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I seem to constantly tinker with the premise of my afore mentioned story, Order. The exact starting point keeps shifting, which indicates to me that I need to put more thought into the entire story. I don't know the story well enough so I don't know where it starts.
The most recent potential tink is in the possibility of adding gods to the list of ( Read more... ) -
Stress
When I get stressed, I get depressed. It is interesting that for many people, stress motivates them. But for me, I am my most motivated when I have low stress. My creativity is at a high, and feel bursting with energy, and the world can be conquered. But I start to shut down under stress. I like to think that I'm smarter than your average internet ( Read more... ) -
Bad Weather is Good
I love "bad weather." There is something fundamentally wonderful about looking out the window and seeing overcast skies and wet ground. I am quite looking forward to going out in the rain later and smelling wet earth. Though because of where I live it will be unnaturally warm (it is a well known fact that rain is supposed to be cold, don’cha know ( Read more... ) -
Names
Names are a curious thing, in creative writing. On one hand, the author generally wants them to be memorable, which often means unique (there seems to be a dearth of Bobs as main characters in fantasy and science fiction). But at the same time, they need to be familiar enough to the reader to seem like read names.
Muxqerk isn't much of a name. It is ( Read more... ) -
Manifesto
I'm thinking of attempting to put together my various thoughts and positions into a single document. It would sort of be like a self-declaration: Here I am! But it would also be vaguely... coming-out-of-the-closet-ish. I'm not gay, but I suspect there would be similar implications if I tell some people my various stances on a number of social and ( Read more... ) -
The Four Orders
Going with my own suggestion from the other day, I'm going to talk about the writing project that I've been vaguely working on since 2003. Unless I start posting excerpts, I've got nothing to worry about copyright wise; ideas are free, it’s the implementation of them that people pay form.
As I said, I've been working on this since 2003 (though ( Read more... ) -
Tasty Poison
It's odd; I've essentially been called "smart" by 4 different people in the last week. The praise was more in-depth than that summary, but that is largely not important.
Some people have noticed that I attempt a degree of modesty, rejecting the claim. I think they generally see past that and know that I think I'm smart, too. It is false modesty, ( Read more... ) -
Poetry
In High School I developed a rhyming scheme for poetry that I am fairly sure has never been used before. At the time I thought it might be particularly pleasing, given its mimicry of nature, but in retrospect I realize it would probably be a pain to actually use, and not terribly nice to listen to. But because it's been floating around my head for ( Read more... ) -
Guilty As Charged
I don't want to replace my LJ's old (now largely deleted) tone of self-assured superiority with one of self-depreciation, but at the same time I've attempted to increase my honesty over the years and the truth does not always (okay, it rarely) make me look good.
When I started dating my now-wife I did something rather understandable but in doing so ( Read more... ) -
Fallen Empire
I went through and cleared out my friends list based on who had posted to LJ in the last two years (if I defriended you and you happen to be reading this, that is why. It wasn't personal). Thus, I have "3" friends, one of which is a group. I remember back in the day (7 years ago-ish), when I started my Live Journal. Seemed like a lot of my friends ( Read more... )