Just to let y'all know, I've been updating my Deviantart and Website Blog more often than I have Livejournal lol.

Well, life has been going good. The school year is whisking away quickly, although I don't want it to. Last week was really slow, but perhaps that was a good thing. I've been working at the school as SBO artist. I did a MORP poster for the halloween dance this year and have yet to post it on my DA.

My bo-bo Will is going on a mission! He's going to the Taiwan Taipei mission. He always wanted to go to China, but since that's closed off, he's been called to a place where it's as close as he's going to get. He's really excited :D And so are we.

I created a new forum on Excoboard - my third attempt at getting a good forum rolling. Hopefully this one will get more activity than the last ones, because the last ones were deleted simply because they didn't have enough activity. At least, I think that's why they disappeared '^^

You can find the forum Here. It's based partly off of the books I'm writing. It's also a place to get together, share creative arts and such, and offer resources and questions about the forum, writing, and art. If you do consider joining it, please read the FAQ first. It answers a lot of questions.

One of those FOREVA times where I haven't made an entry in this journal for a very long time.

Well, in recent times, I've finished writing The Legend of Draconite and it is now in the editing process. Please check out my website here!: Xenithar's Lair. Here I talk about my books and art, and will soon be getting content aka The Legend of Draconite back up on my storefront. I've been working on the outline for the next book I plan to write, called Founders, a prequel to LoD.

Anywho, it's summer, and I just got back from two trips: one to San Fransicso the first week, and Girl's Camp the second week. I was a second year youth leader, so it was technically my last week at camp. It's a happy-sad feeling T.T but I got a cool jewelry box only youth leaders can get from the church.

That's all for now.

Rainy Flight by ~Xenithar on deviantART

It's been forever since I've posted here. I've been busy with writing and playing around on other web sites XD Anyways, I've finished the 3rd book in the Legend of Draconite, and once I get it all edited and revised I'll put it on my storefront, along with my other books that I've self-published so far.
I was advertising my work on this free sci-fi/promotion site called Painbrain (at www.painbrain.com), and the adiminstrator of the site gave some good advice on advertising things on the internet:




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Are you Having trouble writing a good advertisement?

As a Writer and self publisher of newsletters, novels, and role play gaming systems not only am I the content provider but I am also my own ad agency, web designer, and internet marketer. This has required me to learn how to create my own "ad copy," and where and how to get it seen on the internet and in print publications as well. I have noticed in the case of several list pages that I run that many affiliate linkers simply post links in raw Html format. This type of tactic will almost never generate a click other than a few curiosity clicks. Curiosity clicks have about a 1 in 100,000 chance of generating a sale and are vary low in number. Curiosity clicks mite come from 1 in every 10,000 site visitors which makes your odds of making a sale closer to 1 in 1,000,000.

What you want is targeted clicks from interested parties who have read your advertisement and gained interest in what your selling. A person who has read a well constructed to the point advertisement is much more likely to click your affiliate link and seriously consider product or service purchase. A well written ad can generate as much as 10 to 40% click through rate with an actual sales rate from 5 to 20%. Now 20% may seem like low sales however if the site you are advertisement on gets 10,000 hits a day and you get 10% or 1,000 clicks your 20% sales would be 200 sales a day. As you can see if you got, lets say $5 a sale, you would make $1,000 a day. To put that in perspective, with curiosity clicks you would make $5 in 100 days on the same website.

I know the above numbers are accurate from many years of trial and error, where I had adds that consisted of only a link that never generated a sale. You need to say something to your potential customers. You first need to grab the attention of web surfers who already have a need for or interest in what your selling. You than need to convince them you have the right and best product or service, and You must do all this with vary few words.

These are just a bit of what I have learned through the school of hard knocks over the years. If you would like to get more expert advice in the field Click Here!

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Anyways, that's all I have to say ^^

Yes, it's been forever. Again. Anyways, summer has been so-so so far, and I'm looking forward to the San Diego trip in July. I've been babysitting for some of my sisters (well, they're my sister-in-laws, but I've decided to call them my sisters from now on[-,-])
I've also been editing one of my books, reading through it and correcting, deleting, and moving stuff around so it looks and sounds right. Whilst doing that, I've been writing the next book in the series, called "Elemsra" (Elemsra is a character in the book, but I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't explain :3) It's been really fun to write, and I'm aiming for at least 200 pages in length. I have a feeling it's going to be longer than that.
I went to Girl's Camp last week, which I immensely enjoyed. I was a Youth Leader this year, and didn't have to do as much as the younger girls >:) It was fun though, and the Spirit was strong in the camp.
That's all I have to say :3

Yes I'm published!!! I have a storefront here: storefront where I sell my published material. I hope y'all will take a look at it, as I look forward to putting more books on there.
Anyways, to life. This month I'll hopefully be getting tested for my driver's license, which is exciting and a little frightening. Today we were driving up to the hospital to see Julie and Jake and Lillian(sp?), and mom and Ruth kept laughing because they thought I was driving too slow. We all had a good laugh, though. And the baby herself is very cute (they all are, actually).
Well, that's all I have to say.

Yes!!! I was able to finally publish my first book, the Silver Dragon Legacy,, and ordered a copy and am waiting for it to come!!!!!!! POOL PARTY WOO HOO!!!!! (well, maybe i'm not sure about that quite yet XD) I'm using Lulu, an online self publishing company, and the best part????????? it's free tee hee (it rhymed) Well, I invite all who read this to take a look at it, as the support helps me much.

Other than that, the end of the school year is coming, and we're all growing up so fast. I wish I could always stay this way, but we all must progress to learn and grow ^.^

That's all I have to say.

Whoa I haven't posted here for a LONG TIME. Finished Linnaie's Mask forever ago, and went back to my current book. I'm actually editing a series I wrote, the Silver Dragon Legacy, in hopes of getting it published soon ^^ *vibrates in excitement*
Anyways, my sister just had her baby girl Samantha. She is strong and healthy, a little bag of sugar, as dad puts it. It's amazing how fast time goes by; it seems like yesterday we didn't have grandkids running around the house. I'm starting to feel old e.e
We also have new furniture and flooring, which is all kind of nice. I'm still learning to drive and getting better at my parallel parking (oh isn't it so exciting? 0-0)
Anywho, I feel kind of bad because I haven't been working on my Personal Progress lately <,< I am glad, though, that the church has the program for the Young Women, and it's there to help us. And it doesn't apply ONLY to the girls; I'm sure even some of the young men could learn a thing or two from PP, as well as their own Duty to God program. *loves the LDS church woot* Along with that, I also feel a little guilty for not magnifying my calling *is in sore need of REPENTANCE lol* but I truly am glad to be Mia Maid class president. If I've learned something from my calling, it's this: people are, by nature, usually pretty nice if you go out and talk to them.
Speaking of church stuff, General Conference this past weekend was totally AWESOME. All the talks were enlightening, and the one that stuck out to me the most was the one about forgiveness (I think it was given by James E. Faust), and how the Amish community forgave the family of the crazy milkman. That takes the Spirit, will, and patience, if you ask me. I myself am trying to develop such an attitude.
Recently, before and during General Conference, I drew and inked this comic for my Creative Writing class, which was EXTREMELY exhausting, but fun. I talked to this other artist girl in my class who also made an AWESEOME comic (in which the story probably made more sense than mine '^^), and I hope we can become friends.
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb not sure what else to say...Hopes to you all.

Wow! I HAVE A LEARNER'S PERMIT!!!!! YAYAY (anyone celebrating besides me? 0_o) I've gone out driving a little bit, but still need more practice, especially with the clutch XP. But mumisita let me drive her van and that was fun! The class itself at school is kinda big, and the teacher's been threatening to kick people out (thought he doesn't really mean it XD)
I'm amazed at how long this story is so far (10 parts!). It's been fun writing it, and I look forward to writing more. I hope some of you will take a peak at it ;)
Anyways, I'm also taking Creative Writing (we're making "zines"), computer tech, art, and, of course, driver's ed. I'm excited for this new semester and hope I can make the best out of it. ^.^

Well, the month seems to be going by extremely slow. I'm not sure why....anyways, I got a new watch, and it's a cool one.
Last night we went to Eric and Kathleen's house to eat and spend time together. It was quite enjoyable, and their cats were floofy and friendly and cute. I wish my fuzz-butt black rat would love me more... hehe. But it's good to see that Kat is doing better with her ankle. Eric also told us a little about his military life and how you shouldn't join it because you're bored. Apparently that's the wrong reason to join.
I've also been updating my story frequently on my DA, and it's getting pretty exciting.... la.

Wow a new cold year! After shoveling the driveway out in the cold I got sick and was half asleep at school all day. And my computer decided to be defective and crashed, so I need to get one of my bo-bos to help me fix it.
Lately, though, I've been working on a story called Linnaie's Mask and am going to frequently update it on my DA. I hope y'alls will read it '^^.
Some of my new year resolutions are:
*Get at least one book published
*go to the temple more often
*read the Book of Mormon again
*learn to drive (yes, the baby of the family is going to drive a car, everyone XD)
*Get more neices and nephews

Okay, maybe that last one shouldn't really be one of my resolutions, but my n's and n's are so cute!! hehe. I love them all, as well as the rest of my family.

Whoat it's been way too long!! bleh. Well, I finished Sunstone and started on the next book in the series, "Gift Search" (although I'm thinking about changing the title to "Treasure-Keeper). It's so fun! I'm also going through the Silver Dragon Legacy and doing some major editing there. I hope I can get some of these books printed and published someday.
Wow Christmas is near! Hehe. I can't believe how fast this year's gone by. So much has happened, and I'm looking forward to the new year.
Today me and my friends got extremely hyper in physics after eating these cream puff things. Then I went home, finished my homework, and got online. I found out my bro-bro went to the doctor so they could figure out what was wrong with him, but I wasn't informed as to what it was.
Anywho, that's all I have to say.

Yes. Sometimes I muse upon the days when we would travel up the canyon to my grandparent's cabin and spend the nights under the thousands of summer starts, talking about the possibility of bears and cougars eating us as we slept on the deck. In the evening owls and bats would fly across the dark as we watched the sunset across the western hill. In the morning I would take my bow and knife then go hiking around the property, enjoying the fresh scent of mountain air and pine trees, the noise of the quaking aspens and the sound of wind blowing across the lake. Once in a while you could see a beaver or muskrat poke its nose out of the water as it swam to its den in the island. Then I would go with my friends later with a stick in hand and pretend we were great mythical adventurers on a quest for the Blue Chocolate, camping at our will and nibbling on pine needles. Then, back in the evening, we would sit down in the living room and talk about anything, drinking Jumex, eating cookies, and enjoying beef stew. The cabin would grow warm then when the heater turned on, and we would all sleep well, ready to hear the humming birds in the morning at their feeders.
I wish they hadn't have sold that place.

Well, the weather has been getting colder but it still seems pretty nice outside. Last night I went to this farewell party for our friend Krystal. She's moving to Idaho, I guess. I'm sad, but at the same time, glad. It's a very strange feeling (it's like feeling orange XD). But I think she'll be in a better situation up there than down here, so I'm happy for her.
Anyways, I've continued drawing and stuff, and getting more homework and all that other random stuff. I'm practicing this song on the piano that I'm going to play at YW in Excellence sometime at the end of this month I think.
That's all.

Yes, I took a shower and my hair actually turned out right when I tied it up. How exciting! *claps* I finished this awesome picture in my DA, and am going to work on a request for my coworker soon. Also, for world history class my group and I are going to write a chapter for a WORLD HISTORY BOOK. The problem is, is that I have no clue what I'm supposed to do XD.
Anyways, I'm enjoying life and am feeling very happy. I'm also trying to work out some problems between my friends and certain *cough* people in my family. It's a strange situation, but I hope things turn out right.
Tonight I'm babysitting for Bronwyn and Aaron while they go to the temple. I'm babysitting my nephew Gage (may he always be so cute) and I think it's going to be great fun and I'll get even more child-handling experience! (I've never babysitted a boy before XD)
That's all for today.

It's been forev-ER. Anyways, today I managed to dislocate a boy's jaw when he crashed into me and broke my skull open. We had thrown it to the opposite team (we were playing flag football inside) and some guy caught it. The guy that got hurt was behind him and I in front. The guy with the ball dodged to the side and I crashed into the boy and dislocated his jaw when it smashed against the top of my head and broke it open. But we recovered quickly, laughed, and I went to Health class.
My book is going extremely well, and I've added some pictures to my DA gallery. I'm planning to do a short comic of a part of my book when I get the time (maybe tomorrow) and post it on there so viewers can get an idea of some of the characters in the book. Fun fun fun.
I have to get off now. la.

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Yay! I finally finished my reading for lord of the flies for english. It ACTUALLY got exciting at the end! The symbolism and whatever is really cool though, even though the story itself dragged on and on. I passed the hundred page mark on my book! *throws a party* and will continue writing it until I feel like finishing it. Then I'll start on the next book in the series!!! XD
School has been going well, I still have friends, and am doing my best to do what's right. I've also updated my DA gallery and am finally getting members in Gryphon Nestlock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like pie.

This is my UEA weekend so far: on thursday my friends Emma and Sky came over to talk and hang out. After that we went to Hollywood Connections and hung out with our other GT friends. Of course, I kind of felt left out because I'm not really close friends with them. The only problem was that when we were going to go skating the rink was closed for HOCKEY. C'mon, hockey? on thursday night?! Anywho..
The next day (friday) went by really slow and lazily. However, I typed a lot in my book!!! And I need to continue writing. Then one of my relatives, Teresa, called up and asked if I could take care of her chickens, so that's what I've been doing ever since yesternoon. Stubborn little dinosaurs.
Today has been really slow as well. This morning I went over to the stake center and vacumed(sp?) most of the carpet and played with a deflated balloon ^.^ After that I came home, watched my niece Alex, took a shower, played on my computer, and now I'm on here. I'm also working on this cool picture that I will soon post on Deviantart. Then I have physics and english homework <,<
That's all.