A Brief Update

Hello!
The 2016 school year ended for me!  \o/   I finished my last paper and got it turned in for my mom to score.  Now, what happened to May?  I found myself watching the first and third Fridays blowing past me like the cotton in my backyard.  These past few months feel like they have been going by so fast.  I feel like I haven't even found the time to write a blog post for you all.  Well, I wrote one... But I was not very happy with how it looked.  I know I said I'd do a summary of my vacation from back in September... But with how I was seeing it, that meant typing down everything I said in my journal.  I noticed how bland it was.  It was as if I was just writing down what happened at each time of the day.

So, I have a plan... kind of.  I am going to just paste a lot of my best pictures from the most memorable parts of my trip and I'll just talk about them briefly.  Nothing too big or small, just a little caption about what happened on our way to California.  This will look a lot like my introduction post.
For those who have been curious.  In a way, I took off May to finish the rest of my schoolwork.  But it turned out to be more than that.  After not posting at all in May, I got into a temporary slump where I didn't want to post.  Then, I got a new laptop.  At this point in time, I am trying to transfer all of my pictures from my Macbook to my new PC.  After failing at moving them through a hard drive, I am now trying Google Drive which seems to be working a lot better.  I'm not seeing a load of blank pictures all corrupted from being shifted from one brand of computer to another.

After this, I want to share a bit about the ducks my family has been raising since the beginning of May.  They are now six weeks old and soon they'll be flying!  A tradition we always hold with our ducks is to throw them off of our deck for flight training,  We can't exactly let them go into the wild without being tested to fly.

Oh!  Yesterday I finally found my original document of my novel.  This made me really happy because I have been trying to find out when I first started writing The Sword of Warriors Past (SOWP).  Although, finding out my novel's birthday was almost a month ago kind of disappointed me.  It disappointed me because of the fact I missed it and I was not able to celebrate it.  May 15, 2015.  That is the day I wrote the very first words in my soon-to-be-novel.

With that, I just want to thank everyone who still visits my blog even when I don't post on the scheduled days I had planned for.  I will keep trying to do my best in getting these posts out to you guys.  I love doing this, I love having a place on the internet where I can share what I want.   Please stay tuned in for the blog post on Friday, it is sure to have some beautiful pictures.

See you next time,
                    -Anna Jolene

Back with an Update!!

Hello, everybody, I am back!

      I have been on an eight-month hiatus, maybe nine?  Well, I am back and I have a few things to show all of you.  My idea is to post two times a month, the 1st and 3rd Fridays.  Fridays, a day that completes the week and ties everything up into a nice, big, red bow.
      This Friday (February 5th) I have a Flash Fiction that will be posted.  I signed up for the challenge a week ago on Rachelle's blog over at The Ink Loft.  This is my first time doing a challenge like this, and I was super worried.  But, I think you will like it.  I will explain more about what a flash fiction is when Friday comes.  I did it with a lot of people and I hope you will have time to go check out their blogs.
      So, here's a little update that most of you have no clue about.  I dropped the story I was writing back in 2014.  Yes, The King's Daughter is lost in the forest for good.  I may pick it up in the future, but I highly doubt it.  My current project is a tale that I created last June, I then used that story in both the July Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo in November.  Presently, I am at around 80k words, which is an amazing accomplishment in my book.  Especially since I couldn't even get my other stories above 30k.  You can find info of my daring tale on my "Writing Updates" page...which I need to fix, so until then...don't look at it.
*smiles warmly*
      I just recently went back to my previous blog, one that I shared with my cousin (To be honest, it was pretty nostalgic) and I noticed how cringe-worthy my blog formatting was compared to what I had 2 years ago.  And thus, a very determined Anna materialized, a side of me that I don't see too often.  I fixed up my template and background, as you can see, and I changed a bit of my formatting.  I created a banner, a better "About me" gadget,  and played with a whole bunch of different fonts.  I want to note that I took the picture in my banner, it's from my family's recent vacation to California in September.  The image is of a very beautiful Grand Canyon sunset.
      That is all for now, please leave feedback on what you would like to see on my blog or even if you find somethings that should be changed.  Let me know if the font size or style is hard to read, or if there is something I say a little too often.  I would really like to know if there is something wrong so that I can change it as quickly as possible.
o/  Thanks for visiting my blog, Ciao!