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This actually touches on various other subjects, but because it deals predominantly with writing, it gets to go in that category. As I've mentioned to some of you, I've been taking a class on novel-writing for the past week. (Afternoon summer camp-type thing.) As those of you who know me better might know, one of my life's ambitions is to finish a novel (and preferably publish it). I took the same class last year, but I just didn't get as much out of it then as I did this past week, even though I was working with the same idea. Interestingly, last year the class was much smaller (about 8 or 9 people, I think), and I was the youngest person there (at 14). But this year, there were 11 people, which felt like a lot more because we had a bigger room, and I was the second-oldest, the oldest being this 17-year-old girl who sat next to me (and had also taken the class a couple years ago). And everyone else was between 12 and 14. And there was also a girl from my school there, which I hadn't been expecting. So, the class itself. As I said, I got a lot more out of it this time. Last year we were pretty much focused on novels – and you can't really do much work on a novel in a week-long class, unless you've started it and have a good idea of the plot. But this year we branched out to short stories, so I got a couple ideas (one involving a cat watching witches and the other undead bat ghosts), which I want to finish at some point. I can add them to the one about vampires and the other with the young priestess I started earlier in the summer. I really will finish them someday. As Jonathan (the teacher) said, who knows: they might grow into a novel some day. The witches, vampires, and ghost bats could be part of the same, actually. Anyway, this time we wrote some short stories, drew ideas from lists of words on the board, and we used this writing exercise called Exquisite Corpse. Don't ask about the name. All I know is that it's the title of a poem some famous poet wrote after she and her writing group did the exercise. What you do is this: one person writes a line. The line be a sentence, it can stop at a non-terminating punctuation mark, or it can be just a word or phrase. Then you pass the paper to the next person, and he or she writes a line that goes with the first one, then she folds the paper over and passes it on, so that the next person can see only the line that she wrote, but not the one that you did. You repeat this until everyone in the room has added a line and then read the final result, which usually has nothing whatsoever to do with the original line. The most memorable incident of such was when Aliza (the 17-year-old) passed me a paper reading "Unfortunately, the pineapples were not really pineapples." It took me several minutes of trying not to explode laughing (and not suffocate from the fact that I couldn't breathe due to suppressed laughter) and compose myself before I could write something to go along with it. We had pretty much exactly the same senses of humor, which resulted in numerous escapades like that. One time Jonathan had us each write a potential starting line, and (although he didn't choose it) Kaia's was simply "Pink bunnies." One of the ones he chose (which I was first to continue) read "She didn't have any cyanide, so she used poison ivy." Exquisite Corpse often turns out hilarity like that ... Anyway, the non-hilarious high point of the class was that I finally got some ideas. Yesterday, Thursday, at about noon (before the class) I had an epiphany and my main character became three-dimensional. He developed a personality, a unique character trait, a reason for the story to happen. Now he could change and grow throughout the story, rather than just go galavanting off on an adventure. Which is essencial to any plot. I was very happy. And then I also settled on villains. The Fire-dragons. (The main character is a Forest-dragon with the elemental power of Earth. More detailed explanation available on request.) And today I got still more ideas for the plot and why the whole story begins. And some backstory. So I'm happy. ^^ I've been throwing around ideas for this whole story for years (the island and main character, both substancially different from their present forms, first originated when I was 10), more seriously in the past few, and now I finally have things settled as a foundation for further plot developments. And then a couple days ago I got a late birthday present from my uncle consisting of Enya's The Memory of Trees (yes, that is where the title of this whole thing comes from), which I'm listening to at the moment, and Mannheim Steamroller's Halloween. The former is one of my three favorite Enya CDs, although I'm not sure where it ranks in relation to the other two, as it has three of my favorite songs – The Memory of Trees, Pax Deorum, and Anywhere Is. Another incident from the writing class came about today, when we worked in partners to write a scene of dialogue between our respective characters. Aliza and I naturally had some difficulty and great amusement from that. Her character is a Japanese girl named Yuki who is the only remaining member of a family murdered by a portrait (although we set the scene before that had happened). (Aliza writes horror screenplays.) My character is a dragon who is the apprentice to the Mage of Earth and currently doesn't have a name. Our characters don't even exist in the same universe. Eventually Yuki decided that the dialogue was a dream, to which the dragon agreed fervently, and we finished with Yuki offering my dragon some Pocky. (The dragon, naturally, had no idea what that was.) ... Needless to say, ours wasn't a good exercise in writing dialogue. A fun one, though. ... My, this went off on a lot of tangents. But that's what blogs are for. For instance, proclaiming that Toa Hahli is my favorite set of this year. And wondering why on Earth her Brickshelf folder isn't public after three days of waiting. – ToM
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Episode IV: Aliens. After receiving a distress call from Terran origin, the crew sets out to investigate. They're on their guard though. The awakened Joseph is exploring the ship with Robin and finds a part of history, so it seems. Naomi and Mario are planning to go off world. However, things might not go as planned, as Mario goes to the Terran world Ivara instead of making his way towards the Federation World Emperius. That and more in this week's episode. =============================================== I've also took some time to update and expand the character file. Thanks goes out to Red Baron for providing info! Boundless Characters Enjoy! -|IXI
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Episode III : Rebirth. The plot thickens as Earth shifts more into focus. Naomi Lee, Robin's fiancee finds herself on her way to meet Marcus Imir, close friend and leader of the Interstellar Republic. Meanwhile on the ship, the crew faces an unexpected turn of events. Be sure to enjoy! -|IXI
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“You know the old saying about bad news, Sidorak?” said a cool voice from one of the many shadows in the hall. “‘Don't kill the messenger,’ I believe? Well, I find killing the messenger to be a most effective way of relieving anger. I would strongly recommend it to you.” ——— I've finally updated The Roodaka Affair! Chapter four has been posted, featuring Roodaka slinking around and being manipulative and generally evil, even impaling a Keelerak with one of her high heels. Whee. So ... go read it. And I wouldn't mind if you reviewed, either, of course ... I still need to make those banners for an Epics/Short Stories content block. – ToM
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Sorry, couldn't think of one. Just not in the entry-title-making mood. It just so... hey.... 5 stars. When did that...? Did I miss something here? Apparantly. Anyway this entry is once again about Boundless' third Episode. After a couple of brainstorming sessions I've heavily expanded the storyline. Infact, I made so much room, that there's a place for a character I never thought of placing. Sorry can't tell you which, First Temporal Directive. So far I have another 2 pages ready to be undrafted, so that would be one page in Word. It's pretty cool as it is, so I'm not expecting a lot of touching up. I have Republic Commando as well, for fun and inspiration. As there is a Spec Ops team in the plot it would be handy to have some help from the Republic's finest. It's pretty fun too. That should conclude everything for now. *Opens Word* -|IXI
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Episode II, Dark Ship. Enjoy. And the First part of the OST Click. File weighs around 45 Mb, and contains 6 songs. -|IXI
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Yes, another story related entry. Two words: Re, Birth... Oh wait that's one... Whatever. Boundless is basically part of the Rebirth Era of .Space. Red Baron and I are both chronicling two sides of the invasion of the Spartinians. And I think I just convinced Taurithod, another resident .Spacer, to write along with us. If you don't know him, he's a great MOCcer and a talented writer. He's now busy finishing up his Diablo-story. All in all, with three of us working the same project, this is bound to become the single most greatest thing ever to hit LGD, and possibly even BZP. Soundtrack of Boundless is done as well, I'm now looking for a host that supports files over 100 Mb. Speaking of music, I've made, well edited/cut/pasted/smoothened out, a theme that would fit the saga. Rebirth Theme. Enjoy it. And on a side note: Five Minutes of One Night. A short, concept-ish story that kinda shows which direction I want to go to. Enjoy that as well. Well that concludes t'day's entry. Goodevening everyone! -|IXI
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It's done, the first episode of Boundless. My latest .Space story if you have been sitting under a rock the last few months. Episode 1 And a list of the characters, which will be updated from time to time. Characters Basically it's your average sci-fi show in story form. With an overhanging storyline, but each part having it's own little plot. Think Battlestar Galactica (new series), Stargate etc. I need a custom block for this... Anyway, enjoy! And post what you think here or in .Space Stories! -|IXI
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Yes, freedom has been served. The next two months shall revolve around writing, games and friends. My latest episodic story, Boundless is around its 4th page, out of a possible 8/9. Since it's the first episode it'll be heavily advertised in my sig, blog and wherever there is more room to advertise. I'll add several documents concerning the characters, places, vehicles, technology to make the circle round. And that's it I think. -|IXI
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Well I finished Return's final chapter, and you know what that means. Boundless, I've started writing on it. Currently have about half a page in Times New Roman @ 10. I'll have some other documents finished to support the first episode when it comes out. IE, character bios, vehicles, places etc. Plus the soundtrack will be there as well, it's just under 1 hr 40 min. And it weighs around 130/140 MB. So I'm gonna have to find a good, solid hosting site. I just have one more thing, the first lines of Episode 1: Silence, beautiful silence. A quality this galaxy always lacked. For there was war, eons of war, ever since the dawn of men. Our weapons, armour and strategies evovled as we discovered new means of improving ourselves. And through the ages, the battleground moved from planet to the deep darkness of space. There were times of peace, balance between the factions though. Yet there was always an overlooked factor that would endanger the delicate relations. We fought ourselves, time and time again, until... The two largest factions of the universe faced eachother. The future was coloured with blood, blood of whoever would be defeated. But neither of the two expected this to happen: A force unknown to this galaxy jumped from the shadows of Wild Space. The size of the armada brought darkness over everything we had built. The first battle was lost. But there will be more. It is in this age that we follow a small band of people. People from all kinds of backgrounds. But all with one goal, Home. Likey? -|IXI
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So, 'nother saturday, boring saturday I might add. Didn't sleep all too well, 6/7 hours in total and I'm yawning at the moment. Did find the energy to do a little remix on the .Space Stories topic. And I've nearly finished Return's third chapter. So it won't take long before Boundless[/i] shows up. Time to give a little info I would say. Boundless is an episode driven story. It revolves around the Rebirth-period of the .Space Galaxy. A new unseen force jumps into the galaxy destroying everything in its path. The story follows Robin Baldwin, a Terran ace pilot who has just found his friend (Return); Joe, the missing friend who is currently in somesort of sleep, Mary Kingston, she was the leading figure aboard Station the Zone and Daniel Cray and his men, OC special Ops. After uncovering Joseph in this alien vessle in the Dead Zone. Robin and his mates find out about the new menace that has already conquered several planets. They now have to find their way home with their new ship. That's the basic plot... It's much deeper than that really, but I'm not in the mood for typing. There will be an Soundtrack accompanying the episodes, let me give you the list of tracks: Trigger Situation - Masashi Hamauzu Supermoves (Animatrix Edit) - Supermoves Who Am I? - Peace Orchestra .3 - Porcupine Tree Conga Fury - Juno Reactor Stars Die - Porcupine Tree Encounter - Nobuo Uematsu [Heck] Above Water - Curve Oblivion - 30 Seconds to Mars Burns Attack - Paul Oakenfold Teardrop - Massive Attack Collapse the Light into Earth - Porcupine Tree Beauty Never Fades - JXL ft. Saffron Chinese Burn (Lunatic Calm Mix) - Curve Renegade Snares - Omni Trio Go - Andy Hunter Chinese Burn (Forbidden City Mix) - Curve One Perfect Sunrise - Orbital 18 songs in total, in that specific order. Stay tuned for more news. -|IXI
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THE BEARD One day I grew a beard, And it was very long. Some people made fun of it, But they were always wrong. One day it got stuck, pinned by a thumbtack. That is why I cut it off, And I'll never grow it back. HI-YAH!
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THE ROCK As I'm standing in the wet grass, I pick up a rock. Cold, and wet. I see moss. As I stare at the moss, I see little creatures. They are so tiny, In their own little world. Then I squash them with my hand. WOOT!
