Alternative writings

Submitted:

1. Abstract for Comics Arts Conference that happens at San Diego Comic Con paper dealing with the nature of Hal Jordan's fall and return to grace and the making of Parallax a separate entity.

2. Short story to abyss and apex.



Currently, hoping more that 1 gets accepted than 2. Cause speaking at Comic Con would be Awesome Sauce.



Also, cat has absconded with Yellow Lantern power ring. This is probably Not. Good.


And, got in injected with radioactive things today for the bone scan. Initial results? They found a spot on my skull and think that the doctor might want to get it X-Ray'd. A spot like I smacked it good sort of spot.

dungeonwriter has come visiting. We're going down to San Diego Comic Con on Wednesday. It has been, so far, a sheer awesome experience.

Currently she and the cat are having issues. She went to pet the cat, and Chaucer being himself decided that playing with the newbie by grasping at her was fun. She shrieked, the cat panicked and now the cat is afraid that she's going to start shrieking when ever he walks by and she's afraid that the cat is going to attack her whenever she walks by. So currently their interactions are like this:

She: *walking towards the bathroom in my room* Is the cat there?
He: *walking to the kitchen to make sure I put food in his dish properly* Is that human there?

It's really quite silly.

Also, we're going to pop her taco cherry today.

I updated the Sporking site! Yay I'm keeping up with Brisingr this time!!

Funny kitty.

Went to Nano wrap party on Saturday. Got one of those glow in the dark bracelets. When I come home I take it off and drop it on the bed. Sometime later the cat comes over to lay on the bed while I use my laptop.

He notices the bracelet.

After batting it carefully, he starts going at it enthusiastically. He pushes it under the blanket and tugs it out and throws it up into the air and back under the blanket and bat across the bed.

About ten minutes later he picks it up and jumps down, walking towards the bookshelf, where upon he drops it on the bottom shelf. He contemplates it for a moment, bats it off the shelf and picks it back up in his mouth.

He then walks over to his water dish and drops it inside before walking off.

Cats are strange

(oh and that's him as a weeny kitten in the icon)

Got comments back on the story. More comments. From Mr. Formulaic, who is the one with the agent. And really isn't formulaic so much as purple.

Anyway, continuing on the people not getting that just because it's fantasy doesn't mean he's a hero line of thought. For fun/boredom I've decided to answer his comments here.


Got right into the story and it flowed right along, especially the
part at the end!

I have no qualms with that one. ^_^

Don't know if we'll ever agree about using earthly historical names
for fantasy characters, but you might have fun with this page...
http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/ I know I do!

Now, I have a two fold reason for this one. (Using names like Alexander, Rufus, Orion etc.) One being that Alec (Alexander) and Orion had that name before I "transplanted" them into the story. The second being, well, why wouldn't such names show up? I mean, it's not like I'm doing a Paolini naming convention where all the NPCs have normal names and the heroes have "fantasy" names. I've interspersed it fairly evenly through out the story. Names are, when you get down to it, a combination of letters and sounds. And eventually you're going to get overlap. In Hebrew, for example לו
sounds like "low". Two different languages, two different alphabets, but still the same sounding word. My characters don't speak English, except for the fact that I'm writing what they say in English. So, it's logical to suppose that eventually, similar sounding names will show up.

Name generators are addictive. (especially the bad name one: Phstfrd)


I know characters are the most important thing in fiction, but I really want to see more texture about the world. More stuff like "Selina's eyes"... which melikes...

Eh, I suppose. It's a hard balance for me. I mean, Selina's eyes refer to the two moons. And most of the time when you look up at the moon you don't think, "Luna, named after the Roman Goddess of the moon", you just go "moon". In being in a third person limited POV, most of the times the characters are going to go "moons". In this particular case, Orion was feeling rather introspective at the time, and so it felt more appropriate to call the moons "Selina's eyes". Alec, the main POV character, is not at all a introspective sort. He's kinda shallow that way. He's a teenager. Teenagers aren't given to introspection unless they're being emo and writing goth poetry. So, it's hard to give texture to the world when you have a character who looks at the world superficially.

Characters maybe be more tough?

... Why? Honestly speaking, the only tough character that I have would be Orion. Alex (Orion's slave) would be second, but only because he's utterly insane. Orion is a seasoned fighter and has rightly earned the title of General. He's been in several wars and fought a lot of battles. Alex has been driven insane in such a way that he's a down right little sadist. (Orion likes him that way). On the other hand, Alec is new to the adventuring gig. He's never killed anyone. The only fights he's been in are school boy scraps with his sister and other kids, and he hasn't done that in ages. He grew up in the city in comfort and has never faced a real challenge in his life. He's never had a reason to be "tough".


Alec at the moment is very changeable - going from having his butt
kicked by Orion to sticking his tongue out at his sister... be more of
a single-minded hero, Alec!

I fail to see how one has anything to do with the other. You tend to act differently with family than you do with people you don't like. Usually with siblings you tend to act younger or less mature than you do with others. Alec and Laruna have known each other their entire life. They're twins. They've developed their own idiosyncrasies in how they act and respond to each other. Of course Alec isn't going to stick his tongue out at Orion, that would be childish and immature, which would make Orion take him less seriously. He doesn't want Orion to treat him like a child, but an adult. Thus he acts like an adult with him. He doesn't have to worry about such things with his sister. He knows his sister has a set opinion about him and can be how he wants.

Also, Alec is not a hero. He's a protagonist.

If Orion is trying to grab power, I saw him thinking about it, but not
actively doing anything except hanging out with Alixx... Then again,
this is only 2 chapters -- so maybe it is a lull in his plotting?...

Um... long term planning anyone? If he actively tries to grab power, people are going to notice it. His trick is to do it slowly until people suddenly realize "Well fuck, how did that happen?" He's three hundred years old. He's got plenty of time to work his wiles. Hell, he could even wait until Phelps is no longer on the throne. Plus, he likes Alex. Good sex.

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Also, Twilight for my next venture?

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I took kitty to the vet yesterday. It took three people to get him from under the bed and that included lifting up the mattress. He scratched mom so badly that her hand's swollen up. She's going to the doctor later today. Kitty is fine. He just had a really nasty scratch under his chin from where his nails were to long and cut him. Got his nails trimmed too.

Chaucer is doing much better! The Vet said his white blood cell count was up twice from yesterday and he seems to be fighting this virus by himself.

He's also been eating. I left him some food before I went out to dinner tonight and it was half gone when I came back. Right now it's all gone. He's also been perkier too. So, all is well.

Thank you for all the good and well wishes it meant a lot to me and Chaucer. :D

Kitty has to go to the vet today. D:

He hasn't been eating for the past four or five days (though he still is active) and I'm like... that's not good. So to the Vet we shall go.

He will not be a happy kitty.

Chaucer is trying to help me pack I think:



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Either that or he doesn't want me to leave him behind.

Today we put together the Nightstand. Tomorrow perhaps the dresser. It is very difficult to do these things when there is the entire family present. Two people appear to be the correct number of people do build the furniture. Three is okay. Four is not.

We then spent a half an hour deciding what we were going to do for the rest of the evening... and did non of it.

I love my family.

Kitty's mad at me. I took him to the vet today for a booster shot. Leukemia shot. Now he can go outside as much as we'll allow him and it'll be okay. The vet suggested I get him a rabies shot. I'm not to sure about that. From my Vet Tech classes I remember them saying, for dogs at least, that they'll test positive for rabies after the vaccine and if he ever bites someone will be considered rabid. At least for dogs. I don't know if it's the same for cats. Still, not sure, so I'll think about it.

Speaking of cat bites. My dad was playing with Chaucer and got bitten by the cat. A few days later we wer talking about the cat and he says and look at what your cat did to me, as he shows us his bite. It was swollen and pussy and red and hot and my mom says we're taking you to the doctor. My dad was like naaah. And she was like YES. And so they went to the doctor and the doctor yelled at my dad for letting it go. He drew a circle around the cat bite and gave him some antibiotics. He said that if the redness goes outside of the circle tomorrow after he's taken the meds he has to go to the hospital. By the time they got the prescription filled the red mark was already at the edges of the circle. Fortunately the medicine helped and he didn't have to go to the hospital. This didn't stop my mom from haruanging him.

Hopefully he knows better now.

Chaucer's mood appears to have improved since I've taken him outside (where I'm writing this) he likes being outside. I just hope he doesn't get it in his head to hop over the fence and not come back before I have to leave for D&D at eleven.