My Works

I have started a lot of books, but I'm afraid I rarely finish them.


I probably don't even remember everything I've ever tried to write, but I will cite most of them for you.

///////////////////////////////A Horse Book\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
 I have no idea what I had named this book, but it started out about a girl named Melissa who had a horse.  Her horse had a baby, and most of the story is about Melissa trying to raise the foal.  However, when she hired a young trainer named Alice, I decided I liked Alice better and switched the point of view to Alice's.  Needless to say, I would be ashamed to read that book again today, but I am spared that grievance because the computer I wrote it on got trashed.  Hehe.  I was inspired to write it by Terri Farley and Marguerite Henry.

///////////////////////////////William Longstrider\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
This one is slightly embarrassing to me because I actually finished it, then hated it.  It's about a boy named Robin who is friends with a ranger named William Longstrider who befriends a thief named Jada.  For reasons unknown to Jada and Robin, Will is hunted by the king's men, and whenever the king finds out that Will is an the area, he sends out soldiers to get him.  Well, through a series of unfortunate events, Robin and Jada are forced to flee with Will to the Elves.  Along the way, Robin gets captured by the king and Will must save him.  I wince thinking about the method I wrote for the rescue, which was stupid and badly thought out.  When the threesome finally escaped a forest and found themselves in a huge plan separating the Elves' forest from them, Robin continually fell in animal traps set by the gnomes.  How boring.  Later, they at last reached the Elves' forest, but Jada managed to fall into yet another stupid animal trap and screamed, awakening gigantic bats that hung from the branches of the trees.  Robin jumped down into the pit with her and they covered themselves with leaves, but Will stayed up to fight the bats and ended up being bitten unconscious.  Oh how I loathe this book; must I continue?  Will was captured by gnomes coming to check their animal trap, but Jada and Robin were well-hidden enough that the gnomes didn't see them.  After they left, the two friends found a way to climb out of the pit and continued on in misery to the elves, where they explained the plight of their captive friend.  Thus followed a cheesy and dumb rescue where they burst into the gnomes' dungeon caverns and Will gave them a cliche "You're late".  Later, upon reaching the elves, Will confessed that he was the son of the old king and the current king was his uncle.  Yada yada, he mustered his elven army and charged against his uncle, who, when confronted with such a formidable force, pretended to beg the forgiveness of his nephew, who stupidly bought it until his elven friend Lurohin shot him after seeing him lifting a dagger out of his cloak.  Will was made king, Robin proposed to Jada, and they all lived happily ever after in their goofy, badly-written world.
WHEW! Glad I got that off my chest.

/////////////////////////////The Hitchhiker\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
A story I am currently writing.  As I do not yet know much about it myself, all I can say is that a young Natalie Ross lost her father when he was killed in action somewhere across the seas.  Her mother, who had never much cared about either of them, dropped her off at Aunt Becca's house to continue a life of gambling and drinking that she'd been forced to cease when she'd gotten married.  Natalie grew up lonely, bored, and strangely sweet-tempered.  One day, she did exactly what the sign outside of the city jail told her not to do and picked up a hitchhiker.  His name was Cameron, and he turned out to have just escaped from the prisons of Bad Guys (I really don't know anything about them yet) and was dreading a long, hot walk to the Good Guy HQ. When he found out she was Adrian Ross's daughter, he told her Adrian was the Captain of the Good Guy HQ and had been captured by the Bad Guys; he was not a soldier overseas at all.  In addition, Cameron did not believe he was dead, as the Bad Guys probably wouldn't kill such an important captive.  Natalie went with Cameron to the Good Guy HQ, aka The Safe House, where stuff happened.  All I'm gonna say.

//////////////////////////////////The Pretzel\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
I never actually named this story, just like I've never actually named any other story I've written.  I wrote this for a friend but never gave it to her because of how terrible it is.  Now I know everyone will say, "You're always your worst critic; give it a chance!" Hahaha.  Believe me, it's terrible.
The book is set in medieval Germany, though I did absolutely no research on that country in that time period.  A girl named Elsa is the daughter of a skilled baker, and she delivers the baker's homemade bread to the Duke and Duchess every day.  One day, the family's cat, Apfel (the German word for apple), knocked over their last milk pitcher.  They were unable to get more because I said so, and baker Nikolaus was forced to use water in the Duke and Duchess' rolls.  Elsa delivered it, and was promptly arrested for giving disgusting food to her superiors.  Whether this was actually a crime to be arrested for or not, I'll let you decide.  Elsa's parents persuaded the Duke to release her by complying to The Duchess' terms: in seven days they had to create a roll through which the sun could shine three times, or they would be expelled from their home.  Nikolaus set right to work, but Elsa's head was full of a prisoner she'd befriended while imprisoned: Katja, arrested for stealing chickens from the Duke.  Elsa was contemplating ways to free her friend while staying above the law when a series of "accidents" befell her family.  After the bakery caught on fire, all evidence concluded that a certain annoying butler of the Duke and Duchess' had been causing the havoc.  Elsa immediately set out to find out why, and later discovered that Katja was the daughter of a noble who'd been ostracized from the Duke's court after he attempted to usurp him.  This noble, John, had killed Terach (the annoying butler)'s wife during his rebellion, and Terach did not want Elsa to set Katja free, believing the girl deserved to pay for her father's treachery.  Yeah, cheesy.  Eventually Elsa was captured by Terach and saved by her family, who gave her the happy news that they'd figured out how to make the roll the Duchess commanded them to, and had called it a "pretzel".  They were pardoned, and when the Duke and Duchess found out who Katja was, they elevated her to the rank of a Lady (for John had been their very good friend before he'd rebelled).  The End.  This book was so full of plot holes it's embarrassing.  It was actually based on "Walter the Baker" by Eric Carle.  

//////////////////////////////The Crescent Mark\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
A relief from all these terrible stories, The Crescent Mark is actually fairly good - so far.  It is about a girl unofficially named Scarlett who has a crescent-shaped "birthmark" on her palm.  It burns whenever someone connected to her (e.g. a close friend, her parents) is hurt.  Having never encountered them, she doesn't know yet that it also freezes when magical creatures (e.g. dragons, elves, fairies) are nearby.
One stormy night, her Mark is burning considerably.  She frantically checks on her family, but they are sleeping soundly.  Having learned that the farther away she is from the victim, the less the Mark burns, Scarlett leaves the house and walks down to the road, where she discovers a broken wagon pinning an old man down.  She helps him, and when he is taken to the healer's and his pain relieved, her pain is also relieved.  
That is as far as I have written, but eventually she finds out the old man is a wizard who gave her the crescent mark when she was very young because he knew she would become something special.  He persuades her to go on a quest with him to ____________.  I actually don't know much more.

/////////////////////////////////////Gryffon\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
An abused slave named Lea is rescued by a handsome young inventor named Will Gryffon.  After meeting her during his travels to consult with Lord Gavin about a weapon Gavin has asked Will and his father to create, he felt compassion for her and offered to take her with him to his city of Linertas.  But when Will is accused of stealing and selling the plans to the weapon, he and Lea are forced to feel Linertas and must find a way to clear him.  However, Jonathan Gryffon, Will's father, sends his son a message telling him not to bother trying to clear himself, for Gavin wanted him out of the way to execute a secret plan of his: usurp the king with the weapons Jonathan and Will were making.  Will is afraid that Gavin will do something terrible to his father, so he begs Lea to help him save him.  She agrees, but Will is seen with her by the Baron she was enslaved by and he is imprisoned for stealing slaves.  Lea offers herself as ransom for him, and the Baron agrees, letting Will go and taking her back.  Through a series of events, Will's father tells him he must leave him behind, Will saves Lea, they find out Will has a brother embittered against him, and that's all I've written as well as pretty much all I know.