VirtualTourist Member Elodie_Caroline
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| Jean Reno, the man who talks to my soul |
Everyone who knows me, knows that I've had a twelve-year, one sided (lol) love affair with Jean Reno, I love him more than life itself. Jean also gives me the inspiration to write the kind of novels I do. With the stories that I write, I picture them as films in my head whilst I'm writing them and he is always my leading man. No, I am never the female in my stories with him--I certainly wouldn't want the things that happen to my fictional characters to happen to me, that's for sure.
I write thrillers mixed with crime and romance, some action with some love and lust thrown in for good measure. I write them as real life is, grey, nothing is ever black and white. I write the kind of things I would personally like to see him star in as films, because even though I love his films, (only because he's in them), some of them are crap.
I’ve started a lot of projects in my life, but knew deep down inside of myself that they’d never actually be finished; like my year long self-teaching of the French language, it just wouldn’t sink into my head. Oh yes, I know enough to be able to read French sites or newspapers etc. I would say that I understand over two thirds of the words in the French vocabulary; so enough to be able to understand what they’re on about anyway.
My writing has given me a new zest for life and I really want to be published one day, because I think I have some good stories to tell. I don’t want to be rich or famous or anything like that, I just want to know that I am established in something that I’ve always been good at—telling stories. I want to be able to look back at my life and know that I’ve actually done something worthwhile with it.
I've always had a very vivid imagination. I like people watching; sitting outside of cafes and watching people going by, noticing someone particular and thinking that they look worried or sometimes sad, so make up stories in my head about how I think they live. I've always loved conspiracy theories too, nothing like a bit of good old conspiracy to get my mind ticking.
I've also always been a dreamer and would often walk to school in the mornings and telling stories off the top of my head to the girl I walked to school with; usually stories about me and her and the boys we fancied at the time.
Funny thing is, the kind of stories I write are definitely not slushy kinds or fantasy, they are real-life and gritty, sometimes quite raw too; but I've lived that kind of life and know what I'm talking about. I will only write about what I know. My main interest in stories is usually people struggling and then getting what they want in the end ... I do so love happy endings!
This is the new website I have made, it's all to do with my writing. ElodieWritesnovels |
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| The side of St Paul's cathedral |
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| | The rest of me - The recluse I've always liked my own company, ever since I was a kid, even though I come from a large family. I've always liked the things I could do on my own and under my own steam, like drawing, reading and writing. People were always telling me that I should do art professionally, but even though I'm good at it, it doesn't actually interest me, it's just something I'm naturally good at. Writing was always my main interest, I love words, probably even purple prose, ok, it's probably pink prose for me.
I wrote my character, Samantha, as a recluse, that was so easy to do, I've been one for around the last ten years or so, actually, I've probably been one all of my life?
I may bleach my hair blonde, wear make-up, and try and look as glamourous as I can, but there is much more to me than just being a dumb, dizzy, blonde.
Ever since I was old enough to hold a pencil, I could draw, espcially people and scenery, in fact, I can do anything that interests me and I decide to turn my hand to.... Lucky me :-)
I have also been writing my own poetry, songs and stories since I was about 5 years old too, I was even top of the class in English at school.
I was a great seamstress from being a small child, when me and my sister were playing with our Barbie dolls, we weren't actually playing with them, we were making them clothes, and I mean proper clothes. The sewing teacher at school told me that I was a good little hand sewer once, so I guess that's something eh. I wouldn't use a sewing machine at school, I sewed everything I did by hand, including a three foot rag doll and all it's clothes. I'm afraid the sewing takes a bit of a back seat these days, with arthritis of the neck and wrists, sewing is kind of painful, but I still like to design clothes in my head.
I am a most excellent cook too!, ok, hubby has to do any peeling and chopping and vigorous stirring,, because of the arthritis, but I can cook absolutely anything that I choose to, which is usually foreign and exotic dishes. I have never had a meal that has gone wrong on me yet.
We were brought up on good old home cooking, mostly Polish food, so I am very glad to say that I take after my dad where cooking is concerned. |
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I got my very first computer in the year 2000. I have to be honest here, I originally got my PC because I wanted the internet, so that I could find stuff on Jean Reno, as none of the magazines here bothered with him, all they were interested in was trashy American Hollywood film stars.
But I also knew that I would use the intenet for my great thirst of knowledge too, like having a library of a zillion books in my own sitting room. I came, I read, I saw, and I conquered, oh yes, I have definitely conquered the computer world.
With the internet, besides finding pics of Jean Reno, I used to look for sites on France and french stuff, because my other dream in life, is to live in France one day. Then I found sites like VT, with humans on them, I fell in love with the forums and making new friends, but have since grown out of that over the last year or so.
When getting the internet, I told everyone that I would never order anything off there, how wrong I was!. I have just ordered a download programme for my PC, which enables you to make flashcards via French and English. I have bought books from the net, and also one of my great passions, getting foreign films from there too. I also download a great many e-books, but luckily, I don't have to pay for those LOL. I download a great many information pages, and pics of JR, off the net also.
I spend a great deal of time on my PC when I'm at home. I have actually got my hubby to cut the spines off some of my french books, and then painstakenly scanned them as PDF files onto my PC, I find books easier to read this way. I actually sit and write my books on my PC too, each bit that is written is then downloaded onto a CD rewritable disc, just in case the PC goes off with a bang!
I even strip my PC down to nothing these days, that's rebooting it from the recovery CD, not taking all of the guts out, I'd get Chris to do that for me if ever came the time to do it. The first time I done this, it took me about 3 weeks to get everything back onto my PC, all of the programmes etc, to be just how I wanted it. Then the next time took two days, and now I can do the whole lot in about two hours, I am well chuffed with myself!
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| L'Eiffel Tour en b&w - 1964 |
| | My love for France & French things
I love anything to do with France or French things; I love the History, the Architecture, the art, the beautiful language, definitely the language of love! But I really don't know where to start on this one, there is so much I love, and I just cannot remember when it started in my life? I will get back to this one, so much to write about....
I like the way that the French people want to keep their Frenchness and their culture, even though a member of the EU. I love French films, especially any that have the most handsome and sexiest man in the world... Jean Reno in. I was even been teaching myself the French language at home with books and tapes, although, since finding VT, my French language has gone amiss, it's something that I have to get back into at some point?
I don't know what you good people out there think of reincarnation? but when I was in my early 20s, I had a 'memory', it wasn't a dream, it was an actual memory: I remembered laying in a lush green field, with Rosehip bushes all around the edges, the birds were singing evensong and the sun was going down in a mid blue sky, I can still remember the lovely fresh smell of the field. I was in a beige coloured uniform and I was laid there dying of a battle wound in the stomach in the first World War.
This is my ultimate dream destination, and my France page on here is done purely for my OWN pleasure and nobody else's, my best stuff on there is my 'Local customs.' they're filled with historical facts and stories of France that I love.
Here is some of my favourite French films to start with.....
Wasabi
Ma vie en Rose
Marius et Jeannette
Dobermann
Amèlie
Delecatessen
Les Visiteurs
The messenger
Subway
L'homme du train
Vamp
AboutFrench
WordReference
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| Beautiful Canary Wharf in the dark |
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Hubby and I aren't into the pub scene, so for enjoyment, we go out for long drives in our car. Even before I found VT, I used to take the camera with us on drives out. I photograph lots of different things, beautiful and ugly and thye are all mostly taken from inside of the car, through the windscreen etc.
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Callavetta Fri May 9, 2008 15:04 UTC
Happy Anniversary, Elodie! | littlesam1 Fri May 9, 2008 05:20 UTC
Glad the comment made you laugh. I love you for many reasons. Your one of my first and best friends here. | touristgal Thu May 8, 2008 23:07 UTC
Hey there! You are pretty funny with your comments on the misc forum. Thanks for making me laugh. | pattypoo Wed May 7, 2008 19:26 UTC
Been thinking of you all day, x |
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