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Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Dore' (Golden) was added to BestInShow.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
Dore’ (Golden), Draft
par Celeste de Breze
~An animal’s friendship can change the course of an entire life~
This is the first book I've written fully in English since moving to the U.S. so please forgive any grammatical errors. I challenged myself to push through and do it on my own but am learning with every letter typed. A few more edits will teach me a lot!
Though my outline is complete I thought you might enjoy sharing some ideas about the adventures that come next for Nanette. Take her character on as your own, try placing yourself in Goussainville, try on what life must be like there, what her family adds to the layers, and perhaps identify some of what might be mysterious in her world.
This can be our book together and when it's complete all those who participated will be included in the credits. Writing isn't just for writers who put ink to paper but everyone because we're all writing the stories of lives every day!
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
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Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
Nanette Bolineau has a razor sharp mind and, maybe a little less desirably, tongue. But she’s smart, very smart, and that combination typically comes with the territory. Most people in her town, Goussainville, which lies about 20 miles north of Paris in the Val d’Oise region, have long since accepted that Nanette comes as a package, like most of us, and her good qualities outweigh any bad considerably. They have, nonetheless, learned to proceed with caution and learned when to keep a safe distance. But these are also what make Nannette one of the more interesting people you’ll meet. It doesn’t take long before you begin to see her as intriguing instead of intimidating. When you’ve finally crossed over you start seeing only the best because there’s a lot of the best there to see. Like her or not, understand her or not, she’s one of the most uncommon people you’ll meet especially in Goussainville, France.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
When an occasion does arise to observe this daunting, though entertaining, combination it, honestly, can be, well, also unexpectedly amusing. Who doesn’t enjoying seeing a good, animated, debate especially from a safe distance. The opposing party, surely having given it considerable contemplation first is, surprisingly, really the main dish and star of the show. When she’s done making her case the poor sap will be observed covered in perspiration, ashen, stuttering, and immobile (her record is unbroken). This is no casual pastime for the faint of heart; the tough ones who are less concerned about subject matter than they are about winning the debate. This is when Nanette hits her cruise control and buckles in. The train wreck the other party becomes is nothing short of epic.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
Don’t let this paint the wrong impression though. People who know Nanette best would go so far as to also call her one of the most engaging, charming, and respectable of opponents. What she does, she does with grace, never raising her voice…she simply does it all with her wits.
People come from miles around to watch her debate at school. She’s won awards and perhaps will end up a lawyer like her father. Most agree she would make a fiercesome opponent in any courtroom. People always root for Nanette. Who doesn’t like a winning team but they have almost certainly never felt the sting of Nanette’s slicing edge or they might not be so entertained and complimentary. But, if you’re right you’re right and, like it or not, winning isn’t just about influence. One still has to have a point. Simply said, if you venture too far into Nanette’s uncharted waters it’s typically something you’ll only do once.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
To be fair, however, Nanette is not a loose cannon. It takes at lot to pique her fire. It’s not that she enjoys testy exchanges, no, not really, she’s just good at them and, to her credit, she just can’t seem to hold the silence when an unsupported opinion is shared as fact. Thus, for Nanette, debate for a cause is next to a spiritual experience.
Her father warns; ‘just don’t stand too close to the finger of recriminating - it will probably put your eye out’.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
Now, it's probably important to note that Nanette appreciates everyone has the right to an opinion – if it just happens to be the same as hers (or you’re happy enough to let her give you one) then you’ve made a friend. However, as a good winner will, Nanette respects any well prepared argument, based on facts, and is far less brutal. You have to admit that’s as fair as anyone with such skills needs to be.
Her Dad typically adds; ‘my best advice is that if you don’t agree just be ready identify the exits’.
A belief in something bigger, better or greater is always a good thing. Like gold to a Leprechaun it’s wroth protecting – worth fighting for. I suppose this is the best part of what Nanette tries, through the challenges she conjures, to bring out in people. “If you can just get people to think then, most of the time, they’ll come up with the right answers. I’m always happy to help them come up with the right answers” she says with a sparkle in her lovely green eyes.
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
And everyone agrees her eyes are much prettier when they aren’t bloodshot, and her alabaster-like skin isn’t blotched, because of a misguided argument raised, by a unprepared windbag, which should never have been raised to begin with.
It’s probably the gossip, something there is no short supply of in Goussainville, that raises her bar most. Stay clear of; someone’s looks, a disability, or sarcasm, and you’re in good shape. We all have to admit that a brewing political issue causes most of us to grumble so even though these topics excite the greatest animation from Nanette it wouldn’t be fair to hold those against her. ‘After all’, she says, ‘if we didn’t have strong opinions about politics and religion what kind of world would it be’. So there you are, an introduction, in part, to what makes Nanette an individual…
Celeste de Breze
12 years, 3 months ago
Celeste de Breze posted:
Beneath all that justifiable outrage is, as is often the case, the biggest-hearted and most charitable young girl you’ll meet. If anyone needs a hand, back-up, or is, in any way, the Underdog then Nanette appears as if by magic to take up arms and help save the day. In fact, no one is ever in need who doesn’t catch her eye and move her to action. This can be such a rare quality in teenagers who are typically focused on identifying themselves. That seems to be something Nanette has already done and is possibly what stands out about her most. When she’s not in school, helping her mother at home, her dad at the courthouse, or studying, she is out and about looking for a neighbor in need.
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