30 Day Disney Princess Challenge: Day 23

Day 23: Favorite DanCe Scene

How can I pick anything other than the super iconic ballroom scene from Beauty and the Beast?

They won Best Original Song for it!

It was one of the first films to seamlessly integrate 3D and hand drawn animations!

It was SUPER ROMANTIC.

Yellow was such an unconventional colour for Belle’s dress, and the way it moved was just gorgeous. It was inspiration for my own wedding dress.

Beast looked TOTALLY HANDSOME in his suit.

Let’s look at it in GIF format:

Meet The Cast of No Angel: Serena

Today it’s time to meet one of the secondary characters in No Angel, an Episode Interactive story you can play on the app from iOS and Android.

This is Serena.

She’s Persephone’s best friend and they have been for a long time.

Serena is named after the team cheer leader Serena from Legally Blonde the musical, and like her namesake, she is also the captain of the cheer leading squad.

As you can see, she is a minority, being a mixed-race young woman. She’s also a minority in another way, but I don’t want to spoil that. You’ll have to play to find out.

As for her personality, she’s fiercely loyal, pretty smart, always prepared, and has a little rebellious streak, as evidenced by the shaved part of her hair.

I love her bohemian sense of style. Her colour palette is brown.

When I made No Angel I knew my lead twins and their parents were going to need to be white, and so were several other characters. Therefore I made it a point to include as many other POC in the cast.

I hope you enjoy Serena’s part in No Angel and please remember to share and recommend the story!

30 Day Disney Princess Challenge: Day 22

Day 22: Bravest Princess

I can only come up with a draw for whom I think the two bravest Disney Princesses are, and I hope once you see my arguments for both of them you might agree.

The first bravest princess I nominate is Belle, and here’s why:

She went out looking for her missing father by herself in the middle of winter.
She offered to take Maurice’s place as prisoner after seeing the horrible way the Beast treated him, and expected to stay in the dungeon.
She explores the West Wing, even though she’s been told it’s off limits.
She goes back to the castle to tend to Beast’s wounds, even though she could have left him to die in the forest and even though he’d done nothing but yell at and terrify her.
She had the courage to look beyond his scary exterior and find the gentleman beneath.
She was brave enough to leave Beast when her father needed her most.
She stands up to Gaston, whom no one else in the village has the balls to call out.
She said “I love you” first, not knowing it would change everything.

The second bravest princess I nominate is Rapunzel, and here’s why:

She has been raised to be afraid of the outside world, yet she still leaves her safe tower armed with nothing but a frying pan.
She leaves her tower even though she knows it will hurt the only person she thinks cares about her, Mother Gothel.
She places herself in front of a raging horse and manages to calm him down.
She fights the ruffians for Flynn’s freedom using only her frying pan.
She trusts Flynn with her secret even though she barely knows him.
She is brave enough to trust Flynn when he goes to return the crown.
She confronts her ‘mother’ when she figures out the truth of being the lost princess.
She fights and fights Mother Gothel but promises to go with her if she can save Flynn.

So what do you think? Who’s the bravest out of Belle and Rapunzel? I just can’t choose.

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#SuperSekritProject Revealed! Episode Interactive

It’s time! Today is the day I am revealing my #superskreitproject, the one I’ve been working on for several months now!

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I’m an author on Episode Interactive for Pocket Gems!

Episode is an interactive storytelling app available on iOS and Android, and I’ve been working in secret to develop and adapt my less fantastical, more contemporary YA story ideas to this app.

My first Episode is called No Angel. The first three chapters have been uploaded are are available to play now!

Persephone and Angel used to be two peas in a pod. Literally. Until a falling out caused them to become as dissimilar as identical twins can be.

So when Angel goes missing after a house party and the police are convinced she simply ran away, it is up to quiet, loner Seph to unravel the mysteries and secrets her popular sister-turned-frenemy has been keeping from her.

What caused the fight between Angel’s popular clique? Who was Angel’s real boyfriend? And what really happened that fateful night when Angel showed up at the house party but never came home?

Available to read now on Episode Interactive!

Over the next few weeks I’ll introduce you to the characters in No Angel.

Today we’re meeting the protagonist and her twin sister.

Persephone

Our seventeen year old lead. Serious, bookish, she deeply loves and misses her twin, Angel, who had recently began acting strangely before disappearing after a house party.

Angel

Persephone’s twin sister. Angel recently decided that no good girl ever came first, and decided to do whatever it takes to get what she wants. Her self-centered nature destroys everything.

Episodes are free to play: you start out with about two passes but you can earn up to four or five which regenerate over a few hours. You CAN buy passes and gems, but you don’t HAVE to.

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