Behind The Mask

"Without a mask, where will you hide?
 Can't find yourself? Lost in your lie."
                                              - Everybody's Fool, Evanescence

While I'm spending my time on vacation, I decided to stay in my friend's residence. I've been taking my vacation since last month and as the time goes on, more and more secrets exposed and their hidden sins, time by time, are ready to expose at anytime. There are so many people in the world that pretends to be kind but their true identity and attitude is hidden behind their masks.

So, it all starts here. A friend of mine told me that her aunt owe their family of million of dollars to them. According to my friend, because of her mother is blood related to her aunt, her mother is freely, without no doubt, gives her money to her sister. Her aunt promised to pay the money in due time but years have passed, her aunt didn't paid her mother and apparently their situation switched. Then, their family is rich and her aunt's family is poor but now, her aunt is rich. We decided to go to her aunt's house.My jaws dropped and her aunt's residence is amazing.

So, fast forward, I'm going pissed off as her cousins badly treats her. She never goes with them because they don't want her to come with them to and also, she is being put aside off their attention. Now, she doesn't access her facebook account because her cousin hacked it to do so. As she doesn't access her account now, I got alarmed and changed my password as a precaution. I learned so many things from her family. Her family has so many problems and it all come to this. She told me, "She cannot brag her house because it came from the money who isn't theirs."

Also, they're acting as a socialite even they're not to, they have so many liabilities to my friend! I'm already pissed off right now, I don't like this anymore and I'm so fucked up of  their attitudes.

I pray to Greek gods and goddesses, to Norse gods and goddesses and to Jesus that let her aunt's family know the truth to let them change for the better future.

A Wattpad Writer's Advices

Here I am again, writing for my hobby as a writer in Wattpad. Wattpad is a site where you can read, comment, vote and write your own story. The site is famously get its place in the world wide web by the Canadians and I want to thank them because I am able to share my stories with them.

Here we go, I want to tell you some of my experiences while writing a story in Wattpad and I want to give you some useful advice in writing a story. I hope you learn things from this post.

1. Do a draft of your story

Yes, most of the authors started their career by writing in a draft. Just spill out all of your imaginations. When you thought, there's something wrong in your draft then change it! There's no wrong in changing and edit when you know there's wrong! While writing, don't forget to check your grammar, it's important!

2. Decide what influences your book cover in Wattpad should have

This really depends upon the genre,the taste and the dominant genre in your place or community. Here in my community, one of my friends urged me to use Korean artists in my book cover in Wattpad to get more reads. But I, as being influenced by the culture of the United States, insist that I'll use American (or European artists to portray my story) for my book cover as planned. Follow your deeds. (Hell, I don't use Korean artists because its too dominant in my community.)

3. Be sure you update your story
When you created a long story (or a novel), be sure you update your story regularly. It helps you to keep your readers updated to you. They'll be disappointed when you took a long time to update your story (that I always noticed to all writers I follow in Wattpad)

This last advice is a little tricky but I hope you understand.

4. If your country has two or more official languages, choose your local language to gain more reads to your story!
Yeah, this is the greatest mistake I've ever committed in my writing career, I used English in my story because it's planned but I need to change it because no one's reading it. That leave me, 4 months to change the whole story to the local language and hiatus to create a new chapter of my story. 

I hope that's enough. Because I did a lot of fucking mistakes in writing a story, I wrote this one for you. Another piece of advice, when your job goes to the scene, you have no choice but to do your job! You have to update or write when you have a free time and when you have no free time 'cause your busy, well, it's on your luck now how to be an active writer. Your writing career is on your hands.

We Want the 4th Evanescence album!

I have this weird feeling that Amy Lee is pursuing her solo career during the hiatus of Evanescence. I don't think this will be a good news to those fans who waits for their 4th album. Another one is, the hiatus will get longer as soon as Amy will bear her child and they will spend time with their families. Meanwhile, the remaining members will have to get their job done before heading back to studio.

Some fans are getting excited because they're expecting a new material from Amy Lee but I don't feel the same thing as most fans do. After their tour on 2012, many fans are expecting for their 4th album. I read an article that Evanescence should release their album, 2013 but I don't hyped for it because Amy needs some rest and she needs to take care of her voice. The then, band's label, Wind Up Records, announced that they will going to release If You Don't Mind as a promotional single ('cause it's included on the band's setlist in their South America, U.S. and U.K. tours and featured on the B-side of The Open Door) but months later, they announced that they won't release the said song. Many fans became disappointed because of that. February 14, 2013, Amy Lee released the music video of Lost In Paradise (by herself without any intervention from her label) filmed by fans around the world during their tour, and many fans became disappointed again and put the blame on the label, accusing of lack of support to their album and singles.

Amy Lee made appearance with Dave Eggar and Paula on November 2013 at the Wellspring benefit concert and featured her new song, Find A Way. By that time, I know that Amy Lee is going solo and she wants to pursue her solo career. Meanwhile, in Twitter, back on December 2013, many fans are putting the hashtag on their tweets: "#WeWantEvanescenceIn2014". Every parts of the world celebrated the new year and many fans hoped again for the new album. Expecting that the 3 year hiatus would be enough but their hopes disappeared again as Amy made appearance again with David in the Bluegrass Underground and many articles show that Amy Lee is pursuing her solo career and confirmed that she made some collaborations with Dave for the indie film, War Story. January 2014, report shows that Amy Lee filed a case against their label costing $1.5 million in royalties. The singer accused her label of promoting the self-titled album to a bunch of independent promoters with lame ideas instead of the label itself. Two months after, Amy revealed on her Twitter account that Evanescence is free from any record deal. The Bicycle Music Company has the distributing rights of the previous and future albums of Evanescence because Wind Up Records sold the back catalog of artists including Evanescence to them but still free from any label intervention.

As of now, I realized that Amy is really, really, want to pursue her solo career. The idea came to her since 2009 and she wants to get a solo career back then but she decided that those songs she composed herself be included for the 3rd album under the producer Steve Lilywhite but scrapped because it's electronic and doesn't suit for the mainstream (according to Wind Up Records). She attained control of her Facebook page and posted a snippet of her new song Lockdown along with Find A Way and Push the Button (but this song is not yet heard but confirmed it is one of Amy's new material.) If that so, the hiatus would take longer than the fans would ever expect. Another thing is, Tim needs to keep in touch with her daughter and be a responsible father to his own family. Amy, also, expecting her baby on July and needs to be a mother to her child, and a loving wife to her husband. I don't have any updates from Will, Troy and Terry but they have the same reason why they're not ready for a 4th album: Private life.

Most fans said that every members should made their family a priority first. Yeah, I know that but if that happens, Evanescence will comeback after 10 years or so. But I don't blame them for having their children but they have to balance the time they gave to every things they need to do! By the way, Blink-182 released their album this year after an 8 year break and if this scenario happens to Evanescence, many would be get disappointed and the world might forget of them.
                             
                                      

Come on, Amy, not another 5-year-or-so-hiatus between the two albums! They have to show that their songs would never go old and disappeared suddenly. Their debut album, Fallen is a commercial material of them, followed by The Open Door that almost dropped down by their label because it's very hard and dark compared to its predecessor. Their very much awaited self-titled album is heavier and has metallic character in the tracks included on the said album but sold less than its two predecessors and didn't even reach the Gold record in the United States. I understand that Amy needs some space properly on her mind but come on! Amy don't have to do this on us because some of the fans are pretending to "okay" the solo album but badly wants a new album from the band they love. They should have enter the studio as a whole BAND and not Amy herself! This hiatus can greatly affect everything if the band never released anything!

We have felt many disappointments because of waiting for any activity from them. Waiting is too much. Little by little, the world forgets of them, actually, the hiatus between The Open Door and Evanescence is an example.

All we need is a new album from Evanescence!