting and let the gods put her out of her misery. After hours of screaming and fighting everything went quite and the baby started crying because she understood she became an orphan. When a family of foxes came to take her out she saw her beautiful mother lying on the ground covered in blood drained of her power , her golden hair covering her face. The stupid human’s blamed her parent’s death on an animal attack and killed a family of wolfs. The little girl grew up with animals and when she was 3 her powers started manifesting. She could turn into any animal and understood their speech. She also had a special connection with nature and helped plants grow. But unlike her mother she couldn’t bring back to life or kill and of course she wasn’t immortal because of the human blood in her veins. She grew up to be a beautiful, pale  girl with long, shiny black her. She lived happily in the forest with her family of animals. She never forgot the scene in the hut when her parents died. She grew up hating all gods and all she wanted was revenge.
    I am the little girl and I miss my mother and father terribly but I learned how to live without them and take care of myself. Everything would of been perfect if the hunters didn’t come


I think this is the most emotional piece of writing I ever wrote and I hope I will write more soon, I decided to have to stories so people can pick which one they like more. By the way I'm reading "The Golem's Eye".

Friday, 4 May 2012

Myth Camp-chapter 2

                                         Chapter 2
 
                   Of course it was not easy for Anna to open the camp and she had many difficulties to overcome, but she was not alone, she had her forest friends. She started working as a waitress in a small burger place and rented a room in a motel near the forest. She then with a little luck she got a better job after a while she started working in a hotel as cleaner and started earning bigger money. It was not enough to open a camp, it was barely enough for her to save anything after paying her bills and buying food. Of course Anna was too dedicated to give up her dream. She was a very hard working and stubborn. Every week she went to the forest with treats for the only people (well not exactly people) that never failed her. The next job she got was very good and thanks to that job the camp was opened. A very wealthy family was looking for a babysitter for their two kids and when they saw how nice Anna was to them they decided to hire her. The young girl took the job and worked 5 days a week taking care of 3 year old twins Pamela and Markus. After working for 2 years Anna became best friends with the mother of the kids, Catherina. Catherina was a very independent woman and knew how to take care of her own business because her husband always went to places all over the world and sometimes had to work there for over a month not coming home. When Anna’s birthday came her boss and her best friend that knew what her dream was gave her the money to buy a big piece of land big enough for her and her friends to live on and open a camp. Of course Catherina did not believe in any of the things Anna did but she wanted her friends dream to come. She didn’t only give her money for the land she also gave her money for whatever she needed to built and get for the camp.
“I can’t take that, Catherina that’s a lot of money”, Anna said
“Not for me, anyways it’s been you dream forever Anna”, Catherina answered.
“Thanks, but are you sure?” Anna said with a smile on her face because she was happy.
“A hundred percent sure, good luck”, Catherina ended the conversation and left the room
           That was how Anna got the money but that was only the beginning of opening a camp.
           Next Anna had to get electricity and water (her best human friend hired her a crew of great workers to do it, her friends were not capable of doing things like pluming), paint the place (she and her friends did it very well) and build everything she needed to open a camp. She saved money because she did not need to hire anybody for building, her friends worked for her and they did it for free. They built a big hut where meals would be served, she built huts where girls could sleep, an office, a terrace, a dock at the lake and of course she fenced the whole area because she didn’t want any uninvited guests to see what goes on in the camp. She and her helpers also built a lovely entrance gate. She had to also build fake environments like a snow world and a dessert which had glass walls and roofs around them.
              Next she had to order furniture. Anna was a very eco-friendly and that is why most of the furniture she bought was made from recyclable materials. She put 4 beds in each sleeping hut. She put lovely tables in the cafeteria and supplied the kitchen with the best things she could. The terrace was furnished with hammocks, benches and a grill. Her office had things any office has. After the camp was filled with furniture Anna decorated it. At the end it looked great. She designed brochures with the help of Catherina and her children who were already 4 when she finished building. Catherina also organized an advertisement in the paper and on television. That’s how most people found out about it. Anna also started a website and everything was ready for the next month when the girls were coming.

(Hope you like it because I had a great time writingt this but these next few chapters I wrote long ago and now I'm working on chapter 6)

Thursday, 3 May 2012

"Myth Camp"- prologue


                                            Prologue
Every parent that ever lived knows that children have a great imagination and believe in things that adults don’t. They see things like fairies; hear things like footsteps at night and kids treat life like a big adventure.
         When Anna was a little girl she would go into the forest and come back with interesting stories about a furry Sasquatch she played skipping with her or a sparkly fairy that thought her dancing. Not only she wrote and told stories of mythological creatures she also drew them with great detail. Her parents thought that when their daughter would grow up her wild and magical friends would disappear but her creativity grew even more. When Anna turned 12 and still believed in things most kids grow out of her parent forbid her to go to the forest. She hated them for it and still sneaked out to the forest to see her friends. When Anna turned 18 she moved out and even though she was no longer a child she still believed in cryptids. Her dream was to open a camp that she could invite children to learn about her life time friends. 

(Sorry about any spelling or grammar mistakes but english is not my first language and any critism and comments are appreciated)

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Hello my name is Marta. I heve a few blogs on blogger already. I'm interested in animals, mythology, art, reading and writing.




 My favourite type of books is fantasy and that is mostly what I read. My favourite author is L.J. Smith and my favourite books are the Night World series and the Ink Heart trilogy. 
Most of my stories are also fantasy. In my writing I commonly mention nature or magic. I love writing and I think it's a great past time aspecially that I can write anything I want.
I am just a young writer so my stories might not be great but so far I got mostly positive comments from a forum I wrote my story on.
My main story for this blog will be "Myth Camp" a book I'm working on. But I might also post other shorter stories and reviwes.
I also have a plan to start another long story but I'll see.
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 I will post the start of "Myth Camp" today.