sparkthatbled: The King of Heart emblem, from Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Default)
2010-11-23 07:01 pm

Some good news, at last.

I've just got the local electronics store, a Comet, on the phone to me today. I've managed to score my first actual job interview! Right now I'm doing some research, in order to show the recruiters that I am able to take on the job, and I know what kind of animal the store is about. But still, this is my first shot at actually earning myself an actual salary! I have to get ready for it!

And I've also just finished the first season of Babylon 5, after viewing almost one disc every day. I think Londo Mollari is a brilliant character, funny and tragic in places, and I now have a habit of thinking in his voice, partly due to the fact that one of my Nanowrimo novel's characters is partly inspired by Londo. I'm also rather inspired by how the series shows space combat, by mostly adhering to a model of space flight that is reasonably close to real life. so now, alongside me trying to download and watch episodes of SG-1, I'm also waiting for my next payment to get Babylon 5 Season 2 on DVD. Now if only SG-1 were as easy to find on DVD as Babylon 5 is...
sparkthatbled: Insignia of Mobius One (Ace Combat 4) (mobius one)
2010-11-16 07:22 pm

So, there's something left...

I suppose that the first thing that I should talk about is Nanowrimo. Specifically, that I am participating. It's actually been a lot easier on me than I had thought, mostly because I am also in November's One Month Challenge at 750words.com, which means that I pretty much have to write at least 750 words every day. I was hoping that the site would have had a feature that was mentioned in their blog, where they told you when you reached the Nanowrimo daily average of 1667 words.

However, it hasn't stopped me in the slightest: I now have 32,845 words, which means that I'm almost over half the way to the word count target. The problem is, who do I show it to when I'm finished. It's an Urusei Yatsura fanfic, but it's more like the fanfic to a bloated crossover of UY, Ikkitousen, Ranma 1/2, Harry Potter and Stargate SG-1... And almost none of the characters in those series appear in this story at all! I suppose that anyone who has any knowledge of any of those series could have a look at it, if just to help me find errors in spelling or continuity.

In other news, I have bought the first season of Babylon 5 on DVd, and I'm currently watching through it now. Londo Mollari is already my favourite character. I'm also beginning on my Macross boxset, just to get my fill of space opera...
sparkthatbled: The King of Heart emblem, from Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Default)
2009-12-04 01:32 pm

Something of a first draft...

So I've been trying to write something for years now, and I mean that literally -- the text file's properties says it was first created on Christmas Eve, 2006 -- And I have now just finally finished the opening scenes of what's intended to be the first part of the story. Basically, the premise is that I'm taking a crappy Daria femmeslash fanfic I found on shoujoai.com, and rewriting it to make it more in-character, more easier to read, and more... Better, to tell the truth.

Any questions, comments, flames, all are welcome!

So without further ado...

Re-Presenting The brain and The Beauty! )