Muhahaha.
For some reason or another I feel like annoying Eric and posting about the Patriots season-clinching game that just ended tonight before he gets a chance to.
>:D
Yeah, I watched the game. The whole thing. Well, except for about 5 minutes after half-time when my break took a little longer than expected. Anyway, I didn't miss anything important, and I went through the stress and anxiety of the first three quarters with the Patriots looking like they were gonna mess up their perfect season. I saw Brady beat Peyton Manning's record for touchdown passes and Moss beat Rice's record. And I am finding that I am developing that tendency of yelling at the TV.
Very strange.
This year has been strange for me, sports-related. I'm finally getting into it. I've never really cared about the Red Sox, or the Patriots. I'm not even sure if I watched a full football game before tonight, or a full baseball game before game 4 of the Red Sox vs. the Indians. And all of a sudden, for no reason whatsoever, I begin to care.
Yeah, maybe this seems not that strange to you. I mean, who doesn't like sports, right? Well, to be honest, I don't really. Thus, I never cared to watch any. But now I enjoy watching them, and I find myself wanting to learn more about them. I'm becoming a regular Eric!
Heh, just kidding. Not that bad of a sports nut. :P
So anyway, there's my little blurb about the Patriots 16- season, finished with this 38-35 game against the New York Giants. A blurb you would never, ever, have heard coming from me a few months ago.
I beat you to it Eric! >=D
Oh, and just for the record (and in case this didn't annoy Eric). Tom Brady is a pretty-boy!
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Chapter 1 (Finally!)
Let me start out by saying I'm a zuzu.
A very busy zuzu, but a zuzu nonetheless.
I had scheduled the first chapter of Knights' Academy to be finished over two weeks ago. Yet it's not until now that I can say it's done.
Yeah, a little late, huh?
In my defense, there was a lot going on. Calculus homework (eek! some took 3 hours!), before-Christmas-break-tests, staying for basketball games at school so I could help my class (the seniors) sell stuff so we can raise money for our trip in April, Christmas shopping, teen activities, Christmas programs at school and church.
Not much free time.
Thus, not much work done on Chapter 1.
But, I still managed to eek in a little here and a little there, and today, after tacking on the final 2 pages of this 14-page chapter, I finished it.
Read it if you want. I will warn you though, I don't consider it in any way a work of art, and it has some areas that have potential to cause dangerous boredom. Areas that I hope are not as annoying to read as they were to write. So, read at your own risk.
Anyway, it's there now, I'm back now, and Christmas approaches. What more could you ask for? :D
A very busy zuzu, but a zuzu nonetheless.
I had scheduled the first chapter of Knights' Academy to be finished over two weeks ago. Yet it's not until now that I can say it's done.
Yeah, a little late, huh?
In my defense, there was a lot going on. Calculus homework (eek! some took 3 hours!), before-Christmas-break-tests, staying for basketball games at school so I could help my class (the seniors) sell stuff so we can raise money for our trip in April, Christmas shopping, teen activities, Christmas programs at school and church.
Not much free time.
Thus, not much work done on Chapter 1.
But, I still managed to eek in a little here and a little there, and today, after tacking on the final 2 pages of this 14-page chapter, I finished it.
Read it if you want. I will warn you though, I don't consider it in any way a work of art, and it has some areas that have potential to cause dangerous boredom. Areas that I hope are not as annoying to read as they were to write. So, read at your own risk.
Anyway, it's there now, I'm back now, and Christmas approaches. What more could you ask for? :D
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Creativity Redirected
Whew.
Writing Knights' Academy is a lot of fun, but it sure saps my creativity from this blog. Thus, expect fewer meaty, fat & juicy posts here.
In fact, expect fewer posts in general, at least in the near future. If I plan to keep up with a chapter every two weeks, there will hardly be any time for writing anything else for fun. Writing can be fun, but it gets tedious if done in excess.
Anyway, just an apology in advance for not posting as often as I should here. Hopefully I'll make up for it in Knights' Academy.
Chapter 1 (10 pages, and growing) is due out tomorrow night or Saturday morning. Not my opinion of excitement a-la-mode, but hey, it's the start. Ya gotta introduce your story somehow. I promise Chapter 2 will be more exciting.
Writing Knights' Academy is a lot of fun, but it sure saps my creativity from this blog. Thus, expect fewer meaty, fat & juicy posts here.
In fact, expect fewer posts in general, at least in the near future. If I plan to keep up with a chapter every two weeks, there will hardly be any time for writing anything else for fun. Writing can be fun, but it gets tedious if done in excess.
Anyway, just an apology in advance for not posting as often as I should here. Hopefully I'll make up for it in Knights' Academy.
Chapter 1 (10 pages, and growing) is due out tomorrow night or Saturday morning. Not my opinion of excitement a-la-mode, but hey, it's the start. Ya gotta introduce your story somehow. I promise Chapter 2 will be more exciting.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Knights' Academy
This post was gonna have to wait 'till after school to be written, but since today is a SNOW DAY (oh yeah!) I'll write it now.
You almost definitely don't remember this, but a while ago, in the post Busy, Busy, Busy, I mentioned having an idea I wanted to follow through with, but not having the time.
Well, now I have the time.
This idea is something that's been hatching for a while, but was finally given the inspiration it needed from Corey's blog (I'd put a link to it here but something seems to have happened to it and I can't get there anymore). One of the links he had was "Blog for a story me and a friend are working on." Now, there was only one post on the entire page, and that didn't contain any story, but the idea was there, and I'll give credit where credit is due and say that after reading that I thought, "Hmmmm, it would be fun writing a story, maybe I'll do that." But, alas and alack, I had not the time! And so my wonderful idea has not had the opportunity to be followed through with.
But now it does!
Thus, I have put my idea into action. I now have a new blog for the story, Knights' Academy. The story isn't completely new; I wrote a short story for school last year for a little class competition we had (the stories were all voted on by the ninth and tenth grade classes--mine won :D) that I decided to build on, giving the story backround and adding events in there. Actually, now that I've started writing, that short story is a very, very minor event in the grand scheme of what I'm planning. Anyway, what should be happening is that I will post a chapter every other week (I originally wanted to do it every week, but after Chapter 1 took me two weeks--it's 7+ pages so far size 12 font and double-spaced in Word, I expect it to be around 10 pages when I'm done--I figured it would be wiser to give myself more time.) So, if all goes well, I'll have a fun and constructive diversion that will last me a long time, and you'll have more stuff to read.
The first chapter should be out soon.
Hope this goes well, enjoy!
(Oh, yeah, I want to get some ideas for a more creative name for Sam Williamson and some ideas for a name for the kingdom he lives in. Comment here if you've got some.)
You almost definitely don't remember this, but a while ago, in the post Busy, Busy, Busy, I mentioned having an idea I wanted to follow through with, but not having the time.
Well, now I have the time.
This idea is something that's been hatching for a while, but was finally given the inspiration it needed from Corey's blog (I'd put a link to it here but something seems to have happened to it and I can't get there anymore). One of the links he had was "Blog for a story me and a friend are working on." Now, there was only one post on the entire page, and that didn't contain any story, but the idea was there, and I'll give credit where credit is due and say that after reading that I thought, "Hmmmm, it would be fun writing a story, maybe I'll do that." But, alas and alack, I had not the time! And so my wonderful idea has not had the opportunity to be followed through with.
But now it does!
Thus, I have put my idea into action. I now have a new blog for the story, Knights' Academy. The story isn't completely new; I wrote a short story for school last year for a little class competition we had (the stories were all voted on by the ninth and tenth grade classes--mine won :D) that I decided to build on, giving the story backround and adding events in there. Actually, now that I've started writing, that short story is a very, very minor event in the grand scheme of what I'm planning. Anyway, what should be happening is that I will post a chapter every other week (I originally wanted to do it every week, but after Chapter 1 took me two weeks--it's 7+ pages so far size 12 font and double-spaced in Word, I expect it to be around 10 pages when I'm done--I figured it would be wiser to give myself more time.) So, if all goes well, I'll have a fun and constructive diversion that will last me a long time, and you'll have more stuff to read.
The first chapter should be out soon.
Hope this goes well, enjoy!
(Oh, yeah, I want to get some ideas for a more creative name for Sam Williamson and some ideas for a name for the kingdom he lives in. Comment here if you've got some.)
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