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New Dad, New Life - Characters :)

The other day, I posted about Hazel from my newest story, New Dad, New Life. I posted a bit about the story in that post, but not much. But just in case you haven't read that post, I will give the basis of the story again.

Hazel has two younger siblings and a mom who is getting remarried. The only problem is that her fiance lives in Texas and as soon as the two get married, the whole family is moving there. So the family is going from living in New York City to small-town, Texas. 
So this story is of meeting new people, getting new surroundings & trying to help others. I'll post an excerpt or two from this story soon, but right now, I'm going to work on introducing you to my characters.

Of course, I posted about Hazel a few days ago, but I will give a little more about her here: 

Hazel Nicole Connolly:

Age:19

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Green 

Height: 5'1" 

Personality: Funny, witty, easygoing

Occupation: Barista at Starbucks 

Lives in: New York City (moving to Texas in story) 

Siblings: Adelaide Anne, Evelyn Marie

Adelaide Anne Connolly: 

 

Age: 17

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Green

Height: 5'3" 

Personality: Rebellious, funny

Occupation: Student (looking for job) 

Lives in: NYC - moving to Texas

Siblings: Hazel Nicole, Evelyn Marie 

Evelyn Marie Connolly:

Age: 9 

Hair: Blonde 

Eyes: Green

Height: 4'11" 

Personality: Outgoing, funny, loves to meet new people, has lots of friends
Occupation: Student :D 

Lives in: NYC...moves to Texas :) 

Siblings: Hazel Nicole, Adelaide Anne

Cameron Mark Brown:

On a totally unrelated topic, Nick Jonas got a crew cut. What in the world? He doesn't even look like himself! 

Relation to Hazel: Boyfriend 

Age: 21

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown 

Height: 5'10" 

Personality: Sweet, fun to be around

Occupation: College student - going to be a lawyer

Lives in: NYC



 Dannii Kay Ambrose:

Relationship to Hazel: Best friend

Age: 20
Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5'5"
Personality: Very city-girl, only likes the people in her circle
Occupation: Barista at Starbucks
Lives in: NYC

Finley Noelle Smith: 

  
Relationship to Hazel: coworker when she moves to Texas
Age: 21
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color:Hazel
Height: 5'6" 
Personality: Businesslike when she needs to be, fun when needs to be
Occupation: Works on Hugh Atkin's farm (Hazel's step-dad)
Lives in: Small town, Texas 


Rhett William Schuyler:

 

Relationship to Hazel: Coworker at Hugh's ranch in Texas
Age: 23
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel 
Height: 6'2" 
Personality: Closed up because of his past, sweet, nice
Occupation: Ranch hand
Lives in: Small town, Texas
 

Meet Hazel

So I was thinking that I was going to be a part of Camp NaNoWriMo this year, but when it came right down to it, I knew that I didn't have the time to do it this June. Maybe by the time August comes along, I'll have the time. But if not, November of course, is my time! I loved doing NaNo last year, it really sparked me in ways that writing never has before.


But anyways, today, I started rewriting a story that I'd started a couple of days ago. The story just wasn't flowing right - there was something missing - and I figured out what that was, so I completely restarted it and am farther in it now than I was before! 


So, I would like to introduce my main character from that story:

Hazel Nicole Connolly 

Age:19

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Green 

Height: 5'1" 

Personality: Funny, witty, easygoing

Occupation: Barista at Starbucks 

Lives in: New York City (moving to Texas in story) 

Siblings: Adelaide Anne, Evelyn Marie

The idea for this book is for it to be witty. So far, so good. I hope. 

The plot goes something like this:

Hazel's dad - a musician - left the family a few years ago. Now Hazel's Mom is getting remarried to a Texas cowboy named Hugh. When they are married, Hazel's family moves to Texas and she has to leave behind her boyfriend, Cameron. Although she doesn't like this fact, she is glad to be getting away from her life in the city. 

But when she gets to Texas, she finds out that it's a lot different than she imagined. They're about 45 minutes from a Target, 1/2 hour from Wal-Mart and 2 hours from a mall. She feels very claustrophobic.

Nowhere else to work, Hazel's step-dad hires her to help with the bookkeeping and filing. Which means that she has to work with his other employee, Finley Smith. Truth is, Finley and Hazel do not get along. At all. 

And then, Hugh hires Rhett Schuyler - a very intriguing cowboy who is more closed up than anyone Hazel has ever met. That fact makes Hazel want to learn more about this mysterious man. 

What will happen to Hazel Connolly - city-girl turned Texan? Will she move back to New York City where her boyfriend lives, begging her to come home every day? Or will she stay in Texas where her family is - and the mysterious cowboy resides? 

~ashley


thanks to Crystal for letting me use her pictures for Hazel. :)

Hey!

....everyone!

Check out the We'll Be Young Forever Characters Page! I just finished putting it together and I thought you might all be interested in seeing it!

Meet Eden!

Hi everyone! I have started a new story. Maybe the reason that I haven't written on my blog about writing anymore!

This story is about Eden McCallahan. At the beginning, she is a work-a-holic. She spends all her time at work. But in the first chapter, she decides to take the summer off work and go home to spend time with her family. The family that she's been neglecting since she finished college. (Only going home for her brother's, and then her sister's, weddings.)

She starts spending time with her sister, brother-in-law and their baby son, Connor. When a sudden tragedy happens and her sister is killed, and Eden has to have to start raising her nephew, she knows that she can't go back to the big city and back to her old job. She starts working for a small business in her home town.

Then the unexpected happens....

...she finds out that her ex-boyfriend, Trevor, has also moved back into town. (No cover model for him as of yet...but when I get one, you'll be the first to know!) When they FINALLY see each other, they realize that their feelings for each other haven't actually gone away.

But neither are ready for a relationship...but they need friendship.

Eden finds out what the most important things in life are. They aren't work and trying to find the perfect man to live her life with. They are family and friends that truly care about you.

But Eden does want love....

...Will she choose her brother-in-law (her sister's husband who needs help with his son), or will she choose the guy she used to date before they both went off to college and went separate ways?

I am about 45,000 words into my story and I've only started it less than 10 days ago.

Check back for more about this story in the next few weeks! :)

~Ashley

ps...thanks to my beautiful friend Ashley for letting me use her for the cover model for Eden! 

For You Hunger Games Fans

Thanks to my friend, Kylie, for sharing this with me.

Gale:  You're on the phone with your baker he's upset 
Katniss:  oh no 
Gale:  Goin' off about some cake that he burnt 
Gale:  'cause he doesn't know how to hunt like I do 
Katniss:  Gale stop 
Gale:  I'm in the woods it's a typical Sunday afternoon 
Gale:  I'm hunting the kind of squirrels he doesn't like 
Gale:  He'll never be able to hunt like I do 
Gale:  CUZ HE BAKES BREAD 
Gale:  I MAKE SNARES 
Gale:  HE EATS CUPCAKES 
Gale:  AND I HUNT BEARS 
Katniss:  Gale just stop 

Ideas For Book 2

So I've been working on ideas for book two to A World Without Sound. I had, at first, thought that the book was just going to be a stand-alone, but I always have way too many ideas for my stories that they could never fit in one book.

So I always end up with series'. I can't help it.

I wasn't sure how I was going to think up a title for book 2, because I wasn't sure that I could come up with something that was going to sound as awesome as A World Without Sound. I love the title for my book, and was really proud of myself for coming up with it. But trying to come up with another creative title for book 2, felt really hard.

Not to mention the fact that I thought maybe I'd used up all my creativity on A World Without Sound.

But thanks to my amazing friends on Facebook, I've gotten some amazing ideas for the title for book 2...and I'm going to share them now. Leave a comment below letting me know which is your favorite.

1. The Sound of Silence
2. A World Without Words
3. The Music of Silence