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Google is very useful sometimes. But still I think that if you don’t know what you’re looking for you probably won’t find it. Any way I would like to get something published eventually so I was nosing around the internet looking at publishers and so forth. I found quite a lot of nothing much. Several places charged you a bit of money to have your book published then gave you royalties if and when the book sold. I also found a book I might want to get, it’s a comprehensive guide on publishers. I suppose the important thing is to write something worth getting published and since longer books are the type that get published I probably should work on one or two. However, many shorter stories shoved together into a collection could also work.

For example perhaps a story that followed the adventures of a prince who later becomes a king and then has seven sons and then the story follows the adventures of all of the seven sons and perhaps their children. That could be a long and confusing book. So instead I think that just inventing a kingdom and having several stories that take place in different parts of that kingdom would probably be best and I’ll probably write up a lot of short stories in the near future.

At some point I do want to have a book published but I am not in a hurry and I will definitely do a lot of writing and research before I submit anything. Also I am well aware of the great and mighty Letter of Rejection. You know “The Great and Mighty Letter of Rejection” would make a good book title, so would “Ten Easy Steps to Attain Great Wealth”. And the ten steps would probably be
1. Work hard
2. Start a savings account
3. Find ways to save money, like home schooling, eating healthy inexpensive food, not going to the movies and just wait until the DVD comes out, Don’t go to the mall and find a very nice thrift store, don’t eat candy since it is expensive and makes your dental bill go up.
4. Work some more
5. Be patient while your savings account grows
6. Still work and save
7. Early to bed Early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
8. Consider doing profitable hobbies, like making things that sell for a profit.
9. Don’t worry, number ten is near so just continue working hard.
10. Eventually you may Attain Great Wealth but it all depends on your definition of great wealth, in olden days and to certain people a quarter was great wealth and even a million dollars is no longer considered great wealth to some.
MORAL: It is better to live a happy and contented life than to be filthy rich and unhappy.

Now how did I get on this subject? I suppose it doesn’t really matter, but I do have a lot of writing planned, I might do some more commercials, they’re rather fun but I do need to start memorizing my lines. Any way, maybe a year or so from now there will be a book out with “By Elizabeth J. Von Fange” on it that can be bought in stores and maybe I’ll actually get some money back from my writing. But I will probably always write for the pleasure of writing, and the pleasure of seeing people read what I write and the pleasure of getting compliments on it and maybe later, for the pleasure of getting a check for it!

Oh, and I am beginning typing class(Translation, I’m using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing again) so I hope I’ll be able to type really fast soon. Currently I am at about fifty words per minute but I’d like to be faster.

It is interesting how the word “Dies” is in the word “Tragedies”. Anyway once I read a book called “The Golden Fleece” and it was so depressing, the hero had three beautiful women fall in love with him or him fall in love with them and one he sailed away and left, the other he ceased to love when he met the third girl who was killed by the second girl. Also there was a lot of other tragic stuff. However there is some potential humor in a Greek Tragedy and I think I’ll write one. Not being very good with the Greek writing style I shall simply invent my own Greekish style both for the writing and the names. Prepare for every one dying and a horribly depressing ending.

On an Island near Greece a prince was born named Rincous. This prince grew up to be a great warrior and became a king when his father died by drinking poison in a cup offered by his wife, who when she realized what she had done drank the poison too and died in remorseful agony. (Having two people die in the first two sentences isn’t bad for a Greek Tragedy), Now Rincous loved(or desired) a princess of a nearby kingdom and he decided to send emissaries to ask for her hand in marriage.

When, after many more unpleasant adventures, he finally reached the city of the Princess he was just in time to behold the wedding of Woricus and the Princess before his chariot wheel hit a large rock in road and tipped over plunging Rincous over the edge of a nearby cliff into the ocean where he and his team of horses died. But Woricus and the Princess lived happily ever after to prove that all dark clouds have silver linings though hundreds of persons get killed by lightning looking for them.

And now that I have thoroughly depressed myself(The poor dog and kittens! I hate it when the dog dies…) I shall say that in most of the Greek stories they seem to pick the wrong person to be hero. Now if Woricus had been the hero instead of Rincous this story would have been a happy one because he was a great warrior with a powerful sword and he married a beautiful princess and lived happily ever after and did not run over creatures with his chariot.

And quite frankly I do think that the way I did it was rather funny. I’ll down load it to my video camera and show it off at dinner and then perhaps try to find a way to put it up on my website so that you can see it.

I just finished filming, now to video edit! And here for your reading pleasure is the comercial. During the talking there are some shots of the plates and cups.

Hello! I’m Ima Breaker of Chepped Dishes here to show you our latest product. Here at Chepped Dishes we believe in saving money so instead of wasting money on useless research techniques, we merely survey our employees and see what they want in dishes.

Our competitors might call our products “Expensive Paper Plates” but though our products are discardable there is nothing like the experience of using a Chepped dish. So order your set of three cups and four plates today! Until next commercial this is Ima Breaker of Chepped Dishes signing out and remember, There is nothing like using a Chepped Dish!.

I just finished writing what I think will be good enough for the comercial. I think I’ll just go ahead and film it for the fun of it. I’ve all ready selected what I’m going to wear so now all I have to do is get my camera out, find my tripod and film it.

Blinds, like silverware, telephones and pencils, have always rejoyced in tormenting me. Or at anyrate I can’t use them very well. But I have just discovered the secret behind blinds! I was supposed to close two blinds and they weren’t cooporating. So in desperation I yelled ARG!!! as I tugged at the cord and the blind went down! On the other bilnd I yelled ARG!!! as I tugged the cord and that blind went down. Fascinating! I suppose to go up I should yell GRA!!! and maybe the blind will cooporate.

I think that I want to film something and I also think that something very short and simple would probably be better than an action epic. So I think I’ll do some comercials. I just got an idea for a comercial and it is rather funny so I’ll try to write up something and if I get a funny script I’ll post it.

I do apoligise for the scarcity and incompletness of my posts, oh well. I am now going to satisfy my burning curiosty as to what has been happening on Neopets and in the Comic strips while I have been away.

All though I haven’t left the boat yet the premonition that I will be doing so is clouding unpleasantly the surroundings. We will be leaving the boat in just a few hours! Then it will be a very very very very very very long flight home with more hours than verys. I am feeling moderately sick and had just finished my packing when I realized that I still had an Ipod, computer, cell phone, and their respective chargers to pack into two all ready full bags. Fortunately I will be able to put most of that in my fanny pack and hopefully squeeze Eowyn in my suitcase. Traveling certainly broadens both ones luggage and oneself.

When I return I definitely have a lot to do. Post these posts, check my Email, read the comics, play on Neopets for a bit, write the BWM(Not quite BMW), Film it, Unpack, Get Well, look at more cruises(The heart of man is never satisfied) and do many more things and not necessarily in one day, or in one week even, Filming and writing the BWM or the BM will take some time and also will unpacking and getting well. When I wish to use my computer, getting sick is somewhat pleasant.

Well, I suppose I’ll close this post, and it’s 1:05 at home though it is 7:05 here. Going back and suddenly changing time will be slightly unpleasant but at least I feel like I need to be asleep right now.

Today was very interesting. This morning we went on board a small sailing vessel that was over a hundred years old and cruised around Oslo for a bit. Then we went to the Fram museum and gift shop. I got a little tiny boat for 45 kronan, or about seven dollars.

Then I got back on the boat and took a nap until three thirty when the ice cream place opened. Then at four something important happened, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was on in the Princess Theater. I now know why popcorn is encouraged at movie theaters. During the more exciting moments having something to bite into is most comforting.

Any way the boat is moving around a lot and I feel almost sea sick and I have a lot of packing to do. Also I wish I could go upstairs and eat some desserts and I just might do that.

Today we were in Hamburg Germany and the people there are “Hamburgers”. There are many McDonalds there. We went oon our tour to Schewrin(I don’t think that this is how it was spelled but it was something like that), a lovely town and castle. The castle was fascinating with many lovely rooms. We had lunch there and afterwards I added to my art collection by purchasing several reproduction postcards of some of the paintings in the castle. The Duchesses of Schewrin wore very lovely outfits and their portraits were all over the place.

I was very tired for most of the day and slept through most of Hamburg. My eyes still aren’t cooperating and I doubt they will until I get home again. I’ve had a fun cruise but it is almost over and then it will be time to be home again. Then it will be time to work and earn my new Eowyn and get used to our time again.

Today there were Alfred Hitchcock movies on the television and I think I made the mistake of watching one. Hopefully I won’t have nightmares about being strangled by my two best friends who wanted to experience how it felt to murder. Ughhh… I don’t like movies like that, I much prefer happy endings and not immoral and strangely logical people. At least in Arsenic and Old Lace it was funny and had a happy ending.

My eyes are complaining again so I think it is time to go to bed. When I get back I’ll have a lot of work to do on the movie I am working on. I’ll have to get my camera out and practice a few of the shots I’ll be doing. As I wrote in my notes, the special effects department of Elizabeth Unlimited is going to love this movie.

However speaking form the point of view of the special effects department I think that “Yeah Right” would be an appropriate answer. If there were more of me it would probably be a bit easier but I think that this film won’t be too impressive looking since I can’t act and move my stuffed animals at the same time and I don’t have technology to make their mouths open and close in synchronization to their lines. However close ups of cute little stuffed animals may be interesting enough.

Speaking of cute little animals I just bought a little seal in one of the shops. He is so cute! He has a little Pirate’s hat, eye patch and a few other piraty things.

However now I really must go to bed. Tomorrow is my last at sea day and I want to enjoy. And I have eaten way to much sugar this cruise.