Olive is still alive!

Hey guys! Olive here!!

First of all, let me apologize for both myself and Cossy, we've been super busy this school year. Let me elaborate. Cossy is enjoying herself by being part of her school newspaper! And I am not-so-much enjoying myself by working at a local movie theater, and I use the term local lightly.  The difference between these two amazing experiences? I get paid for mine, and Cossy gets her name (REAL MIND YOU) published in a *school* newspaper!

Personal, I'd rather have my name put in a newspaper!

Besides working and school, I've also been preparing myself for college next fall. And if that one sentence wasn't clear enough, I'm old guys. I've also been taking a photography class. (My first EVER!) I have some pictures that are worthy of your sight:

Not only have I been working *very little actually* on my photography but I'm preparing for NANOWRIMO. yay! Yep, it's November again (in a week!), and I'll be working towards that 50,000 words while working on my ACT and working at like my job. Both are majorly required of me. I mean I could quit working at the theater, but I kind of like it. Plus I get free movies. ;) Nevertheless, I will get 50k this year!

I'm also am going to be doing some self promotion here for a sec. Sorry not sorry. I mean I updated you guys, right? RIGHT??

I recently opened a photography shop, on the lovely etsy, and did some test prints! My first 3 buyers/testers are actually happy with my pictures, imagine that! But no one is actually buying anything. People have said, 'Oh I love that picture, I'd love to buy it' and then they don't. Which I don't really mind, but could you at least pretend to order!

Anyways. I'll leave the links after I show off a couple more pictures and then you guys can continue ignoring me. :)

Please keep in mind, that Cossy and I love you readers dearly. We miss blogging (well I do,) and we hope to be back up and running soon!
-Olive

LINKS -
blog
facebook
etsy

Update Nano

Hello everyone! Olive here.

I know you're all probably getting tired of hearing from me, you all are used to Cossy, but you'll get over it. :)
Today is a small post, considering the fact that I should be writing, but I'm not. This is pretty much going to be a small update for both Cossy and I, and how our Camp NaNo's are going so far.

Olive ~ word count: 3405 pages: 27 chapters: 5
            so far it's going. I think my characters bonded a little bit too soon, but it's workable. Finally figured out how fast I want it to move along, so it's actually going a tiny bit to slow for me, but it's at a pace where I don't feel like it's problem after problem, it's problem, time, problem, time, problem. At least, I think it is. 

Costello ~word count: i don't even know i'm not keeping track
            I've decided to not write anything this Camp. I tried, but it just wasn't working out. I'm working on rewriting and revising the novel I wrote back in November, which is slowly going. It needs a lot of TLC, but I think it'll turn out okay in the long run. I'm also using Scrivener, which is an incredible software and I like it a lot. You can download the free trial here, and if you participate in Camp this year and win, you get 50% off the software when you buy it, making it only $20! 

Write on, my friends, and happy Camp Nano!

-Olive and Cossy

P.S., we're almost at 4,000 page views! That's insane! Thank you to everyone, and make sure you spread the word! :)

Update.

Hi guys. *waves* Olive here again. I know, it's been one post and you're already tired of me. Well deal. I'm here for the summer (and hopefully the rest of the year) to torture you all with images you don't care about and words you care even less about, which equals: you don't. Either way, I thought I'd stop by today, and give you all an update. I suppose only about me, for I only know so much about Cossy's busy school career, which is apparently a bit boring. Who knew!

ANY-ways, since the last time I posted, which was....*checks*  October seventh! And if I remember correctly, that is around an important day, but I can't remember what the day was...I think one of my siblings was born...eep.

Since October, a sibling was indeed born. A girl, if you must ask. We *cough(actually my parents did I had no role in it)cough* named her Pond. Not really, but for security reasons, we will call her POND. Why? I just finished Doctor Who, Season 7 PART ONE. It was ....in one word...amazinglybrilliant, of course, the last episode was a bit rough. They ended it poorly, me thinks. They did have a good way of saying goodbye, but a warning next time would have been nice.

Not saying I didn't know the Ponds were going to leave us all behind, I did in fact know, I just didn't expect something as *dramatic* as that. Anyways, don't let my upset-can't-believe-they-actually-left self ruin the season for you! Let me get back to updating -

Besides my sister joining us in this eventful world, I also published (self thank you) another poetry collection of sorts. Just came in the mail in fact. Turned out beautiful. I also printed out a butt load of my images, and stuffed them into my portfolio, completely and utterly out of order. I also read a collection of books, including My Sister Keeper, the Delirium sequel, and annoying little series that made me want to rip it in half. I won't give out any names, but I say, beware of Greek myths put into modern times, they are horrible and I do not agree with them. Though, I did like a couple of the characters...just not the main one. Sort of how it turned out with Twilight...but that's another story! And one I will not be telling!

I also started a brand new blog, due to the fact that my old one is attached to an email I can't get into. And I would like to forget it. So...I'll added a little link to the side bar when that's up an running for you all. Not that you lovely people care. And now here is a treat: A picture that is on my poetry collection cover.

Till tomorrow arrives
-Olive

Thanks, Guys.

So, no one entered our contest. Thanks.

Oh well. YOU GUYS MISSED OUT ON THE AWESOME PRIZES.

Sorry we haven't been blogging lately. Our Olive isn't going to be around as much, some stuff happened that I won't go into detail with, but I think I'll be running the show for a while here now.

We've been busy. School and such. Plus! NaNoWriMo! It's currently day fifteen, at the halfway point! I'm at 16.5k, which is rather far behind. See what missing one day of writing does to you? :(

So after November, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more, and since I moved, and I found the batteries for my camera, I'll be taking more pictures of new landscape things!

But I've got to go, more writing to do.

P.S., Are you doing NaNo? Leave a comment on how you're doing, what your wordcount is, what you're writing about, etc.

Oh, and if you want to do a guest post about what NaNoWriMo means to you and what your best ways to get through it are, or something like that, email me at random_bloggers43(at)yahoo(dot)com!

Happy Writing!

-Costello