A Writerly Blog

I just posted the twelfth and final installment in the Glatorian Chronicles series, called The Future Begins Where the Past Ends. Read it here.

Right now, I'm kind of in a state of shock. To think that I actually went ahead and wrote and posted all twelve GC stories is just . . . unbelievable. I'm glad I did it, mind you, but . . . just wow. I'm just very happy and excited right now.

Also, I posted a new chapter of TLE today, for anyone who is interested.

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I finished watching the entire series of Avatar: The Last Airbender recently. And, because Netflix has it, I decided to check out the live-action movie adaptation, called The Last Airbender.

I'm now going to pretend the movie doesn't exist.

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Hey, I know I said I'd do in-depth reviews of the cartoons G. I. Joe Renegedes, Transformers Prime, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but I realized just how unrealistic a goal that was. It might be something I do later, but for now don't expect any in-depth reviews any time soon.

Instead, I'll post some quick thoughts on each series. Please note that I am going to talk only about the first seasons of each series, for those are the only ones I have seen in their entirety.

So here we go:

Renegedes: Awesome show. Shame it only had one season. Favorite character was Snake-Eyes, but each character was good in their own right. Really cool take on the G. I. Joe franchise, one I am happy see that the new movie is going to be doing (although slightly differently). Definitely recommend it.

Friendship is Magic: Good cartoon. I don't quite see why it's so popular, but the first season was decent. Favorite characters from this season are Rarity, Spike, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy (or, as I like to call her, Fruttershy), and Applebloom. Not as good as Renegedes, but a decent cartoon overall.

Prime: Had a few good episodes, but overall felt a bit underwhelming, particularly in comparison to Renegedes. Favorite characters from this seaon were probably Megatron, Brakedown, and Agent Fowler. The Autobots are eh and the human kids are worse. Pretty good whenever the human kids aren't around, though.

I may do another entry like this when Prime's second season ends and when I watch all of MLP's second season. Unlikely, but you never know. Depends on how bored I am .

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Just thought I'd give y'all some news on what I have been working on recently:

For epics, I have been writing the second draft of Dawn of the New Century. It is coming along well so far and I have nearly finished it. It looks like it will have a sequel, based on the way the story is heading currently. It could possibly even be a trilogy, but again it depends largely on the direction the story takes.

After I finish writing the second draft of Dawn, I will be editing The Ghost King's Tragedy and GC#12. I can confirm that TGKT takes place during Teridax's rule of the MU and that GC#12 takes place directly after the death of Teridax, which is all I am going to say about the stories for now. Don't want to spoil too much.

I have not yet begun work on BIONICLE: The Legend Imploded, but I will soon because I want to post it around the same time as Dawn. There will be a couple of new members added to the main cast of Mata Nui and friends. Also, it will not be based off any BIONICLE movie because they never made a sixth one. Rest assured, however, that it will be based on a canon BIONICLE story year, which I don't think any of y'all should have much trouble figuring out once I post the final chapter of TLE.

That's all the news for now, so see ya,

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I got a Kindle Touch today. I've been wanting a Kindle for a while now and this one seems pretty good.

Right now it's charging (because I want to be able to take it wherever I want), but based on what I've seen of it so far, I am quite pleased. I think it's going to be fun to read books on that thing for sure.

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So I am now a member of the ECC.

I decided to accept this because I do spend an awful lot of time in the Library, so I decided to have a slightly less self-centered reason to visit the Epics forum (the original reason was to check if anyone has commented on any of my epics. Like I said, self-centered).

I am going to be taking the next request, so bring it on !

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Just recently, I have watched all of the episodes from the first seasons of G. I. Joe Renegades, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and Transformers Prime. I did this because they're all on Netflix Instant, so I took advantage of it to watch them all.

I will be doing a trilogy of reviews in my blog on the series. I will start off with Renegades because it is my favorite, then review Friendship is Magic, and, finally, Prime. Each review will look at the season fairly in-depth, though with a greater emphasis on the shows' characters and plot than animation, music, or other aspects (although I will mention those, too, of course).

I do not intend to regularly post reviews. Each review will come when I feel like writing it. So don't check this blog every week expecting a new review because you'll just disappoint yourself.

So see ya,

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Edit: "Renegades," not "Renegedes." Gotta beat that into my brain.

Today I just posted the sixth and final chapter of my short epic, Glatorian Chronicles #9: Reluctant Allies. Please go read it and, while you're at it, you might want to read the previous five chapters, too.

So that pretty much means all of the GC are posted, except for GC#12, which is currently titled Masks and Spirits. Right now I've put GC#12 aside to work on my original fiction, but I will finish and post it as soon as I can.

I think it's the most interesting of the GC because it centers around a conversation between two characters who never really interacted in the canon story, if ever. Won't say much more than that.

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Don't expect any updates for The Legend Exploded or Reluctant Allies any time soon 'cause Microsoft Word - the program which I wrote both fics on - isn't working on my computer right now. So I can't access the story documents where the new chapters are.

No idea what the problem is, but just don't expect to see any new stories from me for a while. Hopefully we can figure out the reason it's messing up, but for now, no writing for me .

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Edit: Never mind. It's working now. Just posted Chapter V of Reluctant Allies a few minutes ago.

As I am almost finished writing the third draft of The Ghost King's Tragedy (a short epic), I've decided to share some tidbits with you guys about what to expect in it:

-World's End (from Dimension Hoppers) will be the main setting; however, it is not the World's End from the Ehlekverse seen in DiH but the one in the Shikaverse (AKA the main universe of all of my fanfics)

-The main characters are Toa Akuna, Toa Oggakia, Toa Kiriah, and Toa Ahova, all of whom have starred in at least one epic prior to this one. This is partly because I want to write an-all female main cast, but there is a reason in-story given for why these four Toa are brought together

-It takes place during Teridax's rule over the MU

-It is also probably going to be the last epic I write before Dawn of the New Century. I am unsure how much of TGKT will be important to Dawn, but the events of this epic will probably affect Dawn in some ways at least

I don't have a set release date for TGKT yet. It still needs to be edited several times before it will be good enough to post on here. I doubt it will take long to go over, though, because it's so short (at least, I hope so, anyway).

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I just posted GC#11 today. Read it here.

And now there is only GC#12 to write and post. One more to go. Just one more and I will finally finish the Glatorian Chronicles, a feat, to be honest, I never thought I'd complete.

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Hey, guys, my family's laptop's battery just died. We might be getting a new battery for it today, though there's no guarantee that we will.

I'm posting this blog entry just to let y'all know I'll probably be less active for a few days or weeks due to lack of computer access.

I'm posting this entry from my Wii. While it's cool to browse BZP on the TV, typing out this blog entry using the Wiimote is a hassle.

See y'all later,

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Edit: Whoops. Looks like our laptop's battery still works. Spoke too soon, I suppose.

Hey, guys. If you were browsing the Short Stories forum for a story to read, which title would stand out to you more? Twisted Monstrosity or A Nightmare? Which one sounds interesting enough to make you click and read the story?

Both are possible titles for GC#11. I'm having a hard time choosing between the two, so I'm putting them up here to see what y'all think.

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Unusual, I know, but I just put up the tenth GC story For Fame and for Fortune today. Go read it here.

It's unusual because I just posted the first chapter of GC#9 last week. It's extremely rare for me to put up the next GC so shortly after I just posted one. I'm loving it, though, 'cause it makes me feel like I've accomplished something. Really great feeling.

As for GC#11, not sure when I'll get that up, but probably sometime this month. At the moment I'd say it's nearly finished, but I'm still not entirely pleased with it. Probably just need to work on it some more.

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Just posted the first chapter of my newest short epic, Glatorian Chronicles #9: Reluctant Allies. Go read it here.

So glad to have that out of the way. I'm going to start work on GC numbers 10 through 12 now; in fact, you might see GC #10 very soon, considering I'm pretty happy with how it is coming along, though probably not this week.

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Earlier today I decided to get off my lazy butt and repost my library on the new forums. Before I just linked to the old one in the archives, but that library is so terribly outdated that I knew I was going to have to make a new one eventually. So I decided to go ahead and make it today so I can mark one more thing off my non-existent to-do list. Check it out here.

The biggest difference with this new library is the name. Old library was called "Toa Nuhrii: Toa of Sugar's Library!", which, while informative, was a bit unimaginative and boring.

So I named this library "The Tasty Library of Sugary Goodness." It's more original than the old title, anyway.

The new library contains links to all of my stories, including my most recent ones such as BIONICLE: The Legend Exploded and Dimension Hoppers. Also contains a "Coming Soon" section for upcoming stories, so if you're curious to see what's on my writing schedule, you can go and check that out.

One more thing: I will be posting the first chapter of the mini-epic, Glatorian Chronicles #9: Reluctant Allies, on March 1st. It will be the first GC on the new forums, as well as the second mini-epic in the GC series (the first being GC #4). It will be about 6 chapters long and be updated every Thursday.

See ya,

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So yesterday I watched an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the first episode of the series that I have ever actually watched.

It was the newest episode (I think), Episode 18, where Pinkie Pie tries to befriend Cranky Doodle Donkey.

To be honest, I really wasn't expecting much. I have never been interested in "girly" cartoons and, despite all of the praise the series has, I thought it'd just be another show whose fanbase produces more material than the actual company does. Which is to say, I thought the show would be terrible and the only reason it had any fans was because the fans saw room for improvement through fanfics, fanart, fan music, and the like.

Yet surprisingly I enjoyed the episode. Pinkie Pie broke the fourth wall a few times (does she do that often?) and the song wasn't that bad at all. I was kind of hoping Cranky would not become her friend at the end, but the way it was done made sense. I can see why the show's so popular.

Of course, I have seen only one episode so far, so I can't fairly judge the rest of the series. And, despite the praise I gave this episode, I do not consider myself a brony. My interest in it largely depends on whether the rest of the series is as entertaining as that episode, although right now I have no plans to watch more episodes in the near future, mostly 'cause I have other things I want to do.

Still, that episode certainly gave me a good first impression of the series, which means I probably will watch more episodes some time, but again not any time soon due to other competing interests.

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Posted the prologue and first chapter of TLE, which you can read here.

Hope y'all enjoy it .

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As of tonight I have finished editing BIONICLE: The Legend Exploded, the sequel to my comedy from last year, BIONICLE: The Legend Reloaded, which was a TLR parody. It was epic, to say the least.

It is 19 chapters long - way shorter than TLReloaded's 34, but this is because I was not aiming for a specific word count, whereas I wrote TLReloaded during NaNoWriMo, which is why it was as long as it was. Rest assured, though, that TLE is going to be just as epic as TLReloaded, if not a little bit more epic.

Because the prologue is basically a recap of the events of the last comedy, I am going to be posting both the prologue and first chapter together in one post tomorrow. I tried to make the prologue as funny as I could, but I want this comedy to have a strong start, so I figure posting the prolgue with the first chapter ought to be strong enough.

For those who don't know, TLE is a parody of the unreleased BIONICLE 5 movie. It is based off the story treatment Greg posted on his blog not too long ago, but as with TLReloaded, I have taken some major liberties with the plot in order to make it both funnier and more epic (and by epic I mean crazy awesome).

So tomorrow, keep an eye on the Comedies forum for the explosive beginning to BIONICLE: The Legend Exploded! (pun intended)

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Only two kinds of people will read this entry:

1) People who like My Little Pony: Friend is Magic or just the MLP franchise in general (see title)

2) People who are grammar nerds (see title)

3) People who are math nerds (see first line of entry)

Now let's see how many comments this entry gets .

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