Newgrounds FANtastical Fiction

If you're a writer, then it might be worth your time to create an entry for the first monthly writing competition.
Submission thread here
Discussion thread here

Judging this competition will be:
gumOnShoe
Fyndir
36Holla
MaestroRage
WritersBlock

Deadline is midnight on February 1st, so get writing. Pick a flash movie from newgrounds, and write a sequel for it in 1,000 to 4,500 words. Current prizes are recorded readings of the top two stories by Fyndir and TacticalShoe respectively.

I will hopefully be submitting a story of my own, based around this little flash. Fingers crossed I can get it done in time. I'm really busy with a lot of other things at this point in time.

For starters, I had my last day of work today, and so I'm now unemployed. I've been told that I'm guaranteed a new job soon, but that's still to be sorted out.

I'm moving to Perth. All the friends that I've made this year will not be around any more. It's tough, I'll be a small fish in a big pond, as opposed to a large fish in a small pond. Starting from scratch again. And I won't be living with my parents any more. But I'll have a new job, a new home, a new school, and I'll be able to meet up with some old friends, and my best friend, whom I've only seen a few times this year.

I've had 2008 off from school, just working. And it's been good to me. I've learned a lot, my social skills have improved a lot, I've developed my independence, and yet I've still been able to allow myself to splurge money on music every now and then, and I've had the time to produce and compose a lot of music, giving me a lot more experience. Last year I started writing fiction again, and I've been swept up in the flowing river of words. As well as the peacetank short story I've started, I'm about half way through the first chapter of the novel I'm striving to write. "The Wilder Saga", my new year's resolution.

I'm going to Curtin Uni in about a month's time. Studying journalism and film & television. I've got no idea where my future will take me, but I just want to prosper, and enjoy it as much as I can. Over the next three years, I'll probably learn a lot, and maybe I'll have a clearer picture on where life will be taking me. Maybe I'll finish my novel and be fortunate enough to have it published. Maybe I'll find myself with an internship, studying the media, studying society under a microscope. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Right now, I'll be rolling with the punches.

I'm going to the Big Day Out festival in Perth on February 1st. It's my first real rock concert, since there's not many bands that come by my little old town. I'm so excited to witness the music in the first hand, of some of my favourite bands; The Living End, Birds of Tokyo, Cog, Pendulum, The Prodigy. Another experience I'm never likely to forget.

My brother's turning 21 in about a month. He's throwing a party, and I've been put in charge of the music. I'm psyched to put together 5 hours of music to feed the party atmosphere. And, typical typical, my dad has his requests. My brother likes metal, or classic rock from back in the day. My dad likes music from the seventies and sixties. My dad wanted me to play 5 hours of metal, classic rock and daggy seventies tunes. I humbly declined his suggestion. Sure, a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but I don't want to completely slaughter his party. I will, however, have a lot of fun planning the music for the whole night. No requests. >:(

A new instrument. One of the last things on my agenda, I'm looking into purchasing a viola, with the intention of teaching myself how to play it over the course of this year. As my music progresses, I feel the need to mix things up, keep them fresh, to keep on improving and to keep on learning. Otherwise I'll get stale, and not even bother any more. There's no profitable reason for me to do this, music is a hobby of mine, and I compose, I play, I listen, I learn. Teaching myself to play the viola would just be another notch on the belt.

I had a little party the other night, a sort of farewell to my friends and work colleagues. I can honestly say that it was one of the best nights I've had in a while. We played pool, we played a bit of the nintendo wii, we had a barbecue. I'll point out now that it's the middle of summer here, daylight savings, and it was about 9 o'clock/9:30 when the stars came out. And what a sight it was. For about 10-15 minutes, I stood outside on my lawn, just staring up at the stars. In the city, I'll never see something like that. A cloudless, warm summer night, thousands upon thousands of bright white lights, twinkling in the sky. Millions and millions of kilometers away. And then there was the shooting star. The wonderful, magical shooting star that children marvel in, lasting no more than half a second, a brilliant streak of light across the sky, so far away, something so wonderful and brilliant, I will miss the clean clear night sky terribly when I move away from home.

Then there were three of us left. and we played texas hold 'em poker. One guy didn't know how to play at all, and myself and the other guy had only played the game online. Great experience. Needless to say, it was terrible. Bluffing, betting on everything, not knowing when to stop or how to deal, it was definitely not the professional poker I see on TV, but it was a lot of fun, and I'm going to try to bring them around again and have another round before I go.

That's about it on my long agenda. Things happening, things about to happen, and things that have happened. Check out the contest, live as much of your life as you can without regrets and don't ever doubt yourself.

Live, dream, love, embrace.

Peace out.