Big Big News!!

Hey everyone! We have some BIG NEWS! Okay,now that I have your attention I'm gonna go on.  
We are having a.......


Contest!

 Now,I know your wondering "Why the crackers is this news?!?!?!You have contests all the time!" Well,this one is special because the winner of this will be receiving a signed copy of this book from the author!!!!

Okay,so I hope you're all excited.I know I am. I read this book and had trouble staying away from it.Okay,so here is the theme that Shelby and I came up with-


You've been sold into slavery because your parents died and you have no other family members.In under 900 words,Explain to us the way you live,how you feel,and/or anything else you want!

Send your entries to breeandshelby@gmail.com. If you win you will recieve an email and we will post in on here.You will have 10 days to reply or we will have to re-pick.


Ms.Breen will also be giving feedback on what you send in,we will be posting all the stories on here,and with feedback! I hope you guys enjoy this!

~Bree
P.S. Random comment from Shelby... I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS! :)


*Later edit from Bree- This ends September 29,in 20 days! Good Luck!

Hi.....

Hey everyone! It's Bree.Sorry for not posting.I did a post overload on my blog Wednesday,and Thursday(August 18) I started the 7th grade.And it's different from 6th..Like diff subjects,diff teachers,diff time(i used to go to gym 4th hour.Not I go to geography 4th hour and gym last hour.).Here is kind of a little schedule-

1st-Math Teacher #1
2nd-Reading Teacher #2
3rd-Language Teacher #2
4th-Geography Teacher #3
Lunch
5th-Science Teacher #4
6th-Computer Lab Teacher #2
7th-Gym Teacher #1

  Then the bell rings(at 3:00),but we only have one bus,so I don't get home until 4:00.I barely have time to post,what with my competition with AR(Don't even ask..but AR is Accelerated Reading that 4th and up do at my school).But,good news is,my language teacher(which is also my Reading and Computer Lab teacher) is making us write! Yay! So I will be sharing some of mine with you. Meanwhile,I may have a hard time posting during the week. Sorry! Anyway, I have no idea what to write. So here is a sneak peak at something I may write! :) Tell me what you think!


  I walked on,stumbling over branches and wishing the sun would come out already. I couldn't see,and if someone was following me they could easily follow all the noise I was making.I was wishing I could move silent and stealthily,like my sister did. When she was still the same.
  I looked up,realizing I had been so lost in thought that I had stopped.The sky in the east was turning it's pink and orange color,as it does when the sun climbs majestically in the sky.I smiled.Now I could move silently.I surveyed my surroundings,hoping to see something familiar.Nothing.I kept heading in the direction I was originally,or at least I hoped it was.I was beginning to feel like I was walking in circles,when I heard the zip of an arrow being released from a bow.My first thought I was close to a range,that I was behind the targets.Then I realized I was the target.
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his is just an unedited version taken(if I write it) from the middle of the story.Please do not take anything,it would tear me apart if I knew someone had taken it.Thanks!

~Bree<3

A Fun Day

Sorry I didn't get to post a movie review yesterday and sorry Bree didn't post writing on Wednesday and sorry she didn't post today either. I don't  know if she is or not so I will, I guess.

Except I'm not sure what to write about.
That stinks.
Yesterday I didn't post because I spent all day at an amazing amusement park riding all of the roller coasters and upside rides and spinny rides and scary underground rides (okay there's only one of those and it fits in the roller coaster category) and everything else in between. Except 2, because they made me sick last time because I have motion sickness. I can ride spinny upside down roller coasters over and over but I can't sit in a car drive around in circles. It makes perfect sense right? NO!

I guess this is technically my post for the weekend because I haven't written anything new recently, I'm really off my game. And I have to go out and buy school supplies soon which isn't fun. And I might randomly disappear and go off on a sudden vacation because that's what my family does. We don't plan ahead or anything. Sometimes that makes it exciting and everything.

Ok I'm really just rambling on varying topics so I'm gonna go. Hope you enjoyed my randomness. ;P
XOXO Shelby

Book Review: The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life

This book was very silly. It was just about a girl that on her first day had a pair of panties clinging to the inside of her jeans on the first day of school so she was teased and everything and the popular group invited her and she ditched her 2 friends, even though one of them was a jerk. and she spilled their secrets which isn't good ever. Eventually, she figured out the popular group were just mean so she finally got out of that loop and went back to her one nice friend.

Anyway, one fashion disaster isn't going to ruin anyones life like she says, but it wasn't a horrible book. I honestly wouldn't recommend it though.


be sure to check out www.comeallcomewrite.blogspot.com book club! The first book is Dairy Queen. Go to the book club page at the top of Come All Come Write and you can get more information there. I would love some participants! thanks!

Failure

I am so sorry Bree and I have both failed this week at blogging.
We have both been super busy. We apologize.
And to make it up we are starting something new here at Writing For All!
Every week we are going to try to contact our favorite authors and ask him/her our questions and such. Hopefully they answer and every Monday we will post their answers (Bree and I will switch back and forth) as well as a new contest.

We are having the same contest as last week, so please check out last Monday's post for more info. Thanks so much! Sorry for our mysterious disappearance and everything!

<3, Shelby

Divergent-Book Review

(also posted on comeallcomewrite.blogspot.com) Simply tied for the best novel I have ever read (the other novel that holds a dear place in my heart would be Delirium-Lauren Olvier), Divergent is a little (big) something to make you cry, laugh, and at times, feel like you're going to faint. This novel by Veronica Roth is extremely daring and amazingly well written. I couldn't put it down the whole time I was reading it.
Although unhappy with the way it ended, there is a second and third book. neither have been released and I fail at patience, so I am practically jumping out of my socks waiting for the second book to come out. I have to read it, like hm... now!!!!
I have an email into Veronica Roth. I really hope she takes the time to answer and I will post it here if she does. (like my 100th post, remember?)
I'm in a major writing mood today. Ok, that was random. Back to the review:
Divergent's run on the NYT's bestelling list was for 11 weeks. Congratulations for Veronica Roth (veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com). And guess what? The second book title is called Insurgent. oh and im reading her latest post rigth now and guess what? shes done with her first copy of it, AHHHH!!!
OK, seriously, why are you still reading this? Go out and read Divergent. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, that's about it. Read it, It's amazing. I'm dead serious. GO
XOXO Shelby

Monday's Tips-From an Author!

Hey everyone! I am so excited for this post. So the other day I was brainstorming,thinking of things I could do that would make things a little more interesting.What better way to make things interesting than get tips from a published author!-I thought.I also got the idea from Shelby's 100th post.So I was going around,thinking of books I had just recently read,books I thought were amazing.I came across two of my absolute favorite!!!! I found their contact info,and I was so excited to open up my email  Saturday morning and find one of them had replied! Her name is M.E.Breen and she wrote "Darkwood".Here are her tips-

How did you get started writing?

The first piece of creative writing I remember doing was in third grade, when I wrote a poem about a spider getting eaten by a bird. It was pretty dark and dreary as poems go. After that there was a long break until after I graduated from college, when I started working on Darkwood. I've always lived in cities, and I was staying in the country one night and I was walking along a road back to my cabin. There was no moon and I could not believe how dark it was. It seemed like anything was possible in that darkness -- scary things, but magical things, too. I started thinking about what people would be like if they lived with that darkness all the time. Would they be cowardly or brave? Imaginative or close-minded? I'd been looking at pictures of wolves earlier, and I missed my old dog Annie and my two cats, and, well, you can see how the story grew from there. I never knew where it was going from one day to the next. I just followed wherever it led.
Any books you would recommend?

This is great question, because I'm about to teach a class on writing novels for teenagers and kids. We're reading five books for the course, all of which I would recommend for different reasons:
The Hunger Games, for incredible suspense and a marvelously detailed picture of a truly terrifying governmentMarcelo and the Real World, for its minute exploration of a unique heart and mind and for having a pretty curious mystery
What I Saw and How I Lied, for looking at the world of adult problems through the eyes of someone just starting to feel adult, and also for being full of interesting history and being beautifully writtenFrom the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler, for being perfectly written and funny and really really understanding kids
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, for being completely, totally awesome and making me cry every time.
Any tips you would like to give to young writers?

Yes! One is boring because everybody says it, but it bears repeating: Revise, revise, revise! I wrote the first draft of Darkwood in one year and then spent SEVEN more years revising and making it better. You don't have to take that long, but you should always plan on doing a lot of rethinking and rewriting.

The other piece of advice is more fun. Start a writing group. Writing is a lonely task, and it helps immensely to have people you trust and like reading your work and giving you feedback. Critiquing their work will also teach you a lot about your own writing. It looks like you've made an excellent start on this with your friend Shelby and your online followers.

So,what do you think? If this goes over well(with comments!) we may start doing this every Monday(if we can find an author) along with the contest.I'm going to start that back up today!

  In under 900 words,write a short story,poem,etc. about any topic whatsoever. 

 Okay,I think that's it! Well,have a nice day! Also,I'm back! Yay!