Rena Writes!

[Livz2Write]

Well, let's see...what can I tell you about myself?

My name is Serena. I have several nicknames including - but not limited to - Phoenix, Raven, Rena, ReRe, Re, and Angyl. I am 33 years old, and I am a single mother of two children.

I have been writing, in one form or another, since the age of seven. I am a published poet. My goal is to eventually get at least one of my many novels into publishable material and see it in print.

I have also recently set myself another goal...I have never attempted to write a screenplay before. There is a trilogy of books that I absolutely LOVE and think would make at least one, maybe two, tremendous movies. So, I have set myself the goal of writing at least the first screenplay so that I can submit it and hopefully see it come to fruition on the big screen.

As for fan fiction, I have been writing since 2001...when I got my start right here at EWFN. I have more than 97 fan fictions, over half of which is about Elijah Wood and/or his LOTR cast mates. I will include the list of EW ones here, and you can let me know which one(s) - if any - you would like to see me posting here. I'll include the list in the next post...leave your choices here in your replies.

[Livz2Write]

1. A Different World - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: This is one of four stories that are set before “Destiny’s Voice”.

2. A Lesson In Murder - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Dom has a unique way of doing research for an upcoming role.

3. A New Beginning - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: This is the fourth of four stories that are set before “Destiny’s Voice”.

4. Arathorn's Legacy - Characters: the Lord of the Rings characters - Summary: Everyone who has read LOTR knows the story. This is a loose version of Tolkien’s story with some twists thrown in, because I added an additional character…and yes, she purposely has the name of one of Tolkien’s characters. You’ll have to read it to figure it out.

5. As The World Falls Down - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: An earthquake threatens to tear Los Angeles apart during the opening night of Return of the King.

6. Avoidance - Characters: Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Christine Astin, Sean Astin - Summary: The OC wrote to several of the LOTR actors without ever expecting them to reply. She was shocked when they did. Over the span of a few years, not only does she become really good friends with them, she begins her dream of singing professionally…until it all comes crashing down one fateful night.

7. Bound Together - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: During a weekend escape to the mountains of Colorado for some snow and fun, an avalanche traps everyone inside their cabin.

8. Breaking Through The Darkness - Characters: Billy Boyd - Summary: Billy decides to do some grocery shopping in a not so nice area of the city in the hopes of avoiding a bunch of fans while trying to do a basic chore. On his way out, he stumbles upon a woman being bullied in the parking lot.

9. Breaking Through The Silence - Characters: Elijah Wood - Summary: Elijah does some volunteer work at a school for the deaf.

10. Changes - Characters: Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Orlando walks up on an attack in the parking lot of LAX when he returns home to LA after a publicity tour. He runs off the attacker, suffering injuries himself. Luckily, the woman he saved is a doctor, but she seems to have problems of her own. Has he gotten in over his head?

11. Charmed, I’m Sure - Characters: Dominic Monaghan (not famous in this) - Summary: A story of four special sisters. Based off of the television show, Charmed.

12. Compulsions - This is a 9 part story - Characters: Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom - Summary: Everyone gives in to one of the seven deadly sins at some point in their life. This is a story of what happens when a young man, who feels rejected by the stars of LOTR, uses witchcraft to seek revenge.

13. Crossover - Characters: the cast of Lord of the Rings - Summary: Wouldn’t it be really cool if Tolkien’s world was real? This is a story of what might happen if his world really existed, and some of the people we always thought were from our world (so did they) were actually a part of his.

14. Cuts Like A Knife - Characters: Orlando Bloom - Summary: Orlando’s ex-girlfriend seeks revenge.

15. Destiny's Voice - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin, Christine Astin - Summary: Tolkien isn’t the only one who can create worlds! I have created my own (hoping to finish one of the books in my series soon for publication IRL). This is a skewered version of my original story with a fan theme so I felt safe publishing it online.

16. Devil's Peak - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: Peter Jackson decides to have everyone meet again in New Zealand two years after the final movie has been released. These four decide to surprise their girlfriends by bringing them along, but the girls tell the guys to go without them…they’ll join them in a couple of days but want them to get reacquainted on their own first.

17. Explosions In The Night - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: A terrorist group plans to attack the United States. Where and when will they strike? Why are they attacking? Who will survive?

18. Fatally Wounded - Characters: cast of Lord of the Rings, cast of Harry Potter - Summary: Club Caution is a brand new night club in Los Angeles. During it’s opening weekend, it plays host to the cast of LOTR and HP who both have movies premiering that weekend. Things seem to be going great…until people start disappearing and then reappearing dead.

19. Forbidden Love - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: This is the second of four stories set in time before “Destiny’s Voice”.

20. Getting Away From It All - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: The LOTR boys are feeling overwhelmed by all of the attention they are getting. They can’t seem to go anywhere anymore without being attacked by someone. In a desperate attempt to keep them from doing something they know they will live to regret, Elijah calls up an old friend to see if they can crash at her place for a while.

21. Haunted Mansion, Haunted Dreams - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: A young woman inherits and mansion and billions of dollars from a rich, eccentric, uncle…if she can manage to spend an entire weekend in the mansion without losing her mind. Along with her older brother, she decides to open a contest to anyone who wants to join her. She will choose a limited amount from the entries, and together they will stay in the mansion for the weekend. The winner of the contestants will receive one million dollars. After all, her uncle never said she had to stay alone!

22. Hearts of Ice - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: This is a vampire story.

23. Hell Hath No Fury - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: A volcanic eruption tries to destroy the boys’ vacation.

24. Hilltop Tower - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom - Summary: There is an old, abandoned, hotel in the hills outside of Los Angeles. Several decades ago, it was a well known place for celebrities to see and be seen. Until one fateful night when the unthinkable happened. Now, the boys decide to investigate and see if any of the rumors of the place are true.

25. Hitting Bottom - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: Expectations have gotten to Dominic Monaghan. Living the life of a celebrity is causing him to feel as if he is suffocating. In desperation, he listens to a new friend and begins a downward spiral that could very well take his life.

26. Homeless - Characters: Elijah Wood - Summary: Elijah Wood has an upcoming role that requires him to play a homeless person. In his attempt to be as authentic as possible, he spends time on the streets as a homeless person to research the role.

27. How Do You Talk To An Angel - Characters; Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen - Summary: Elijah begins dreaming about an angel. That is strange enough, but when he meets the woman who lives across the hall from him he is shocked to discover that she looks and sounds just like the angel from his dreams. What could this possibly mean? And what does she have to do with Billy?

28. Immortal Love - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen - Summary: She had always been different from everyone else and had to keep her true identity a secret from everyone except for her best friend. After encountering a few famous strangers, she finds herself caught up in a bigger secret than she ever thought possible. Will she survive the outcome?

29. I've Been Waiting For You - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Someone is stalking Elijah Wood.

30. Katya - Characters: Legolas, Frodo, Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf, Boromir, Sam, Merry, Pippin - Summary: Katya grew up in our world, always feeling as if she didn’t belong…until she finds herself in Middle Earth.

[Livz2Write]

So it took two posts for the entire list... :P

31. Lessons Learned - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: The most personal lives of three stars of Lord of the Rings are laid bare to the public, thanks to a ruthless reporter who will stop at nothing.

32. Letters Of War - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Christine Astin - Summary: After 9/11, the government brings back the draft. Elijah’s birth date is one of the chosen to go to war.

33. Make A Wish - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Ian McKellen - Summary: The family of a teenage girl who is dying of breast cancer does their best to see that her every wish is fulfilled.

34. Meeting Again - Characters: Elijah Wood - Summary: Fourteen years after a summertime friendship, two people meet up again.

35. Melting A Blind Heart - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: A different take on the story of vampires.

36. Midnight Realm - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Strange things happen at the club known as Midnight Realm.

37. My Knight - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: This time, Dominic has gotten in way over his head.

38. My Secret Life - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd - Summary: Elijah’s and Billy’s new friend is hiding something.

39. My So-Called Life - Characters: Elijah Wood - Summary: While Elijah enjoys the life of a celebrity, a friend of his struggles to maintain an existence.

40. Raging Storms - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Strait-line winds threaten to compromise the set of a new movie.

41. Remembrance - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Elijah Wood’s cousin is dying of a rare disease. When the clinical trial she is in ends, she decides to go to her cousin’s house to live the remainder of her life.

42. Rising Waters - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: On vacation in Florida, a hurricane tears apart their vacation home and traps them inside.

43. Secrets - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: A new friend is overly cautious. Is she overreacting, or does she have reasons for her fear?

44. Skulls & Bones - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, (not famous) - Summary: This story is based on the movie “The Skulls”.

45. Starting Again - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Dominic wonders how bad of a mistake he made by leaving his ex-girlfriend and wonders if it’s too late to start things over again.

46. Stolen Innocence - Characters: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: A fan of LOTR gets a dream come true, but can she handle life in Los Angeles?

47. Survival High - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler (none famous) - Summary: Someone is attacking the students of a local high school, and they are not limiting themselves to just the students.

48. Take Me On A Joyride - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, (not famous) - Summary: This is based on the movie “Joy Ride”.

49. The Beauty Of Death - Characters: Liv Tyler - Summary: A serial killer is stalking actresses and models.

50. The Call Of Destiny - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood - Summary: This is one of two stories set after “Destiny’s Voice”.

51. The Eye Of The Storm - Characters: Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan - Summary: Getting caught up in a tornado may mean the end of two famous people.

52. The Fall - Characters: Dominic Monaghan - Summary: This is the third of four stories set in time before “Destiny’s Voice”.

53. The Final War Of Destiny - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood - Summary: This is the final installment of the Destiny Series.

54. The Ghosts Of Christmases Past - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Drew Fuller, (not famous) - Summary: It’s been ten years since high school graduation. Eight friends gather together for a special Christmas filled with memories and other surprises.

55. The Guardians - this is a 12 part story - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Drew Fuller, Tom Felton, (not famous) - Summary: A group of special people help mankind.

56. The Journey Into Oblivion - Characters: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: Dominic gets into a car crash involving another driver who seems to have a past of her own.

57. Thirst - Characters: Elijah Wood - Summary: Someone is out to make Elijah Wood into something else.

58. Twists And Turns - Characters: the cast of LOTR, the cast of HP, the cast of Twilight - Summary: A reunion and two premieres make for an interesting weekend in Hollywood.

59. Unthinkable - Characters: Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd - Summary: A different take on the classic abusive partner story.

[i.am.the.messenger]

I love that you like screenwriting, since I happen to be a Film Studies/Creative Writing double major, with the intention of being a screenwriter when I get out of school. What trilogy were you thinking about adapting?

A lot of your stories sound interesting, especially since a lot of them involve big events (natural disasters, attacks, etc), which you don't see a lot of in stories of this type. You should definitely keep putting them up, and here's the numbers of some of the ones that I'd like to see:

2, 6 (which sounds familiar for some reason), 10, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 36, 42, 46, 47, and 49

(what can I say, I like the dark stories)

[Livz2Write]

I like the darker stories, too. :P I'm working on getting at least a couple of others going on here...especially since it appears as if someone might be reading HDYTTAA now. lol And #21 is one of them...I was thinking it would be fun to "re-do" it with some of the members here. I've got a cast call up for it in "Casting Central".