Update...?
Woo! 7 months of no updates! =D
*cough*
Summer was fun. At NYC and seeing the sights, buying the stuff, drinking the coffee, working at the lab, etc. Took the GREs, that went pretty well, although the final scores aren't out yet. Big things happened in the family with my sister and her bf, but we'll leave that for another time (or never).
Haven't played so many games, though I'm still writing for SE. Been more at reading. Bought a whole bunch of Japanese novels (light and not), and then there's also the English books. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series was really good. But currently working on Mana Khemia and Metroid Prime Trilogy occasionally.
Of course, my big project was Ever17 but I'll rant about that in another post.
What else... I've been writing more. Drew a map of the setting of SC. From reading the notes from way long ago, I remember I had a LOT more information than I thought I had. It was amusing, and sad that I forgot some of it (I never knew Hix had a dead uncle!). It's like that time when I was cleaning my computer and found a doc with names and characters and countries that I don't remember at all. The names weren't all too shabby either.
Um... Haven't posted here in a while, obviously, but I've actually started using my ff.net account now, so there's two stories on there: Watcher for Durarara!!, even though I started the story before I'd read any of the novels or watched more than 10 eps of the anime ( >_> ), and Self-Denial for Criminal Minds, one of the only 3 TV shows I look into regularly (the others being Firefly and Psych). It's interesting writing for an audience... You feel kinda nervous, but sometimes you just don't care and put up what you want. And then there are people who only alert/fave you (now I know why authors are annoyed by it =_=) without reviewing you, and then there are the YAY! reviews, and then there are the reviews offering to help. I haven't been flamed yet, but I suppose it's only a matter of time.
Things to improve about my writing and stories...? I need to remember to stop thinking about rewriting. Well, I am doing that, actually. I've only been taking notes on what to revise about Watcher rather than actually rewriting the 13 chapters (and there are a LOT of things to change, especially now that I've read vol.s 1-4). Otherwise... Look more into Norse Mythology for Watcher, and then be more subtle about everything. I feel like I'm beating the point in with a mallet in both pieces, but I'll leave this fault to be corrected in the revision.
I'm also going to try to write some reviews for old-ish stuff I play (not the things for SE) and movies and stuff I watch, and thoughts on them.
Oh, and I got a new computer. It's fast, and it's pretty, and it's BIG. Has a horrible battery life, and I hate Windows 7, but at least it doesn't take 30 min to start up appreciably. Ew.
*cough*
Summer was fun. At NYC and seeing the sights, buying the stuff, drinking the coffee, working at the lab, etc. Took the GREs, that went pretty well, although the final scores aren't out yet. Big things happened in the family with my sister and her bf, but we'll leave that for another time (or never).
Haven't played so many games, though I'm still writing for SE. Been more at reading. Bought a whole bunch of Japanese novels (light and not), and then there's also the English books. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series was really good. But currently working on Mana Khemia and Metroid Prime Trilogy occasionally.
Of course, my big project was Ever17 but I'll rant about that in another post.
What else... I've been writing more. Drew a map of the setting of SC. From reading the notes from way long ago, I remember I had a LOT more information than I thought I had. It was amusing, and sad that I forgot some of it (I never knew Hix had a dead uncle!). It's like that time when I was cleaning my computer and found a doc with names and characters and countries that I don't remember at all. The names weren't all too shabby either.
Um... Haven't posted here in a while, obviously, but I've actually started using my ff.net account now, so there's two stories on there: Watcher for Durarara!!, even though I started the story before I'd read any of the novels or watched more than 10 eps of the anime ( >_> ), and Self-Denial for Criminal Minds, one of the only 3 TV shows I look into regularly (the others being Firefly and Psych). It's interesting writing for an audience... You feel kinda nervous, but sometimes you just don't care and put up what you want. And then there are people who only alert/fave you (now I know why authors are annoyed by it =_=) without reviewing you, and then there are the YAY! reviews, and then there are the reviews offering to help. I haven't been flamed yet, but I suppose it's only a matter of time.
Things to improve about my writing and stories...? I need to remember to stop thinking about rewriting. Well, I am doing that, actually. I've only been taking notes on what to revise about Watcher rather than actually rewriting the 13 chapters (and there are a LOT of things to change, especially now that I've read vol.s 1-4). Otherwise... Look more into Norse Mythology for Watcher, and then be more subtle about everything. I feel like I'm beating the point in with a mallet in both pieces, but I'll leave this fault to be corrected in the revision.
I'm also going to try to write some reviews for old-ish stuff I play (not the things for SE) and movies and stuff I watch, and thoughts on them.
Oh, and I got a new computer. It's fast, and it's pretty, and it's BIG. Has a horrible battery life, and I hate Windows 7, but at least it doesn't take 30 min to start up appreciably. Ew.