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And then, comes my little sister, going 'Oh, I'm going to do that too!' Okay, you may think I'm being petty and mean but I want something of my own. In the immortal words of Colin Bridgerton (rights go to Ms Julia Quinn), 'I want something of my own.' I want something that defines who I am. Something more. My older sister is wonderful at socializing and I'm not. My little sister  is doing everything I do: singing, writing, playing the piano,.. I don't think I can take anymore!

You may think that I should be encouraging her but I can't find it in me to do it. And to top it all off, I may have just lost one of my closest friends. So now I know how it feels when the world is crumbling.
 

I've been so Disney-addicted the whole week! You know, the kind of movies you never really grow up like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and so on. I never really like Snow White, though. I don't know why. Maybe it was all the singing that put me off. But they all have singing. Though I do have to say my favorite was Beauty and the Beast. I don't believe in love at first sigh so it was either that or the Little Mermaid and I'm not a gigantic fan of fish. But I still love Ariel. She rocks socks. And I had this rockingly awesome dream on Friday after listening to "Part of Your World". I'll admit, I was a bit pointed in that direction - of the dream - because I watched the music video and was thinking the usual stuff a writer might think.

Something like:

a) "What if?"

b) "If A did that instead, what would B do?"

or 

c) "If this happened here and not there...?"

So yeah, it sorta led to one thing then another. Like Stephenie Meyer, authoress of Twilight (which, in my opinion, 60% percent of the world has read, the 40% being the third-world countries where books are scarce) frequently says she got her idea for Twilight from a dream and continuing conversations in her head. I think it's amazing and creepy at the same time. I don't know. I just do. Though, I have to admit, The Host was my favorite. Anyway, this dream, think the Palace of Versailles expanded four times to the size of a tiny island kingdom. And its a little like the Little Mermaid but in a Samantha Cheh style. So, imagine the marble courtyard two times more huge with tunnels at each end like the roads of Italy. Replaced the marble with gravel and the whole of the palace on an island with the palace on one end and the city in the centre.

So, Aurelia (our heroine) is a mermaid of an underwater utopia called Atlantis for lack of a better name. I might rename it later. So years ago, she saved the prince of the kingdom from drowning. Three mortal years later, she announces during her coming-of-age ceremony that she will activate the dormant ability all the merpeople had since the death of a great ancestor; the power to willingly transform back and forth between a human and fishy form as long as no one reveals her true nature.

If not, she'll transform back into a mermaid and will never be able to turn back to human shaped and doomed to an imminent death. Mermaids have no souls, by the way, so if she dies, she simply disappears. Meanwhile, Prince Wyatt (20 when she saves him and 25 when they finally meet) has been dreaming of the mermaid who saved him and departs from the island just as Aurelia arrives and doesn't return until five years of searching  is up.

So when he returns and meets the intriguing Lady Aurelia, he is curious for the secrets she will not tell and mystery that surrounds her and the ladies and lords of The Wayfarer House. When he stumbles upon her secret, he discovers that things are not always as they seem. And are they ever really?

It's called the Depths by the way , in case you didn't read the title.

I didn't expect this to come. But Shadows was killing me. I needed to get away from it. So I'll be just setting up the plot for this story because I'm entering it into the NaNoWriMo contest. I'll admit, it's a daunting challenge. I mean, writing my quota of maybe 10,000 to 30,000  words (I'm starting small) but it may go beyond that. But the problem is I have to finish it in one month. One month to write an entire novel. That means a ridiculous number of hours of sitting on my butt trying to figure out what is wrong with my head and killing my eyes as well as lots of paper as I try to write as fast as I can. It will not be easy. I will probably shorten my life by half but it's cool. Then I might do the one to write scripts too. : )

Anyway, Shadows is on hold so I can start studying properly instead of that poor substitute I've been doing lately. I've got to concentrate. I'm contemplating alot of things now. Like why is my ex-friend (in my mind because it's true though no one will say anything) Heidy is so damned stubborn or why I bother with her anymore. Or if I qualify for Biology next year. Or what will happen if I have Aurelia die half way through the story. Or if I want Rosvalyn from Shadows to be a dark, serious warrior or a fiery, bubbly rebel. Or if I will ever find Prince Charming. Or if I will inherit my family's active cancer cells. Or if I will ever get to go to Ireland like I planned. Or if I will take down my blog and just use my livejournal. Or if I'll choose a different skin because I feel like it. Argh!

Too much to think about.

Ariel help me.

Oh, P.S. All the pictures except the ones in black and white are from deviantart artists and I do not own them nor do I take credit for them. If you want to see more of their work, just message me and I'll tell you their URLs. I hope you credit them and no copyright infringement intended. That's all folks!