recent updates

Nothing much new about here, i have been working on a few designs which are not quite finished with yet as im not sure in what direction i want to take them, so when i do finish with them i will upload,

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i am currently in the process of editing my new book titled "hope and fear" i have no set date on when this will be released, but looking at sometime in the next month but i will post when i have accomplished the edits and formatting. it has been a long process because basically i wasnt happy with the cover for it so have re designed the look i think 3 or 4 times lol and i think i have finally found what i was looking for, well wait and see if you guys think the same.

 
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i have been busy with my camera checking out all the features and just basically discovering what i can really achieve from it, i have done some new photos with people as my subjects in both colour and black and white, and i will be talking to the people involved and i hope all going well and they approve then i might put some up on the site for people to check out, i will keep you updated in that though, because the people involved may not want to be up on here. :)

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 not much on the news front here in christchurch nz, except i cant tell you i am truely over living in an earthquake zone, we had a good one that rocked us about midnight last night, so the nerves were a little sot for a half hour maybe, but feeling better today, i think because we have lived through so many in the last 3 years, im not quite as jumpy with them as i first was, but i think mother nature enjoys keeping everyone on their toes, and to remind us thats its not quite over yet. one day soon we hope.
 
on the personal front, i am continuing to play indoor netball twice a week thats going well. work is good, i am almost through my first year as a supervisor of my building and my boss told me the other day that in all our companies through the whole of new zealand, my building is making good profit, so i got to be happy about that, works wraps up soon, in about 3 and a half weeks to be exact and after that i have a month and a half off, its good in hindsight, but the downside to working in a school, is not working means no pay, but it will work out, well i hope so anyhow.

- to tell you i have struggled would be an understatement, i have struggled with almost everything, 
i have not written much since my first book was published and a lot of my problem i think stems back to self doubt, i understand that poetry is not everyones idea of a good time, but i thought that i might sell more than 2 copies, its hard to keep mtivated when i seem to be the only one in my corner. with that being said, i shouldnt use that as an issue but its what my minds partially comes back to. 

i am filled with self doubt in every aspect of my life, i mean im not going anywhere, i have a job not a career, i never match up to the expectations everyone sets, i never have, i like to be an individual in almost everything i do, i believe in not changing who i am for anybody, but sometimes i start to wonder why, i mean its not really getting me anywhere, or helping me at all, it just ends up being me all alone to c=bare my own company, which dont get me wrong i love, but sometimes it leads for a very lonely life. sometimes a small part of you wants to be seen, well by anyone really. 

i dont completely understand what is going through me, i am just so mad, mat at the world, mad at me, its kinda sad really, but i wake up every day, i have to i guess.

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recently quiet, new ideas

So, i have been a little bit quiet on here recently, i havent updated or written the blog in almost a month, so i found myself with some time to myself so before i get stuck into writing i thought i should catch you all up. 

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have been sick here, fighting to be healthy what started as a head cold, lead to a chest infection, so fighting hard against that, its been over a week and resulted in 2 days off work, so these 2 days off will mark my 3rd day off this entire year, and i was doing so well to :P

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my first book which was released on kindle a couple months ago has finally been released in paperback as well, so super excited about that, its a big thing to actually hold your own work in book form in your own hand, its hard to describe the feeling that it brings but its great, i do regret one thing, i was fighting with my friend at the time so didnt get to share in the joy with her, so it was an un natural feeling in that respect. 

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 in the respect of friendship, i think i messed a couple up and thats not a good thing to do because i only have a handfull in the first place, one person who i thought was my friend turns out they didnt care i was just another passtime, but i guess i cant dwell on that one, i cant change what they dont want to huh, the other person who i have known for ever, i have let things get to busy and have been a crappy friend, give me another chance, you know who you are, please, ill beg :P

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 two new designs ready and added to the designs page, i have more, they are just not sorted yet. coming soon!

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so to lost friendships, hopefully a rekindled one?, new books, new ideas, new designs coming, new perspectives, and crazy times ahead,  may this brain of mine spit out more, and more and keep routine. its all im asking for :P 

laters lovely people

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145 likes on our facebook page, and some new additions to the website

 wow i got over 25 likes in a 24 hour period, it was a little overwhelming i guess, i never quite expected people to take a look. and its good. we are now at 145 likes on our facebook page. so thankyou to those of you who have liked my page, and also welcome to those who may still join.

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two family pages added to my io pages, links to family members at the top
http://www.unscriptednz.com/bio.php


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five new designs added http://www.unscriptednz.com/designs-page-2.php

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found out the other day, that somebody actually brought my book, so was a little happy about that. it was a good kinda feeling that someone actually brought it, and even more actually liked it. check it out if you want http://www.amazon.com/Forever-reaching-ebook/dp/B00E392OY4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374539895&sr=8-1&keywords=forever+reaching


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2 new designs added

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3 new pages added to the website, 2 family pages, and an added bio page.  check them out at http://sitebuilder.yola.com/en/ide/index.jsp?siteid=8a4986c83f44e84d013f518bce7110ff#

some new designs added, check them out if you choose http://www.unscriptednz.com/designs-page-2.php

new designs

a couple new designs added

check them all out at http://www.unscriptednz.com/designs-page-2.php

new additions

the published page has a slightly different look, although I'm not completely sure i like it though, as I'm not to sure as yet how i expect the page to look, at the moment it is active but i wouldn't say its very appealing lol, so at the moment its going to be classed as a work in progress.

http://www.unscriptednz.com/published.php



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the videos page has also had a bit of a change, and also had a second page added to it, also a new video was uploaded today with new announcements.
http://www.unscriptednz.com/videos.php

http://www.unscriptednz.com/videos-2.php



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Ebook avaliable

kinda excited but really very nervous to finally have published my  first ebook of poems, so if its your thing check it out, if its not all good and no worries. :)


http://www.amazon.com/Forever-reaching-ebook/dp/B00E392OY4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374539895&sr=8-1&keywords=forever+reaching

A good week for unscriptednz.com

well its been a good week for the blog, i have two new comments on the visitors page, thanks to carol green and Nicole Phillips for showing their support, it means heaps, feel free to check it out also if you haven't.  http://www.unscriptednz.com/visitors.php

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also this week on my unscriptednz.com Facebook page we jumped from 63 like to having 99 in only 2 days am really excited about this. and i am grateful for everyone who gave it a like, i never expected to get quite so many people that might be interested. its a nice feeling. check it out if you haven't already https://www.facebook.com/www.Unscriptednzcom

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so anyway as some of you know about a month ago i entered an online writing competition, well i guess i didn't win lol, as i never heard back but that's OK, because i didn't really expect to win on my first try out, but as they say you have to be in to even have a chance at a win. there is always more competitions, i am really glad that my written piece even got accepted so that's a huge victory in itself and i can only improve on making the next piece i might enter a different time better.

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not much more going on at my end of the world, my  laptop is in getting repaired, so i haven't been doing any designs, but hopefully i will get my laptop back soon as it is really weird without it lol.

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i have been looking online at publishing companies in New Zealand to think about publishing. i applied a t a company the other day and was surprised to get a formal quote back on a deal that they could do for me, and its definitely something i am going to look into when i get more financially secure, because right now i just don't have the 300 dollars that i need, but i have emailed them back telling them that i will definitely be interested in the near future.

challenge given and accepted

so in the process of doing something different, that was set to me as a challenge by someone i work with, they decided to challenge me to making a comic with some of my designs, so being me i accepted the challenge, because i am generally always up to try something new, and let me tell you, it is kinda proving harder than first imagined, it has taken me two days but i have finally got the designs done i think, some of them have changed looks several times in the last couple days, so maybe they still need some work but i think i got the main ideas done just some minor tweaking needed, waiting to hear back from someone who i sent them to, so i can hear her ideas on where she thinks i could change or improve, waiting patientally :) the part that i am finding difficult is the dialog, i have never really been one to tell a story, i can write poems no problem but when it comes to having to tell a story my mind is blank, i have sat and pondered it for awhile, i am not gonna put a time on that because lets put it this way, i have sat here for a long period of time and still come up with nothing, like i said not my gift. but im still gonna keep trying, because like a very wise friend of mine told me yesterday, she said, "try try try again, Do you think I should give up trying to do new things because I might suck at them?, you cant stop trying ok, should a writer give up after 3 failed books? What if the fourth is a hit like the FSOG, My point is dont ever stop trying"      ok....... i guess she has a point (but dont tell her i said that :P)

New designs

some new designs have been added to the designs page, actually these 2 and 9 more designs added at http://www.unscriptednz.com/designs-page-2.php

Links pages

New look to links pages, and also both my links and some of my friends links have been updated, added to and even in some instances changed. they are also in two seperate categories now, which will hopefully make it easier to look at. and then my friends also get to have a special page all to themselves. i love it and hope you do to, check them out :)

http://www.unscriptednz.com/links.php

sharing the love

just a quick post, no pressure what so ever, if you visit the webpage, be sure to visit under the visitors tab and get your name added to the list of visitors, thanks to everyone for their support and to those who have viewed already. thankyou so much :)

crazy week

this week has been crazy, work, netball, chatting with friends, meeting up with friends. its not been a bad week. im looking forward to a couple weeks off soon. one more week of work and then two weeks off, it will be good for some down time, the last 10 weeks of work have gone reasonably quick and we are already through half the school year, its crazy to think that we have a total of 18 weeks of the school year let, i know thats still a few but if you think about it long enough it really isnt all that much time, but hey what can you do. 

i havent heard anything from the writing competition i entered, but that doesnt necessarily mean much yet, as htey still might be going through all the entries, im not to worried though i mean it is only the first short story competition that i have entered, there will always be more, and more talented people that should only drive me to want to improve. you have to be in it to win it right.



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6 new designs added to the designs page,  http://www.unscriptednz.com/designs-page-2.php

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A few new pictures added to sunrise and sunsets album http://www.unscriptednz.com/sunrise-and-sunset-2.php

Random musings

Well, applications for the writing competition closed yesterday, and for some reason i'm slightly nervous as I know mine will not win because there were so many other talented applicants, getting a chance to read through them was a changing experience, they were so good and so talented. Myself, I have never really written a short story before other than when I was at school for an assignment. Well winners will be picked in the next few weeks, so even though i'm not convinced i'm still gonna secretly cross my fingers, I mean you never know right   :)

had a very uneventful day actually, nothing major happened, went to watch my sister play netball, although not sure of the final score i do know that they lost by a lot. the bus ride home tho was long, but got home eventually. spent my evening talking to a good friend while messing about with some designs, not sure i was getting out what i wanted to though but i got some to upload so you can be the judge of them.

we had a pretty cool sunset here tonight,  i love taking pictures of sunsets, it captures the raw beauty of life i guess.

as i said previously i worked on a few designs tonight and have added them online to the website.which also required me to format a secod page, which there is a link to at the bottom of the first one :)

not much else to update on here at the moment, so i might go and do some writing, its 11pm here and no way am i yet even tired to think about sleeping. hope you all are good and enjoying your days or nights depending on where you are :)