The Wannabe Writers Group

2014-08-31T14:54:00.001-04:00

It hurts guys. It really hurts. The physical pain I can stand, but the fact that I had to threaten my little bro that I was going to call the police and have him arrested for assault to get him to back off hurts. And over what. A YouTube video of all things. He's playing it obnoxiously loud on the Wii U Game Pad while I'm trying to watch TV. I reach over and slap a button that turns off the video. How does he answer? Kicking me in the back. It hurt, I couldn't sit up for a few minutes, and in order for him to back off and leave me be, I had to threaten police involvement. I just... I don't know what to say.

Hello 9/19/13

2013-09-19T15:02:00.001-04:00

.....Hello

A Rollercoaster of Emotion

2013-02-20T08:55:00.002-05:00

Well... that title makes it sound like I have had a lot of different emotions. But really, it was only two or three... I'll touch a bit on Pure Chaos before I start my venting. May as well do it right here. I've written the crash out, and that's about it. I know where they all end up, but first I have to get Tails pulled from the wreckage. I have a feeling that I'm going to get some hate mail about how I do so... but life's tough, Cream can't be in the middle of this and be oblivious forever. That's all I'm gonna say on the matter. Now, if you want to read about my personal issues, you know the drill.
Ugh. These past few days have really sucked. There have been ups and downs, but I'm starting to lose control. I'm getting less and less stable, and will probably continue to do so until I can recover. See, when I get really depressed, I tend to recover into a sort of polar opposite state. I get crazy and hyper and all that fun stuff. The problem is you see, that I become extra sensitive. It's easier to make me upset. And if that does happen, I flash back to my depressed sate, and then tend to get worse. Unfortunately, this cycle tends to repeat itself for awhile, and few things can break or stall it.

It started with the incident I mentioned a few days ago, with Aleron. We had a bit of a fight regarding his lack of posting to the website. Eventually I managed to calm down about it, but when I went to one of my other online buddies, Inoka/Hugna, he pointed out that really, a lot of what had happened was my fault and I was being rather pushy. After re-reading the log... I really had no choice but to agree with him. It sucked. I felt like crap because I knew now that it was my fault. I was too pushy. I spent the next few hours sulking and venting on to Twitter (@NanoCarp, if anyone cares). Well... that turned out to be a bad idea. See, my Twitter is connected to my Facebook, and apparently some friends saw the tweets on Facebook, and called my parents who in turn, called me. This just shook me up again after I had mostly calmed down. Eventually though, I did manage to calm down mostly. Then, I had a conflict that night with one of my real life friends, let's call him Joe, who was using another real life friend, who we'll call Mac, to try and talk to me. No, those aren't their real names. Anyways, a few months ago, Joe posted a picture of a bunch of MLP Ponies and tagged me as one on Facebook. I absolutely despise that show, and was upset he did that. Whatever, I can't force him to take it down. But I did tell him that if he did something like that again, I'd unfriend and block him. Well. He did. So, I removed Joe from all my friends lists on every website we're both a part of. Last week, I discover him leaving nasty comments on my YouTube videos, and one even revealing some personal information. I was pissed to say the least. So, while I was watching WWE Monday Night RAW, I'm here talking to Mac on Skype. Mac is trying to convince me to undo the blocks. I soon realize that he's just acting like a go-between for me and Joe. I had to tell him to stop. "Listen, I'm happy to talk to you, but I don't want to talk to [Joe] through you." I say. I've put up with crap from Joe for long enough and the whole incident with the pictures on Facebook, was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak.

Well... I thought that I would be fine, and felt okay to keep going with school work. Turns out, not so much. I totally forgot to have 2 homework items finished for yesterday. That just was icing on the cake. So... Hopefully today will be better. Gotta get moving, class starts in about 15 minutes. Maybe I'll post my rants from WWE Elimination Chamber after class...

Crickets

2013-02-18T10:26:00.000-05:00

Huh. I wonder where everyone else is... No matter. First thing, I want to apologize in advance if some parts of this post don't make sense, I was up late last night having my mini-fangasm over WWE Elimination Chamber. Yup. I'm a WWE nut. Sue me. Okay, please don't, I don't have that much money in the first place. Point is, I'm not fully awake.

Moving on to stuff I should be talking about today beyond the front page... Stuff like, my story, school, the group... and yeah, I'll probably do a bit of ranting about Elimination Chamber. I have a few strong words for one of the refs. Anyways, you know the drill, click "Read More >>>" to, well, read more.

*EDIT* Mood and event change in the middle of writing the post... Removed talking about WWE, talked about group policy.

So... yeah. I hope to later today work more on Pure Chaos. I really don't want to leave my fans hanging again for so long. That was rather embarrassing that it took me so long to post that last chapter, and I want to try and make sure that never happens again. So today I hope to at least try and lay out what I want to have happen in this next chapter. And yes. I did in fact leave you all with a cliffy upon my dramatic return. I'm sorry, it was just too easy. I didn't want anyone getting out unscathed, and so far, Sonic didn't have a scratch on him, so you can guess who'll be taking the brunt of the crash. Plus it gives me an excuse to spotlight Chris for a while in the other areas. But next, comes the hard part. I have to write levels from the games. But the catch is, I want to avoid a major pitfall of writing a FanFiction based on a videogame. Writing the story like it's a transcript of someone playing the game. I even once saw someone come up with post-level stats during their story! If that's the kind of stuff that the readers want, we'd probably just go play a video game. My goal is to avoid that, yet still have the areas being explored be recognize-able by readers as some of the iconic areas.

Oh man. I just had a nice idea for my story. I was considering cutting a bunch of areas because I didn't really have any idea about how to get them there, but I just had a really good idea. :3 Hooray for random ideas in the middle of a college class.

Okay, now that I've written that idea down, time to move on to more fun topics... Or maybe not. Let's look at school. I suppose. Honestly, I'm enjoying my classes more than I thought I'd be, especially my "Digital Diversity" class. It's a Textual Analysis class, but really, the subject matter has been a lot more interesting that I thought it'd be, and it hasn't really seemed like much work so far. Which is good! On the other hand, I'm not particularly enjoying my "--

Sorry. I can't finish my thought. I just had a conversation via Steam with Aleronssword that didn't end to prettily. I hope we can work through this, but... It started when I asked him to blog again. He gave an answer of "I don't see the point." That makes me sad. This whole thing... it was our brainchild together... I... even if he abandons it, I won't. I promise you all that. He accuses me of it being all about the hits because I chastised him for saying he'd put up a link to his dA journal, and be done with this blog. That cut me deep. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking to get more hits, but there's no way in hell I'd abuse a relationship with a friend like that. Ever. If he wants out, that's fine. I'll be very sad, and alone here, but fine. I can't award him blogger bonuses anymore but...

As a result, I'm cracking down on bloggers. I'll figure out some sort of bonus over on dA for you all but here, you get the extra publicity at my expense. I'll work harder to keep your spotlighted stories up to date, I promise. Just let me know what story you all want highlighted. It's a shame that we aren't getting much fresh blood, and all our authors seem to be suffering from intense writers block, or are simply not blogging anymore. I hope that anyone reading this that also is an author will consider joining us. Our dA group is a lot larger, but... this. THIS. This is where it all began. And I swear to you, even if I am the only person blogging anymore, I WILL NOT let this die!

I was gonna talk about WWE... but I guess maybe I'll just make a follow up post later when I'm not feeling so depressed...

There is an 'L' in Plothole

2013-02-18T10:19:00.000-05:00

I'm surprised this is still a thing. Mostly because college and writing three stories have been eating my life, like a happy Pac-Man who obtained a large, glowing dot.

1. College
2. Stories

1. Second semester of my Sophomore year has started up a few weeks ago. Math, African American Lit., Memoir Writing, and Horror Fiction are what I'm taking. I recently wrote an eleven page paper for the memoir class and, I got a lot of things out that needed to be said. It felt amazing, bros. Sadly, due to the first rule of the class, I cannot tell anyone what I wrote about. it's a secret, just like the secret door. Horror Fiction is pretty much an amazing class. Great teacher and, soon, we'll be diving into some Psychological Horror fiction. Math is math, so it gets no explanation. African American Lit. is okay at times. I think it's interesting, but there is a lot of reading. Take it as you will.

2. STORY TIME! Not really. I went back and redid the first three stories for the Star Being series. Currently, I am redoing the fourth one where Hedge gets sent to a universe where he was never born. Then, I have the fifth story to edit. The next seven stories, however, I must write. It'll be a challenge, but I will do it! I have them all mapped out, but I just need to put events and other things to give it more meat.

Maho Machi is the next story I'm working on and I hope to get it out when Summer starts. Basically, it is about a women (or girl. She's in her early twenties) who receives a magical familiar to fight off other people and their familiars. No. It isn't a traditional magical girl genre story. It's, you could say, a deconstruction of it. If you ever watched Madoka Magical Girl and/or Bokurano, you will be in for some fun. This story, as well as the Star Being series, are on my FictionPress account (except for not really because Maho Machi isn't out yet).

The last one is a fun one for me. Proposal of Evangelion. If you watched Evangelion, then listen up. If you haven't, then do so and then listen up. Basically, I'm combining the TV series, some ideas from the proposal, a wee bit of ideas from the Rebuild series, and coating it all with original (I hope) ideas from myself. So far, it is five chapters long and on my FanFiction account (which I am now using).

Yeah. That's about it. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna not post anything here until another several months go by.

Mantinence

2013-02-09T23:21:00.001-05:00

No. Don't jump to conclusions, the site's not going down. I'm just trying to post more and couldn't come up with a better title. Though I might also talk about some other stuff being maintained. I dunno...

I haven't really gotten anything else written since I posted that chapter of Pure Chaos a few days ago. Part of it is because I don't really know where I'm gonna take it next, I know the levels will start being written soon, however I have no idea at all how I'm going to write them. I guess we'll just have to see how they turn out and wing it.

I bought a copy of RollerCoasterTycoon 3 Platinum on iTunes. I always loved playing RollerCoasterTycoon 2 on our old computers, and I had $60 in iTunes gift cards to spend from Christmas. More than enough to buy the game. And it was worth it. I still don't fully understand why I love the game, but I do. Though I'm rather upset that the staff quit so much in this game. I'm constantly spending $600+ a month on staff wages, and I can never seem to make much money. Unless I use my strategy for paying off loans. Animal babies are expensive. Breed and sell. Also, expensive roller coasters are good, just make sure to charge enough. And also... I can never seem to find where all my money's going every month... I have one map that I can't seem to get ahead on. The only place I can find to cut spending is in staff... Unfortunately by cutting spending, the Janitors can't keep up with the litter and vomit and then my park rating bottoms out. Then no one comes to the park, and I lose money anyways. I have some Pandas that I'm hoping to be able to sell off the cubs from, but they don't breed often enough to keep the debt off... At first my plan was to sell off one cub from each litter, even though the average litter is only two, though I seem to only get one at a time. So I've decided to make an exception if the only cub is female, hopefully they will grow up and breed more often. I really hate having to do that kind of thing, but when I'm $1K+ into debt, and can't take out another loan, what choice do I have?

Take... 3?

2013-02-04T11:50:00.000-05:00

Well then. Maybe this time I'll do better. Hopefully I won't 'die' again, and keep this place up and running. So, let me mention here what I'm talking about, and if you're interested, just click "Read More" below. :3

Let's see... School's started again, I'm actually writing again, and Steam is fun.

So it begins. College. Well... I suppose saying it begins is a poor choice of words. I'm back in classes for my 4th semester of college. This time around I'm taking a Computer Science class called "Discrete Math" (Go figure), an English course titled "Digital Diversity"... I'm also enrolled in "Performance and Culture", a theater class that I took for no other reason than that I needed 12 credit hours per semester, and it fills one of my graduation requirements. Something about foreign cultures. Lastly, I'm taking ASL 1 again. Last semester I didn't get the grade I needed to move on. Oh! Almost forgot my gym class. I'm taking Rappelling. Yup. Jumping off of buildings. Sounds fun.

So far, so good for classes. I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying Digital Diversity. Our in-class participation grade is based on how much we tweet during class. XD We got a new housemate this semester, and someone's set up an xBox 360 in the living room. W00T! Gaming all night. And it actually seems to connect to xBox Live. Added bonus right there.

Next... I wanna apologize. I haven't been writing much. But I'm going to try and do better. I want to try and get at least one chapter written each month. Hopefully, once I get going again, things will just keep rolling from there. So look forward to more Pure Chaos soon.

Steam. Wow. I've re-discovered the joys of Steam. Along with my pals we've been playing a decent amount, and even just using it to chat. It's fun and even with its occasional issues, we enjoy goofing off with each other.

So... I'm done. I'm gonna go handle some homework and get back to working on writing. Cya guys around!

2012-11-25T02:57:00.000-05:00

Howdy y'all! Color here and my has it been awhile since anyone posted anything here. So pretty much I was busy with drama productions and choir performances (this week is full of em DX) and I havent been writing as much I used to back in September. I'm a bit iffy on the next part of Blossom Creek since at the moment it and Keeper are my top priority. I also remember that I havent post alot of things on DA so might as well work on that.
I'm officially in my longest relationship guys! Our one year anniversary was last week! (she doesn't really approve the idea of writing stories non stop but she still supports me :3) Also the possibility of being hiatus on both DA and Fanfiction (low key skype?) during the winter season due to many performances and working backstage or onstage for productions. i just hope I can finish at least one of the stories by the summer (not that I will replace it with a new story, five is already a handful!) Hope y'all had a rocking thanksgiving holiday (or just long weekend for those who dont celebrate it :3) until next time!
-coloredraininlives

Pain and... more pain.

2012-10-10T15:30:00.000-04:00

So then... Hi. Lets see... stuff to talk about.

Spine Injury?
Story

Yeah... that should about cover it.

I have to say, whoever invented IcyHot Patches is a genius. Seriously. I used my first one yesterday thinking it would just get cold and then hot and be done. But it goes back and forth between the two for 8 hours. Sweet... But you may ask why I need them. Well... It's a bit of a long story, but hey, that's why I'm here. About a month or so ago I noticed a bit of pain around my right hip area. Well, I stopped wearing my wallet there and it went away. I've had the pains on and off for this whole time, but they never really got in the way of anything. Just kind of... sore. That is, until last Thursday anyways. All of a sudden, and out of nowhere, the pain got so bad that I literally could not walk, or even sit in hard chairs. I spent the weekend then at home in pain, stuck on the couch and being driven around to doctors. First I was sent to get an x-ray. The radiologist said that he saw a clear case of "sclerosis of the right sacroiliac joint." and by the way, that's part of your spine, not your hip. So now we know it's a spine injury of some sort, and not my hip. Well, we scheduled an appointment with an orthopedist, a doctor who specializes in bones, and he came in and told me I needed to get an MRI done because my X-Rays (Which he didn't even get to see) looked normal. That office suspects at this point "Sciatica" which is when the sciatic nerve is pinched or the like. Now, the sciatic nerve is the main nerve cluster that goes down your leg, so you can imagine how much pain it causes and how easy it is to set off. So I'm going to get an MRI done this week, and then we'll see what happens. Meanwhile though, I'm forced to go through Midterm week here on campus with a serious injury. I have a lot of school work to get done too right now.

Other than that though, you guys get some good news. My boredom over this weekend has caused me to do something I haven't done in a number of months: Open the file where Pure Chaos is. Now, I haven't done any work on it yet, but my mind is on it, and I may get some done later today if I get a chance after school work is done. I'm disappointed that no one came forward with any ideas for fluff for me like I asked, but hey, I can't change what you all do. I'm considering reducing the fluff and merging it with the next chapter instead, since I can't seem to come up with enough filler. That will mean the next chapter should be fairly long. This isn't a bad thing, as I've always preferred longer chapters myself, but it's hard to write.

One last thing, I'm considering going back on what I said before, the whole, "One story at a time" thing. Maybe it will help me stay interested in writing in general. Just have to be careful not to work on too many at once.

See you all around!

Finally Finished

2012-10-07T17:25:00.001-04:00

Well ladies and gents, I finally finished AVTF after about year and a half of constant struggling with the structure and the plot and revising it. When I posted it up not too long ago, I felt that the whole time that I spent trying to redo it and such was a bit worth it. I'm also happy that the guy who "controlled" my story is finally banned so I can do what I want to do in the story. But what I keep wondering is about whether I want to actually let OC submissions like last time. Normally, I would allow it whether or not if the OC will become a major or a minor role in the story and incorporate it in the story the best I can but after the early attempt of AVTF back in August of 2011 (including chapters 2, 3, and 4) and the hardships of the person like pushing me and literally getting me ready to mouth off at him, I am not fully sure of having it open.
On another note, I am almost done completing the pages of my 11th composition book full of stories and the chapter updates (I'm so sorry trees for killing you for my personal use). I already bought my 12th book to start jotting down the second i finish the last page.
The other thing I'm almost finished with is the outline for the second/ final part of Night Ember. I'm sad that my creation is finally reaching its half point and reaching slowly and slowly to the end,but hey I'm pretty sure many writers including the other members of this group can relate to that with their works. Hopefully more adventures will come,
-Coloredraininlives

Inspiration

2012-09-30T03:40:00.001-04:00

Inspiration comes in many ways. One of the most frequent places however I seem to get hit with it is the toilet. I still have trouble getting back into a writing routine. Although I have actually continued a little, it is not worth mentioning. So I came up with a plan that turns me into a liar. It goes against everything I promised myself as I started writing.

I will start a new story.

Up to know I firmly refused to start a story for every idea I came up with. I always wrote any ideas down to get back to them later. This idea however is not letting me go and maybe I am beginning the understand the term plot bunnies. So how is this going to work?

Very soon™ I will be releasing the first chapter of the new story and a new chapter for The Next In Line. After that I will try to get into a writing routine. My goal is to reach a chapter a week again for either this new story or TNIL. Once I got that down I will change it up so each story will get a chapter bi-weekly.

That is all for now.

benthefirst, signing out.

Boom Boom Pow Away!

September post!

2012-09-10T01:24:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone! Color here and boy does junior year already somewhat suck. AP test tomorrow and I don't know why I'm screwing around here when I could study even more. Currently working on Blowsom Creek chapters 7 and 8 but they wont be posted back to back because that prevent other things to get updated. Hoping I can get the pantomine thing perfect for theatre (back to the screwing thing). Long story short, it sucks and I should probably get off now.Loving this song! Wait where was I.......oh right back to work.....hopefully.

100th Post!

2012-08-19T15:53:00.000-04:00

Well! Party time! Our first milestone post. 100 posts have been made by us as of this post. Go team! Ive decided I'm going to get back to my roots somewhat, and blog as much as possible, even when I have nothing to say concerning FanFiction or other art. Why? Because this blog isn't just for our stories. It's for life. Because life happens, and sometimes we need to vent. So, enough front page rambling. Take a look at the Labels below, and if any of them interest you click on the "Read More" link.

Ugh... I'm torn right now. I don't wanna go back to school at all, but I really wanna get away from Mom and Dad. No offense to them or anything, I just don't like them constantly breathing down my back. On the other hand, school is not going to be fun this semester. For those who don't already know, I botched my last semester of classes at McDaniel. I withdrew medically with clinical depression as my reason. Well, now I have to have about 50 different fail-safes set up for when I go back. If I don't do even one of these things, red flags go up and people get pissy. Here's just some of the things I have to do:

I must check in with my SASS (Student Academic Support Services) daily.
I must meet with my SASS counselor twice a week for a half hour meeting.
I must come home every week and show Mom and Dad my completed homework before being allowed to return to school.
I must come home every other week to meet with a private counselor.
I must call my private counselor on the weeks I do not see her face to face during my regular appointment time.

So, you can all see why I'm cranky.

In other more happy news. Today is WWE SummerSlam. I still don't know if I'm going to pay for it yet. It's $54.99 and starts at 7:30PM. I really wanna see the three big matches. Brock Lesnar VS Triple H, Sheamus VS Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship, and CM-Punk VS John Cena VS Big Show for the WWE Championship in a Triple Threat Match. But other than that... I dunno... Maybe I'll flip a coin or something later.

I had something else I wanted to say, but I can't remember now... Oh yeah! In order to keep up with blogging here, I will cease using the journal feature of DeviantArt. Deal with it. :D

2012-08-17T22:19:00.001-04:00

It's Ryu here, blogging once again. Sorry for not updating for a while, but I promise to post Chapter 1 of Frostpaw on DA as soon as I am happy with it. I don't know how many people will actually be interested in reading it however. We'll see. After that my fanfictions will be updated. I'm also working on some short writing sketches.

As for my fanfictions, I decided I need to rewrite Euphoria and The Path An Eevee Takes. Euphoria's rewrite will have the character's renamed, and probably a few minor plot changes in both. I'm not sure yet.
Of course, the major problem I have with them is that at the time I had started, my grammar, spelling, and story-writing skills were not that good. Also, Euphoria was supposed to be about hardships, and sadness, and rebuilding hope where it was demolished. I shall try to make it more like that in the rewrite. The original stories will remain up and the rewrites will be posted as new stories for those who may wish to see my older work.
So yeah. See y'all next time.

Another Month. Another Blog.

2012-08-17T17:02:00.002-04:00

It's been a little over a month since my last blog... so let's just jump into updates now!

Stories
Life
Wattpad

The Unmatchable Star Being is complete! All twenty-five chapters are done! Go take a look at the story! Little Volcano is also done... and it is the most popular story on my FictionPress account. Also, my older stories are getting some pretty big tweaks to them. I finished Birth. Prologue. Emergence. and Childhood of a Star Being. The major changes were grammar and spelling. After that, I changed and added some scenes. They were pretty easy to edit. I'm glad I got them out of the way... but there is one more. Emotions of a Star Being is the last one to be edited... and it's going to be one heck of a task. Not only do I have to do grammar and spelling edits, I have a lot of scenes to work on. A LOT. Now, I only have that story to edit and to write Maho Machi to be released this winter. It'll be a big story with many characters. I still have to write the skeleton plot and then events and character development.

Yay.

XD

Anyways, Just a little over a week left of summer until I go back to college. Looking back to this summer, I accomplished some things that needed to be done. Working, writing, Otakon 2012, and my license. All that has to be done is buy a few more things for college.

Also, I created a Wattpad account to post my stories in. So far, I only have one story on it.

Yeah, nothing else new really. Just some small things.

New Post

2012-08-17T16:02:00.002-04:00

Hey color here, and its really hot here ^_^. I’m very happily about the 2 chapter run of Keeper on FFN a lot of alert and some review buts its alright (it’s unknown about Keeper’s course on DA). I’m currently writing the third chapter of Saviors which has been last updated…..like 3-4 months ago. Hoping I can get that done so I can update Night Ember and Blossom Creek before summer ends and school starts.

I’m struggling to the second chapter of A Vaporeon TF which has been on hiatus for quite some time. There was four chapters posted before on DA but I took it because there was someone (now banned on DA) so kept wanting me to write their way and I being naïve, gave in. So I decided to rewrite it to strive for what I want to where the story will go. Another struggle for DA was this short story I was going to submit to DA that was a finished story from like a year but I can’t find it anywhere.

I’m finally getting the handle of artwork and just draw at random times when I get an inspiration and I havent technically made one yet but still trying.

So life has finally settled down from the fallout in februrary and things are slowly getting adjusted and I’m happy for that. Its freaking hot though and I wake up with random scratches so no good. Cats are following me…I don’t know if that’s good but whatever happens I’m sure it’ll be fiine ;)

Until next time,

Coloredraininlives

2012-08-17T15:02:00.000-04:00

Well... I'll be da- whoops, almost broke my own rules.We're back. Did you miss us? Yes? Good. Glad that someone out there cares. Here's the deal, at least with me. I'm not dead. Clearly by the fact that I'm writing this. You see, life's been rather hectic lately, and I haven't gotten the chance to post here... I'm gonna discuss some personal stuff, then some stuff about the group. Let's do this thang. *is shot for saying that*
I know some people are angry with me for not updating Pure Chaos in, what's it been now, 4 months? Well, here's the issue: Ideas. I'm kind of running on empty for fluff. You see, this next chapter is supposed to be mostly fluff, you know, a break from the action, pacing and all that. Problem is that all my ideas for fluff are kinda... invalid at this point. I have one that will be a lot of fun, but I can't write it yet, since Chris is still rather new at using his new body... So, the only thing I have left is for Knuckles to work with Chris some to train... but... that will be rather awkward to write, and doesn't feel like I can make an entire chapter out of it. I may give up if I don't get any new ideas soon, and just throw in the large battle I was planning for next chapter, but I don't particularly want it to come to that, because then I will probably end up with a chapter that's much much longer than the rest.

Okay then. Well... The group here is obviously still rather small, but fear not, we are in fact still growing. We actually have a group over on DeviantArt. We have gotten many new members there, and we are coming along quite nicely. In fact, so much so that I am considering cancelling the awards. As nice as it is to be able to give recognition to those who deserve it, there's just getting to be too many people for me to keep track of. The DeviantArt group has 23 members, and more are joining. I can't keep up with the awards form. However, myself and the other two admins are considering doing a podcast to help with interest in the group. So, keep checking in, and all that good stuff.

2012-07-14T01:10:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone! Color here, via ipod, and i actually remembered that still exists XD. Anyways, things like access to a computer is getting a bit hard and sometimes scarce, but I'm trying a method to write rough drafts of the chapters of the stories and finalize it that way. Let's just say I'm on my sixth composition book and im at the last 20 or 30 pages meaning only 2-3 more chapters till im out of space and need to buy six more. Sorry trees, but you're useful for my ideas ^_^. I have been a bit hiatus on DA and here cause of the constant moving of going to my moms and dads place (and also the pc access).

Celebration time, Come on!

2012-07-11T19:30:00.000-04:00

Oh yeah. I totally called it. Less than a week before Nano said we had to continue posting stuff here, I said something along the lines of "I wonder when we will all start posting stuff again. Go figure.
Anyway, what is there to say? Well, We are the Smashers 2 is nearing its 50th Chapter. In fact, the 50th Chapter is being uploaded TOMORROW MORNING! High five! Party time! Celebrate! Wooooo!
I'm done. Have a nice time, guys! I'll be away for about two weeks, so adios!

Writing or the Lack thereof...

2012-07-11T19:22:00.000-04:00

Procrastination is at the same time a wonderful and horrible thing. Being able to say:"I'll do it tomorrow" and sleep with an unburden conscience can sometimes be a blessing, on the other hand if you do this too many times nothing ever gets done.

Not helping my current writing drought...
is that a lot of things happened in my day to day life. Everything from getting screwed from bureaucracy, losing and gaining family members, considering moving across the country in order to visit another university, all over to getting a girlfriend and now studying for exams all kind of moved writing into the background and made me say:"I'll write something tomorrow" over and over again.

It is kind of unfortunate as well considering I had a post a week rhythm going. So now you may ask:"Ben, what does all this blabbering mean? Have you giving up writing and if not when am I going to be able to read the next installment?" To answer these legitimate questions. No, I haven't quit writing. I was actually quite regularly and I continued getting ideas, which I all written down so I wouldn't forget them. Also my girlfriend is interested in the stuff I write and actually started drawing fan art for my story The Next In Line, which you are able to find on my DeviantArts page here (cough cough shameless self promotion cough). Her being interested is a strong motivator along with the follows and reviews I get. So chapters should start getting posted soon™.

I have now set my sites on completing The Next In Line before 17th December, the date of publication of the first chapter. It seems reasonable to me as long as I get back into the swing of things. What my project is going to be after that I am not sure. I am still plotting the other Pokémon FanFic "Of Skill and Ability" but I kind of want to write a Fullmetal Alchemist x Harry Potter crossover, in line with my motto "The story you want to read is best written by yourself." That story is still in its early stages and hasn't even gotten a project title yet. But I still have some time until I can start my the next writing adventure and other possibilities may pop up.

I will end it here before this post becomes a story of its own.

Benthefirst, signing out.

Boom Boom Pow, AWAY!

2012-07-11T18:56:00.003-04:00

Hello people of the world! This is Ryu Dragonclaw!
Wow, it's been a while since I posted here. My last post was complaining about midterms, and now it's three weeks into summer vacation. Even though it is vacation time, I am quite busy. Lots of SAT preperation stuff is taking up my time.
I'm currently working on an original story called Tales of Frostpaw. Back when I last posted, I was working on Tails of Fire, but due to massive writers block with it, it was canceled and this story took it's place. I've finished writing the prologue and am currently writing chapter 1. When it's done it will be posted on DA and on Wattpad.
For all of you waiting for me to update my fanfiction, all my fanfictions will be updated after Frostpaw chapter 1 is posted.
For you all that want to know about Frostpaw, I'll describe it a little bit. It's a fantasy story with magic and shifters. It's about a boy who travels to a city where magic is commonplace to go to a university. That's all I'll tell for now.
Ryu Dragonclaw, signing out. See y'all later!

... This still Exists

2012-07-11T17:54:00.000-04:00

Yes. Yes it does. It survived the zombie apocalypse, massive eruptions, and Tax Day. Anyways, I might as well update. Let's see what I have to talk about:

... Aha!

Life
The Unmatchable Star Being
Little Volcano
future works

Well, let's jump in!

Life. Life is the leading cause of death. With that, I've been working at a summer tennis camp for kids recently. I'm on my fourth week of teaching... out of five.

Let me tell you... some of the kids are obnoxious, bratty, spoiled, ADHD filled, or all of the above. I get paid, so it's fine. I really don't mind. There are some awesome kids there, however. The pay is okay. All in all, it's cool. This is my fourth year working there. I'm a veteran and I can talk about those war stories from Vie... tennis camp.

Also, I bought a Pleco fish. It's so derpy and cute. That makes twelve fish. My dogs are fine, too. The younger one is annoying the older one.

Now! Onto more important things!

The Unmatchable Star Beings (TUSB) is going smoothly. I have eighteen chapters done. I expect it to be around... thirty chapters? Around there is good. If you readers have been reading the story, it's been getting darker. In fact, darker than the prequels. I don't want to spoil anything... which means I can't tell you anything. I can tell you, however, that there will be some new heroes... and new villains.

Little Volcano (LV) is another story that I am working on. Seven chapters done and I think this story will have fifteen chapters. Most likely more. This story is mature. Yes. Mature. Very mature. I don't even know why I'm telling you guys this. I will tell you that the only way to read this story, should you do, is by my FictionPress account. I won't be posting this on my DeviantArt account.

My future stories (for Winter 2012) are Maho Machi (MM) and The Misadventures of Plothole (TMoP). MM is my main focus because it needs a lot of work. TMoP, on the other hand, needs basically nothing. It's a lulzy story that I do on my own time. Other future works are Succubi Love (SL) and Revenge for a Star Being (RfaSB). Also, other stories for my "Star Being" series.

That's it! See you guys and girls on my next update... probably on the 11th of August.

-Hedgestar

2012-03-05T23:03:00.003-05:00

Hey ya'll Color here and I had an...interesting turns of events the past month and I'm happy to say at the moment...it's all good. Still busting my butt off in school, writing, and other things. Also, I just got a wattpad account to read..maybe post a story or two there so itll be fun. I'm starting to get confused on my plan on Blossom Creek like should I allow open OCs or no? Anyways, thank you nano for helping me in the tough situation, thank you guys for cheering me up by the randomness rambling we have and I'm happy for the friends I have..

Until next time,

Coloredraininlives

Spiritually Speaking

2012-02-26T08:03:00.003-05:00

Hey guys, it's me! So what's going on, hm? Well, I just want to say that I've been working extra hard for all of you to try and get the Spirits' personalities unique! One of them, Compo, has a distinctly different personality that makes him incredibly talented and eccentric. I'm also working on another Spirit, known as Luneth. That's it for now in this Spirit post, but I'll see you guys next time, okay? Zai Jian!

OH Hi!

2012-02-22T21:07:00.000-05:00

Oh Hi! I first wanna say hello to all the new people on the blog and a late happy Chinese new year to those who celebrate it lol. Second I want to say is that i'm being murdered by the flu (again) like whoa. And third i'm still having trouble thinking up what I want to do with my new story which I'm not posting until i have 3 chapters i'm done with two but three is well eh. I've also realized that i have so much going i tend to forget what I actually want to work on and it's frustrating because I have so many unpublished stories that i'm working on. (btw nanocarp that number of unlisted stories i told you about last year has tripled lol.) Sooo i'm going to try to finish the third chapter of that one i'm talking about by mid march eh we'll see. Ja.

The Wannabe Writers Group

Hello 9/19/13

A Rollercoaster of Emotion

*Crickets*

There is an 'L' in Plothole

Mantinence

Take... 3?

Pain and... more pain.

Finally Finished

Inspiration

September post!

100th Post!

Another Month. Another Blog.

New Post

Celebration time, Come on!

Writing or the Lack thereof...

... This still Exists

Spiritually Speaking

OH Hi!

Crickets