Hi there! I've been gone for a while. My sister and I have been finishing up our schoolwork and such and there has hardly been anything to write about.

I think I am finally beginning to appreciate those authors who I love so much - J.K. Rowling, J.R.R.Tolkien, Jane Austen, Christopher Paolini, Tamora Peirce, etc. My book has taken up alot of my time and I am running a bit low on patience. This book has taken me five years to finish writing and now that its finally 'done', I realize its not over yet. I'm almost finished with the grammar editing but still have much more to add in in a way that sounds right, clear things up so my readers aren't confused and so on. I never thought that just writing down my thoughts would be work! Then there is the nightmare of publishing it and sending 'my baby' out into the world for people to read. There are so many other fantasy novels out there that a fresh, new idea is hard to come by. Paolini has published two books (soon to be three and then four) and people are starting to tear his work apart. He took the awesome title of 'youngest author of teh day' when he published 'Eragon', Tolkien set us all out on our journey into the fantasy realm by paving the road for the first time. The rest of the authors in his time were writing tales of war and romance and such and there really had not been tales of fantasy out there. Even my friend Hannah and I were jokingly argueing about who gets to be the one who wins the title 'one of the youngest female fantasy authors"! She is writing as well and her tale is very original and very good. Its weird becasue I saw the movie "Nim's Island" the other day and the character she writes about is always in her mind and she'll even 'talk' to him. I must admit that there are times where my characters will 'talk' to me. I have had a dream where a character that I had to kill off dame out of my book and was yelling at me because I had killed him. Esstellalim, teh character based off of me, or who I want to be really, has seemed to scream at me sometimes. THis may sound completely crazy but...my characters are mine. They are my friends, my enemies, my animals, the setting is the world that I go to in my dreams and everything I have written down has been something from my dream. I have litterally woken up in the night, grabbed a peice of paper and a pen, and started to scribble things down. THey may just be notes and babble to someone else but I know what they are. I have started to write a paragraph from teh middle of an untold tale and just gone with it. Some of these things will never be published, other might turn out to be a novel that comes after "The Fight for Tyra". I'm not even sure if 'Tyra" will make it. Esstellalim may find that this is one battle she cannot win, but she will fight it and I will be happy if I can go into Barnes and Noble store and see my book on one of their shelves. There are some days when I would love to be talking on TV about my book turning into a movie, or the second coming out or whatever but I think I will be contented and pleased with myself if I can just see it on the shelves with an emerald spine with fancy gold lettering on the spine, swirling out the words "Fight for Tyra". I might change my name to sound more author like; an illertiartion...perhaps Kate Kunningham or something. I might even dig something up from an old Greek myth or something. That would be kind of cool!

This is all just babble but its my blog so....I think I can do whatever on here!! hehehe!

hope ya'll weren't too bored! :)

kate/Essy!