In case the title hasn't tipped you off I've finally been able to get writing again which I am really glad about, though I sorta wish I could be working on Heart of the Cold. Ah, screw it, what am I talking about? No way in hell do I want to get back to that any time soon, simply because I'm getting sick of the story and the same old butchery and fighting and stuff all the time. Ugh... Yeah, well this nice little story idea just sort of dropped into my lap, I think it was a combination of reading Alpha Shade and All Quite on the Western Front, but who knows? Well, anyway, this neat little story is about a dude named Taeris who's 14 and gets warped or teleported--don't ask, please, it's the one weak point in the story so please just damn well let it be--to this world that's being torn apart by a three way war between (and yes I know these names suck ass) the Union, the Federation (the side Taeris fights for), and the Confederacy.
The technology on the world is about that of the Great War--I absoluutely loathe the way wars have been fought since WWII--with the major differences being the soldiers have magazine-fed rifles (wait, did they have those in WWI? I should find out... Not that it matters as far as my story is concerned, but I hate not knowing things) and there are helicopters and aeropters--like helicopters w/ 2 sets of blades. So you can find bits and pieces of historical stuff lodged in this, at least as far as tactics and stuff (oh, right, I know nothing about WWI tactis, well, that's ok, I'll just make them up :) go.
Well, this story has completely and utterly hijacked my mind so that I have reached a point where there is little else that I can do other than think about it, formulate the plot and so on, or write, and boy have I been writing! Woah, 53 pages in 5 days! Thats fucking insane! This is going to be a long story, but that's just fine, I am absolutely in love with it so it's all good, and it helps me forget other stuff too...
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
scratch the itch
I have noticed over the many years that I have spent playing video games that every now and then I get this I-have-to-play-this-game feeling and nothing will satisfy it except several days if not weeks of playing whatever the game may be. Well, my little itch struck yesterday and I have consequently spent the last two days playing a game that I thought I left back in 4th grade--and a game that I probably should have left back in the 4th grade. Not like there's a whole lot I can, because I have learned--the hard way--that ignoring this itch is a very stupid thing to do and can often result in insomnia/maniacal behavior that will not abate until I have played the game.
So my time has been utterly consumed though I think that by the time I beat the game--which shouldn't take much more than 2 more days--I'll be cured and maybe then I'll finally be able to get back to working on Heart of the Cold, but who knows; I've been procrastinating so long it looks like I'll never really get around to that... (sigh)
So my time has been utterly consumed though I think that by the time I beat the game--which shouldn't take much more than 2 more days--I'll be cured and maybe then I'll finally be able to get back to working on Heart of the Cold, but who knows; I've been procrastinating so long it looks like I'll never really get around to that... (sigh)
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
fuck you internet explorer!
Well, I have decided that Internet Explorer is absolute crap and should be burned with great burning and pain. Why do I loath Internet Explorer with such great hatred? Just because I feel like it, and because Mozilla Firefox is a lot better too. Seriously, Firefox is a lot better, mostly because you can download things with considerably greater ease; other than that the two really are more or less the same. I just feel like bitching about Internet Explorer, so, yeah.
TOPIC #2:
Since I can't really say a whole lot more about how I hate Internet Explorer, I'll talk about something completey different. Now what should that be... Oh, I know, wait, no I don't... Hmm... Ok, well, since I have nothing else to talk about, I'll just stop. That sounds like a pretty good idea.
TOPIC #2:
Since I can't really say a whole lot more about how I hate Internet Explorer, I'll talk about something completey different. Now what should that be... Oh, I know, wait, no I don't... Hmm... Ok, well, since I have nothing else to talk about, I'll just stop. That sounds like a pretty good idea.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
webcomics--yay!
I've been looking around for new webcomics, following some sort of strange, convoluted paper trail from one to another. So far the ones that I have found have all been rather good, though I've already completely read two of them and it doesn't seem like the authors keep themselves forced to such a tight schedule as Fred from Megatokyo does.
My whole little interest in webcomics goes back 2 years to 6th grade when my friend got me started on Megatokyo. He has since come to hate it because it's not funny any more--which is true, though now there is actually some plot to it, which I like. Strange to think that for 2 years I never really bothered to find anything else to read.
Here's a little list of good webcomics I've found:
My whole little interest in webcomics goes back 2 years to 6th grade when my friend got me started on Megatokyo. He has since come to hate it because it's not funny any more--which is true, though now there is actually some plot to it, which I like. Strange to think that for 2 years I never really bothered to find anything else to read.
Here's a little list of good webcomics I've found:
Oh, wait, I remeber why I started hunting around for stuff... Yeah... Well, anyway... Let's not re-open that little issue any time soon...
PEACE
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
which-way sign
Where to go to now? Does it matter? I don't think that it really does. Heart of the Cold--my latest story--is stuck in the mud, once again. I seem to have been having more issues with this one than the previous two, which I managed to blaze ahead with quite easily until they were done. Perhaps it's just because I haven't gotten back into the routine of writing, but I think that there's more to it than that. So, I have a ssembled a hodge-podge of theories that I will be making up right now:
THEORY 1:
It seems more likely than not that the reason I have not been able to write consistently or easily over the last few weeks has been that I have not been trying to write very often, which, in the past, I have found to be anti-condusive to getting anywhere with a story. Seems to me that if I would write more consistently I would be able to actually get something done; I don't know, but this seems fairly logical.
THEORY 2:
This also seems to make some sense, well at least to me, anyway. With the other two stories, especially the first, which I rewrote several times, I had a fairly clear idea of where things were going with the whole endeavor. With Heart of the Cold I have very little idea of how things are going to go except for where they will end, which is something that doesnt really help that much... Perhpas if I got some idea of just what I was doing I might be able to get something done.
THEORY 3:
Psyche! There is no THEORY 3!
Okay, well, I have decided that if I'm ever going to get anything done, then I ought to start a) typing consistently and b) get some idea of what I am going to do. I'll figure sometihng out eventually, I guess, maybe... Well, if you read this then you're probably thinking you wasted your time, and guess what? YOU DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEORY 1:
It seems more likely than not that the reason I have not been able to write consistently or easily over the last few weeks has been that I have not been trying to write very often, which, in the past, I have found to be anti-condusive to getting anywhere with a story. Seems to me that if I would write more consistently I would be able to actually get something done; I don't know, but this seems fairly logical.
THEORY 2:
This also seems to make some sense, well at least to me, anyway. With the other two stories, especially the first, which I rewrote several times, I had a fairly clear idea of where things were going with the whole endeavor. With Heart of the Cold I have very little idea of how things are going to go except for where they will end, which is something that doesnt really help that much... Perhpas if I got some idea of just what I was doing I might be able to get something done.
THEORY 3:
Psyche! There is no THEORY 3!
Okay, well, I have decided that if I'm ever going to get anything done, then I ought to start a) typing consistently and b) get some idea of what I am going to do. I'll figure sometihng out eventually, I guess, maybe... Well, if you read this then you're probably thinking you wasted your time, and guess what? YOU DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, April 04, 2005
hmm bored--how does this thing work?
Well, i have no idea what I'm doing, but thats just fine and dandy. If you're reading this, you're probably bored, which makes at least two of us, and if there are more than two people reaing this, then that is indeed terribly strange and somewhat frightening, i guess. I'm not really sure. Well, whatever.
Who's gonna win the basketball national title? Who gives a fuck? I definately don't. I like hockey--the Gophers, to be specific--and that's it. They're in the Frozen Four this year, along with three other WCHA teams, which is a first, but they'll probably get butchered by UND. If not then theywill probably lose to CC and if CC loses to Denver and the Gophers somehow manage to beat North Dakota, then I think its reasonable to figure the Gophers will win, considering they beat Maine and Cornell, basically the two best defensive teams in the country.
I like writing shit, in case you didn't know. I've finished two stories so far and together they are over 1,000 pages long. Personally I think that that takes commitment, condsidering it took me two years to write them, all in all, though there was a four month period where I worked on other stuff. I think that they were pretty good, but I'll let other people decide for themselves. Once I'm done with the last one in my little trilogy I'll edit them all and see if someone will publish them. I hope someone does, but I'm not getting my hopes up or anything.
Yeah, well, I'm pretty much out of stuff to rant about. So, yeah, um, okay. That's all folks!
Who's gonna win the basketball national title? Who gives a fuck? I definately don't. I like hockey--the Gophers, to be specific--and that's it. They're in the Frozen Four this year, along with three other WCHA teams, which is a first, but they'll probably get butchered by UND. If not then theywill probably lose to CC and if CC loses to Denver and the Gophers somehow manage to beat North Dakota, then I think its reasonable to figure the Gophers will win, considering they beat Maine and Cornell, basically the two best defensive teams in the country.
I like writing shit, in case you didn't know. I've finished two stories so far and together they are over 1,000 pages long. Personally I think that that takes commitment, condsidering it took me two years to write them, all in all, though there was a four month period where I worked on other stuff. I think that they were pretty good, but I'll let other people decide for themselves. Once I'm done with the last one in my little trilogy I'll edit them all and see if someone will publish them. I hope someone does, but I'm not getting my hopes up or anything.
Yeah, well, I'm pretty much out of stuff to rant about. So, yeah, um, okay. That's all folks!
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