A new home for many of our Role play Stories – The Roleplayers Collective.

Tags

announcement, blog, characters, forum board, IMVU, inform, new home, News, role play., stories, The Roleplayers Collective, update, writing friends

For a long time, my writing friends and I have been taking part in various role plays on the IMVU group forum boards.  Time and again, the same issues always seemed to strike, when the Group owner decides to change or delete the role play and we are left without a role play home for some of our favorite characters and stories.  In the last month, we have started to cross to a new home away from IMVU, called “The Roleplayers Collective”, which is a broad ranging forum board that allows us the freedom to post our many role play worlds and stories with a lot of the old favorites.

 

http://theroleplayerscollect.yuku.com/

 

I will be posting some of the new threads here soon, including one of our favourite roleplay families, the Marulos.

 

Char  ❤

Roam – The B52’s (Celebrating blogging around the World.)

Tags

B52's, blog, Bosnia and Herzegovina, celebrate, Costa Rica, countries, Ireland, Japan, music, numbers, readers, Roam, surprise, Switzerland, thank you, United Arab Emirates, views, World stats

 

The most amazing thing about blogging I have found, is just how far around the world my blog has been read.  Seriously, some of the countries, I have never even heard of before.  To everyone that has read Charlotte’s web and visit regularly; a big big THANK YOU!

Here is a list of the countries and a sample of view hits.  (I was shocked)

Country	Views
United States	29,754
United Kingdom	4,533
Australia	3,708
Canada	3,117
Germany	2,309
France	2,101
India	963
Brazil	734
Italy	664
Netherlands	588
Philippines	543
Spain	477
Poland	475
Turkey	392
Russian Federation	390
Sweden	369
Mexico	330
Greece	323
Saudi Arabia	317
Republic of Korea	315
New Zealand	315
South Africa	309
Indonesia	293
Ireland	285
Malaysia	279
Japan	278
United Arab Emirates	271
Belgium	270
Singapore	264
Romania	260
Pakistan	259
Czech Republic	230
Hungary	225
Norway	217
Switzerland	198
Portugal	178
Argentina	161
Finland	155
Thailand	154
Egypt	152
Ukraine	150
Bulgaria	148
Israel	147
Denmark	142
Algeria	138
Serbia	138
Slovakia	130
Austria	124
Croatia	110
Taiwan	94
Jordan	87
Chile	85
Hong Kong	84
Lithuania	81
Morocco	80
Viet Nam	78
Tunisia	76
Colombia	76
Georgia	69
Peru	66
Puerto Rico	61
Lebanon	59
Iraq	59
Venezuela	59
Slovenia	58
Kuwait	54
Bosnia and Herzegovina	48
Bangladesh	44
Kenya	38
Latvia	38
Ecuador	37
Bahrain	36
Qatar	35
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic	32
Trinidad and Tobago	31
Sri Lanka	30
Azerbaijan	29
Costa Rica	29
Libya	27
Jamaica	25
Yemen	25
Albania	24
Nigeria	24
Montenegro	23
Oman	23
Moldova	23
Cyprus	22
Palestine, State of	21
Estonia	20
Mauritius	19
Iceland	18
Syrian Arab Republic	17
Jersey	17
Brunei Darussalam	17
Nepal	15
Belarus	13
Armenia	13
China	13
Panama	11
Luxembourg	11
Guatemala	10
Malta	10
El Salvador	9
Bahamas	9
Maldives	9
Kazakhstan	9
Suriname	9
Paraguay	9
Uruguay	9
United Republic of Tanzania	9
Cayman Islands	9
Mongolia	8
Barbados	8
Honduras	8
Ghana	8
Uganda	8
Zimbabwe	8
Ethiopia	8
Namibia	7
Bolivia	7
Isle of Man	7
Afghanistan	7
Myanmar	6
Sudan	6
Cambodia	5
Botswana	5
Mozambique	5
Belize	5
Dominican Republic	5
Vanuatu	4
Bermuda	4
Guam	4
New Caledonia	4
French Polynesia	4
Nicaragua	4
Saint Lucia	4
Antigua and Barbuda	4
Virgin Islands	3
Lesotho	3
Seychelles	3
Faroe Islands	3
Guyana	3
Senegal	3
Cape Verde	3
Guadeloupe	3
Haiti	3
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2
Tonga	2
Grenada	2
Angola	2
French Guiana	2
Papua New Guinea	2
Réunion	2
Northern Mariana Islands	1
Somalia	1
Kyrgyzstan	1
Liechtenstein	1
Swaziland	1
Guinea	1
Zambia	1
Guernsey	1
American Samoa	1
Fiji	1
Malawi	1
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1
Andorra	1
Gibraltar	1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	1
Côte d’Ivoire	1
Macao	1
Bhutan	1
Mali	1
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1

 

Driving me crazy – Outback Roads.

Tags

cattle, danger, dirt roads, driving, hazards, micro sleeps, mining trucks, music, my life, Outback, Queensland., reflection, roads, work

 

Living in the outback, one of the greatest dangers is the roads.  I often do work in remote townships and on some cattle stations which take hours to get to and a lot of the roads are not even sealed.  Dirt tracks, to be more precise.  These are places where your cell phone/ mobile often don’t work, so driving at say sunset can be really dangerous.  Cattle and kangaroos are often on the roads on the stations that time of day, and after a full day work and a three hour drive back home it can be a nightmare.  It’s all part of my job, but it really is a hazard that I need to be careful about.

 

One of the other problems is when you drive for hundreds of kilometers between towns and the roads literally become boring.  Falling asleep at the wheel is a very real possibility. Micro sleeps can hit you at any time and if you feel the slightest bit tired, it is highly recommended you pull over and take a nap, or if there is a truck stop – drink some coffee.  I often wondered why the road toll was so high in these parts, and after being here two years, now I know.  Most of the roads don’t have over taking lanes this far inland, and with the big road trains – trucks with three or more trailers it can be really harrowing.  Not to mention when the mining trucks are being hauled up here on the back of semi’s.  They take up most of the road and you have to pull over to let them pass.

Don’t get me wrong, I love living out here.  But the roads sometimes can make it hell.

 

New home for our Ladies Night stories – “Lipstick Lies!”

Tags

Brock, coming soon, Erica, Ladies Night., Lipstick Lies!, music, new title, News, Pandora, role play., Simone, writing

For those that love the Pandora/Brock stories, along with the Art Gallery with Lucy and Roi, and also Simone and Erica, we will be starting under a new name for the role play called “Lipstick Lies!”

 

 

We should have new posts up soon, as we are reworking the group we write in, so when the new posts are published, they will now be under the Lipstick Lies heading.  LadyBelz and I are quite excited as we have a lot of drama and twists coming up in the next few weeks.  A big thank you to our readers for your follows and likes.  It means a great deal.

 

Reflections on the RP – Ice and the Dragon’s Egg.

Tags

blog, character, characters, feelings, Ice and the Dragon's egg, moving, reflection, role player, sad, story, tale, thoughts, writer, writing

When a story takes on a life of its own, and the characters act out as they were created to do…things happen, that are both poignant and remarkable. You as a writer end up being a spectator it seems, and watch history occur right before your eyes.

Regardless of how you feel about another writer, and their characters – you play the game you start and the events are sometimes out of your control, once a play is made. To accept what has happened, and post the reaction from the character’s point of view, while you the writer are upset by what happened is one of the greatest challenges for a role player.

This is what happened last night. A character lost…but the story, though truly sad…..won.

 

I’m a Writer.

Tags

creative, life, poem, poetry, proud, self belief, self worth, sharing, writer, writing

I like to write, make no mistake.
I love to collaborate, share…shine.
Bring to life my fantasies.
Envelope ideas and turn them into a tale to remember.
Is this madness that I seek to make a world in my mind real for others?
Through the eyes of my characters, their hearts and feelings – maybe I can express the parts of myself that no one else ever sees.
Whatever it is…it’s what I do.

I’m a writer.

❤

Isabella – The New Antagonist.

Tags

antagonist, character, characters, fantasy, fiction, interesting, Isabella Casales, Shane and Carmen stories, Shane Williamson, traits, vampire, writing

One of the fun parts of creative writing for me in role play, is to create characters that are antagonists.  I have never really found a passion for playing “the Good Guy” since to me it’s like the evil doers and plotters are way more fun.  The twists and unpredictability that these characters offer to a story in my mind only make it more interesting and far more fun to read.

 

If you are familiar with the Shane and Carmen stories, that started out under the “Shane’s House” blog section of River Marked; the character Shane Williamson started out as an antagonist against Carmen.  The weaving of that tale, was like a beautiful dance where you had two characters that appeared to hate each other but under the surface they were madly besotted.  Eventually, as the story played out, Shane became a protagonist.  It was not initially planned that way but when he did change it offered a fantastic opportunity for new antagonists to offer more story lines.

 

Now with the death of my character Vincent Casales (who was a lesser character, but antagonist), I had to come up with a new arch rival.  Who better than Vincent’s ex wife and the mysterious Vampire Queen who once held Shane in her clutches.  The gasps and cursed words from my co-writer; LadyBelz was reward enough to know that I had made a good choice with this character’s implementation into the plot.  No doubt, there is going to be a lot of drama down the track, and I for one can hardly wait.

 

Isabella Casales – Face Claim – Nina Dobrev.

 

Supernatural – The Human Realm.

 

Latest Posting – http://charlottecarrendar.com/2014/01/12/supernatural-the-human-realm-11-mirari-the-forest-of-ashes-rm/

2013 – What a year!

Tags

2013, blog, CharlotteCarrendar, friends, LadyBelz, reflection, thoughts, writer

Well, its almost over.  And as I look back, I can honestly say it was a year of many extremes, but as I come to the end, I am glad to have experienced it all.  Health wise I haven’t been the best, and two hospital stints were enough to give me a wake up call.  A new job meant new challenges, which I tackled head on, and getting time to continue my writing got a lot harder.  But when you love something like writing and role playing as much as I do, you find a way.  The way forward was to go into forum writing.  I honestly never thought I would like it or..no..love it as much as I do.  With my working schedule, and those people on different time lines, writing live became harder and harder to do.  But now, as I write for something like ten different forums, I can really try new things like different characters, genres…and also the chance to write with some pretty terrific writers.

The phrase “When a door closes, somewhere a window opens”, became very true for me.  I am blessed with the joy of good friends, that I continue to speak to both in real and on skype.

 

I have so many ideas for the new year, but since my holidays starts in ..one day, I am going to let those ideas go into the back of my mind, till I come home.  I really want to enjoy my Christmas with my family.

 

To my readers, a big thank you to you all.  Your likes, and comments have truly touched my heart, and I love to share my writings with you all.  I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Christmas with your families.  Drive carefully, and drink responsibly.

 

To my co writers and fellow role players;    thank you.  You have made this all worthwhile.

 

Special thanks to LadyBelz.  My Minion and role play partner.  “You’re simply the best.”

 

 

See you all in 2014!!!!

 

Char ❤

Oh so scary?

Tags

clowns, Comedy, fear, fun, Humor, meme, pic, Spiders.

Where my love of reading began.

Tags

bean bag, books, childhood, cold days, memories, read, reading, School, stories

Looking back now, as I sit in the sweltering heat of North Queensland, I remember when I was in primary school in Melbourne, and how cold it used to get there.  Especially when you were sent out to play at lunchtime, and often I would be freezing outside, looking forward to the bell ringing so I can go back into the warmth of my classroom.  It was during these chilly days that I would often go to the school library.  One, it was warm and two that is often where I would escape into the world of fantasy, reading children’s books.  They used to have the most comfortable bean bags and chairs to just sit and read to your hearts content, and from memory not a lot of kids used to spend lunchtimes there, so I had a good portion of the reading area to myself.  This is where my love of reading began.  The many lunchtimes, I would eat up my sandwiches and race to the library to find my favorite books, and snuggle up in a bean bag.  Losing myself in adventures, that stayed with me all my life.

 

 

Happy times.  :3