Adventure! (Not Really)

I have now returned from my holiday in Abersoch in which I had plenty of adventures, I also had a nice adventure the week before whilst going to my college interview. Unfortunately I don't remember the adventure in Hanley very well my brain has been overrun with the crap that wasn't even remotely interesting.

The majority of my holiday was spent sitting around with my notepad in hand trying to write something worthwhile, which ended up becoming a piece of My Little Pony fan fiction, the story is based on something that Eragon learns from Oromis and then tells Murtagh in the Inheritance Cycle, I can't remember which of the four books he says it in, but when the story is complete I will post it on www.fimfiction.net I will also post a link to it on here so you can read something that I've actually put effort into and not just completely spammed out.

The other main highlight of my holiday is that my brother and his wife both read the stories I wrote whilst still in school. My brother liked both of them, and gave me some constructive criticism on both, he could also tell that the second story was rushed. My sister-in-law didn't enjoy the first story but she saw the appeal in it, and found it well written, she did at least enjoy the second story, even though some of the imagery made her cringe. I took the faces she pulled as a compliment.

I'd also like to point out that I have now got a lovely tan, I am now almost as dark as my walls.

I'm personally quite proud of my accomplishment, I don't usually go that dark when exposed to sunlight for a week.

All joking aside, my current project is to finish writing the My Little Pony fan fiction I'm working on so I can get it appraised (hopefully) by at least someone. I will also be working on my main stories set around the fictional Lancashire town of Riverbrew. The first story of which is called XIV (Fourteen), and I have completed draft one of that, I have also completed draft one of book four (Bringing Down the House), The sole reason that book four was drafted out before books two and three was because that involved a spaceship and I promised my middle-aged friend that I'd write a story with a spaceship just for him.

I'm also tempted to start a little blog which I will fill with short stories, and I can update that from time to time adding then I can have something a bit less depressing available online. I'm not really sure what to do with that if I start it, I'll maybe add some of the shorter Riverbrew stories to it, I have many ideas in my head but I think some will just be a little too much for a blog.

Going back to the Riverbrew stories, I have found the original unfinished draft of (what is now set to be) the second book in the series I'm calling Misadventures from Riverbrew. I will have to make a lot of changes because if I remember rightly this version is set in a town reminiscent of Tunstall, and not in Riverbrew. So I have a leg up on that already, I even have the finished plan for it and during my holiday I planned out book three.

I have a few other story ideas in my head, all will most likely be set around Riverbrew, with the exception of those set after the final book in the Misadventures in Riverbrew series). All I am going to say is one involves genocide, the other involves a jellyfish, the other stories are part of a series, which may be a bit too clichéd for me to even bother with.

I will most likely stick to using Riverbrew as a setting for the majority of my stories, like how Terry Pratchett uses Discworld. I'd like to turn Riverbrew into a believable place, but unfortunately I've never been anywhere near where Riverbrew is supposedly situated. Upon writing that situation I realised that I actually have no idea what is where I positioned Riverbrew, so I checked and apparently there is a small town already there, so I moved it to a place currently known as Flashers Wood, that area is currently farm land but smeg it, I'm replacing it with a town in my version of England.

I know I have big plans, but I can dream can't I. At least I've realised that my talent doesn't reside in making music (but don't get me wrong, I'm still going to be composing, or at least trying to compose), and at least other people agree with me when I say I can write stories, the only hard part is putting the effort in to write them. My choice in career won't help me since I'm going to need a lot of time in order to do this, but unfortunately any career choice will destroy my time and I need to have a job I can't live on royalties until I start earning them, and even if I do start earning them, it's not too likely I'll be able to live off them.

I'll admit now that I'm no Stephen King, I'm no H.P. Lovecraft, nor am I Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler or George R. R. Martin. I am however an idiot teenager who needs a hobby, and who already has a bit of a knack for writing.

Friendship is Magic

My plan to win over Lydia's mother has failed, which means I am to remain single for the foreseeable future. This does have one major advantage though: I'm now allowed to have friends. Unfortunately I don't really speak to my original best friend anymore, I lost him sometime during the relationship with Dana, but thankfully I now have a new friend to take his place.

So for the time being my mate Ash will be considered my best friend, as he is my first real friend. I highly doubt he'd be replaced by a female anytime soon on the sole basis that I am no longer in contact with females, and those I am in contact with are much manlier than I am, so I don't consider them dating options. I'd also like to admit it isn't hard to be manlier than me.

My current hope is that my other friend Nathan will visit me, or at least tell me where he lives so I can visit him, and then the two of us will be able to form a band. I'd also invite Ash to join us, but unfortunately he isn't a drummer, which is what we'd need. I already have a name idea for the band, but since there is no band as of yet, the name will stay in my head.

If a band is formed it will most likely end up a horror punk band, since we both like punk and I get the feeling I'll be the primary lyricist so I'd end up including a lot of horror themed lyrics, or my lyrics will consist of taboo subjects. I have other ideas for what this band would become, but it'll most likely become something entirely different.

I have also restarted my old YouTube channel and I'm working on another Minecraft play through, I'm hoping that this one will last more than twelve episodes, and I'm hoping someone will actually view it, (I'll put a link to the first episode at the bottom of this post). There are two reasons why I've started doing this again after two years, the first and foremost being: Ash reminded me. The second reason is simply that I have nothing better to do with my free time.

Since it is the first of the month, I may as well record the plans I have for it, first of all I have a college interview on the twelfth, which I'm both looking forward to and dreading at the same time. following that on the Saturday I'm going on holiday to Abersoch, and I'm looking forward to that very much. I plan on taking my guitar and a notebook so I can compose a song or two, I may practice my drawing skills a bit.

The half term has pretty much ended now, school is back open tomorrow. I won't be going though, I've finished with it. I should now consider getting myself a job, I reckon I stand the best chance of getting a job at the newsagents where I do my paper rounds. I do need a job, I also need to visit my GP at some point so I can get a letter from him.

As promised here is the link to the first episode of my Minecraft Let's Play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5nyXx_QdsM

The Magical Land of Brum!

I realised too late that I missed last weeks post, but I don't care, nothing interesting happened that week anyway, although I did get a kick-ass new CD that makes me want to create a blog for reviewing the albums I own and buy. But this post isn't about that album, its actually about my week visiting my mother in Solihull (near Birmingham).

Since it's half term, and I wasn't able to visit her over Christmas me and my girlfriend Dana decided to spend a week with my mother, so we did, naturally we didn't do much of interest other than completely empty our bank accounts (which wasn't much of an achievement for either of us, it was however impressive that I actually had money to spend). The main highlight from the trip was our visit to Cineworld where we watched Frozen, I was actually shocked that it was her choice to watch it, I'm the fan of Disney Princesses not her. But still it was her choice to see it, and it was EPIC! If you haven't seen it already watch it, however it is rated PG (in the UK, I don't know what it's rated elsewhere) so the cinema will be full of annoying little kids, so don't say I didn't warn you when you spend the entire film getting kicked by a 4 year old douchebag.

The other highlight (for me at least) was that I finally bought myself a Warhammer 40K army, and my mother gave me the space marine side of the old 40K starter box (Assault on Black Reach) she also made me put together her Orks and I really couldn't be bothered, but I did. More importantly she gave me a metal Thunderfire cannon, which can't be fielded in a Dark Angels army. Crap. It looks cool at least, and I will be able to use it in an Apocalypse army, because anything goes.

Other than the Warhammer 40K army, I also bought (and read) a book called The Art of War by Sun Tzu its about 2500 years old and well worth the read, and probably worth a few more read throughs, just to let it all sink in. As the title suggests it's about waging war but more importantly it's about being a great leader, so you can always use the war as a metaphor and use it in business management or something along those lines, also good for teachers.

And then there were the albums, which I will review on a separate blog when I can be bothered to make it.