Thursday, October 15, 2009

Nanowrimo Summary

Stolen from Tom, but then expanded a little.
For those that don't know, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) encourages participants to write a 50,000 word story in the month of November every year. Here are my works produced so far:

2005:
Title: Wait For It
Genre: Sci-Fi Mystery
100% finished
Breif Summary: First complete nano! George Balds lives in a future where females and males are seperated in society for logistical reasons and he's on the wrong side of the fence. What happens when he discovers a conspiracy by the men of this brave new world to do something secretive to the women? He runs home to mommy, of course.

2006:
Title: Gryphen
Genre: Sci-Fi
100% finished
Breif Summary: Didn't actually finish this in one month, but I liked it enough to actually finish. John is a young teen boy... and in a coma. His life becomes one long dream sequence, which all spiral into one incohesive mess. Will he ever wake up? Spoiler alert: yes, he will. But that's not the end.

2007:
Title: So You're Attractive, Now What?
Genre: Teen Comedy
100% finished
Breif Summary: Oh god I will never write about teenagers again. This was painful. Wrote 19 thousand words on the last day to finish it. Basically teens at a high school go through their boring everyday lives and there is teen drama and jokes during lunch period.

2008:
Title: 40, 25, 6 OR 7
Genre: Scif-Fi Mystery Horror
70% finished
Breif Summary: All the ingredients for an instant classic: An isolated island society, a canibal killer, spys, spaceships (but not really), I think my first novel that involves a character going online! children abducted by monsters! Gangs that hideout on a pier! A love story that begins in a bar! A title full of nonsense numbers! Oh, and vampires. This was me pre-Twilight, when I could actually write about such things. PS the love story has nothing to do with the vampires, thank god.

2009:
Who the heck knows? Not me!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Videobloggery: Chris Recommends...

After taking a brief vacation (forgetting about this site) here is the latest videobloggery.



I also ended up buying that car I talked about a while ago... there should be pictures of it below



I think it's really got potential- a really 'fair' Fairlady if you will :/
Virtually no rust, responsive 2.8 liter engine replacing the original 2.4, factory tranny swapped with a later, 5-speed version. My only two concerns about it currently are the brakes feel dull and the reverse lights don't work- most likely wiring problems. But besides that, a lovely car. It smells like gas and makes noise from the engine like a proper car, not the muffler. More on this later.