The Little Life

I decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for a long while.

I made one post with links (over 200) to all the significant creative stuff I've done and posted on my Livejournal.

I went through four years of this Livejournal.

I learned a key thing ---- A crazy woman runs this LJ. @_@

Seriously though, it's interesting to see how much I've changed over the years.

Here is the special page with links all throughout my Livejournal.

There is some wonky font but I'll fix it after class tomorrow.

(Also, you can go to my main page. It'll be up there till the end of the world [thereabouts].)

CNN Money has had a couple of truly amazing web site link series. They have new one of international offerings which are upstarts but full of promise.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0707/gallery.web_world.biz2/index.html (there's a couple click-through which annoys me but the sites are nifty)

Joost is cool. Yoyo games is amazing. Babelgum looks neat. Maxthon, though not usable for me, is amazing in what it could do for China. Check it all out ^^

I must know the right people...

http://www.petekrawczyk.com/lj_connect/

This tool is like the Kevin Bacon game, only with LJ friends. I haven't fiddled with the limits much but just searching for connections...I've yet to find any random person who is more than four-friend-steps away from me.

Small world.

If you write an ending like I did in "The Monroe Item", in most literature then it's sloppy writing.

But when it's in a show with tons of awards then it's high freakin' art -_-....

Seriously, the only thing I take from this is that I can easily out-write a guy with a couple Emmy Awards. Freaking a-me ^^V

JK Rowling should be on notice. If her ending is..."And so the truth of all things and most pertinent to Harry Potter lay in the fact that all this time, in actuality, his scar

And it ends. Freaking lazy writing. I mean it's fine to leave things open-ended but your still want to provide something to the listeners of your tale. It's a promise you make to them. At least that's how I feel. You may not always go where they'll love going but you promise them you won't fuck with them somehow. You'll be true to your promise.

There's a place for that kind of ending but it's tough to pull off in a way that doesn't feel like you are abusing your audience.

Like if I left out all the zappy details in my story just because it would more "user-friendly" if people just went and imagined them for themselves. At that point...why not just go out and imagine your own story? This person doesn't want to do the work of imagining one.

Also, I wrote a lot Mecchen with notes I have on the side. Unfortunately...this has held me captive for the weekend - http://ec2-1.playr.co.uk/onslaught/ - I dare anyone to get past level 115 X_X...

But yeah, I have notes for like 4000 words or so and lots of vivid details for what happens till the end of the chapter.

And remember - the promise not to seriously fuck around with the reader is a promise I give as well. Things won't just be a dream. I've already had the characters reference and... to a certain degree...make fun of all the copouts I could imagine.

http://twitter.com/MajorKerina

^_^ Seems interesting.

animeicons
and
sos_icontest

Both rock so much. I have to friend animeicons. Since then I've been knee deep in icons @_@. Most of my new ones come from them. Check them out via link or my friends page.

http://www.nbc.com/Video/videos/snl_1445_lasercats.shtml ^_^ hehe

*loves*

And "Kingdom Hearts is....wha? @_@