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My Wordpress Table of Contents

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:22:33 GMT

This is the front page of my portfolio Wordpress, Echo in an Open Field. I decided to post this here mostly because it sometimes helps to rehash old stuff when I have writer's block, and if anyone actually does read this Xanga maybe it'll get you reading my actual writing. I'll update it if anything new ever gets put up on the WP.

PAGES: About | Stuff You Can Buy

Here are my Press's posts listed all neatly for you. Please leave any comments you might have on my posts! I like to hear new opinions about my work. If you want to know which of the below is newest, they're listed chronologically on the left sidebar. Thanks for checking out my site. :)

UPDATED: 24 JULY 2009

Complete Fiction

Fall of the House of the Moreaus. (11 pages)

The Little Bird (3 pages)

Hall of the Bear (3 pages)

Fiction Beginnings

The Fall of Heaven: Part I (3 pages)

The Cerulean Empress: 1 (3 pages)

Морая Кошка: The Sea Cat: October 9, 1828 (1) (2 pages)

Jake Morrigan’s story: I-1 (3 pages)

“Key” Evidence (4 pages) - Link to Buy

Falling Awake (2 pages)

The Devil's Backbone - Prologue (1/2 page)

What to Do With a Gun (1 page)

Essays - double-spaced

Living With Lactose Intolerance (5 pages)

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Compassion, Not Crime (5 pages)

Twittering and the News (5 pages)

Excerpts, etc.

Selected Poetical Readings (7 poems)

Fall of Heaven: Part III (excerpt: 9 paragraphs)

Hub City (setting: 2 pages)

Xidelstat (setting: 2 pages)

Beauty in Death (poem)

Other Writing Sites:

Mibba - Lotus Madder: http://member.mibba.com/92969/
FictionPress - Bite Your Tongue: http://www.fictionpress.com/~biteyourtongue
FictionPress - Sacha Lynn: http://www.fictionpress.com/~sachalynn
Myspace - Lotus Madder: http://www.myspace.com/lotus_madder add me!

Once upon a semester...

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:50:47 GMT

I was shopping around for minors, and I thought it would be cool to minor in English/writing. It wasn't listed in the course book, so I e-mailed my 1st semester English professor and asked him if it existed, or who might know.

This is an e-mail response I got from him:

Hi Lindsay,

I certainly remember you. I hope that things are going well for you
this semester.

I know that there is a minor in English option, but I don't think that
there is specifically a writing concentration for it. You should talk
to the English department secretary, Cheryl Sharp, to find out the
specifics of the English minor.

Of course, you could always major in English. There is a specific
concentration in writing there. I know because that it what I did as
an undergrad. (I am always trying to recruit good writers for the
English department)

Good Luck,
Prof. Pauley

=D I'm actually taking the note I made of this e-mail off my Facebook, now that I've added him as a Friend on it. Ahah. But I wanted to keep it somewhere, lest it be lost in my e-mail forever.

Writing.Com Portfolio

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:06 GMT

I have started a (possible second) portfolio on writing.com. The link is here: <http://Writing.Com/authors/tizenkilenc>.

So far I have up:

1 essay ("Living With Lactose Intolerance")
1 story chapter (Fall of Heaven I/Prologue)
1 short story ("Hall of the Bear")
1 descriptive piece (Hub City)
3 poems ("Inside & Out", "The Supernova's Waltz", "A City Named Tragedy")

Despite the fact that my WordPress is technically a writing portfolio of its own, I decided to check out writing.com. Sometime I'll probably write a comparative paper of FictionPress versus Mibba versus Writing.com (because they're the only writing communities I know of/remember, at least right now).

I've gotten a nice bit of good feedback for my short story "Hall of the Bear," (the one I blogged about last time I posted), and that's making me pretty happy. I might think about it for a while and possibly go back and rewrite it or add some more detail to it later. I was considering writing prequels to it, to explain how Eddie and Wyatt get into the penitentiary (that I called Casse Russe -- Red Castle; I should probably change it, because it's totally jacked from the Dark Tower series).

Anyway, I have to go do stuff. College is started! Aiya.

New Fiction up on FP!

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:02:48 GMT

I just wrote a new story based on a nightmare I just had sometime before 10pm tonight (I know this because my 10pm alarm went off and brought me out of it). It's listed under horror if not only by virtue of it being based on a nightmare.

It's called Hall of the Bear (http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2700362/1/Hall_of_the_Bear). The summary is:

"Edgar and Wyatt are strangers who come to an even stranger sort of prison. What happens when the lights fall away?"

The Cerulean Empress: Blog

Sun, 24 May 2009 02:54:18 GMT

My story The Cerulean Empress has its own blog. It is at: http://www.mephysta.wordpress.com/. If you are interested in reading the story you can find every chapter to date there, now under the Quick Reference post. Here is the summary in case you don't know what it is about:

Marina Calder is a young witch from a little village called Talythia. She is whisked away to become engaged to a demonic prince, who will become Emperor when his father passes away. She becomes tangled in a web of lust, love, and duty as the empress of an empire spawned from Mephistovic himself.

Please take a look at this story; I've heard good things about it from friends, and I would love further input.

The Cerulean Empress Blog was last updated on 04/15/09 with Part 21.

** Keeping in mind that the parts on the blog are not the most current editions. I'm too lazy to go back and reformat all 20 of the ones I revised/edited just for the sake of the blogosphere... But it's not much different from what's there already.

2009: Rise of the Essayist

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:40:49 GMT

I know, I'm so weird, titling years and such... But at any rate, here is the "debut" (maybe, haha) of my newest FictionPress account (newest of two; don't freak), Bite Your Tongue. What's ironic is how many of these papers are medical, when I'm a journalism major. Ha! Well, whatever. Both of my speeches need edited; my scientific speech needs to be re-researched, rewritten and bibliographied. My paper on Vassili Zaitsev needs a works cited (I might have one around, somewhere) and citations, and then I'll be posting that. My persuasive presentation on why you should learn a second language is going to be edited, biblio'd, and re-titled, and then I'll post it up. Surely enough, I have my work cut out for me among the other crap I have to do for college! Whoosh.

So anyway, here's what I got so far:

Essays
Narrative, "Who Do You Become When Someone Else Becomes You?" (2008)
Personal, "On Being Ace" (2008)
Argumentative (medical), "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Compassion, Not Crime" (2008)
Scientific, "The Scientific Truths Behind The Belief in Vampires Throughout the Ages" (2006)
Informative (medical), "Living With Lactose Intolerance" (2009)

Speeches & Blogs
Persuasive Speech, "Single Parent Adoption" (2008)
Informative Speech (medical), "Amniotic Band Syndrome" (2008)
Narrative Blog, "Part of the Holiday Rush" (2008)

Sellin' My Soul

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:37:19 GMT

These are links to sites through which I sell my creative works. These are funny slogans and photographs. Nothing too fancy. A fraction of the cost of each purchase from my works actually goes to me, so... I encourage you to buy a lot? Ha ha? Ideally some (or most--or all) of the money I make from the sale of these things will go to paying for my college education. Check these out anyway, even if you don't buy.

http://www.cafepress.com/thatssouncool > t-shirts, magnets, coasters, clocks. Check it out.
Apparel > "You're So Cool"

"I Love You, Too"
"Bad Puppy"
"Track & Field"
"Tool!"
"End of the World (Graduation 2008)"
"Hit List"

Baby > "I Know Karate"
Houseware > "Before Coffee" (mug)

"Get Lost" (clock)
"I Crack Myself Up" (coaster)
"Anxiety Clock"

Hats & Bags > "PWN"

"So Uncool"

"I Will Shop 'Til YOU Drop"
"Ad Hat"

Stickers, Buttons, & Magnets > "I Crack Myself Up" (button)

"YAY POTATO" (button)
"Legions of the Uncool" (keepsake)
"Sifa Star" (button)
"Cactus-Tree" (magnet)
"PMSTFU" (10-button packet)

http://lotusmadder.imagekind.com/ > photographs that I've taken that you can buy as greeting cards, in frames, as canvases, or like posters.
[Album] Bulldogs > "Yellow Rose & Slats"

"Marriott Chandelier"
"Iced Cherry Tree"
"Smile--Chances Are.."
"Reel Big Fish"
"The Youth Fair at Night"

2008: A Year of Endings

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:49:51 GMT

This is my sixth year of Fictionpress and my ninth year as a writer. Crazy, ain't it? Well... this is the year I graduate high school. Probably the year I move out. Maybe the year it all ends. Who knows... shit happens. We'll see when it hits the fan.

Sacha Lynn updates for 2008 (http://www.fictionpress.com/~sachalynn)

Things either not in English or nonfiction are specified by [Spanish], [essay], etc.
Unmarked works are more than likely poetry, but they might be prose too.
About list items that occur twice or more:
The latest date is the last time that story was updated.

Most Recently Added or Updated:
(JULY 2008)
As of July 2008 I will no longer be posting my complete original works on the internet due to recently discovered plagiarism from a site called "eliteskills.com" (link: http://www.eliteskills.com/z/159402). Since the webmaster doesn't respond to his e-mails I might have to harrass the plagiarist.

(JUNE 2008)
6/12/08 I can see you. Can you see me, too?

(MAY 2008)
5/28/08 Jake Morrigan's Story

(APRIL 2008)
4/9/08 Zuria

(FEBRUARY 2008)
2/24/08 orange grove
2/8/08 The Supernova's Waltz

(JANUARY 2008)

1/17/08 In Loving Memory
1/11/08 what ever became of her?

Read & Review
please!

Other Links: [http://allpoetry.com/user/show/Trinh+Rizci] [http://storywrite.com/Trinh_Rizci]

Zuria: Jake Morrigan's Story: Blog

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:21:20 GMT

Zuria: Jake Morrigan's Story now has its own blog to kind of revive it in my mind. It's at: http://jake-morrigan.blogspot.com/. If you're interested in reading the story you can read every chapter as I rewrite/revise them there, and they're listed under the Quick Reference. Here is the summary in case you don't know what it is about:

Jake Morrigan is a young boy from the city of Zuria. When his family is caught preparing to flee the city by an invading country-state's army, he is drafted into that army and is forced to fight in a war that isn't his home's.

Please take a look at this story; it hasn't really gotten any input and it would be really helpful with my rewriting if I had some constructive criticism on it!

Zuria: Jake Morrigan's Story Blog was last updated on 05/28/08 with 2-5 (Rewritten) - SECTION 1 COMPLETE.

2007: The Year of Sacha Lynn

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:25:39 GMT

Going on year 5 for Fictionpress, amazing, aye? This is the year of a password overhaul, a new job, new opportunities; this is the year of Sacha Lynn.

Sacha Lynn updates for 2007 (http://www.fictionpress.com/~sachalynn)

Most Recently Added or Updated:

DECEMBER 2007
12/22/07 Relation is a temporary state of mind

NOVEMBER 2007
11/30/07 The Sinking Ship
11/21/07 Exhaust Dreams
11/21/07 As if she could scrub the pain away

SEPTEMBER 2007
9/22/07 The Cerulean Empress
9/16/07 It's hard to be someone who hardly exists
9/16/07 I am a man of no land
9/16/07 Can you spare a place in your heart?
9/16/07 Because the earth will always keep you
9/16/07 The Headstrong Heart
9/16/07 A Curse to the Muses!

AUGUST 2007
8/26/07 Pencil Dick

JULY 2007
7/12/07 they're killing off our superheroes
7/7/07 Goodbye, I Must Be Moving On

JUNE 2007
6/26/07 Wanderer
6/22/07 The Quondam Saint
6/15/07 Chalkboard
6/2/07 The Cerulean Empress
6/1/07 These are the days of thunderstorms

MAY 2007
5/29/07 The Cerulean Empress

APRIL 2007
4/24/07 Anti Chemistry

MARCH 2007
3/25/07 Witches' Railroad
3/14/07 Between Me & You

3/14/07 Why You Should Learn A Second Language [essay]

FEBRUARY 2007

2/7/07 Baby Be

2/7/07 Winter, My Dearest

2/7/07 A One Way Mirror, Shattered

2/21/07 Vassili Zaitsev [essay]
2/27/07 What To Do With A Gun [reformatted from 6/4/05]

Read & Review
please!

Other Links: [http://allpoetry.com/user/show/Trinh+Rizci] [http://storywrite.com/Trinh_Rizci]