Still working . . .

On my stories that I have done during the month of November. I'm hoping to get them finished by the end of the year, but I do not see that happening as I am still a very long way to go before I'm done writing them.

I'm hoping to have them done most likely by the end of next year. I have so many stories to work on, it might take me years to finish them all.

Driving time.

I have about 31 days worth of driving under my belt but I am not a licensed driver yet. The reason why you ask. I will tell you why.

My dad allowed my older brother to take the white car out to Phoenix, AZ for a month and ten days. Craig said that he would be back in September. In time for me to make my September 20th driving test.

My dad basically let him take the white car when he could have bussed there which would have been cheaper and it would mean that we would have the white car here at the house for me to continue with my exercising and driving lessons with mom.

Now it is December and still no white car in the first bay of the garage. I have looked for cheap cars for my dad to purchase for mom and I to drive but he flat out refuses to go out and buy a cheap used car for mom and I to drive and let alone even make the attempt to find one.

My brother told us that he might not come back at all. To which makes my parents very happy and yet pisses me bloody off. I'm neglected and yet yelled at because I'm asking for a vehicle to drive instead of waiting for mom to get off her butt to go into town since it is now dad who buys everything at the store.

I cannot buy a car till I get myself a drivers license, not one that is a permit license. So I have to suffer playing the waiting game for mom to get off her butt to go into town so I can have some driving time and when dad goes into town and it is not to the office, I get a chance to drive into town but that's rare to say the least.

I have asked and begged for a car that mom and I can drive, so I would have time driving and going to the gym to start off my exercising again so I can start losing weight that I have gained since my older brother took the white car.

My parents, I wish they would just understand me and my desire to get my license finalized and get myself a car so I can get a job and start living my own life. But nooooo, their interest is to keep my older brother out of the house. If it was me, they would make it extremely hard for me to do so. I wish they would get another car and let me start getting serious about driving and having time behind the wheel.

My model horse websites.

They're down for revamping and for some serious upgrades but my webtech who has the files of the sites is at this moment offline and it is unknown when I will actually get to reopen my main model horse website and it also means that my other website Ozark Mountain Live Model Horse Show website will be down as well.

I am not sure if the Springfield, Missouri show will ever be held again. The woman who held it is selling off all her model horses and for some reason her son is selling her model horses. I'm not sure what happened to Debra, there is no news on her or even word from her son when someone wins one the auctions he's doing on eBay and she's awfully silent on the model horse lists that we normally would see her on.

But for the time being, my model horse websites are down till further notice.

The month of November.

National Novel Writing Month is running strong. I have two stories that I am doing and I have already reached the 50K mark on the combined word count of my two stories that I am doing for this month.

Medusa: Tale of a monster and Trouble with Immortals.

These two stories are really going nice and strong and I am looking forward to finishing them and getting them both edited for publication.

I have actually added another story to my workload for November. Below are the updated synopsis of my three stories.

Stories that I am working on: Medusa: Tale of a Monster/Trouble with Immortals/The mystery of the sword.

Medusa: Tale of a monster.

As the high priestess to the Goddess Athena, Medusa was the most beautiful of all her priestess. She was very loyal and dedicated to her Goddess as suitors courted her to give up her role as high priestess to become their wife and mother to their children. She politely refused each one of them; even when a God tried his best to convince her to leave the role of high priestess.

When she refused Poseidon's offer politely, his blind rage at her over her rejection makes him do the unthinkable within the temple and inadvertently shatters her life forevermore. Athena banished her to live alone with a curse laid down on her. Now scared to gaze upon any man as they would turn to stone, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the world. Years of loneliness torment the now aging Medusa; a Prince from a far distant land seeks her head to save his mother from a king who wants to marry her. Can this Prince end her torment and save his mother without being killed by her?
Trouble with Immortals.

When her father named her after the Goddess of Love, Aphrodia never knew her love life would be so complicated. She's chased by men and Gods alike for her affections. But will one God who has chased other women finally be caught by her and will her love life end when she realizes that she's in love with an Immortal God.

The mystery of the sword.

When a mysterious sword appeared in her pasture, Tari's life changed as a mysterious woman appeared requesting her aide. Tari figuring it was only a dream, agreed. She suddenly finds herself in unfamiliar terrority and twenty years younger. She is now the leader of a band of warriors trying to free their lands from an evil King, who had captured their leader. It is up to Tari to lead the rescue. Can she put behind her past and step up to the plate and be the leader she knows is there?

The first chapter of Medusa: Tale of a monster/Trouble with Immortals/Mystery of the Sword will be posted on my DeviantART account - fanfictionaxis, when the month is over or sometime during the month of December.

Working on cookies, driving & writing.

I'm spending the day working on my writing while I am waiting for my test cookies to bake and to cool down. I had to come home early from the Farm Market as I sold out of my cookies! I had none to sell but I did take suggestions from the people who came by to bring different cookies in next weekend which they'll buy from me.

I'm working on perfecting my peanut butter chip chocolate cookie so I can bring it to sell next week and I told them about my peppermint cookie that I am working on perfecting this weekend.

I have to make at least 30 dozen cookies of each if I get them perfected by next Friday morning. Then, I'll spend all of Friday evening baking them and letting them cool down till Saturday morning about 5:30am when I start wrapping them up in pairs to sell for $2 each. I may have a tin which has an assortment of flavors for $15.

I will of course have samples for everyone to taste before they decide which cookies they want to buy.

And on this past Wednesday, I went and took my written test for my learner's permit. I flunked the first test and the second test, I passed with only two questions missed. I now can go about with learning how to drive officially. The girl who was at the office was really helpful, she told me if I had a problem with one of the questions, leave it blank and she'll help me. And she did help me to pass the second round with only two missed questions.

The first lesson for me to do is backing out of the garage safely and then driving into it and stopping without being jerking with the brakes. When that is done perfectly the next step will be driving into the pasture and dealing with how to stop without being jerky about it. I'm a bit heavy footed when pushing the brakes. I don't ease the brakes to stop, I shove my foot on it and stop the vehicle fast and hard, thus the jerky motions.

I'm currently working on one of my fanfiction stories - The day love came into my life. It is going slow right now but that's because I'm a bit unsure on how Sesshomaru would react to the information that Kagome informed him about. When I figure that out, I think everything else will start flowing smoothly.

Currently taking a break.

From writing original stories for a bit.
My mind tends to get writers' block when I'm writing strictly on original stories. So I am at this moment focusing on some fanfiction stories.
They will be located on my fanfiction site Fanfiction Axis when they are done with being beta read and stuff like that.
And there will be hopefully a picture to go with one of the scenes in the fanfiction story. I just have to get an artist to draw it for me. :)
I am doing a Sesshomaru/OFC story. Trying to write Lord Sesshomaru-sama in character and yet out of character is extremely hard but it is a good challenge. I think I will enjoy this challenge.
Well, back to my writing and reading over my stories that I am doing.

Beth F Brownell

New model horse to collection.

This CM brindle Espirit is named Elegant El Tigre. He was repainted by Debra Williams. I will be showing him next year at Ozark Mountain Live Model Horse Show. I hope he does quite well for me.

This is the other side of him.

Isn't he handsome? I cannot wait till next year to come around.

New work in progress.

I had a dream which most of my stories come from but this one deals with one of my side hobbies - model horses. I'm a model horse collector and we show our model horses at model horse related shows like BreyerFest and other shows that is held around the country.

This dream deals with the model horse world and a murder that happens in the biggest show that is held for the model horse community. It is possible that I might write this story but at this moment it is unknown. I just have to figure out what the main reason behind the murder or maybe it will just deal with a huge theft of one of the model horses in the show. I'm not 100% sure what it is going to deal with - murder or theft, so till I figure that out, I'm going to state for the time being it will be a murder.

Progress report.

My progress report is so far pretty good.

I have about eleven writing projects going on at once. Am I freaking crazy trying to do all that? Yeah, you got to be a bit twisted for this job. :)

Some of the titles of my works are done but I am rereading them to check for flaws in the storyline after not reading them for a year and some a few months.

The Storyteller's tale - vampire romance adventure story. I reread that one and realized that there was a scene missing which I have added to the story. I may end up adding more scenes to it.
Finished, needs some polishing.

Trouble with Immortals - Greek mythology story dealing with the granddaughter of Zeus and her trials to find love. This was already completed back in 1985, but when I read over it, I found that the plot I had for it ended up being rank. So I'm going to start rewriting it completely from the first page to the last in the month of November for my NaNoWriMo writing project.

Deserted Earth - a future world adventure story dealing with a plague sent by the 'Gods' of the first bloods against all humans which also included some first bloods as well. To erase the diease on the planet Earth called Humans, all of humanity is killed off or is it? One long human girl searches for other survivors only to find that those who have ablilities beyond her own survived. She finds out that the world is not dead of people - a lone first blood shows up to rock her world is she knows it as he reveals that she's not totally human after all.
Writer's block has hit this one. Rereading to see where I drifted off at.

Pharaoh's daughter - my NANO writing project. A Pharaoh's daughter is reincarnated. Why was she reborn at this time? She finds her brother with his protectors in San Fran and she starts to fall back in love with her former lover but will an old secret prevent them from regaining their lost love and save her little brother from the clutches of an evil priestess? Writer's block.

Hunter: Secret Service Agent - supernatural murder mystery. What do you get when you mix Supernatural creatures like shapeshifters and a murder mytery novel, yup, you get a very interesting mystery novel. Stalled.

Death in the family - murder mystery. The murder of the parents of three grown men now must contend with the mystery surrounding their murder. Can the grandparent's granddaughter help find the killer or will she fall to the one who killed her grandparents? Stalled.

Medusa: Tale of a Monster - Greek Mythology story. Medusa, the lovely woman
turned to monster tells Perseus how she became a monster and how she longs for
death to come to her. Will he give her what she wants the most and will he
survive to tell her side of the story?
Working on the outline - will work on it during November.

Mutants revealed - a present day story dealing with people who are mutants and that one person is determined to make people see that anyone at any age of life could become one and it is nothing they could do about it as it is in their genes.
Sort of stalled on this one.

Murder on the track - murder mystery on a racehorse track. Who killed the jockey and the horse in the middle of a big race shown to millions? Stalled.

The Dragon, The Rose and the Realm of Magic - fantasy romance. A young sorceress hides the truth of being a princess from a young man she saved from a dragon in the Forest of Magic, unaware that the young man is a prince, one with whom she was to meet the following day. Both have fallen for each other not knowing that they were to meet. He, later find out the truth on their wedding day and is shocked when he learns that the sorceress who he had fallen for was in fact the princess before she flees into the realm of magic in tears and to protect herself from being slain by the prince's magic hating step mother.
Finished, but needs polishing.

Birth of Dragons - space adventure collabaration between me and my best friend.
A small military guard of an imperial house is led by a Saurian commander named Ebon but also known as The Dragon. Those who served under him were later known as Ebon's Dragons. Watch as Ebon grow from being a servant to a military commander leading his ladies into battle. Stalled.

And my website that I am working on for the stories is getting closer to being put online officially. I will post more about that later.

That's all of my projects that I'm working on right now.

Beth F Brownell

My personal webpage is coming along . . .

Nicely.
It will go live very soon.
I just have to finish up a few things first before it goes live.
I will post here updates on it.

Beth F Brownell