Questions with Quinton(Friday Special)

Konnichiwa!

     So today will be my last post before I take my break, so I'll answer as many questions as I can to keep you updated. I got tons of them this week, So here goes the most recurring ones:

Will you go in depth with all our stories like you did with Bengal Road?

     Good question. I will if you ask me to, I was asked to see if I could find the similarities with Bengal Road, so I did. If you'd like me to do the same with yours, I would be more then happy to.

Is Terra the same person as Stella from your book?

     Stella is based off her yes. She's an excellent writer herself and is constantly helping me out. :)

I know I may be pushing it, but is Lacrime somehow connected to The Rey Saga? I read that post you put up and I found multiple things that could connect the two series.

     Very smart readers we got here. But that's knowledge for only me to know for now. ;)

What was your inspiration for writing?

     This one's easy. My biggest inspiration are my friends I have everywhere across the country. They are what allowed this story to be made, and shaped me into who I am today.

Do the characters in your book have powers? If so, what are they?

     Yes, I guess you could call them powers. Eleven of the characters have powers: Rey, Chloe, Darcy, Tim, Harper, Drake, Stella, Lyssa, Azazel, Alexander, and Blake. I won't reveal all of them, but what I will say is most of these characters will have you fooled on what their power is with the exception of Harper(Mind Reading) and Alexander(Supercomputer-like Memory). Rey's has already been revealed, you just don't know it.

What do you think of the US so far?

     I have mixed thoughts on them, as the U.S. don't show up until the second half, but are extremely dominant at that point. I really rather not talk bout it after that terrible call by the ref that cost them a victory, but when the U.S. is playing woth some urgency, they are unstoppable. I stick by my thought that they will get out of their group, but any higher then the semi-finals is a reach for me.

Will there be another contest?

     Yes indeed there will be. While I'm on break I'll be working on a new one that will be as challenging as the first one, but different in it's own way. Hopfully when I return it will be done. :D

How would we know which animal goes with what aspect in the book?

     Very good question. Each character will be wearing a piece of jewelry to represent their animal. Like for example, Azazel animal is a lion, so he has a necklace of a lion head around his neck. The Jewelry Set will be called.... *Spoiler Alert*. Sorry can't say, but you actually already know it. ;) The Set contains four necklaces, two rings, two bracelets and two anklets. (Subject to change.)

When are you coming back from break?

     As soon as I take care of Pieces parts 1 and 2, editing Bleeding Truth, getting caught up on summer school, and finishing band camp. That won't be until late July at the soonest, but I plan on making a few posts on days that I have time before band camp. When I return however, I will have Pieces part 1 along with the current prologue finished and connected to a special page just for you blog readers, a release date for the book, hopfully a new contest and pictures of the ten piece animal jewelry set in Pieces. Maybe even the finished Cover Art. :D


Well that's it's it folks! The last post for awhile, so be good to my man Chris, as he'll be running the show with Terra for a bit. This is mostly likely the last of my world cup posts, so good luck USA and South Africa, and let me be the first to wish you all a wonderful INdependence Day and remember, to live your life as if it were fiction, and always put life into words. ;)

~APLIW~

Quinton = GO USA!!!!!

Bengal Road (cont.)

Konnichiwa!

     Like I promise, I will be explaining connections made in Bengal Road today! It took me all day yesterday to try and find the hidden messages but I think I may have found them. So get's started. First off, the each of the animals and the giant represent either the mascot or a player of one of the teams in the AFC North. Brownie rep. the dog on the Cleveland Browns logo, Poe rep. one of the three mascots for the Baltimore Ravens, Parker rep. Willie Parker, former running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dey rep. of  course the mascot of the Cincinnati Bengals.

     Now each of them represents the skills of each team based off the past season. Brownie relates to the Browns special teams skills, mainly because of Joshua Cribbs, and above average talent in that spot. Poe aerial abilities are meant to be viewed as a defensive tactic, resembling the Ravens notably great defense, but lack of offense firepower. Parker is meant to show how the Steelers are great in both offense and defense, but losing one piece could cause them to quickly drop drastically in skill, like how Parker lost his sight and his armor, the steelers lost Troy Polamalu and the run game, and fell apart. Also he is a one trick pony, hinting at their lack of special teams skill and thus makes them heavily unbalanced.

     Now Dey represents the Bengals because he has amazing agility(to represent their stout defense), a good sense of smell and reflexes(to represent their balanced special teams), and sharp claws and teeth(To represent their powerful running game led by Cedric Benson). This is to show that he is the most balanced among the four, just like the Bengals were amongst the AFC North. Now to show that the Bengals offense wasn't complete(proven in the later half of the season after Chris "Slim" Henry died and the passing attack faltered, let his soul rest in peace), he made Dey a cub, to say that he still lacked the brute force of a grown bengal tiger. Well I thought this story was very well thought out and is definitely worth the look see. There links in this to different players or teams in case you don't know what I'm talking about! Don't forget to send in your stories and questions to drquinton@hotmail.com!

~APLIW~

Quinton = GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bengal Road

Konnichiwa!

Today we have another story from a man in Cincinnati called Luke Watson. He wrote a story called "Bengal Road" which I thought was very creative. Well no time for delay let's jump into it!

Bengal Road

This the story of three animals, The Powerful Raven, Poe, the brown bulldog, Brownie, and the small Bengal cub, Dey. The three each came from poor countries, on the verge of starvation. The only food source lied beyond Steel Curtain Bridge, on Vince Isle, which was guarded  by the powerful and strong giant Parker. The only way across was to beat Parker. So each village trained a warrior who would face Parker, in hopes of providing a new champion of their little division of the world. The Raven was a aerial master, who could fly high and dodge any ground attck with it's speed, a defensive master. While on the other hand there was Brownie, a strong run down bulldog. He had many special talents, like digging and strong sense of smell. Lastly there was Dey, a bengal cub who to small and didn't have the power of a full grown tiger. He excelled at nothing in particular, so he trained his body to be above average in offense and defense.

The day finally came for the three warriors to face Parker. Everyone had their votes on Poe, while next to no one believed that Dey even had a chance, only a select few in his village trusted in him to take down Parker. Brownie would charge in first, using his digging talents to gain an upper hand. He jumped out and attacked Parker, but couldn't manage to put even a bruise on the giant, and he punched down the dog with a single blow. Brownie layed motionless before the giant. Poe then grunts, and flys high into the sky, far out the reach of Parker, leaving Parker unable to hurt him. But Poe would soon find he couldn't pierce the tough hide of Parker, the ultimate defense to his aerial attacks. After Poe was tired out by his assault, Parker punched him aside as well, leaviing only Dey to face him. The Poe's and Brownie's nation had then given up, thinking they had no shot at ever beating Parker. but Dey stood between Parker and the fallen warriors, growling at him. Parker laughed.

"What can a runt like you do?" Parker asked, chuckling at his puny opponent. "Brownie was at least proficient at his special talents beyond the any one else in the world, and Poe had the elite protection of the skies on his side. What do you have? You're still a cub!"

Dey just stared, then crounched into a battle stance. Parker gritted his teeth, and charged for the cub. Dey slided through Parker's legs, and tripped him up. He fell over the bridge, but held on to the side rails on bridge, and started swinging around underneath like a giant monkey out of the sight Dey. Dey then went on the defensive and searched out the smell out Parker, finding it just in time to move out of the way of Parker as he swang on top of the bridge. He then jumped up and clawed at Parker's eyes, blinding him. He moved down and and clawed off at his armor by cutting the hooks on his shoulders, leaving Parker without his elite defense or his sight to guide his powerful strikes. He kneeled defeated and angry.

"How could this be? How could this cub give me so much trouble.?" Parker demanded.

"I beat you because unlike Poe and Brownie, I didn't give up something else in order to be great at one skill. I may not have been amazing at any one thing, but I was balanced." Dey replied.

Unable to accept defeat, Parker charged one last time, but Dey had already moved behind him, causing him to charge off the cliff and to his death. To this very day, that road is called Bengal Road, and when people ask what the secret to upending a giant is, Dey would laugh and say, " Realizing you're whipped before you start, accept you're over your head in battle, and then saying to hell with fate anyhow."
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How'd you like it? Did you find the connection between the story and the football teams they represent?  Monday I'll do a segment on it so stay frosty!

~APLIW~

Quinton = GO USA!!!

That Guy...

Wow, I'm definitely falling behind on my posts O.o
Eh, oh well. lol

It's May 16, 2010 everybody. Are you excited?! No? Well, you should, because today I bring you a piece of writing from someone. The writer would like to remain anonymous. I was really surprised when Quinton gave their piece to me to look over. I was literally dumbfounded, but I digress.
This passage has a lot of emotion behind it and an even deeper meaning. So read and enjoy ;)

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That Guy...

Everything seemed like it was out of place. Right after my grandpa 
died, I went into a depression. He was the best thing in my 
life--someone to talk to, someone to rely on--and my best friend. 
After he died, everything just went… wrong. He wasn’t going to be 
there to see me off on my journey through high school, to see me 
graduate, to see me get married… All of that excitement just 
vanished. It was all gone. I didn’t know where to turn, so I guess I 
just went crazy. (By crazy, I don’t mean rocking-back-and-forth-in-
a-jail-cell-while-sucking-my-thumb-and-crying-for-my-mommy crazy, I 
just started seeing things in a different way. I mean chasing-after-b
oys-because-i-thought-they-would-make-me-happy-again crazy.)

First, there was Chad. He was one of my first crushes. At first, I 
never thought I would talk to him, but I did at some point. Our whole 
relationship seems like a blur now that I look back on it… That whole 
part of my life was nothing but him. A whole two years. Catch was, my 
parents didn’t approve. So, nothing ever happened. 
My parents restricted any way of me talking to him and started 
monitoring every move I made. They changed passwords to things I had 
access to months earlier and didn’t want me getting involved with 
this boy. I was heartbroken, but I got over it and eventually moved on 
to…

Evan. He went to another school and I really liked him. He acted like 
he liked me, even asked me to prom, but after he “went the other 
way,” I stopped liking him. It hurt for a while, but then things got 
better when…

Alex came along. He was almost out of college, but he was a really 
nice guy. However, I realized I had jealousy issues when he started 
hitting on one of my best friends, and things never worked out. 
Then, along came…

John. He was cool and all, but the fact that he went to another 
school, was in junior high, and we had never met really put a damper 
on things--especially the junior high part. Anyways, he moved on to a 
different girl and I was left alone. Again.

I guess I just had bad luck… But then I found someone that I would 
never lose. Someone that would be there for me through thick and thin. 
Someone that would never die and wouldn’t care if I cheated on them 
with another man. Someone who I could look to for help. That guy?

God.

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How'd you like it? Pretty great, right?
Like Quinton was saying, send us you're stories--through e-mail (me: brinque@msn.com,
Quinton: drquinton@hotmail.com)--and we'll put them up, even if you want to remain
anonymous.
Anyways, until my next post, remember to think happy thoughts and always put life into
words ;)

~Chris

There Once was a Ball of Glass

Konnichiwa!

Today we have the very first story from an outside reader, a good friend of mine and genius artist and writer Terri. :D She found this story on facebook actually and when I read it I said, "Terri, you should totally post this in my blog." And she happily agreed, so here it is! :D Also I take zero credit for this story, as it all goes to Terri. I'm sure you willl like it! Here it is:

There Once Was A Ball Of Glass

There once was a ball of glass. it was a happy ball of glass. it was perfectly round and gorgeous colors and it was strong and beautiful. she would roll through each day with its friend. this friend was a giant ball of silly puddy. it was happy silly puddy. soft and warm and good whenever the ball of glass needed love. then one day the ball met a rock. she loved the rock. the rocked loved her. the ball gave her precious rock the ball's soul. she knew they would be together forever. she trusted him when he said it back. she trusted him with the one thing that kept her whole. the thing that gave her her colors and kept her beautiful... the thing that kept her happiness. as long as they were together he would share it with her. so she would stay happy and colorful. but then one day the rock decided to crush the ball. he broke her hard surface. he shatter her everywhere. there she lay in a million tiny splinered shards and the rock just rolled away. he took her colors. he took her happy. then left the tiny misserabple pieces on the ground... alone... never to shine her colors again. never to brighten the world with her happiness. then comes silly puddy, with his pink warmthand gorgeous smile. he rolled by and saw the glass and decided to do the only thing he could. he rolled up the pieces, all of them. so she could atleast stay all together. the pain of her pieces constantly stabbing him was horrible but he ignored it because he loeved her more than any pain hurt. he saved her from death and forever gone to the world. but she will be forever in pieces because the only one who can fix her is rock himself... the only way to put her together is with her soul. her colors. but for some reason rock took it and ran. no one will ever know why. but because of him she will be forever tiny pieces of clear empty glass with just her friend silly puddy between her and the empty abiss of death. she loves her silly puddy. shes verry greatful. hes done more for her than anyone has ever done. but nothing can save her now...

there once was a ball of glass

and forever she shall stay

a giant pile of broken shards

it will be forever this way...
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So what did y'all think? Be sure to leave your comments!!! Also send us your stories so we can post them, or for the longer stories, send us a teaser chapter or a summary for us to post and we shall do it! We can post them with your name or leave you anonymous(anon). Just e-mail at drquinton@hotmail.com or Chris at brinque@msn.com giving us your name, a summary, teaser chapter, or the short story itself, and whether or not you us to announce you anonymous or with your name on it. We won't claim it either way! Alright, well later guys enjoy the story!
 
~APLIW~
 
Quinton