Happy (Almost) New Year!!!

I feel like I haven't been on here in a while!! So, hi everyone!! I think We should to a club video chat..
-Poppy Red

Merry Christmas!

  Merry Christmas to all, and as Tiny Tim and the fantastic Mr. Charles Dickens said, "God bless us, every one!"
  Did everybody have a good Christmas?
-President Fantasy

Still Writing

  My word count is 61,431 and counting.
  This book is going to be so long!
  How's it going with you all?
-President Fantasy

This is for Tigerr, even though everybody already knows

I won!!!!!!!!!!!

-Raistlin

I Did It!!!

I won NaNoWriMo!! And guess what?! I even had Pumpkin Pie to eat!!
Go Lords Of The Pencil Club!! (woot, woot)!
-Poppy Red

This is for you Tigerr

HEY GUYS! I WON!!!
-Dreamer

Guess What, Everybody?

  We did it! Fist bump to all of you, because ALL of us finished our novels on time! Can you believe it? Well, I can! We rock, one and all! Thank you, God!
  And, of course, thank you to all of YOU for your support and pep talks and all that we've been through! Go eat an ice cream cone in celebration! (Or something similarly sweet.)
  And, of course, having won NaNoWriMo, you have earned FIVE free published copies of your novel! So, here's the scoop on that!
  Your deadline is June 30th for getting the whole thing done -- but as we learned last time, waiting till the last minute is a TERRIBLE idea. So, here's what I suggest:
  #1. If you have not finished your rough draft -- meaning you reached your word count, but did not finish your story, like me, then you want that whole thing done by the end of December. I mean it -- last time one particular member of this club (I won't say any names, Tigerr) took December off, and barely finished in time. Get that sucker done as quickly as humanly possible! Don't stop now that NaNoWriMo is over. Keep going, and finish it all!
  #2. Get right to editing it. Go in and fix any plot holes you want to fix. This could take one month or two months, depending on your preferences -- but if you want me to grammar edit for you (which I will totally do, by the way) then you should send me your finished manuscript by, say, March or April. Earlier is better.
  #3. Order the copies well before June 30th. Get to finishing the novel right away, and do your best so you can order the copies long before the deadline. I will help you with cover design and interior design and everything -- just finish your manuscript and send me an email. Really, don't hesitate -- I enjoy doing this, and I want everyone to get their copies.
  Well, that's all. I'd better go work on finishing my novel! (Although I already won, I need to finish. This thing is going to be HUGE.) Fantastic work, all of you, and God bless us, one and all!
  (If it is possible that you have not read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...go out and read it. Seriously. It's that good.)
-President Fantasy

Hey, I won!

 The title says it all. I won! :) It was hard, but I did it. I skipped chapters, skipped traveling parts, broke a nose, made Joseph cry a long time and nearly drove myself to the obessive writer phase, but I did it. So...yeah. Thanks everybody, for helping and encouraging me! :) A million thanks you to everybody, actually!
 Oh, and Dreamer + Raistlin: make a post, please. Everybody needs to know that you guys-I won't spill. You guys get to say it.
-Tigerr

The Storyteller's Creed

    Hello, fantastic-brilliant-encouraging-creative-wonderful-genius-fellow-writers-friends-clubbers-Wrimos-and-human-beings. (How's that for a new title for all of you? Sembers was too short. Maybe that's what I didn't like about it.)
  As we draw into these last few days of frenzied noveling (how's that word count?) I would like to share with you something that I really like. It's called the Storyteller's Creed -- that is, the words that we storytellers agree to and write by. If we really like it, it may become the new quote at the top of the blog. Here it is, and tell me what you think:

Storyteller’s Creed

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts.

That hope always triumphs over experience.

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.

  And...that's the Storyteller's Creed! I read it in Barnes & Noble in a book, but apparently it's universal to all authors. Be inspired, go on, and write powerful words that will change the world! (Or just go and finish your novel...but hey, what's the difference?)

 -President Fantasy

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

  ...from Kevin and Mark. Ha ha, just kidding. (I'm listening to their Thanksgiving Special right now, so...yeah.)
  Anyway, so, Happy Thanksgiving from me! We have SO much to be thankful for! (Including, I suppose, having thousands of words to write...can you tell I'm procrastinating?)
  And...Happy birthday! To you! From me! For my birthday tomorrow! (I like saying happy birthday to you. Humor me.)
  And...(I'm using that opener too much, come on, Sophie -- OOPS! I mean, President Fantasy...that's weird calling yourself President...never mind...) I have to go write a whole lot of words! YEAH!
-President Fantasy

My story!

I am just on here to tell everybody that I just broke the 10,000 word barrier!
-Raistlin

Twelve Days In!

  Well, well, well -- we're twelve days into the crazy month of November and I am hanging on to my word count...and having a great deal of fun writing the second book in the Cricket's Fire series! Right now, Jade's delivering papers and an Oreo cookie, Tal's missing, Robert's off on a mission with Alice (who pretty much hates his guts), and Cycle Cross is about to have a nuclear meltdown! It's great!
  (I almost thought about separating meltdown into two words there just to get an extra word in. Too much NaNo-ing, do you think?)
  Anyway, how about you? How's your story going? Anything interesting? Any writer's block frustrations or character problems that we can hash out together?
-President Fantasy

It's Been A Year?!

I can't believe it's been a year since I met you guys last November, and when I discovered this club.
-Poppy Red

A Day in the Life of NaNoWriMo

A video that Tigerr, Dreamer, and I put together. Please enjoy!

-President Fantasy

I Caught Up!

  Whew...thanks for the pep talk earlier today, Tigerr. I did it, just like you said, and I am now on schedule.
  I think I'll call Fridays "Crazy Fridays" from now on, since I can't really write on Thursdays, since I'm gone practically all day.
  Anyway, good luck to all as we head into the weekend! Get some good words in! I have something for you to inspire you -- like a pep talk. I didn't write it, someone else did. (It was in a school assignment of mine last year.) I hope you enjoy!

Word Power.

 Words can amuse. They can delight.

Words can also manipulate, waffle and lie.

Words can persuade, and words can mislead.

Words can distract, and words can inspire.

Words can touch the heart, arouse to passion, and convict of truth.

Words can bring wonder, awe, comfort, forgiveness, bonding, certainty, understanding, insight and clarity.

They can also cause anger, distortion, confusion, ambiguity, embarrassment, separation and destruction.

Words convey power.

They can give life. And they can kill. They can tear down, and they can build up.

Words of Power are more than raw carriers of useful factoids. The danger of a high-tech education is that it can lead to a bleak wasteland, a splintered nation of ever-more isolated individuals clinging to ever-more narrow interests. 

Words can bring us together. Or drive us apart.

Remember the words of the old Gospel Hymn?

Memorable Words/ Efficacious Words/ “Wonderful Words of Life”

Beyond information, there should be thinking and stretching. That goes for you as well as for your readers. Writers need pauses, like blank pages, when we ponder and the pen stops or the keys cease clicking.

Silence. Stillness. Wonder.

Perhaps, in the final analysis, novelists and storytellers are best at articulating our dreams and hopes and prayers. They, at their best, interpret God and ourselves to us.

They inculcate our sense of wonder.

It is true that words alone or without substance are empty.

I believe we cannot communicate well without images and sounds and graphics and colors and visuals and motions. But alone these are never enough.

There are, after all, grave limitations to the powers of the lens and the tube and the chip. The fully dimensional human viewpoint cannot be matched by any machine. The human eye is still sharper than the eye of a television camera because it is linked to a brain and a heart. (Paraphrased from the late Saul Pett, an AP news features writer) 

For it is in the Power of Words that images are translated into meaning in our brains and hearts. And into change.

With God’s Words, we can speak volumes. We can even speak new worlds into existence, just as God did at Creation.

We can, tell stories. Our stories. And join them to the Great Glad News of His Story.

So don’t sound the Requiem for the Written Word.

No, not yet. For in the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word WAS God. This is the Power of God. Now and forever.

Go. Increase your Word power. Write Powerful Words! Wonderful words! Wonderful words of life! In an Age of Image.

Go! In the Power of God’s Word. 

Have fun, and go write words!

-President Fantasy

Updated content

Hello everybody, just posting to tell everybody that my story has updated content.

-Raistlin

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am starting.

Hello everybody it's Raistlin here and i'm just coming on here to say that I am starting my writing for NaNoWriMo right now so here I go!!!

Hey, guess what, it's November!

 Okay, the title is obvious. But hey, it works. It's a title. And it's spectacular. Anway, I'm here to squeal that I, too, have gotten my writing done for the first day of NaNoWriMo this year! Woot, woot! I'm gonna do a bit extra, and maybe write ahead to a scene I like...whatever. At least I'm gonna write. How is everyone else doing on it? Has anyone else started theirs? Tr-Dreamer? Raistlin? Miss Templado? Wait, I KNOW she hasn't because she's my sister. I think I'll go tell her again. Thank you for your time, everyone. Have fun writing! :{) (The smily mustache man! Did I spell that rij;hugtdrghujijihugfghjhgfdfghjjygtfrdfghjght?)
-Tiger

NaNoWriMo! (clap,clap,clap,clap)

I just finished writing the first day of my novel for NaNoWriMo! So excited!! Even though I didn't have any pumpkin pie to eat, I had Halloween cake to eat.

-Poppy Red

NaNoWriMo and...a Cover!

  It's here, folks! Grab your computers and start writing! We've made it! The countdown is...counted down! Let's get going!
  Now, to kick off the festivities, I made a cover for our very own Poppy Red. :) Here it is, the world debut!

  What do you think? Like it?
  If you, too, want a cover (it's not much, but it's something, right?) then just let me know in a comment what kind (general description) and I'll make you one.
  November is here and it's time to get going on our novels!
  "World, Phil! You could change the WORLD!"
-President Fantasy
P.S. Speaking of which, there are new Ceiling Fan episodes out! Go check them out at their website, which is www.ceilingfanpodcast.com. And go watch Miss Templado's second Breyer video on YouTube, entitled Miracle: Episode 2. And make her a Writing Buddy on NaNoWriMo -- her username is Eggfig.
-President Fantasy (again)

We're Almost There! (Or, Covers to All and to All a Good Night

  NaNoWriMo in only a few hours! Am I excited? You bet! This is the climax of the year! Too many exclamation points!
  Anyway...
  The real purpose of this post is to see who wants a cover. If you want me to design you a cover, please leave a comment with the title of your book. (The one you want to appear on your cover. For example, you might want to have a subtitle or something.) And then, give your full name or pen name or whatever name you want to appear on your cover. Then, give the general appearance you would like.
-President Fantasy

2 Days To Go!!

Whoo! Who's ready for NaNoWriMo?!  Looking forward to a great November with lots of Pumpkin Pie and writing.

30 Covers, 30 Days!

  'Nuff said. If you want a super awesome professional designed cover, you can click this link: http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/node/1258140 and fill out their form.
  Or, you can also just talk to me...I'll do a cover for you. :) It won't be quite as awesome as theirs, but it's something, right? Just leave a comment saying the title you want on the front, the author name you want to use, and a basic idea of what you want it to look like. Or just a description of the book, that works too.
  NaNoWriMo! Woot, woot! And...vote 4 Romney!
-President Fantasy
P.S. The 30 Days, 30 Covers deadline for submitting your entry is Sunday. Just to let you know.

I Feel Like Singing

I have it! I am literally jumping up and down right now! Why, may you ask am I so excited? I KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO WRITE FOR NANOWRIMO!!!!! I think I am going to call it, "What They didn't know". And it is of Mystery genre.
-Poppy Red

New Tabs

President, would you mind giving me a little intro of the new tabs?
-Poppy Red

NaNoWriMo in...TWELVE DAYS!

  AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Is it really only twelve days left? Has it really been a year already since last NaNoWriMo? This is crazy! We've only got, like, twelve days left! Did I mention that? Oh. Sorry.
  Anyways...
  First I should probably say that if you haven't seen it yet, go onto YouTube and look up "Miracle Episode 1 Breyer". It's the first episode of Miss Templado's Breyer video series, which she is writing and filming and I am producing and editing. Check it out!
  So now, back to business....
  NaNoWriMo!
  Here are some more tips for NaNoWriMo:
  So, once you have your main character (otherwise known as the protagonist), your conflict, your climax, and your resolution (see my previous post "30 Days Left!"), then you are pretty much set. More detail is nice to know, but if you know those four things, you're good to go. Other things you could know are supporting characters (anyone who's not a main character), your antagonist (your bad guy), setting (where the story takes place), and themes. But if you know protagonist, conflict, climax, and resolution, you've got a story. (I do suggest that you have some idea of what your setting, antagonist, and themes are, incidentally.)
  But that's not the point right now! Right now, the POINT is...
  I forgot the point.
  Right! Tips for NaNoWriMo!
  Remember, if you need help during November, this blog is your one-stop place for noveling advice. No question is too crazy to be asked here. Whether you need to freak out because your story is going in the wrong direction, or whether you need to rejoice over a brilliantly written page of dialogue, or whether you need to ask advice on whether pirates or FBI agents are more effective evil henchmen, just ask here -- we're all in this together, so to speak, and ready to help out.
  Also, if you did NaNoWriMo last year, you remember that we each had a separate page for our novels and we uploaded stuff onto the pages as we wrote it. Since then, our formatting has changed somewhat, and the majority of club members can no longer create pages. So this year, if you write more and want to add it to your page, you can just email it to me and I'll upload it directly onto your page. OR, alternately, you could create a post and continually post stuff onto there, and I'll move writing from there onto the page. Or maybe you're my sibling and can just ask me. At any rate, that's how it will work this year. (You'll also notice that I've created new pages for all the novels we'll be writing! If you don't see a page for your novel, it's probably because I don't have a title for your novel yet. As soon as you tell me, I'll make you a page.)
  So...that's all! Have fun, valete, kairete, and vote 4 Romney! :)
-President Fantasy

AHHH!!

I have no idea what to write for Nanowrimo, and it's, it's the 16th of October! That means I have two weeks to figure out what to write..

On the other hand, yesterday I was riding my brother's dirtbike I crashed it; And now I have six beautiful stitches in my knee. I am in a lot of pain and can't do anything athletic for a week.
-Poppy Red

Help!

S.O.S.! Send out the fire brigade! Call the police! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Okay, I'm done on my rant about needing help. Why, do I need help, you're asking. I'll tell you. Or write you. Whatever.
 I need help, firstly, on my interview. President Fantasy, you're the only one who has the power to do this, so...everyone else, please ignore this. If you want to read it, go ahead, but if you want to skip ahead to my second reason, please do. Don't worry: the second one involves all of you. President Fantasy, I was reading our interviews, and I noticed that they need to be updated on those of us who have new stories to talk about, or new ideas, or just want to change it. It says on mine that I am still writing Kanadia, which is not happening anymore, so can you please help me change it? Thanks!
Second reason: I am in desperate need of help on my NaNoWriMo novel. I know that a princess is kidnapped for her own good, but other than that, I'm lost. Any ideas? Oh, and I would like it to include a dragon. Please comment if you have any stunning ideas! (Oh, and by the way, if you don't have any ideas, or don't want to comment...DON'T. Seriously, if you don't want to do this, ignore it. I'm just wondering if anyone actually has any good ideas.)
-Tigerr

All Set Up!

My Nanowrimo account is all set up! I'm ready for November. I just need something to write about... Well, I have all of October to figure that out. :)
-Poppy Red
I use !!! too much, don't I?

NaNoWriMo's in the House Tonight...

  It is required that you sing this title to the tune of Party Rock Anthem right now, wherever you are. If you've played Just Dance 3, do the dance along with it. Wake up everybody in the house. Make some noise.
  Done?
  Well, then, here we go!
  The NaNoWriMo site is relaunched and good to go! If you head over to ywp.nanowrimo.org and try to log in, you will have to re-agree to the terms and conditions and re-inform them whether you're elementary, middle, or high school, but then you will be all set and ready to enter in your new stuff! There's an awesome new word count calculator that you can try. It gives you ten minutes to write in, then asks you how much time you think you will have during NaNoWriMo, and then it calculates an estimated word count for November. Pretty cool, right? Apparently the right word count for me is
77,580 words, according to the word count calculator. Who'd've thunk, right? (Is having two apostrophes in the same word legal???)
  Anyway, if you head over to the site you can get your new info entered in and figure out your word count! Just make sure you're challenging yourself. I mean, we all know you can write 1,000 words, right? Think about it like this: If your word count was easy last year, increase it. If it was too hard, decrease it a bit. Just make sure it's not too easy.
  I'm excited! How about you? Great things are afoot!
-President Fantasy

Trouble Logging In

Has anyone else had trouble logging in to their NaNoWriMo accounts?
-Poppy Red

30 Days Left!

  It's the beginning of October, and you know what that means!
  Right?
  What? Wait...you don't?
  Oh.
  Well, it means that it's only 30 days until that wonder of wonders, National Novel Writing Month, affectionately known to all participants as NaNoWriMo!
  GASP!
  That also means that now is the time to get all your outlining done. As your president, it is my duty not only to get you super excited and freaked out about November, but also to give you some helpful (DOUBLE GASP!) tips on outlining.
  Here are the most important things to know about your novel before you start writing:

  MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR NOVEL BEFORE YOU START WRITING:
  1. Know your main character. This doesn't mean that you should know all about your main character, although that's important, too. It means you should know who your main character is. This may seem trivial, but it's bigger than you might think. The official definition of the main character is whoever makes the big decision that either saves the day, or loses it. The main character is the person who ultimately decides the outcome in the climax. (See below.) Remember, you can have lots of characters, but only one main character.
  2. Know your conflict. The conflict is the big problem of your story. What's the main problem your main character is trying to solve? It could be hard to figure out, and it could be debatable, but the main problem or conflict should drive everything in the book. Maybe Red Riding Hood is trying to get cookies to her grandma's house. Maybe Berry Blue istrying to rid the world of fleas. In the first one, the conflict is "Will Grandma get her cookies?" In the second, the conflict is "Will fleas conquer the world?" Hint: If you're having trouble stating your main conflict, remember that it can often be stated as a question.
  3. Know your climax. Remember this? The climax is the big decision your main character makes that saves the day, or loses it. So if Berry Blue suddenly decides to create a flea spray, and the flea spray rids the world of fleas, the moment in which he decided to create the flea spray is the climax. It can also be defined as the turning point. You know that part in a movie where the hero says some heroic phrase, makes some decision, and the music suddenly changes -- becomes more dramatic? That's the climax. Imagine your climax as the moment where the music changes.
  4. Know your resolution. This is pretty easy. Resolution just means how stuff turns out. What happens to Berry Blue? Does the flea spray really work? Does he get rich off the flea spray and live happily ever after? Do the fleas die out forever? That's what the resolution answers. Your resolution might not say much, but it should exist. The story shouldn't end with the climax.
 
  And that's it! I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions, please tell me in a comment below! And...have fun getting ready for a wild ride this November! You'll have lots of fun, I guarantee it.
-President Fantasy

Hey, I could put this in an email...but what's the fun in that?

 Okay, so this is the first post title I have to explain. First off, President Fantasy, I have J.K. Rowling's address, and some important news for you. I can't tell everyone right now, because I'll let the president explain, but...hey, I could have put this in a private email so no one is going to be upset that I didn't tell them...but what's the fun in that? And guess what, I just built suspense. They should give me an award: You Have Built Supense for the First Time. Oh well. President Fantasy, can you grant me this sentence in a comment? Thank you!
-Tiger

Hey, I have something to say...

...I have a new nickname! Well, only President Fantasy can use it (like her and Templado; only President Fantasy can call her Miss Templado), but it's still cool! Here it is....Tigerr!!!!!!!! Okay, that is it. You may continue with your regular jobs and such. Bye now!
-Tiger

I'm STILL ALIVE!

  I'm doing science and I'm still alive...still alive...still alive...
  That's a good song. Glados sings really well. Maybe Wheatley will sing if there's a Portal 3!
  Um...never mind.
  Anyway, the point is that I'm STILL ALIVE! (As the blog post suggests.) We're doing some super awesome stuff, and I have some totally interesting things to write about:

  #1: For all who don't know, NEW EPISODES OF THE CEILING FAN ARE OUT! Here, listen to them right now. Here are the links:

  Episode 46: http://www.ceilingfanpodcast.com/podcasts/2012/2012-08-27.htm
  Episode 47: http://www.ceilingfanpodcast.com/podcasts/2012/2012-09-13.htm

  #2: I'm editing Way Back When, the first book of The Astian Tales. If you haven't read it, you can! As soon as I'm done, that is.

  #3: NaNoWriMo approaches! More on this in October when it's getting time to outline.

  #4: We held a coffee shop last week as an LOTP fundraiser and got...get this...$130! With the money, we plan to get some awesome Lords of the Pencil t-shirts. (Poppy Red, I am planning on making you a shirt and giving you a link to where you can buy it. It will be on Zazzle, but again, more on that later.)

  That's all for now! I have to go write some more of Way Back When. See you round the schoolyard, and don't trust Phil if you see him on a dark road!

  Wait...I forgot that Phil's a totally awesome agent.

  Don't trust Farron. As Max-Ernest would say...How 'bout that?

-President Fantasy

Entry for Dreamer's Contest

'Nuff said.

            My name is Nathan T. Dalton.

            I didn’t do it.

            One of those statements is true, the other is false -- and people get mixed up all the time about which is which. Don’t worry if you can’t figure it out. I’ll tell you right off the bat which one’s right and which one isn’t, but I doubt you’ll believe me. I’m sorry for being so negative about it, but in general, I’ve found that not so many people do believe me when I tell them my story.

            But I haven’t told very many people, after all. I guess I’m being unfair.

            Or maybe I’m just trying to figure things out for myself.

            If you are reading this, you are one of three types of people. One, you could be just an innocent Internet-wanderer who found my blog somehow. If that’s true, you won’t believe a word I say. That’s fine; good, even. Discredit me and move on. It’s safer that way. I don’t want anyone else to get hurt, and I don’t want it to be my fault again. I don’t think I could stand that. So if you are a random person just wandering around, let’s set things straight between us: This is just a blog that I’m writing for fun. It’s not really true. There’s not really anything dangerous going on underneath everything you know to be real. There is no Back Door, or dangerous hacker, or anything else. Got that? Believe it? Good. Then we can move on.

            Another possibility is that you could be one of them. If you are, then I would rather you didn’t read this. What I want doesn’t matter here, though. If you are one of them, you can and will use this blog against me. That can’t be helped. It’s a risk…but a risk that must be taken. If you’re one of them, I have nothing to say to you. Go ahead and use whatever you can find against me -- if you can find anything. I’m going to be pretty careful about what I write on here, including locations, dates, names…anything that could be used to track me. If you think I’m just trying to act cool, well, you’re free to think whatever you want. All that matters is I’ll be around for the next blog post.

            Then again, there is a third possibility. Maybe -- just maybe -- you’re smart. Maybe you’re clever. Maybe you can think on your feet, and maybe you will know deep down that I am telling the truth. Maybe you will be halfway as brilliant as Clara was. And if you are, then nothing I do or say can stop you from reading this. You will continue to read, because you will know what’s at stake. You will feel something awaking within you; you will feel yourself stirring.

            I wish that I could stop you. But I know that I can’t, so I won’t even try.

            Actually, that’s a lie. I will try. But it will take a while, and it will mean telling you a pretty complicated story. It involves a computer program, a hacker, and some very strange people, including myself. (I know I’m strange, because Clara’s told me.) It’s not some crazy sci-fi story, though, however much it may sound like one -- mostly because this story is real.

            So as long as we’re going to be spending time together -- that is, as long as I’m going to be writing and you’re going to be reading -- let’s make sure we both know exactly what we’re signing up for. No matter who you are -- possibility one, two, or three -- you have a few jobs to do.

            Job #1: This is fiction. Pretend it’s fiction, please. Pretend I’m just a really creative kid who just came up with this whole deal. It’s a good idea for both me and you. That way we stay intact with all our limbs attached to our bodies.

            Job #2: Don’t try to find me. This one is really important. I’m using a pseudonym, and so is pretty much everybody else in the story. Even so, don’t look me up -- ever. Don’t look anybody else up, either. Trust me, it’s an awful plan. You could think you’re being helpful, but you’re not. You could also just be curious, but please do me a favor and don’t try to get involved.

            Job #3: It’s probably best if you don’t try to follow this blog, either, or let anyone know you read it. If you must read it, then just pretend you don’t.

            I bet you probably have one question by now, because it’s my question, too. Look at that. We’re more alike than I thought way back in the first paragraph.

            Why am I writing this if it’s so dangerous?

            I guess it’s because to tell you the truth, I don’t believe it, deep down. Or maybe it’s because I want to see it all written down, and although I may be a poor writer, I’m the only person I trust to write it down correctly, except for maybe Clara, and she…

            Someone was reading over my shoulder and said that I should delete that last paragraph. I think that might have been a weird sort of compliment, but then again, he was trying to keep from laughing as he said it. It’s always hard to tell with him. Well, so much for keeping this blog a secret from him, anyway.

            (I had to go back and edit that paragraph because I accidentally spilled his name, and I still have to come up with a pseudonym. I’ll think about that later.)

            Uh-oh. I have to go. I’ll get back as soon as I can -- that is, if I’m still alive. I didn’t even get started today with telling the story. I think maybe I’m taking too long with telling…

            Oops. I really do have to go.

            Until next time…

-Nathan T. Dalton 

That was it. It may not qualify as a short story, but it's the beginning to one, so....yeah. That's it.

-President Fantasy

I annouce a quest!

 Hello fellow...uh oh. We never fully solved this problem yet. I'm just going to call you club members, even though it sounds a little boring. Let's start over...Hello fellow club members! This is Tiger here, with an imporant quest...at least for me, since I have no new books I know of to read. This quest is to find new books. I have kind of started it, by just finding two interesting looking books to read, and I want to see if they're any good.

 How you start this is that you find a good looking book, read it, and tell us about it. Yeah...I just want to find some new good books to read, and I thought we could all help each other out. Maybe we could try it, if you guys wanted to. Comment and tell me wether it's a good idea or not, please. Thanks!
-Your fellow club member (we've still got to figure this out),
Tiger

How Long Has It Been?

  Too long, I say! My friends, I have NOT abandoned you! Just...er...taken a short vacation, I guess.
  Anyway, I'm stopping the madness! (Or maybe starting it.) I'm finally making a POST again!
  Okay, so it's only been a little over a week...but that post was super short and didn't count. It's time I made a REAL post!
  So, for starters...hi, y'all. How's your end of summer going? Between going to the fair, working at the library, Caleb's birthday, Tigerr getting me sick, editing Way Back When, swimming, and finishing up the Latin dictionary, my days have been packed! Anything awesome going on with you guys?
  So...what's the scoop?
  I know that Miss Templado won the Bloggy Award for August, and now it falls to her to give it for April. WAIT! NO! That was wrong! I mean...I know that Miss Templado won the Bloggy Award for April, and now it falls to her to give it for August. There we go. My brain is not working properly right now.
  How are all your amazing fantastic wonderful stories going? Way Back When is going just fine right now...I'm writing a pretty cool fight scene. I should get back to that, anyway, so I'm going to end this post.
-President Fantasy
P.S. By the way, I was reading some old posts from way back in December, and I was kind of a jerk about the whole "Attention! Comment please!" thing. I'm really sorry, club members, for how I sounded about it...I didn't mean it that way at all, it just looked really weird in writing...will you all forgive me please?

Hey, what about TTSTW?

Whoa...as I was trying to write the title of this post, I realized that if you pull down my little check mark, it shows some options about my security system. But, the cool thing is, is that when I press a button on my laptop while it's down, it makes a cool sound like a funky guitar. It;s really-hey, I got off track! Let me start over...

 Okay, President Fantasy, I was just wondering about A Text to Save the World. Poppy Red, you are going to do the next chapter, but you don't know the story yet...or do you? That's what I mean. If you don't know the story yet, President Fantasy is going to have to explain it to you along with the rest of the club's help. (I can only offer some info, seeing as I forgot the details...oops! :(    ) Just letting you know, President Fantasy. Sorry if I'm being a bother...I'll just go and disappear into the shadows now...spark of brillance...this is supposed to be a shadow...
-Tiger

Funny Video.

This is a video me and my sister made, look out for the "OWIE!" part.
-Poppy Red

We have a winner

Hello, I am here to announce that I have chosen a winner for the Bloggy award, for April! The reason it took so long was because I pondered over it, because all of your posts were SO good!!! But without further ado, the winner is: TEMPLADO with Dragons Lost 3! I loved the line: All was silent except for the two rampaging dragons looking for there eggs! Nice job!
-Dreamer

New Quote of the Month

Yeah, yeah, I know, we haven't had a new quote since like January...but I finally have one. Yeah, it's the Ceiling Fan, but what can I say? Here it is:
  "If you're listening to this podcast...you are the resistance."
  I'll probably explain it sometime. Or better yet, actually give you the podcast to listen to. Yeah...
-President Fantasy
P.S. Did anyone notice a lot of "yeah"s in this post? Yeah, me too...

Video Chat Meeting

Hi everyone!
I was thinking we could have a video meeting. ( well actually it was kinda Tiger's idea too, not to take all the credit.) So, we should set a day and a time...
-Poppy Red

Saturday's Meeting

Hey, all! In case you weren't aware or were not in attendance due to being directly back from camp or out of state (hardy har har), there was a Lords of the Pencil meeting on Saturday. To catch you up on matters, here are the notes from Saturday's meeting, taken by our excellent secretary, Tiger:

-4 members missing (members in attendance were President Fantasy, Tiger, Dreamer, and Raistlin)
-We have around $6 in money
-We need a funraiser [sic]...bake sale?
-Mascot 4 the day: Stanley!
-Raistlin walked out
-Getting new shirts
-TTSTW (Text to Save the World) chapter moving to Poppy (character named Andrew)
-Musical still on (postponed)
-Changing musical
-Final thing for Dreamer's contest: by end of August, FINISH!
-One entry in President Fantasy's contest: they win! (Maybe)
-Tiger's story: EDIT!
-President Fantasy's story: complete
-Dreamer's story: complete
-End of October: end of Way Back When
-Note 2 self: vivid, electric blue eyes
-Raistlin: write
-Tiger feels like an old woman (ha ha!)
-Ender's Game is good! So is Hitchhiker
*Not official -- Raistlin rejoined

  Those are the notes from the meeting. Yes, Poppy Red, the next chapter in A Text to Save the World falls to you. Please look at the page for A Text to Save the World, and read what has been written so far. Your job is to write the next chapter. If you look in the first two months or so, there are some posts about the history of A Text to Save the World. You can check that out too -- it's a lot of history for the story.
  That's all. Have a great day, peoples! See you on the other side of the glass.
-President Fantasy