The Long Road Home Excerpt

So this is has to do with my Transformers fanfiction called The Long Road Home. I haven’t updated in forever so this is to let all my readers know that I haven’t fallen off the story or anything and that I have been writing these last three months.

So, if any of you out there are interested in really cool (if I do say so myself) Transformers stories, then feel free to drop by my Fanfiction.net profile. The link is the middle circle at the top left of the page. Just hold your mouse over the circle with the two stars you see up there and click the very center. If you hold your mouse over that it should say something like ‘My Writing’. Hope I sucker some of you in. :) I always enjoy hearing from new readers. <3

I WON I WON I WON!

Just won 2nd place in an essay contest! THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR MY EXCITEMENTATED-LIKE FEELINGS!

XD - EMOTICONS FAIL TO CAPTURE MY JOY!

YES I AM AWARE I AM SHOUTING, JUST TOO GIDDY TO CARE! x3

I'm in the top 20!!!!!!!

:O I entered the StumbleUpon Get Discovered Writing Contest back in August, and after much deliberation and glitching systems, they've finally announced the top 20 pieces that were most voted for.

And mine's one of them!!!!

AHHHHH!!!! I can't believe it! I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself! And I know I just scared my sister with my girlish glee and shrieking...

It's just...it's just...so COOL!!! And I went back to reread the piece that made it in (It's called The Adventures of Shinshin & Seijin by the way. Hopefully you'll be able to find it in books stores in this life time! :p) and while I still like what I wrote, it's got all these spelling errors that are now glaring at me like evil little gremlins!

They do this: }:(

I even noticed that I ended up changing one of the words I made up (it's a science-fiction story involving aliens, world turned on its head, etc. so a certain amount of made-up-words ended up being necessary) so what starts off as one made up word ended up being a different made up word by the end of the twenty-pages they asked for. Yes. Go me. That's just brilliant.

But I still got lots of votes! XD Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!!! Squee!!!!

*Ahem* Ya, that was all.

Rose

PS: SQUEEEE!!!!!! XD

Writer's Landmark!

Oh my gosh! Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!

I. Have. Finished. A. Story.

I have finished a story!!!

Can we say miraculous? I can! M-I-R-A-uh-Culous! Yay! ;D

I've just never finished anything like this before. Well you've seen my profile page. All my other mutli-chapter stuff just sort of...fell off the bandwagon I guess. I haven't abandoned them quite, but they are, eh, lost.

And from the reviews I've gotten I did a pretty good job with this one. I've got 353 of them so far! *Jaws drops wide open* I had never expected that much for anything! People reviewing on a regular basis only happened to other people. Well I guess I've developed a split personality, because I've achieved other peopleness! Whoop! When I saw how many I had at the last chapter I thought, "Wow! I could actually make 350 reviews! That would be amazing. And now I've got three more than that!

*My phone suddenly goes ding*

He he, you had better make that 354. *Beams*

Alright I will admit it, at first I felt so geeky. Before this I've only written for anime like Yu Yu Hakusho and Slayers, or books like Maximum Ride. I had only done the one movie and that was Sorcerer's Apprentice, and with all that magic it easily fit in with the above. Writing for things like that, you don't feel so bad because geeky just comes with the territory. Everyone writing for them just loves their show too much so you don't stand out.

Well this was a Transformers story, and let's face it - it may be a very big fandom, but giant fighting robots are still giant fighting robots and, no matter how much we love them (and some of you love them a scary lot o.o), the fact that we love them at all makes us kind of, oh, how can I put this nicely?

Nerdy.

Fortunately nerdy is in this year, that and I have a soft spot for them (like Jay Baruchel from the Sorcerer's Apprentice, my all time favorite movie; he's nerdy in an adorable way. ;3)

But I finished! So none of that matters! Hooray! Looking at it I honestly think this is my most tightly knit fanfic in terms of plot, writing, and style. I'm just amazed with myself. Does that make me a narcissist you think?

Okay, enough of that for now. If I get anymore worked up I'll never get to sleep tonight. And I got to get started on my little sister's Christmas present tomorrow. So, moving on...

We have a six month old miniature schnauzer named Katara (yes like Katara in the Last Airbender, because with a cat named Sokka, you just can't name her anything else) and she has a problem.

She has to wear a cone of shame for the next to weeks.

It sounds cruel, and very unusual, but she recently got fixed and, well, she looks funny. Cute, but funny. She also runs into everything. Especially our legs! Oh, and she keeps getting stuck under the table...*sigh*

 Poor Katara...

 And Sokka? Well, he just likes showing off the extra weight he got over Thanksgiving when we made the mistake of just leaving a bunch of food out so he wouldn't go hungry. Well it wasn't the brightest idea, but hey, at least he didn't starve, or stop eating....

See? It's like he's begging me to take his picture.

Oh, but let's face it, he's still cute. ;3

 Where's Sokka? Ha ha! He didn't even move when we put the dog toys on him. Goofy cat.

n_n; He he, okay, enough pet pictures. I just had to show them off though. They just look so funny. Eh, where was I? Oh right, I'm still not sure what all these pretty buttons I'm looking at mean, so to Sam, who commented last time. I'll see what I can do...

Hope Christmas shopping isn't driving you too crazy!

Merry Christmas!
Rose ;)