Challenge 15

My Worst Date

The worst date I went on includes all of the dates I went on in college. I didn't have a good date while I was in college. I will talk about the worst one.

Bradyn had asked me out a week earlier. He seemed nice enough. I had gone out with cuter guys before, but he seemed nice.

We had decided to go to the movies. That was about the only thing we could do in the small cowboy town of Colton. I was going to go pick him up because he didn't have a car. I smiled. College students didn't have much in the way of money or things in Colton, but we made do.

I drove over to the dorm to pick up Bradyn. I was looking great as usual. I only hoped that he had put some effort into his attire. I had been on a date a couple of weeks earlier who had shown up in a torn and wrinkled t-shirt. I shook my head and hoped for the best.

I walked up to Bradyn's door and knocked. When I opened the door, his roommate opened the door. Bradyn's roommate was cuter than Bradyn. I reminded myself that I was here to see Bradyn, not his roommate. Bradyn's roommate called Bradyn. A few minutes later, Bradyn walked into the room. He looked nice. He had on a starched polo shirt and some starched blue jeans. I sighed in relief as we walked to the door.

We drove the movie theater without much conversation. If it had not been for the music that was playing on the stereo, it would have been totally silent.

We reached the theater. We got out of the car and walked to the front door of the theater. I waited a brief moment for him to open the door, but he didn't. I opened the door for myself and then walked into the theater. He walked in behind me. We walked up to the ticket counter to purchase the tickets. He purchased two tickets for the movie. We headed for the second set of doors that lead directly into the theater. I was tempted to give him another chance at opening the door for me, but I didn't want to get my feelings hurt again. I opened the door for myself and walked through.

I was about to walk to the concession stand, but Bradyn grabbed me around my waist and said, "You don't want any popcorn, do you?" I made a face and walked towards the theater as I was directed. I did want some popcorn. I wasn't going to get large popcorn. I would have gotten a small box, but I wasn't even given a chance.

The movie would have been enjoyable if Bradyn hadn't constantly kept kissing me and trying to fondle me. I thwarted his movements as much as I could. Finally, I said, "I would really like to watch the movie." He made a face and let me watch the movie. The movie was finally over. I was more than happy.

We arrived at his dorm and we sat in the car for a few minutes. We talked for awhile. He finally asked, "Do you want to go inside and hang out for awhile?" I said, "Yes." I am still trying to figure that one out. We got out of the car and then we walked into his dorm room. His roommate was there watching a movie. Bradyn pushed me passed the living room and into his bedroom. Bradyn's roommate asked, "Ya'll aren't going to get busy on the first date are you?" I made a face and thought to myself, "No way!"

No sooner than we had entered the room, Bradyn closed the door to his room and then started to kiss me. I let him kiss me for a few second before I pushed away from him. I looked at him and said, "I am going to go home. It is getting late." He smiled and then tried to kiss me again. I backed away and got to the door as quickly as I could. I opened the door and walked through the living room to the front door.

I shook my head as I drove home. I silently vowed to never go on another date until I graduated from college.

Challenge 14

5 Great Things

5 Things I Like About Myself
I am a fun-loving person.
I am an easy-going person.
I am very supportive.
I am a fast-learner.
I am a great friend.

5 Positive Things about My Writing
I write a church scene in all of my stories, from the opening prayer to the benediction.
I have continuity in my story. My stories will always be accurate. I pride myself on doing that.
Many of my characters, places, or churches have reoccurring roles in my stories.
I try to include some aspect of repentance in my stories.
I always include healing, deliverance, or restoration in my stories.

Challenge 9

Your Silliest Writing Quirk
My silliest writing quirk is that I can only handwrite my writings (which I love to do) on a certain kind of paper. It has to be college rule and it has to be a certain shade of blue, dark navy blue. The only store that I have seen it in is Wal-Mart and they usually only have like one package of it, so when I see it at the store, I pick up a package of it. If I try to write on any other kind of paper, I get writer's block. Seriously, I can't write a thing, no matter how hard I try.

I think my quirk is cute. My husband does too. He laughs at me all the time when I get excited in the store and I see the paper there.

Challenge #6

Summer Vacation from a Character
KiKi White-Williams watched her god daughters Braisha and Marcelle as they modeled on the new swims that she had purchased for them. It was a tradition that they had started four years earlier. After each GBF Youth Convocation, that she planned and they all attended, she would take her four god daughters to the beach with her. They would spend a week there with her and then she would spend a week by herself.

This year was special though. It was the first time that she had a man at the beach house with her and the girls. KiKi's new husband, Hobert Williams, III was at the beach house with him. She kept wondering how he was going to make it at the house with her, four 20-something young ladies, and one 13 year-old. He was probably going to end up running from the house.

KiKi stopped daydreaming and walked into the bathroom to put on her own swimsuit. They were headed for their first adventure, a swim in the ocean. She couldn't wait for Hobert to see her in the swimsuit. He was in for a nice treat.

Challenge #5

Plotter or Pantser
I am a plotter. I usually have moderate to elaborate outlines. I have been known to stray from my outline from time to time, so actually it was only once before, but I did stray.

Before I begin a story, I usually have "told" myself the story several times before I go to sleep. I usually act out the scenes of my stories in my mind before I go to sleep. I have a hard time going to sleep, so reviewing my stories like that help me out.

I like to get a mental picture of what my characters will look like, that way, I feel closer to them.

I always buy a new spiral for each novel that I write.

Challenge #5

Plotter or Pantser
I am a plotter. I usually have moderate to elaborate outlines. I have been known to stray from my outline from time to time, so actually it was only once before, but I did stray.

Before I begin a story, I usually have "told" myself the story several times before I go to sleep. I usually act out the scenes of my stories in my mind before I go to sleep. I have a hard time going to sleep, so reviewing my stories like that help me out.

I like to get a mental picture of what my characters will look like, that way, I feel closer to them.

I always buy a new spiral for each novel that I write.

Challenge #4

From the Mad Challenge Yahoo! Group
Summer Vacation
I had a lot of fun on vacation in San Antonio, TX.

We went to the Natural Caverns. That was fun.

We went to a wildlife park, where you drive around in your car a feed the animals. That was hilarious. A deer like animal got up close and personal with my husband. The animal stuck his head in the car window on the driver's side and sniffed my husband's hand and then licked my husband on the neck. I was rolling. I didn't have a camera either.

We went to Six Flags. That was cool.

We went to Sea World. We didn't get to see Shamu, much to my husband's dismay. We did see the penguins.

We went to the Schlitterbahn. This is a water park. This was so much fun. We floated around in the wading pool. We went down a couple of water slides. It was fun hanging out in the water with my husband.

I think I may have given one of the life guards an eye full because my swimming suit string came loose and I had to pull my top up. He looked at me kind of funny as I swam by him. OOPS!

We had an incident in I-Hop on our last day. We were sitting at a table and the waiter walked by us twice without saying a word. A white family was seated after we were seated. The waiter walked right over to them and began talking to them and being friendly. He walked by us three more times and didn't say a word. I looked at my husband and said, "If he walks by us one more time. I am going to act a fool." My husband smiled and said, "Calm down. Let's give him five more minutes." I had every intention of giving the guy five more minutes, except, he walked by us and gave the white family their drinks. I was livid at that moment. I stood up, walked up to the front of the restaurant and asked someone, "Who is our waiter?" The person responded, "Chris." I said, "He has walked by us four or five times and has not said a word to us!" A waitress walked up to us and said, "Come on, Baby and sit in my section and I will get you feed quickly." We sat in her section.

We got our food. We got a discount. I was heated though. My husband cracked on me the whole way home. It was kind of funny.

We were in San Antonio. There aren't that many African-Americans in San Antonio. We (African-Americans) have a tendency to be bad tippers. (My husband and I are great tippers, though.) I think that is why Chris acted a fool with us. It can't be said that he didn't see us.

Oh well. Why did somebody have to act a fool with us on the last day of our vacation?

Challenge #3

You & Your Writing
I am a self-actualizing person. No matter where I am, what I am doing, or who I am with, I am in my own world. While in that world, I tend to constantly make-up people, places, and things. There is always something going on in my head.

For a previous job, we took personality tests. The psychologist who administered the test to us said, "I bet you are always thinking about other stuff, no matter what you are doing." I just looked at him and smiled. He said that according to my profile, he could tell that I did.

I started writing at 12. I had to get all of the people, places, and things out of my head. I mostly wrote poetry for church programs. I also kept a journal. Once I got into high school, I began writing more prose for creative writing class. I wrote essays and research papers for classes as well.

I write poetry, short stories, novels, novellas, essays, and research papers. I love writing research papers, strange I know.

I currently display all of my work at Perpetual Inspirations, http://www.alwaysinspired.info/ and LaDawnya's World, http://www.ladawnyasworld.info/.

I love having people read my writing. My family and friends read a lot of my work. I try to get people to look at my websites as much as possible. I have made t-shirts advertising my sites. (Shameless, I know.)

I have had several of my writings published. I am working on a novel that I want to get published. My brother wants me to get it published as well because it is about him.

A year from now, I would like to be finished with my novel, Allegations.
It is a story about something that happened to my brother and me. I am writing it to help with the healing process, but it got hard to write so I had to put it down.

Five years from now, I hope to have two or more books published.

Deartra's Intro

My name is deartra (pronounced dear-tra). My login on most places is mrsdboone. I write Christian fiction. I have written two Christian romances. My most recent work was a fictional story based on my real life. I am not working on anything particular at this time. I am a pre-school teacher, so I spend most of my day playing (teaching) four year olds. I live in TX with my husband of 3 years. I work in the CHildren's Ministry at my church (kindergarten). I love working with small children. I don't have any children unless you count my four stuffed animals, one of which, a little girl, I recently received.

I love goofing around on the computer. I make-up stories, people, places, and things and write about them all the time. I have a bunch of websites dedicated to this silly endeavor. Most of these writings help me come up with a workshop that I give online sometimes.

I like this group because it helps my creativity flow.

Pride Stickers

I get to put 32 pride stickers on my computer. Hooray!

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Goals for the Month of September

Here are my goals for the month.

1. To write something everyday, no matter how big or small.
2. To write down more of the story ideas that I have come up with.
3. Upload Baumann Records.
4. Upload K-3080 Entertainment.
5. Upload Mo'Sound Gospel Records.
6. Upload Prantley Records.
7. Continue to update Perpetual Inspirations.

Writing Goals

For the month of August, I wrote 122,900 words. Yippee! I updated 66 sites.
The last week was hard, but I made it.

Goals for Last Month

I accomplished all of my goals for last month. YEA!