I really need to finish my second epic, but I've been stuck for the past few days. At the moment, a Matoran of Radiation named Lenurin who is accompanying the heroes is crawling through an air vent (something about air vents is just so epic) looking for one of twelve artifacts. Somehow he's going to have to find one, but it can't be too easy nor can it be too hard, because I don't want the chapter to be too unrealistic or long, respectively. But I don't know how he's going to do it. This is a se
I thought it might be appropriate to start my blog with who I am--on the Internet, in real life, and in my own stories. So... here goes.
Auserv, my internet persona, is a Toa of Electricity. (No, he's not a Toa of Lightning, and unlike Nikila in Lesovikk's team, he's not a girl. ) While I've planned out his backstory, I won't reveal all of it in the off chance that someone reads my epics (if you do, please tell me so), but I'll tell you as much as someone whose read my epic would know. He wa
Could it be, perhaps, a new blog feature? Why, yes it is! After the complete failure of Ask Auserv (I swear, the only question I got PMed is "Can I GS in your comedy?"), I decided to come up with a new blog feature.
It involves emoticons. It doesn't involve anything submitted from you. I don't know exactly what to call it... But I'm thinking:
Emoticon Freewriting!
What I'm going to do is every week (or something like that) I'm going to take an emoticon off of the "Show All" list and jus
Coming next month is the seventh book in The Dairuno Toa, What If? The flashback story arc has finally concluded with The Minister of Destruction and we are moving on with where the story left off in In The Dying Breath. The book stars Guutana, Roqini, and Desurk, some of the heroes of the first three books, as they travel down the paths time shouldn't have taken and correct it to the main timeline. In each of the twenty chapters, a different timeline is featured, each exploring different scenar
So over the last month while BZPower was down, I managed to write three chapters of my fanfic. I know that it's not much for one month, since normally I have to post two chapters a week. But with no motivation from BZPower, the fact that I wrote the 20+ pages I did is very impressive. So I'll begin posting the next stretch of the story starting on Monday.
Why am I delaying almost a week? Because my computer's hinge has been damaged, making using it very troublesome. I generally don't like sit
As you probably know, all of BZPower's posts from September 2008 and onwards are gone. That means that all that's left of the Dairuno Toa series on BZPower is Book 1, Book 2, and the first 18 chapters of Book 3. The ending of Book 3 is gone, and so is all of Book 4.
Thankfully, I have almost all of it backed up, and only minimal rewriting will have to be done. But the thing is, there are 24 chapters of my work gone, and because of the whole "one chapter a day" rule, that will take nearly a mo
And you all thought I wasn't going to do an entry today... I plan on doing one every day, if possible.
Anyway, today I made a huge amount of accomplishments video game-wise. I will list them here:
First of all, and most importantly, my brother and I have beaten the first world in Super Mario Galaxy as of earlier today.
Secondly, I've got a DS Lite! My brother's DS broke, so he got a DS Lite, and I wanted one too, and had the money, so... yeah.
Thirdly, I beat Metroid Prime Hunters.
Well, it's been a warm and sunny weekend in a so-far rainy April. Back in the days before whatever it was happened to me, weekends meant a news update on my epic series accompanied by a wordy writing tip. I figured that since my series is indeed continuing here, I had better get back into the habit of weekly updates. Especially since Story of the Dead is two weeks away from its less-than-grand finale (it actually ends quietly and reflectively, unlike any of my other books), meaning that boring t
Emoticons do not like being freewritten about. Last night, they took over my blog and changed the title and content blocks... Plus, they can now add themselves into text I type into the blog whenever they want.
So if you see me using an emoticon that doesn't seem to fit, please be aware that it probably wasn't me who put it there. I'm currently working on finding their weakness, but I haven't found anything so far.
Except that they can't open spoiler tags. Thus, if I want to say some
Yes, the prologue of Book 4 will be posted in 2 short days, on the second-to-penultimate day of the eighth year after the beginning of the second millennium of the common era. I didn't make it to Chapter 13, but I might be at least close to finishing Chapter 12.
"Might be?" you ask. "Don't you know how far you are in the writing of your own epic?"
"Shut up, imaginary example reader," I snap, "I was getting to that."
After Chapter 10, the story skips ahead nine years. However, some impor
I'm doing Story of the Dead on BZPower, an exclusive Dairuno Toa series blog from Tyaseri's point of view (called simply Tyaseri's Blog) on another website, and a remake of The Tables Have Turned on yet another website (the latter two websites, although I disagree with this rule, are not allowed to be mentioned here; if you're really interested in reading these, they shouldn't be too hard to find though). Between the three of them I think my brain may soon run out of RAM and I'll need to get a m
Tomorrow, I will have had an account on BZPower for three years to the day. I would've done some sort of celecration, but I'd only have one day to prepare (you see, I just realized today that tomorrow is my 3-year BZP birthday XD), so this blog entry will have to suffice.
Back when I joined in 2005, it was the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Traditonally on my mom's side of the family, we have a Thanksgiving dinner at the house of one of my mom's sisters or my grandma's house. The year I joined w
I didn't get to do a blog entry yesterday because I put it off for a long time and then at round 11:30 PM, BZP went offline, so I couldn't do a blog entry before I went to sleep. But anyway, I have a semi-good entry for you today.
A few days ago, I learned that there is going to be a Short Story Contest on BZP, the fourth one. I didn't enter the first three, but this one looks interesting, so I decided instantly that I was going to enter. My short story, entitled The Seventh Stone, is almost
I thought it might be interesting to note that a lot of important plot twists through my series probably didn't exist until the chapter they occurred. I'm very curious to see how you guys (my, like, 3 readers =P) would've liked the series if it had gone the way I originally planned. I'll do this in the form of an outline...
The Tables Have Turned
*Book 1 stayed true to the original plans, for the most part. The betrayal of Xironu and the deaths of Onathei and Desurk were planned for at the v
I'm a bit (well, actually very) late in posting this preview, but better late than never, right?
Coming next week - January 3rd - is the sixth book in my Dairuno Toa series, The Minister of Destruction. It is the last book in the flashback trilogy, and focuses on the origin of the Toa-Kal, who starred in the first trilogy, and their first mission. It also focuses on two races new to my series, called the Vespirn and the Ophinam, who live on an island called Tonryak, a part of the archipelago
For my 500th post, I have decided that I'm going to start a comedy called "The Comedy-Makers". It will star every Toa that has ever been a set, as well as myself as the author and perhaps guest stars. I would tell you what it's about, but perhaps a preview will work better... Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1.
That's only the first part of the chapter, and it's subject to change before posting this, but I'd like to see what other people think before I post it. This is a new experiment for
My brother and I (mostly my brother) have been working on an RPG in RPGMaker 2003 for over a year now. If you'll glance down to the atlas entry I just made, you'll see that there is an island called Rode Nui. Well, Rode Nui will appear in some of my stories, but it is primarily the playground for my brother's RPGs.
Probably before 2006 even started (we can't really remember anymore), we were jumping on our trampoline when he told me he wanted to do a Bionicle RPG. He said he wanted it to be a
The highly anticipated Super Mario Galaxy comes out in just three days (not counting today), and I have it preordered. Being that I am homeschooled, and will be going to walk a dog in the area of the GameStop store I preordered it at on Monday, I will be one of the first school-age children in my time zone to play Super Mario Galaxy. My friends won't be playing it at least till 3:00 on Monday, while I'll be around three hours into the game already. I even did double homeschool work today so I co
Welcome one and all, to my first ever non-Metroid video game review! Last night I beat Super Mario Galaxy, at last, and so I bring you a review of it.
The controls were nice and simple. A on the Wiimote to jump, B to shoot Star Bits (not really a necessary function), the Nunchuk's joystick to move, shake the Wiimote to spin, Z to crouch, the direction pad on the Wiimote to turn the camera angle, and + and - to pause. I believe that covers everything you really need to know. They were simple a
Nothing good to say tonight. I tried to do a speed run on Metroid Fusion, and while I failed horribly at beating the game in under an hour, I just barely got under three hours and thus got the second best ending (well, really the only difference in the ending is the little picture you see after beating the game).
I also went to my brother's friend's house, where we played Super Smash Bros. Melee and some badminton. My brother and his friend against me, and quite sadly I was winning for the m
The emoticons have laid siege to my blog. There's so many, but particularly of annoyance are the three Emoticon Overlords--named , , and . Each one has a slightly different personality: the first is always smiling and hardly ever talks. The second is always talking and always smiling. And the third is always laughing. They're all annoying in their own special ways.
But they are all also related to happiness. Perhaps sadness is their weakness? Surely they must dislike emoticon freewriting as
Haven't gotten a review on Story of the Dead in two weeks tomorrow. Usually I get 4-6 reviews per week, but the last two chapters have been entirely ignored. Are people still reading?
I hope this isn't misinterpreted as being whiny, but if no one's reading I don't really have any reason to stick to my schedule... I think I'll delay the last chapter and epilogue for a bit, seeing as how I haven't written either yet and seeing as how it doesn't look like I'll be getting any reviews for them rig
If you read What If?, you've probably noticed that my update schedule is grievously slipping. While I promise weekly updates, it's been more like monthly updates. This is because I bit off more than I could chew and started What If? during the summer, thinking I could keep up a chapter a week. As soon as I went back to school the September after the book started (I'm homeschooled, as I've mentioned before in this blog, but I'm taking classes at the local community college), it slowed down. By De
So my mom is forcing me to suggested that I enter a science fiction story contest. I wasn't really excited about it, but then my brother started learning about building an autonomous robot. From Wikipedia:
So as soon as I read that, my vivid imagination started running wild. What if someone made a perfectly autonomous robot? A robot that was able to sustain itself forever without ever needing to see its human creator? What if this robot could create other robots and create a miniature sel
