TOSOD: And the Award Goes To..

 Heaay! goofing around! We Are the Champions! 

Football wise. Yes we won La Liga but more on that in a separate post :)

Reading wise. I finished Scarlet by Marisssa Meyer and again I appreciate the genius of this woman. Although I’m not sure why a lot of girls were hyping about Captain Thorn? I must confess reading her short story ''Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky'' I was terrified he might charm me more than Emperor Kai. But what I found was that teenage Thorn was a hell of a character whereas his adult is nothing but a shell bossed around by a 16 year old (i.e. Cinder).

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O = One Katana & More? :)

State Of Day. Katana again? yes, you know it's my favorite sword, me and StrategyKid. It has a special place in my hall of fame for weapons, it is natural I mention it again on this year's A to Z challenge, it's on my bucket list to go see it in person but don't worry I'm funny-ideas-free.
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Evening, we are almost there challengers. O was very easy, took me minutes, ha! Looks like I’m getting better and better at this ;) but No! I won’t jinx myself.

A to Z Challenge I'm still alive

State of day. Yea I’m still alive, can you believe it? and my God! so many new followers, welcome everyone :)

I'm BACK! I is for Iniesta along with J and K

Guys I’m back. And I’m being as optimistic as possible saying that. I really missed you all and the A to Z challenge and I hope you all are doing great in your life.

Well I formatted my poor laptop, and of course silly me had to lose many files and posts and all my e-books except some I managed surprisingly to save. Don’t worry I still have my manuscripts and research draft. If I lost those well I would be in an asylum by now. Still it’s a disaster.

I missed Charity’s Dr Who posts more than anything. Really…life without the internet while Dr Who is talked about and explained! That’s harsh.

As I promised my I, J and K are all together in one post, I’ll do all I can to catch up.

A whole year and a randomness I know I will regret

Why, I can’t believe it. It’s been a year? 
A whole year since I started this blog? No! Your kidding me Noooo!

Gandalf fell and Aragon cried “Come! I will lead you now!”

I’m reading The Fellowship Of The Ring horribly slowly, still 4.5 more chapters to go, but as time passes I come to appreciate it more and more.

First Novel? Finished. Now hand me my Diploma!

As you can see a plain THE END is gracing my word document, my WIP, my first EVER finished novel.

Not a picture book, not a short story, no, a Novel.

Life hasn’t got easier or anything, I still have to struggle, to fight, to go through endless battles of fear, doubt and harsh realities.

The world has not come to an end, nor have I jumped on top of it or anything as extreme or monkey-ish as that.

I haven’t gained more wisdom nor have I grown up to the Haneen I aspire to be.

The only feeling I have is complete Exhaustion, physically.

And a ton of WEIRDNESS mentally!

Well…and I thought Ikhlas Hussain was exaggerating when she described her feelings of nothingness after she finished her novel last year.

But any way, that was yesterday at 11:56 in the night. Now the feeling of weirdness is still there but it’s changing slowly into a weird kind of “I’m high” (no drugs included), now that I woke up to find my friends and family congratulating me on facebook. And still are as we speak..Love You Guys ^_^

The truth is…the truth is my friends is that I’m happy. About time life, about time.

I started Nights Unleashed in the end of 2009, now it’s  September 2013…man I sure deserve a diploma for this one.

It still needs a lot of work to do, the manuscript is a sheer miss, yea it’s messy –No Messi not you (I love saying this hahah)

Thanks for the shout out Leo! :)

Well What?!

I had to put him! 

Messi = accomplishment 

But this book took so much of me and gave me more, to all my characters I say thank you, to tshi-tshi my laptop who went through it with me, and the rest of laptops and copy books which had a part in this adventure thank all very much.

We still have work ahead of us, probably a rewrite but eh for now I say goodbye to Mark and the rest of the gang, for I need not look at them at all for the rest of the year to come.

See you soon everyone :)

Taxi! Follow those boys

State of Day. The weather have turned -finally- and rain pored for two days, today has been windy with a mild sun (Alhamdulillah). Hehehe in Khartoum this weather is worth celebrating.

But I also heard that some poor families on a far side of the city lost their houses to the strong rain. Not very good news :( but hearts are kind in our country we help as much as we can :)

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Salam my lovely friends :)

Just passing by to tell you what’s going on in my life right now;

I finally started “The Fellowship of The Ring”, I just finished chapter 3 yesterday and I can’t believe that until now Frodo is still trying to get out of the Shire! who knew it was that big? And once again I came to the same conclusion, the Shire is a tiring place to live in. Those Hobbits are really nosy.

But the book is very different than “The Hobbit” it took me pages to get a fine laugh, while The Hobbit was very amusing and funny from the beginning. Of course I knew that this one will be more serious but not that serious, and sad. The book is filling me with a dark feeling that is quite uncomfortable and I’m already crying and we haven’t gotten to the strong places yet. The sweet sorrow is at work from the beginning this time not the end.Oh My!

From here & There

I think. my protagonist Mark is whinny. No scratch that he IS whinny. I’m still struggling with the first draft but I cannot ignore the feeling that this is a setback. I really fear that readers will hate him for that. Besides I hate whinny characters, Go figure!

In my head I see him perfectly, how he speaks, moves, fights, laughs I can almost feel him, but when it comes to application words delude me, on paper he’s an annoying little brat! (Ugh! It hurts me deeply to say that, forgive me Mark, please forgive me :(

Ok snap out of it!

Mark is the only son of his family, he’s rich, hard headed and spoiled and sometimes awfully rude!

He has a quite complicated relationship with his parents and because of that he possess this tendency to hurt those who are close to him, who genuinely care for him.  I need to tune his rudeness down a bet though, after all -vampire or not- he is still a gentile(vamp) in the nineteenth century, he can’t be walking around bashing whatever he dislikes and shooting bad words on people, women included. Or can he? 
Actually putting all that aside, when he’s not in one of his aggressive moods Mark can be lavishly charming,  I know he’s my character but this is how I imagined him from the start, and this the outcome I’m doing my best to display accurately (did I actually said that boring line?!)

WIPs update

State Of Day. My aunt is staying with us for a couple of days, but she’s not alone…..she brought her five months baby Ahmad with her….since I LOVE babies I’m conducting a lot of evil experiments on the little clueless adorable creature Muhahahahaha.

On a different subject; Ikhlas Hussain in It’s been a while & Change is good? decided to tell us more about her life and introduced us to her new blog design (which I love); I find this very interesting cause she’s a GOOD blogger and between her informing book reviews and food recipes learning more about her life and writing is the best treat to her readers, and for that I say “Go Girl!”

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Totally know how you feel Sonoko

The Other Side Of Down (1): Jan what have you Done?

State of day. Wohohoh my boys scored 6 goals against Getafe in la liga and it was epic! Not that they haven’t spoil us with such big gifts before, I’m quite used to it by now, but still it was phenomenal to watch, like any other Barca game ;)

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Well January is gone and hello February, and I’m feeling stressed already which is NOT good, but Alhamdulillah (thank you Allah) for everything. I know, I know I promised you guys two Barca posts and I will deliver but a lot has been going on lately so I decided to make this post a list of last month’s achievements, and here it goes; 

Second post? Thought it will never happen & what lovely Kiersten Whites said

State of the day. Will this fatigue ever leave my poor body? And yesterday Michelle Argyle’s publisher Rhemalda made her novel ‘The Breakaway’ free for two days I suppose? and yup I snatched my PDF copy, already into it right now. Lucky Me :P 

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So although I already had so many posts in store for the future I simply didn’t know what to post for my second one, non of them seemed fitting or right.

At the end I thought why not just talk about something I love? My WIP ^_^