Hey! My aunt and uncle are traveling the world--twelve countries in twelve months. They started in April with New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and just entered the Phillipines. They have a boy who sht even a year old yet (plus he's ridiculously adorable, so that itself is worth a trip to facebook) Please follow their blog or like their Facebook status below!
twelvecountries.com
https://www.facebook.com/12Countries
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Daily Prompt
"We were laughing, talking, having a blast. I glanced at the time, 1:42. 41 minutes later, I looked again. My heart stopped and I gripped the steering wheel so hard my hands were white. The clock still said 1:42. A tsunami of memories drowned me. I focused my attention on the road, unable to blink. It was of no use though."
I wrote this one also. Can anyone see my illusion for picking that time?
Friday, July 4, 2014
Daily Prompt (I wrote it Myself!)
Here is a few sentences I wrote. Try to work them into a story:
Most people say that their biggest fear is the future. What will it hold? What if an ultimate tragedy is around the corner? Well I don't worry about the future. My biggest fear is the past...
(P.S, I saw How To Train Your Dragon 2 yesterday! Worth it!)
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Ashley on Blogging part 2
I'm sorry it's taking me so long! My days have thus been filled with ice cream, swimming, movies, swimming, and more movies and ice cream! I have been busy and lazy at the same time...(does that make sense?) so here is a lengthy post before I go catch a movie (how to train your dragon2 or America?)
Blogger vs. Wordpress,weebly, and blog.com
I had a friend ask me which one was best. I have used Wordpress once and I liked it. It was clean, easy, and professional. So why did I go with blogger? I was simply more familiar with it. One isn't better than the other. Both are easy to customize and do the job. If you want a more formal blog, go with Wordpress. For a more casual blog I would do blogger. Weebly was introduced to me by an aunt. For certain reasons I couldn't set up a blog then. But I started to! It was tricky to navigate at first , but it's another free template you could experiment with. As for blog.com, I visited the website and went no further. Experiment with different templates! Find what's easiest for you. Blogger is 100% free where the other blogs cost for cooler templates. Let me know what you find!
Writing posts
One thing that new, younger bloggers struggle with is the actual posting. They get pumped up at first, write ten posts and then stop. They don't post often and people stop reading their content. Who wants to read a blog that never has any updates? 3-5 posts a week isn't hard and is a good number. As for the actual content, stay interesting! Don't drag on, and remember simple grammar.
I'm in a rush to see my movie, I'll post more later, ciao!
Blogger vs. Wordpress,weebly, and blog.com
I had a friend ask me which one was best. I have used Wordpress once and I liked it. It was clean, easy, and professional. So why did I go with blogger? I was simply more familiar with it. One isn't better than the other. Both are easy to customize and do the job. If you want a more formal blog, go with Wordpress. For a more casual blog I would do blogger. Weebly was introduced to me by an aunt. For certain reasons I couldn't set up a blog then. But I started to! It was tricky to navigate at first , but it's another free template you could experiment with. As for blog.com, I visited the website and went no further. Experiment with different templates! Find what's easiest for you. Blogger is 100% free where the other blogs cost for cooler templates. Let me know what you find!
Writing posts
One thing that new, younger bloggers struggle with is the actual posting. They get pumped up at first, write ten posts and then stop. They don't post often and people stop reading their content. Who wants to read a blog that never has any updates? 3-5 posts a week isn't hard and is a good number. As for the actual content, stay interesting! Don't drag on, and remember simple grammar.
I'm in a rush to see my movie, I'll post more later, ciao!
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Page Updates
I have updated several pages, so check them out! The Recommendations by Age has all of the authors listed. It crashed on me, I meant to put 12-14 for the last section, so keep that in mind. Any ideas, please comment under the suggestions page!
Book Review: Princess Academy
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Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Summary: (amazon)
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.
My Thoughts:
First of all, I loved the writing, it was perfect for the storyline. The plot was awesome, but it got oh so boring way too often. Its really slow at first, but once you get into it its pretty cool. Parts were choppy though, and it felt like the author didn't think through it all. The creative element was definitely there thoguh and the characters were great, I really loved them. All in all, it was a fun, cute, book.
Content: Cautious--romance, scary situations, violence
My Rating: 4 stars (I really liked it)
PG, 10 and Up
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