Last Blog post I was talking about my unexpected writer's block. Although I found the slightest bit of inspiration it doesn’t mean that the writer’s block is gone. In fact now i’m confused on how the antagonist meets Arthur. The inspiration to work this week is the pressing weight of the upcoming due dates, along with all of the other classes, and projects. Overall I think the book is pretty good there need to be some changes here and there, plus I need to add all of the characters including the Lady of the Lake, Lancelot, Merlin the wizard, and the surprise antagonist. 

 There  was one setback. It was major and is going to be really tough to endure the breaking of my laptop (No; please don’t cry). Sadly the story was lost and now I need to start over again. Don’t worry loyal fans Miss Rivera said that losing it could be a good thing. It could help my ideas form and leap from my brain onto the paper. This tragedy happens over the break when I decided to shut my screen, little did I know an earbud was on top of the keyboard. I didn’t realize that the laptop was broken until I wanted to work on My story and the screen was cracked. I was so glad when I realized I have the story on a Flash Drive ( thank you for suggesting that Mr. Hartl). I will fix the story when I have time. 

  Currently in the story the narrator or Arthur is telling the readers about his life. It's not particularly the life of a king but he ensures, I believe that his home life as well as the death of his father contributes to his harmless and relatively shy personality. The way i described him makes him look like a stick figure with facial features. (Meaning he suffers from malnutrition). Of course he’s not getting much to eat but cabbage stew and strawberries ( native foods in Camelot).

My friends really help me and are the inspiration for this project. In fact my friend Kenzie is writing a book for 20Time as well . She is so great at everything so great in face she gave me a mini bio to help me develop my characters. Apparently her mentor gave it to her; she’s is an famous author. My mentor is better though his name is Mr. Hartl. He is a 5th grade English teacher at my school. He has been one of my favorite teachers for a very long time. He has been helping me along the way and I thought he deserves a shout out. Thank You Mr. Hartl! You made Arthur and the Sword possible. 
                                                        By,
                                                             Megan Stitzel

I chose to changed the events of the second chapter entirely. I was worried about introducing the antagonist Morgan Le Fey. So I wrote back in time to introduce the Lady of the ake, Morgan, and Excalibur. In the chapter I like to describe my writing as very descriptive. I take pride in adjectives, sometimes I think I describe too much and I miss the blatant detail.

I have been making a lot of steps towards my SMART Goal. In Baron time better known as homeroom I have been writing like crazy. Without distractions (otherwise known as my family) around I can really concentrate. I even started writing on google docs so I can take my story anywhere without a flash drive.

In conclusion, This week has really been a success in the terms of coming towards my SMART Goal. One setback this week was time. Due dates are always  creeping up on me. It’s hard to keep track of them all. So that affects the time I have to work on my novel. See you next week for my next post.

                                                                                 Bye,

                                                                                        Meg Stitzel