Soon....

Hey guys.  So, as I was planning to continue my hiatus for a while.  However, things have changed.  I've been listening to a ton of Infected Mushroom lately for the purposes of a massive review series.  I'm just about finished with the series, and I was going to let it be a buffer for my return.  Thing is, Infected Mushroom is going to be releasing a new album, Converting Vegetarians 2.  It's supposed to come out in September.  What better way to lead up to the album's release than massive reviews?

So my reviews are based on the idea of what is mainstream, what is selling out, and Infected Mushroom versus Daft Punk.  I'll be going through the history of Infected Mushroom and Daft Punk, and how they've changed over time.  Keep in mind, though, that I didn't have the idea for this in mind right away.  It was my intention just to review Mushroom's history, and then it kinda grew from there. This was an educational experience, both in terms of the bands and of electronic music in general.  Starting this Saturday, I'll be posting once a week the results of my findings.  So join me on my trip through the electronic wonderland, and we'll find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.

....Pretty far, actually.  I'm still falling.

What's up.

Hey y'all.  I feel really meh at the moment, as I have not won the Blizzard fanfiction writing contest.   Nor got a honorable mention.  Well, I think this was due to my posting the story on ff.net, which, after checking the rules, I noticed was not proper.  I think someone tried to warn me, but my pm system on that site shut down.  Crap.  Or else they just didn't like my story.

I think my story, Shadow Falls, was very good.  I'm not too disappointed I lost, as I can construct my sentences somewhat weirdly.  Also, the judges for Blizzard tend to like mildly depressing war stories, not cheerful one shots such as what I wrote.  I wrote a story about a Judicator meeting a little hick girl on the Terran planet Moria, and quite frankly I think it's nice.  I'm not the judge, though, and I can live with this.  I just wish I hadn't posted it, that way I'd know whether I lost by mistake or by flawed writing.

That's life.  Nothing's posted from my short story contest entries, so I'll hold up hope for that.  The stakes and the prizes are higher.  I'm confident in my chances, and I know I'm a good writer.  We'll see what happens with that.

Hey Y'all!

So, it's been a bit since I've posted last.  Yeah, I haven't forgotten the blog.  I just had a bad period of not really being able to write much.  Now I'm doing much better.

First off!

Well, Writer's Digest magazine is having a writer's contest where you write a story under 1,500 words.  I've got two stories ready, one almost, and two brewing in my head.  I'll send all five at the end of this month, and then it's for them to judge!  Once the contest is over, I plan on posting all my stories here.  Naturally, the rules say that the stories have to be formerly unpublished, and so I'm not even going to put them up here yet.  But they'll be up.  Why don't you compete against me?  writersdigest.com will accept stories ($20 entry fee per story) postmarked November 15 and earlier.  Hurry up, y'all!

Also, on the fifteenth on this month Blizzard's fan fiction contest will stop taking entries, so I've got to hurry about that.  It takes stories 2,500 to 7,500 words long, and each story has to be based in any of Blizzard's three universes: Starcraft, Warcraft, or Diablo.  I've got a story in the Starcraft realm, which I'll also put up after this contest is decided.  I'm not entirely pleased with it, but I still like the idea and want to share it, though I'm uncertain of my chances.  Since Blizzard's writing contests appear to take place every year about this time, I'm going to write up the better story idea I have in my head and submit it next year.  That brings me to--

NaNoWriMo!  This is the contest that nanowrimo.com has every year during the month of November.  It's the National Novel Writing Month!  This isn't really a contest because it has no prizes, but what it does do is challenge everyone to write 50,000 words during the month of November.  This isn't anywhere near as hard as it looks.  Any decent size paragraph you write will be about 100 words, and 500 paragraphs won't take forever. I'll work on my Mega Man fanfictions as well, but during this time I'll also start on my next year's Blizzard contest entry.

So what does that mean for this blog?  Well, for right now I've got some stuff to work on.  I'm going to be reviewing Mega Man 10's music, definitely.  I'm going to listen to the music some more before I do, but it'll be up eventually.  I may also come up with a progressive list of Mega Man robot master songs listed from worst to best.  Either that or my least to most favorite.  Yes, there's a difference.

Also, I'm going to review the Pixar movies.  I've started on that blog already, and it'll be up.  That may not be so interesting to you, but I'm going to rant about it anyway.

What I really want to do on this blog is make it more friendly for fellow writers, and so I'll be taking whatever writing topic I happen to be thinking about at the time.  Expect one on downing word count soon.

So yeah, I'm not dead.  I'll be writin'.

Just an Announcement

Hey y'all.  As you've doubtlessly noticed, I haven't updated Hero of the Month for a while.  I'm pretty starved for inspiration on it right now.  I mean, I had some good ideas, but they weren't thought out completely and my muse is silent on the topic.  One of the things you have to do as a writer is figure out what you can and can't finish, and this is one of those things.  The whole deal with trying to do each story in the period of only one month for some reason was too irritating for me.

The next story I do up here, and I will do another one, will be one I feel a lot less limited on.  Crap, the only point I really felt inspired for was for Milyung, though I had a really great idea for August and October.  The trouble with that was, I have no clue what to do for June and July, and my plot point for May wasn't thought through well enough.  I honestly write better when I feel less time pressure.

Ha, which is why I'm so stressed right now.  Lol.  I'm trying to do a lot of cram writing for my Mega Man fanfiction for the month of May, as I want to start updating this story weekly up in June.  I want to have this more or less in editing phase by June so that I can work on something I do want to get published and make actual money from.  I gotta eat too.

So what does that mean for this blog?  Well, I've got at least one more Mega Man music review left, and that's mostly done.  I've also managed to put into words my intangible reason for disliking The King's Speech, and that'll be up sometime soon, as soon as I'm sure the Chinese government isn't messing around with my laptop (I'm on the parents' computer now).  No, seriously.  There was this program with Chinese figures on it running on my computer, and the last time I shut down my computer it said that other computers were logged into mine.  Seriously, computer people, tell me what the deal with that is.

I have another story idea, this one not really put into any timetable.  I find that it's easier for me to write for some reason the closer I am to my subconscious brain.  Consciously choosing to do a story is harder for me.  Unless this conscious idea has lots of subconscious backing, it's not gonna work.  In any case, this blog is not going to die, and hopefully I'll post more writer stuff as it goes along.  Establish something so I can actually have a real theme for this dang thing.

Anywhoo, talk to y'all later.  Bye!