Denny Will Dew

I was bored and started imagining a cartoon type thing.

Here's something I came up with.

And yes...I was bored...

There's more...

Being bored and kinda hyper is fun sometimes, but it has terrible consequences.

My New Love, Annabelle

I've created a story I hope I can be proud of. It's so different from what I've been writing!
For now, I'm calling it Annabelle.

Here's how it's different:

• I'm writing about an only child!
• There are only two main characters!
• I'm using a real person as a character!
• I started writing it on the computer, no notebooks at all!
  

I'm pretty excited about it. The real person is my friend David. He thinks it's pretty cool that he gets to be in a book. He's been reading all of what I've written and has been really supportive.

I'm really liking Annabelle! I hope I can keep writing it consistently. It's not much yet, but I have a lot of hope for it.

My Decision

Would it be mean of me to go on strike until Essie leaves? Haha. I don't think I'll be doing that.
But I don't like how things are going right now. I tried talking it over, but that didn't do any good. I tried as best as I could to lay out some of the problems. Abilene says they're fixed. She also said this doesn't really involve her. If that's the case, then how would she know if anything was fixed? Because she talked to Essie? Been there. In the end, it did no good.
I'm getting sidetracked...
Strike. Yah. It's more of a vacation really.
I can't really write NEIO right now. So, I'm going to give some of my other stories more attention. Because I write more than NEIO, and Abilene doesn't. It seems like her and Essie are doing just fine anyways. NEIO is falling into the shadows of Writer's Block.

In the Spotlight: Annabelle
In the Shadows: NEIO

"Until Further Notice"

So, Essie deleted her character and other story pages on Beautiful Innocence. She quit, she deleted. It's over, right? Apparently it can't be so simple...
According to Abilene, she only deleted her pages "until further notice."
"Did you ever think that maybe I didn't want her to quit?"
Well, dear, that doesn't matter. If someone wants to quit, you can't stop them from quitting.
"No she didn't. I asked her to continue writing and she said she would but she wants me to talk to you."
So, now she's going behind my back. Yay!
She thinks the problems were solved in our discussion. If you only look at the whole page and see "her plot is too similar" then yes, maybe we did. But that's not all it said.
There's no progress going on here at all...
Abilene isn't even listening to me. I've almost given up on explaining because I know it won't get anywhere. They'll pick one small thing like they always do and only focus on that. They don't seem to get the point of what I say sometimes. A lot of the times. Hence, the blog.

Should I say it's me or Essie? No, because I shouldn't have to.
Writer's Block? Oooh yah. Like you wouldn't believe...
I'm not sure what to do. Or how to explain the problems to Abilene.
Essie doesn't care about what I have to say, and maybe not even The Story. The most basic problem here: we don't get along. She doesn't care that I made NEIO. I'll say what I said before, I won't see her as apart of this until she at least finishes one book (without butchering my plots and characters, mind you).

What Abilene thinks the problem is like...

Due to the current conflict between some of the writers of Neio there may be some changes. (hopefully only temporary ones)

NEIO is still a work in progress & I am sure there may be many changes to it. So just hang in with us as we work to fix things.

Thank You! : )
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Well, that's it for now. I'm talking to Abilene (more like she's attacking me) now, so there's sure to be more...

Essie's Official Resignation

Essie: "I'm done, i do wish you well, i hope you get published, it's a good story"

People in my head clap solemnly.

*Essie leaves*

Speaker: Please join us for snacks and refreshments in the temporal lobe.

People in my head: Yay! Party! Woohoo! Let's go!

So there you have it. Essie quit. Problem solved.

Well, we talked about it...

Didn't get far. "Don't take sides" Abilene ended up ganging up with Essie a little bit.
As always we didn't really talk about anything. Essie kept asking the same questions. I kept giving the same answers.
So yah. It was pretty frustrating when Abi started siding with Essie. I grumbled to myself, ran downstairs, then came back to find they were asking more questions.
Bleh. Too much drama. Not enough listening.

"The Problems" List

Today in 4th hour I typed up a list of things about The Story/ Essie. It had things like "Does being the Creator entitle me to more say than the Newbie?", "Is NEIO like a business?" (I put that in there cause earlier Essie said it wasn't a business =P), "Can Abilene and I have control over Essie's part?" and "Is Essie's plot too similar to ours?"
I also mentioned that I was probably going on strike.
I gave a copy to Abi first. She read it. Then gave me the go ahead to give it to Essie.
Well, as you could have guessed, Essie wasn't happy. At lunch she sat at the farthest table away from us (can't say I didn't like that).
I couldn't sit in the stagnant water anymore. Plus, I got to say some of what I wouldn't be able to without being interrupted.