First Campaign Challenge!

Today is the first day of Rachael Harrie's Fourth Campaign!  Hop over to her blog to get the official rules.  Here's the prompt for today!

Write a short story/flash fiction story in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, including a poem. Begin the story with the words, “Shadows crept across the wall”. These five words will be included in the word count. 

If you want to give yourself an added challenge (optional), do one or more of these:

• end the story with the words: "everything faded." (also included in the word count)

• include the word "orange" in the story

• write in the same genre you normally write

• make your story 200 words exactly!

Shadows crept across the wall.  The prison was cold and gloomy.  Thin strands of spiderwebs hung from the ceiling glittering in the moonlight and casting an eerie glow.  Isabelle wished she didn't have to bring food to the prisoners every night, she was scared of them.  These people weren't ordinary, they knew things other's didn't.  Isabelle walked down the stairs, her heart beating harder with every step.  As she got to the bottom she stopped dead in her tracks. A prisoner stared at her from the other side of the room.  His eyes glowed a powerful blue.
Isabelle gripped the container of orange mush in her hands.
"Get back in your cell!" Isabelle yelled.
He only stared back.
Then he moved closer, speeding up with every step.
"We need you Isabelle!  We need you!" His whispers echoed throughout the room.
Isabelle screamed and fell to the floor as a sharp pain pierced her neck.  Her whole body was pulsing.
Then the pulsing stopped, and a new feeling of purpose filled her.
"You know what to do," he said.
She pulled the key out from her pocket and opened everyone's cell.
She escaped with the prisoners and behind her everything faded.

Hope you enjoyed!  I'm # 37 vote for me if you liked it! :)

Thanks
Alyssa :)

11 Random Questions!

Thanks Jess for tagging me in the Platform Building tag of 11 questions!  Here are the questions she gave me!!


1. What's your favorite song?
This is a hard one, I have a whole bunch of songs that I really like, but if I had to choose one I guess it  would be Fix You by Coldplay.

2. How old were you when you started writing?
I  started writing around six or seven, I used to make up a whole bunch of stories about unicorns, mermaids and other fairy tale creatures! LOL!

3. What's your favorite movie/book?
Hmmm... I guess my favorite book would be The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.  I loved this book and I really want to see the movie that goes with it!

4. If you could be any animal in the world, what would you be? Why?
I would like to be a dolphin.  It would be so awesome to swim around super fast, and do all of those awesome high jumps that they do!

5. If you were the main character of a book, what genre would it be?
It would definitely be Fantasy!!! :)

6. What is the coolest thing you've ever done?
I think the the coolest thing I have ever done would be participating in the Great Lakes US Figure Skating Championships.  I had so much fun and I got 6th place out of 18!

7. If you could be a character from any book, who would you be? Why?
I think I would be the character Kari, from Susan Runholt's book's, The Mystery of the Third Lucretia, Rescuing Seneca Crane and The Adventure at Simba Hill.  Kari goes on all these cool adventures with her best friend Lucas (which is a girl) and has to figure out all of these mysteries before something really bad happens or time runs out!!

8. What genre do you write in?
I write in Historical Fiction.

9. What's your favorite thing to do other than write?
That's an easy one!  I love to figure skate!  That's my absolute favorite thing to do!  I figure skate almost every day of the week, (sometimes I do skate every day of the week!) and we skate for as little as 40 minutes up to 3 1/2 hours!!

10. If you could meet one historical figure, who would it be?
It would either be Abigail Adams, or Mahatma Gandhi.  I can't choose one!

11. Is there anything else we should know about you?
I also love to read and bake!! :)

OK! That's it!  Here are some campaigners I'm tagging:

1. Sophs at  Sophie's Writing Adventures
2. Morgan at Inner Thoughts of a Red Head Writer
3. Daniel at Daniel Todd Noyes
4. J.A. Bennett
5. Prerna Pickett at The Sands of Writing
6. Chandara at Chandara Writes
7. Cortney Pearson at Writer by Day
8. Brenna Braaten at Blissfully Brenna
9. Medeia Sharif
10. Shelly at Writing with Shelly and Chad 
11. Julie Daines at A Writer's Compendium

Here are my 11 questions!!

1. What is your favorite holiday?

2. Who is your idol?

3. If you could visit any place in the world where would you go?

4. What's your favorite genre?

5. What or who has inspired your writing the most?

6. If you could choose any superpower what would you have?

7. If you had to be a  villain, who would it be? Why?  

8. What is your favorite animal?

9.What is your favorite food?

10.Who is your favorite author?

11. What is your biggest fear?

OK! That's it have fun! :)

Rachael Harrie's 4th campaign!

Hey everyone!  Go check out Rachael Harrie's blog at http://rachaelharrie.blogspot.com/
Join in on her 4th campaign!  Meet lots of new friends, get a lot more followers and most importantly have lots of fun!!! :)

Thanks
Alyssa :)

A-Z blogging challenge

Today I signed up to do the A-Z blogging challenge created by Arlee Bird.  His site is http://tossingitout.blogspot.com/
I am really excited to do this challenge this is a great way to meet a whole bunch of new people and (hopefully) a chance to get a lot more followers!! Hehehehe :) I think my theme for this challenge will be about my figure skating. For every letter I will post a video of me doing a jump or spin or a super cool move that starts with that letter!  I am really excited for this challenge and can't wait until it starts!! :)


Thanks
Alyssa :)

Cruise!

In just over 30 days my family and I are going to go on an amazing cruise to the Eastern Caribbean!  We are going to go horseback riding,  snorkeling maybe scuba diving, but I'm a little scared to do that!  We will also have the great opportunity to go swimming with the dolphins!  I am soooo excited to be going there!  This will be such an awesome trip!  The last time we went on a cruise I was only five years old, so I don't really remember what it was like.  We are going to be stopping in 4 different places, St. Maarten, Princess Cays, Turks and Caicos, and St. Thomas.  Also to add to all of the fun, our grandparents will be coming with us as well!  I am so excited and counting down the days till we go! :)



Thanks
Alyssa :)

Beta Reading

The weather has been really bad these past few days.  It's rainy, muddy, cold and just MISERABLE!  So lately (meaning 2 days ago) I have been beta reading my sister Jessica's novel!  Her blog is http://writeskatedream-jmckendry.blogspot.com/  if you want to go check it out! :)
Anyway I have just started it and I think it is really good!  I'm only on chapter three and I am already hooked!  Not much else to say today, I didn't get to go skating this morning because the freestyle started at 6:30 and my mom thought I should sleep in because of all of the stress from the synchronized skating competition.  But tonight all five of us (my mom, my dad, my brother my sister and me) will be going to the gym tonight for the daily (or I guess nightly) work out.  That's it for today! I'll post again soon!




Thanks
Alyssa :)

So Fun

Just wanted to tell you guys that we had so much fun competing at the synchronized skating competition in Fraser, Michigan.  This was our first out of state competition and girls from all over the country were competing there!  We had lots of fun, but we ended up taking 9th place out of 9 :(

But thankfully everyone was OK with it and we all admitted how much fun it was to hang out, run around the hotel and just have an AWESOME time! Nobody was actually mad that we got last. We were obviously disappointed but there's a competition coming up in February that we are all really excited about and pretty confident about!  Hopefully we'll do good then!  We had so much fun and right after the competition we got to stay over at our grandparent's house!  Wish I could relive this whole week over again!!

Thanks

Alyssa :)