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Music Monday: Wicked Game by Phillip Phillips

06 Monday Aug 2018

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Music Monday

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music!

I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy listening to. Thank you Spotify!

On Mondays I will share one song that I’m currently in love with, has inspired me, or relates to one of my projects.

650190a42f3f4207ae39ac1064d0c992be8e386aThis Monday’s song is Wicked Game by Phillip Phillips. I’m choosing this song because It is amazing, while Phillip Phillips didn’t write this song and there are other versions of it, I love his version. I can feel the words and again this song heavily relates to my current WIP Breaking Pointe and is on my playlist. If you keep up with these posts you will get somewhat of a feel of what the novel will be like 🙂

Phillip Phillips recently played a benefit concert in Vermont, so I got to see him sing this live along with other songs and it was AMAZING! He is fantastic live, so if he comes to your area, I definitely recommend going to see him!

Check it out and let me know what you think. Do you like a different version of this song better? Which one?

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Christie CoteAuthor of young adult realistic fiction novel Rain.

Rain

Taylor Sullivan took her life for granted until she received news that would change her life forever. In a state of denial she met Kyle, who didn’t end up being what she expected. She wasn’t able to escape her new reality, but with his friendship, just maybe she could survive it.

 

Music Monday: Poison by Jackie Foster & Self Portraits

30 Monday Jul 2018

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Music Monday

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music!

I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy listening to. Thank you Spotify!

On Mondays I will share one song that I’m currently in love with, has inspired me, or relates to one of my projects.

premiere-the-voice%u2019s-jackie-foster-releases-‘poison%u2019-01This Monday’s song is Poison by Jackie Foster & Self Portraits. I’m choosing this song because as soon as I heard it, I loved it and it instantly connected to my work in progress Breaking Pointe, which I’m currently working on revising, editing, and adding content to.

This is Jackie’s debut single after being a semi-finalist on the VOICE. This was the first season I watched the VOICE, I’m actually not a big reality TV show fan, but I love music, so I gave it a shot and Jackie was AMAZING! She is a super talented rock chic and I can’t wait to see what else she does. Give the song a listen and let me know what you think. I purchased this one on iTunes to support her and because I think this song is worth the purchase.

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Warning: I’m a Writer

12 Tuesday Aug 2014

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I think it is only fair that I warn everyone that I am a writer. You see, I’ve had some people pull some interesting things lately, and before that, oh the stories I could tell… Which is actually my point. I write stories and the things you do may end up in a book I write. If you are a jerk-face, you might be written into a book and then killed off, or if the action is interesting enough it might be put in a book, so don’t do anything to me you wouldn’t want the world to read about. Authors draw inspiration from many things, and if you wrong me, I doubt you want me to use that inspiration, but I will. I’m all about turning a negative into a positive, so if it means turning something bad that happened into a good book. That sounds good to me, so on second thought, have at it. Give me a good story to tell. I’m up for the challenge :).

Throw Back Thursday (11)

07 Thursday Aug 2014

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I Persevere

This game you play
Is very dangerous.
Like jumping out of a plane and
Forgetting your parachute.

You act innocent,
Like an angel from above.
Pure and fragile.
Your act only works on a crowd,
I’m not part of it.
I see you for who you are.
Stripping away your white mask
That fools everyone else.
Revealing the darkness underneath.
Not appreciative of what you already have
You steal from others.
Acting like you’re their friend
Before flipping the switch.

You start a war.
When I’m winning
You retreat.
Finding higher authority
Hiding behind them
Like I’m the one
Who committed treason
Stabbing one of my own.
You can try to frame me
But the truth will come out,
As soon as they find your fingerprints.

You didn’t expect me to fight back
When you first attacked.
Thinking it was easy to bring me down.
Sorry to disappoint you
I’m not defeated, just like that.
Don’t break a nail
Leave the scratching to a cat.
I don’t pull hair, a powerless act.
I connect my fist with your face
Enjoying the feeling of first to jaw
As blood splashes on my skin.

You may have begun this war
Trying to take advantage of me.
Fighting dirty.
Despair will only fall on you.
I will finish first
Every time.
I fight for victory
Never backing down.
The strength I have will shock you.

Think again before throwing punches my way.
I will dodge every one.
Your energy will be wasted
You will only be defeated.

If you choose to fight anyways
Finish what you started.
You can’t retreat and hide
Just because you are losing.
In the end I will find you,
Making you compensate 
For all you have done.

The plane couldn’t save you.
I watch you fall through the air.
Eventually your body will crash to the ground,
With nothing there to stop you
But the branches scraping across your skin.

Causing you every bit of pain
You inflicted on me.
As your body is sprawled out on the ground
I hope you suffer.
Remembering you caused this
All because you played dangerously
You didn’t have a parachute.
You have nothing left,
I persevere.

By: Christie Cote
May 6, 2011

Three Hours Left…

06 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Only Three hours left to snag Rain for only $0.99 cents (Normally $3.99)! The price will be increasing to $1.99 and continue to increase all week until it is back to $3.99. Check it out HERE!

 

Synopsis:

Taylor Sullivan took her life for granted until she received news that would change her life forever. In a state of denial she met Kyle, who didn’t end up being what she expected. She wasn’t able to escape her new reality, but with his friendship, just maybe she could survive it.

When inspiration comes when you are trying to sleep…

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Okay, so I’ve heard other writers talk about how they get these awesome ideas when they are trying to sleep. I never really had that problem, until last night. I had a long day. I mean it was a Monday of all Mondays! I was ready to just pass out, but nope. I’m just laying there working on drifting off into la-la land when my characters take over my mind, and have a vivid scene in my head. I couldn’t get up and start writing because I NEEDED to go to sleep, but the image just wouldn’t leave me alone until it played it out in my head. WHYYYYY! I sit at the computer all day and haven’t done a whole lot of writing, but when I can’t write, I have a scene jumping and creaming, “look at me, look at me” in my head? *head desk* The even better part is, the said scene is for the third book in the Rain  series, when I should be working on the second book… SIGH. I guess I should just go with it, so now I’m going to try to get the scene written down, and hopefully it comes out as good as what was in my head last night.

 

Happy Writing!

 

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Last Day that RAIN is on sale for 0.99 Cents!

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Made by Tiffany from I’m A Book Shark.

 

In case you missed it, or forgot, today is the LAST day that Rain is on sale for 0.99 cents! The book is normally prices at $3.99! That is 75% off! Get it now before you run out of time.

 

Rain by Christie Cote

Taylor Sullivan took her life for granted until she received news that would change her life forever. In a state of de
nial she met Kyle, who didn’t end up being what she expected. She wasn’t able to escape her new reality, but with his friendship, just maybe she could survive it.

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Slam Poem ‘Beauty Defined’ (Stop the Beauty Madness)

27 Sunday Jul 2014

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Hi Everyone!

I just submitted a video of myself “performing” my slam poem Beauty Defined for the Stop the Beauty Madness ad campaign poetry contest. The campaign says, “Enough of the impossible standards. Enough of the “ideal” image. Most of all, enough of the feeling of NOT ENOUGH when it comes to your own beauty.” This is just a small excerpt, be sure to visit their website and see what they are all about in detail! It is pretty amazing stuff!

Making a video was very difficult for me and I was way out of my comfort zone. I HATE being recorded. I feel very strongly about the subject matter though, so I sucked it up, put my brave pants on, and made the video. It took me a long time to get a good one, my first attempts were not pretty, like I said, being recorded is not my thing. I’m really proud of myself though, and I hope my video will inspire others, if not, that is okay too. I’m glad I did it. I thought I would share the poem and video! You can find them below. I would love to hear your thoughts if you would like to leave a comment.

I hope everyone has a fabulous Sunday!

 

Beauty Defined

I live in a world

Where beauty is defined by words like

TALL, SKINNY, THIN, FLAWLESS…

Where beauty is not being NORMAL

For MY OWN body type.

I must fit into a body type that only a very small percentage of the population possesses.

In middle school I was asked if I was anorexic because I was THIN.

The shocking words coming from people so young,

Because that had become a NORM in our world.

Now I’m twenty-five and am no longer super thin,

I’ve gained weight and have meat and curves on my BODY,

Which makes me feel self-conscious in my own SKIN.

I’m surrounded by ads telling me what I NEED to be BEAUTIFUL.

SHINY HAIR, Makeup to cover my FLAWS, acne treatment to get rid of my BLEMISHES, and WEIGHT LOSS                 pills.

They LEAVE OUT how these products will affect my HEALTH long-term,

Or even my SELF-ESTEEM.

I remember being embarrassed growing up,

Because I didn’t have the COOL name brand clothing others had.

All I wanted to do was fit in,

But now I know it is far better to STAND OUT.

Ads depict the PERFECT WOMAN; who has been Photo shopped so she isn’t even REAL,

But I’m made to BELIEVE I should look like that,

Instead of all five-feet one hundred and twenty pounds of myself.

I have been taught by the media,

That it is not okay to look like I do.

It is not beautiful to have PORES,

Or scars that tell stories.

The media has created a SICKNESS.

A DISEASE,

That has turned into a WIDE-SPREAD epidemic.

We need to STOP THE BEAUTY MADNESS,

Before it is TOO LATE.

Stop labeling people,

Because being DIFFERENT is what makes each of us beautiful.

My appearance doesn’t make me who I am,

My CHARACTER, PASSIONS and INTERESTS do.

Don’t DEFINE me by what I look like,

But instead by what I do.

I’m a WRITER, ARTIST, WIFE, POET, FRIEND, ARCHER, SOCCER-PLAYER, MUSIC LOVER…

It is time to TEACH our children to be comfortable in their own skin,

Encourage being HEALTHY,

instead of setting unrealistic standards,

So people resort to becoming ANOREXIC or BULIMIC,

Just to be SKINNY.

Revel in the beauty of FLAWS,

Instead of getting plastic surgery for SOMEONE ELSE’S idea of beauty.

When we give into these ideals we are losing pieces of ourselves,

And eventually there won’t be anything Left.

I don’t know about you,

But I don’t want to be a BARBIE,

I just want to be MYSELF.

© Christie Cote July 2014

 

Throw Back Thursday (9)

08 Thursday May 2014

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Throw Back Thursday! Today I’m sharing a poem I wrote in a college poetry class in 2011.

Barely Alive

He stumbles through the door
Coming to be with me.
Driving from afar,
Barley able to see.

Not knowing the pain he felt,
Would be so much more.
I listen to the slur of words
Poring from his core.

A flash of memories
Spirals through my head.
His innocent face
Looking back at me.
Hours spent on the phone.
Talking endlessly about anything and everything
He managed to escape for a night with me
At a homecoming dance.
We danced the night away
Before the magic slipped away.
Time went on.
One thing staying constant,
You and I.
A rainy day you ran away,
Hiding from danger.
You came to me.
I have always been your person

I stand here now
Wondering how it became this bad.
Seeing the mess in front of me,
I wonder how he is not dead.

His eyes glossy,
He shares his pain.
The girl who broke his heart
After he gave her everything.
Sharing those precious secrets with her
That only I had known before.
In the end love lost
Leaving only his best friend,
Me.

Hours went by before he was able to drive
Promising he would go right home.
I should have known.
He took the bottle from the backseat.
Never expecting the chrome
To collide with a tree.
Not knowing what happened.

He wasn’t aware of the glass in his hair
Unable to understand where the blood was coming from,
He fumbled with his phone,
Blood smearing from the gash on his thumb.

The message I received,
Was a disjointed mess.
I was only able to make out one word,
Blood.
Fear ran through me
Knowing what he wouldn’t want to confess.
The mistake I made by letting him go.
I felt disappointment arrive
Then anger and guilt followed.
I never thought he would lie to me,
Knowing how much I Abhor
Drinking and Driving.

By: Christie Cote

March 25, 2011

Throw Back Thursday (7)

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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Blood Red Sky

I watched the blood red sky fade into darkness. I needed to catch my breath; I didn’t want to lose my head. I was standing there, stuck, staring hopelessly at what once was a magnificent city with beautifully designed buildings that would never be seen again. Ashes fluttered down like snow, as everything around me crumbled beyond repair. The world as I knew it was gone.

Throw Back Thursday! In honor of my failed attempt at Camp NaNoWriMo, right before my book publication. This is the book I started to work on, but didn’t get very far. My head was still too wrapped up in the Rain story-line, and I have been pretty busy with getting everything ready. This one will be finished, but first I’m going to get Rain out of my system, so I can give it the attention it deserves. This is the opening paragraph of the novel.

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