Writing Prompt- If you were a celebrity...

What would you do?

What kind of celebrity would you be? Acting? Singing? Something else entirely?

How would you treat your new fame and fortune?

Write a short story in which you, someone you know, or a character becomes a celebrity. Write about what kind of celebrity they would be (what they're known for), and how their life changes.

Sincerely,
Sareh

I've been recently obsessed with J-pop and K-pop.

Thanks to the former members of Inkpop.

SNSD (AKA Girl's Generation)- Run Devil Run

SNSD- Bad Girl

G.NA- Top Girl

G.NA- I Will Get Lost, You Go Your Way

BOA- Obsessed

Boa- Hypnotic Dancefloor

Other bands

• 2 pm
• Wonder Girls
• Beast
• Utada
• T-Ara
• 2NE1
• Trouble Maker (I just love their song, "trouble maker")

Sincerely,

Sareh

I've been on vacation.

Unexpectedly.

Well not really. Actually I knew I was going on vacation, I just didn't expect that I wouldn't have internet for a week or that I would be so busy that I wouldn't be able to post until tonight.

Anyways, since its late here already, I'm going to start regularly posting again tomorrow hopefully. If not, Sunday or Monday I will for sure.

So until next time,
Sareh.

In the News- Heroes vs Villains. Oh, and a Painting.

Our First Villain Tries to Steal a Baby

A woman disguised in scrubs was stopped before she could steal a newborn baby girl from a Southern California hospital in a tote bag. Yep, she thought that a tote bag was the perfect way to carry off a baby. Thankfully the senors attached to the baby alerted employees who stopped Grisel Ramirez, 48. She was arrested at Garden Grove Medical Center and they don't seem to know why she wanted to take the baby.

Apparently she posed as a nurse, went into the baby mother's room and told her to take a shower before a doctor came. Once the baby's mother was out, Ramirez put the baby in a purple tie-dyed tote bag and tried to whisk her away. Many hopsitals apparenlty have security systems where patients, like babies, have an electronic sensor on them as either a bracelet or anklet that sets off an alarm when the patient leaves a certain area.

The baby thankfully wasn't harmed throughout her ordeal and was in the bag only for a short time. Ramirez has been identified as the woman who walked into a hospital in Anaheim last week to ask several questions about a pregnant woman. The  pregnat woman told police who put up fliers with Ramirez's picture on it. You can read the whole thing and watch the video, here.


Our First Hero Dies to Rescue Two Boys

Dr. Donald Liu, chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine's Comer Children's Hospital, didn't hesitate to save two boys when they were swept into the water of Lake Michigan. The two boys were friends of the family and despite the dangerous conditions and protests from his own children, the brave doctor jumped in. While the boys made it back to shore near Cherry Beach in Chikaming, Dr. Liu, 50, didn't make it back.

After the doctor was finally found, his wife, also a doctor, tried to do mouth-to-mouth but it was too late. The Coast Guard had been responding to another call nearby when they got the call to come get Dr. Liu, but they were unable to make it in time. Dr. Liu is remembered for his passion for helping children not just at the hospital, but for being such a good dad to his three children. You can read the whole thing here
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Our Second Hero Stops Villain Number Two
Juan Carlos Alvarez, 29, walked into a sporting goods store in Yuba City, California and held Allyson Taylor at gunpoint for hours. He eventually surrended to police outside the Big 5 Sporting Goods store with Taylor unharmed thanks to good thinking. After opening some dialogue with him about him wanting to see his daughter again and some calls from hostage negotiators, she was freed. You can read the whole thing and watch the video here.

Possible da Vinci Painting Found

A scottish woman, Fiona McLaren, 59, recently found out that an old painting her father gave her could be worth up to $150 million and be over 500 years old. After getting it appraised, experts suspect that the painting may be a Leonardo da Vinci original or at least, made by one of the painter's pupils during the 16th century.

A papal bull was found attached to the back of the painting and is believed to have originated from the era of Pope Paul V, head of the Catholic Church in the early 17th century. McLaren says the word "Magdalene," is visible on the faded paper.
McLaren says she hopes the painting is sold to a museum, and she plans to donate a percentage of the painting's sale value after it is auctioned.

You can read the whole thing here.

Sincerely,
Sareh

Writing Prompt- The Olympics

So in another post about the Olympics, the prompt for this week is write a scene or a short story where your character is either in the Olympics or visiting.

If your character is in our world, our time, what sport would they be in? Or what sports would they go see?

If your character isn't in our time, but is in our world, (past) do they play some kind of sport or game? (Future) Are they in the Olympics if they still have them? Or if so, what sport would they go see?

If your character is in a totally different universe, what sports do they have there? Which one would your character be in? Or which would they go see?

Sincerely,
Sareh

Interesting Facts- The Olympics.

So in honor of the Olympics, I've decided to do an Olympic themed post tonight (and probably one every day this week except for Thursday and Saturday).

• At the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896, Greece, the host country, won the most medals with 47. 
• The country to win the most medals at the Winter Games is Norway with 263. 
• At the Summer Games, the U.S.A has won more medals then any other country (with a total of 2, 189).
• The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions in the world- Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Ocaeana. 
• The Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin claimed that at least one of the ring's colors are in every flag in the world (blue, yellow, black, green, red, and including the white background).
• London will be the only city to have hosted the Games three times- in 1908, 1948, and 2012. 
• Only three continents have never hosted the Olympics (Africa, South America, and Antarctica).
• The Summer Olympic sports are archery, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe / kayak, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon (shooting, fencing, swimming, show jumping, and running), mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon (swimming, biking, running), volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, and wrestling.
• The Winter Olympic sports are alpine skiing, biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting), bobsled, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hocky, luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing), skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating.
• The Olympic torch happened in ancient Olympia (Greece) too. There, the flame was ignited by the sun and kept burning until the Games ended. In our modern day, the torch is lit at Olympia by women wearing ancient-stlye robes and they use a curved mirror and the sun. Then its passed from runner to runner until it reaches the host city. After that, its kept alight until the games have ended. 
• The last Olympic gold medals to be made entirely out of hold, were given in 1912. 
• During the opening ceremony, the procession of athletes is led by teh Greek team, the followed by all the other teams in alphabetical order (in the language of the host country) and then the last team is always the host country. 
• When the Olympic commitee chooses locations, they always give the honor to a city rather then a country. 
• At the 1904 Paris Games, the winners were given paintings instead of medals because the French believed that they would be worth more. 
• A ten year old gymnast from Greece, Dimitrios Loundras, is said to be the youngest participant in the Olympic Games, but there's also said the be a French boy who was recuited at seven by the Dutch team who won the Coxed Rairs Rowing Race at the 1900 Games. But he got bored and went off before anyone got his name.
• Over 117 years, only three Olympic Games have been cancelled. Each time was because of a World War (1916, 1940, and 1944).
• Over the years, some of the events dropped from the Games inlcude, tug-of-war, Pelote Bisque, Cricket, Polo, and shooting live pigeons. 
• In the first Olympic Games, only nine events were given: athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis, weightlifting, and wrestling. All of these except tennis have been freatured at every subsequent Games. Tennis was dropped in 1928 but came back in 1988. 

Resources

Olympic Fun Facts

Interesting Olympic Facts

Facts about the Olympic Games

Blog News- July 2012

In the News
I've been thinking a lot about this a lot, and I've determined that from now on, when I do "In the News" on Tuesdays, I'll either talk about one news article in particular, or I'll do my regular way and sum up the article. I'll also include a writing article if I can find something interesting. It might be a blog post or an actually writing related post on the news. Remember guys that you are free to submit news to me and on Tuesdays, I'll blog about it.

So maybe you're getting something published, or there's something interesting going on that you think people should know about. Or maybe you saw something interesting on the news that you'd like to see me blog about. If you'd like to submit something, you can either submit it by going to the contact form under "about me" or you can put it in the comments any day of the week. Although, I may or may not always blog about your suggestion because of some reason or the other- I'll let you know if I accept it or not via comments or email. 

Camp Nanowrimo Time!
So National Novel Writing Month is going on this month (I think I've blogged about this before), and I know I'm doing it. For those of you not familiar with it, Nanowrimo is when you try to write a 50,000 word novel in the course of one month. Its usually only in November, but now they have summer "camps" in August and June. I tried to do it June, but I didn't get very far. I'm doing better this month though. For this month, I'm writing Those Crazy Years, a Steampunk 1920s novel involving spies, showgirls, singers, dancers, crime lords, and all sorts of fun stuff! You can join Camp Nanowrimo and start today but going to its website.

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How to make more time for writing.
5 things all writers can learn from Taylor Swift.
5 creative flaws.
Three writing tools I can't live without.
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Sincerely,
Sareh