Beat the Winter Blahs

Cami Checketts has 3 new book that you can enter to win. They are:
Methods of Madness by Stephanie Black, Counting the Cost by Liz Adair, and The Sister Pact by Cami Checketts. You can check out Cami's blog for a summary of the book and how you can enter to win one of these exciting book. You can locate her blog Here. There are also more exciting books that she will be giving away in the following weeks.

Cami Checkets Giveaway

There is a new exciting day of giveaways. You can find out all about this at her blog. Todays exciting book that she is giving away is ALTERED PLANS.

This will be an exciting book for anyone who loves to read. You can go enter this contest right now. Just make sure you are a follower so it counts. You can find a link to her blog here.

Treatment for MY STORY

Ordinary World: Kate is a normal high school senior getting ready for college and hanging out with her friends.

Call to Adventure: There is a new kid at school she becomes friends with and goes out with. Then she pass's out in one of her classes.

Refusal of the Call: She will not accept the fact of who she is in the magical world and what she has to accomplish.

Meet the Mentor: Her brothers best friend helps her to learn the magic that she needs to fight after convincing her that this is normal and okay.

Testing, Allies and Enemies: They set traps and look at past records to see who they can trust.

Approach: gathering together all of those who are on there side and want to fight evil.

Ordeal: She has to fight against the war lord of the evil side and in the end the good comes out on top.

Reward: They have destroyed the evil war lord and can go back to how there lives used to be without the threat of some one wanting to take over.

Road back: They have to set everything at rights and make it look like no battle ever happened to avoid suspicion from Mortals.

Resurrection: Kate is given a drink that has poisons so strong she should die. Through the help and efforts of everyone she is healed.

Return with Elixir: They return to the normal world without anyone hurt and with the knowledge of how to defeat evil.

Hero: Kate

Mentor: Zach, Brother's Best Friend

Threshold Guardian: Mom & Dad

Herald: Ethan, Kate's Brother

Shapeshifter: Ryan, War Lord, kid from school

Shadow: Ryan's Evil army

Trickster: Danielle, War Lord's Sister

Hero's Journey: Inkheart

This Movie is about a girl named Meggie and her father Mo. Their Journeys are intertwined mixing with what parts they share.

(Ordinary world)They start out driving to a book store to fix some books and look for a book that is very important to Mo. Meggie has no idea what the book is. She stays outside the book shop looking at a seller’s cart. She meets a funny little animal with horns and feeds it. Then when she tries to rub it, it bites her fingers. Then the owner shows up and warns her. Meggie makes a comment saying that it is not good to talk to strangers. (The Call)He says he is no stranger and it has been a while since he has seen her. Then Mo comes out of the shop and just stares at them then tells Meggie to get in the car. Dustfinger asks for Mo to read him back into the book mo respond with saying he doesn’t know how. (The Refusal of Call)Then he runs away from Dustfinger and leaves him behind. (Meet the mentor)They go to visit Aunt Eleanor to get away from Dustfinger. She collects tons of books. Meggie goes in her forbidden library to look. Eleanor comes in and gets mad. Then she calms down and tells Meggie about her Mom and her favorite reading spot. Then she gives Meggie her mom’s copy of Wizard of Oz. Meggie reads all the way into night. (Crossing the threshold)Then Dustfinger shows up and says he went to Capricorn. Capricorns men ruin the library. Then Meggie asks who all they all are and who Capricorn is. Then Dustfinger asks her if Mo has ever read to her out loud. They drag them out to the car and Meggie reaches for Wizard of Oz, Dustfinger pulls it out for her and she won’t take it so he puts it in his pocket. They go to Capricorns Village. In their confinement Mo tell them the story of how Meggie’s Mom disappears and Dustfinger, Basta, Capricorn came out of the book. (Approach)They get dragged to meet Capricorn and he has them read treasure out of the book. There is a boy that also comes out of the book. They get taken back to their confinement. Dustfinger tries to rescue the copy of Inkheart that Mo had and burns his hands. One of the maids in chains named Resa helps him. He finds out that she is Mo’s wife. (Ordeal)Then Gwinn, a marten with horns, Steels the key to get Resa out of confinement of her chains. He takes her the key. While Dustfinger has gone down to the confinement and show Mo and the others a way out. Mo reads the storm out of Wizard of Oz and they escape the village. The maid Resa is left behind though. (Reward) They go to the author of Inkheart village and find a copy that he has that is an original manuscript. (The road back) Mo and Dustfinger go to rescue Resa out of the Village. Since they are rescuing Resa, Mo agrees to read Dustfinger back. Dustfinger tells Mo about Resa and that she has no voice. In the village they get spotted and have to hurry Dustfinger gets taken. Back at the authors house Meggie reads aloud from Wizard of Oz and Toto comes out. Then Basta comes and takes Meggie back with him and with knowledge that she is a silver tongue. The author also got taken. Capricorn decides to have Meggie read the Shadow out. He uses Meggie’s mother Resa as leverage over her. In their Confinement the author tries to rewrite the end. He finally decides to on the rewrite and Magpie comes to put Meggie in a Party Frock. Mo, Dustfinger, and Farid have a plan of how to get Meggie back with some decoy. They take gasoline and light the Castle on fire. By then the Shadow was out of the book and Meggie had started reading the new ending. It is then taken from her. She has to be a bystander for a while. (Resurrection)Then her father throws her a pen and she rewrites the ending with Capricorn and his men blowing away and all the other animals and people going back to their books. Dustfinger misses it but then Mo reads him back in. (Return with Elixir) Farid stays behind to live with Meggie, Mo, and Resa. They Return to their lives with knowledge of what they can do and a happy family.

Hero: Meggie, Mo

Mentor: Eleanor

Trickster: Dustfinger

Shadow is the Shadow

Herald: Dustfinger

Shapeshifter: Capricorn

A gift I'd like to give........final draft

I was walking home one night and I looked in on a family. They were so smiling and happy. They had something we have all wanted. It seemed to make life more bearable and there was always someone there to help them with their struggles. Then it came to me they were showing love to each other. The gift of love is something that brings peace and we need to start sharing it with those around us.

Your family is always there to support and help you. We can’t ignore the importance they are in our lives. We need to remember that we can’t let an argument get in the middle of the love our family may share. When we show love we have a feeling of peace and happiness enters the room. The love that is shared in a family is a special kind of love that we must be cherished through the ages. The love that you can feel for a new born baby is so special because they are only small once and they are a fresh spirit from Heavenly Father. Finding love in your family is the most important kind of love but there are also other people you can love.

A friend is someone that needs love. We must remember that no one is above or below us and everyone can be our friend. A friend is not only a human being it is also an animal. Many people say a dog is a man’s best friend. When we cuddle with a new little puppy we can feel of love of a new little friend. A puppy is a best friend because they are such a happy joyful spirit and ready to share their love. We must share our love with them and give them praise and support. By showing love with animals as well as people are hearts will expand.

When we share love with those are around us whether they are on two feet or four feet. The gift of love is something very precious. We must use it wisely and share it with everyone. Love is something that is cherished and something special between family members, friends, and pets. This gift is so beautiful because you can always make more of it for any new person of pet that you meet in your life time. As we develop new love we will feel completeness in our lives that can’t be replace as anything else.

A gift I'd like to give.........

There are many things in the world that you can give as a gift. Some are more tangible than others. The most important gift in the world is love. I would give the gift of love to many people. I would give it to the whole world, though that is not something that is within reason. The gift of love is so important that you should start by giving it to you family, then you can move on and give it to your friends, and last of all you need to give it to your enemies. Giving the gift of love starts right at this moment.

Your family is a very important part of your life. You can’t ignore them. They are a part of everything you do. You may try to separate yourself from them but you still have to traits of belonging to that family. You must love them and give them that gift of love first before you start giving it to other people. If you can’t love you families then you don’t have the ability to love others. Once you have understood the path of love you must have for your family then you can move on and learn how to truly love you friends.

A friend is someone you can count on. The reason you can count on them is because you love each other. By loving it opens all new possibilities. When you can love a friend it opens you mind to the people all around you. When love is shown it is the gateway to new trust. You must believe in the power you have as friends when you love each other. When you love a friend you will be with them when they are happy and also when they are sad. You will support them in whatever they do. That is w a way that you can show love to a friend and make wonders happen. There is also one last person who you must love and they can become a friend in time but they aren’t now.

An enemy is the last person you must give the gift of love. This may well be the hardest person for you to love. Your friends and family are very easy because you already like them but that is not the same way with an enemy .This person has probably hurt you in some way. It will be hard to get past differences and forgive then love them. You must work the hardest to give them these gifts of love that you have given to the other people you know. There are many things that you can lose out on in life if you choose not to love you enemies and to always hold them there in a dark part of your heart. It will make it really difficult to love others because you can't love the one person who you most need to love. Once you can love them you have completed a very an amazing thing that will bless your life.


The gift of love is something very precious. You must use it wisely. If this gift is not used wisely then you can have a very bad ending. Love is something that is cherished and something special between two family member, or two friends, or even two enemies. Once we learn this gift. Then we can move to share it with the world, though, it is a very daunting task. We can focus more on the people we do know and people we meet if. If we have a goal of sharing it with the world it can blow-up in our face because we are too overwhelmed with the task we put ourselves to. We must just remember that love is something special that we are blessed with.

Poem 3: Love

Rain

Beautiful and dripping
the puddles are huge
rain is a falling
faster
the droplets are
huge
lets go dance
lets go run
lets sing
rain is dripping
down my face
I love rain