Renga and Centaurs

Renga group is tomorrow night. I'm totally excited. *nods*

New short story, again. :P This one involves, surprise, surprise, a centaur. Why do I keep coming back to them? I don't see a problem with it, after all, Tolkien kept coming back to elves and Asimov kept coming back to robots. But I am rather interested as to why they hold my attention like that. Oh well, maybe one day I'll go into therapy and figure it out. :P

Pandora, Prom, Mini-Rant, and Respect

So Pandora Internet Radio is pretty much freaking awesome. I've got a Muse station and it's pretty much amazingness.

Prom is this Saturday. I've already got a tux and a date and everything. It's not really a big deal to me. All we'll do is eat some food, watch a hypnotist screw with people, and dance. After-Prom is much better. That's when you have the real fun without your stinking tux and crap. And I also suck at dancing. *nods*

Reading my the book that my girlfriend sent me, Deep Secret. It's pretty good. I'm enjoying it quite a bit, enough to recommend it to other people.

Had an idea for a story yesterday, about an architect describing how he sees cities, flowers, and people in love. :P May try to develop it more fully later. Probably won't get to it tonight, because I probably have to go to church. I don't really mind that, but we always arrive an hour early and stay an hour late because my sister does things with the youth band. The hour early isn't the part I mind,cause my mom and I always go to a coffee shop. It's the hour after, sitting there in the car waiting for her to get out, that really bugs me. It's too dark to read or write, you just sit there and wait. If we went and did stuff I wouldn't mind it near as much. But, oh well.

Looking at some haikus in preparation for Friday night's renga spree. I'm pretty pumped about it. All of us are decent poets, but there's one of us (not me) who's really freaking good with poetry and writing as a whole. I've been wanting to work with him for a while, so this is a welcome opportunity for me.

Rengas and Gift Books

On Friday night, I'll be getting together with some other people from the Young Writers Society to do some renga poems. Rengas are basically long, collaborative versions of haikus. The people I'm getting with are very good at poetry, and I feel somewhat out of place amongst their talent. Hopefully I'll be able to provide some good contributions to the effort.

Finished The Lord of the Rings today. It's just as good as I remember it being. Very few books are able to make my hair stand on end when I read them. But these books, especially The Return of the King, do that to me. Almost every time King Theoden of Rohan speaks is a moment of awesome, no lie. Now I'm starting on this book called Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones. My girlfriend got it for me, because she wanted to get me something and asked me what. So I looked on Amazon and chose this because it has centaurs in it. There's one right on the cover, jumping over a crowd of astonished onlookers. :P

Graduation and Collabs

I can't wait to graduate already. At this point, we're just sitting around not caring, dealing with teachers who really don't care either. All we want are our diplomas so we can freaking leave.

Lord of All Horses is plodding along. It takes forever to get me to sit down and work on it, but once I get started I can really get going.

I started a new collab with someone. It'll be a little short story about a girl with a magic key that opens a door to a world where it's always twilight on a summer's evening. Sounds nice. But, like with all magic, there's a price for it. :P

Collabs are awesome, I've decided. Cause you can bounce ideas off of your partner, and help them help you help them. Basically tag team writing is amazing to me. I find I can do it rather well, due to the fact that I have an insane ability to work on three to four projects at one time. It's awesome.

Finished Fellowship of the Ring, starting on the Two Towers when I can get home and get my copy. I love high fantasy like this, though I need to find some besides Tolkien and *shudders* Paolini. I'm thinking George R.R. Martin next.

Lord of All Horses, and Tolkien

So, I'm working on the story about the son of a god still. This will probably end up being around the same length as Hearts in the Sea, somewhere around 50k words or so. As for a title, I'm thinking "Lord of All Horses", since that's the official godly title that has been given to the main character, Hipperion, son of Urizen. No, it's not the Urizen from William Blake. And don't accuse me of copying him. He's public domain now. :P

I'm reading The Lord of the Rings again. The last time I read it might have been in seventh grade. Course, I've seen the movies in between, but movies still can't compare. Someone told me I ought to read the Harry Potter series, but, truth be told, they've never really interested me. Tolkien has always appealed to me more, because of his overall sense of scope. When he writes, he writes on a grand scale, something that I hope to emulate.

Worldcon, Rejection, and Goo-Balls

I just might be going somewhere during August.

Worldcon.

There are about three other dudes from the Young Writers Society who are planning to go, and I have been told that I can meet up with them there. That's the only reason I'll go, if someone else is going with me. It's going to be fairly awesome, I assure you.

I don't have to worry about that accidental double submission anymore, because the most recent place I submitted it to rejected it. But, the first place is still considering it, so it's really no great loss.

I've been playing World of Goo lately. It's an awesome little game. You have these little balls, called Goo, and you have to use them to build a pathway to these pipes for the rest of their Goo brethren. The whole thing has a rather Seussical feel to it, which I find rather appealing, and some of the puzzles it presents you are genuinely challenging. One kid in my class, Schomber, beat it and declared it the hardest game he had ever played. Granted, he doesn't play anything that challenges his grey matter much, but he's also fairly smart anyway.

Gods, Collab, and Job

So, I bought a new notebook today and started on a new story. It's a continuation of one of the stories I wrote over spring break, the one about the gods who lost their powers. Except this one will be told from the POV of his son, and it will be about how the gods get their powers back.

The collab of awesomeness is going very well. My earlier prediction of getting done by the weekend is very possible. It'll be short and fun, all about the story, no annoying theme to worry about. :)

I'll be starting a job soon, hopefully. I'll be working at Alco. It looks to be a good job, or as good of a job as I would be able to get. I won't complain about it though. I need the money too much. :P