http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:nekoewen&section=today deviantART RSS for by:nekoewen en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:38:13 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/28196592/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/28196592/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:15:21 PST posted up the first bit of real content for Neko Machi ([link]). Admittedly it's just the chapter heading (with a lovely picture of Kitty), but from here on we're aiming to have regular Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates. Check it out! Tell your friends!

I'm also participating in NaNoWriMo again this year ([link]), and bending the rules a little to take a stab at finally finishing UFO Girl. So far it's going pretty well, but I need to step up my writing a bit to keep up.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/27783917/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/27783917/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:43:44 PDT was thinking about doing some kind of webcomic, and I'd been wanting to resurrect and reinvent Neko Machi for a while. I've got a new website set up, at the same URL ([link]), though it's going to take a little time to get everything fully set up. (WordPress with ComicPress is very awesome and powerful, but certain things require you to get kind of advanced.)

The new version is going to be about Kitty and company starting community college, and we're aiming for a Monday-Wednesday-Friday release schedule, starting relatively soon.

Many thanks to all the people who've enjoyed and supported Neko Machi over the years, and even more to dear piggy for taking up this project! ^___^

Edited To Add: I've been working more on writing and planning, and talking to piggy about various things. She's going to start posting actual comics on the site around the end of October. So, Happy Nekoween!

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/27287239/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/27287239/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:15:20 PDT Being a Real Catgirl and the first draft of Dandelion (the latter dedicated to came together with surprising ease over the past couple days. Hopefully more will be coming.

Also, when I was getting started on doing my RPG podcast I decided to make audio recordings of some of my weird short stories. I've now started up a podcast (Is there anything Wordpress can't do? Don't answer that.), called Trapped Inside the Dream Forever. For the time being it'll be updating on Fridays, though it'll get very, very irregular once I've recorded and posted all of the stories I think are worth recording and posting.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/24127018/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/24127018/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:59:16 PDT RPG podcast, and today I decided to try recording one of my short stories. I went with "Another Catgirl".

Another Catgirl Audiobook (14 minutes, 37 seconds/10.6M)
Animal Town Audiobook (11 minutes, 34 seconds/5.34M)
I Hate Mars Audiobook (12 minutes, 1 second/5.5M)

What can I do to suck less at this? Any other stories you'd like to see get the audio treatment?

Anyway. Back to work.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/23461722/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/23461722/ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:22:38 PST an all-Kurumi gallery thingy on my website. Between tracking down more artwork and scanning in the stuff I got at Wondercon, I'll be adding entirely too much more stuff in the near future. Enjoy!

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/23366983/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/23366983/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:18:39 PST
I'm starting to get inspired to work on writing stuff, though it's been hard to get any kind of momentum going. I've especially been wanting to work more on Nekomimi Land and UFO Girl, both stories that have a lot of personal significance for me. I think I've become a better writer since I last worked on either one, and I've got a lot of ideas for where to go with both of them.

For Nekomimi Land, I'm planning to take some time to develop what happens to Kaylee between when she becomes a catgirl and when the winds up in Nekomimi Land. I think there are a lot of opportunities to explore how the transformation has affected her. I'm also planning to do some more stuff with her interactions with the other catgirls, since that will help me develop pretty much everything a little more. I'm going to add a whole other sub-plot about Kaylee and a catgirl shrine maiden named Kagami, and some more stuff with Yui. Also also, I read up a bit on the behavior and body language of real cats, and that's given me some neat ideas for things to include.

nothingsp's little catgirl TF comic (1 2 3) led me to some very important insights about Kaylee's character, though she's very different from his protagonist. I don't want to get too much into it here, but her real problem isn't having femininity thrust on her. Being masculine didn't make her happy per se either.

As for UFO Girl, the major new thing I came up with is that Janet has these visions of a City of the Future, a glittering, idyllic city of pristine skyscrapers. She doesn't understand it herself, but this vision of a better world is what drives her to oppose the antagonist who wants to destroy the world. Also, the first chapter especially is old enough that I can just plain write better prose now.

Anyway, I will hopefully be posting up some snippets of these as I make more progress on them. Stay tuned!

Also, I've got some Kurumi commissions on the way. The other day I got a sketch of Kurumi from Rosemary Travale, as she's offering sketches for a small donation to help the Sheridan College's For The Love of Print project.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/21763381/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/21763381/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:43:27 PST


The story still needs TONS of work of course, but I have a complete first draft at least. It's going to be a little while before I can really bring myself to look at it again, but that's how it goes. ^_^; It's just as well, since I really need to take care of stuff for school right now anyway.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/21347203/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/21347203/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:01:59 PST
Also, I'm doing NaNoWriMo for the first time this year. I'm writing a follow-up to Slime Story: Graduation, where Doug gets into romantic entanglements and confronts some more serious stuff too. It's going really well so far, though I didn't get much done today. Here's my profile page.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/20038892/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/20038892/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:09:00 PDT Maid RPG, a Japanese tabletop RPG translated by yours truly. It was one hell of an experience, and I wrote all about it here.

Also, just in time for my birthday (which was Sunday), Mori put up a sketch of Kurumi, followed by a colored version. And Luminaura was kind enough to take up my request for a Kurumi sketch too. Check out both of their galleries already! Great stuff!

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/19665978/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/19665978/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:05:46 PDT a Kurumi commission from Justin Ridge. If I go to Comic-Con again it won't be for all 4 days, I think, especially if they keep having more and more Hollywood/mass media crap overshadowing the actual comics and such. OTOH I absolutely want to go to APE in November.

About the only panel I saw was the Doctor Who/Torchwood panel. Julie Gardner said that a DW/TW manga was unlikely. I wanted to point out that DW is shown on NHK, and that there's this thing called doujinshi, but so far searching on Google all I could turn up was this. I'll have to look some more when I have time.

I wound up starting working on a follow-up to Slime Story: Graduation, tentatively titled "Slime Story: Saying Yes." It's about Doug having a crush on a weird girl who works at Monster Mart, and it's proving to be a pleasantly unpredictable story to work on. I want to write another Slime Story short story after that, with sex in it.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/19147724/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/19147724/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:32:41 PDT
I also set up a website for my translation services (Studio UFO). It still needs work, but regardless I am available for translation commissions (Japanese to English) at reasonable rates. Please feel free to contact me if you want stuff translated.

Also, this weekend I'll be attending Anime Expo, along with porku and a couple of other friends. We're also going to San Diego Comic-Con a couple weeks later. Anyone else here going? Know of anything particularly neat going on there?

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/18719557/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/18719557/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:13:58 PDT Ignition, which sort of subverted harem anime and some other anime cliches in general. I've decided to re-write it as an expanded prose story. I'm going to change and add some things, but I definitely want to keep the humor and charm of the original, and then some. The major change is that I'm making most of the characters American (with a few exceptions, like Civiko), mainly because when I originally wrote it I didn't know as much about the Japanese school system, and there are certain very basic things (like the protagonist buying a car to commute to college) that work much better that way.

I own Wii Fit. It's fun, and it's getting me to exercise a bit for a change.

The new edition of D&D is out. Me and my friends are going to play, so I bought the Player's Handbook the other day. My character is a half-elf fighter.

I've been reading the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, partly because the local library has all of what's out in English, and partly because it's so damn good. I think I'm almost to the part where the manga had cut off when they started planning the anime.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/18539327/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/18539327/ Wed, 28 May 2008 07:01:18 PDT
1. I was translating Maid RPG, a Japanese tabletop RPG which we'll be releasing in English, premiering at GenCon Indy 2008. The translation is now complete, so other people get to deal with the editing and layout. The original Japanese version came out to 232 pages with all of the optional rules and scenarios and such.

2. I went back to doing security work to make ends meet, and combined with school and everything I was exhausted a lot of the time.

On the plus side, my freelance work is picking up again, so I don't have to be quite as stressed about financial matters. I went to FanimeCon and had a reasonably good time, and I'll be attending Anime Expo and Comic Con this year (partly to look for translation work/do networking), and of course GenCon for the aforementioned Maid RPG. I really want to get more writing done over the summer, but it's going to be a challenge to actually make time for it.

OTOH I really need to de-stress, and circumstances aren't quite letting that happen just yet, and the insomnia isn't helping. *sigh*

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/16665121/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/16665121/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:51:41 PST
I got all inspired to work in it because I went to see a live RiffTrax performance of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Now I need to find more cheesy sci-fi stuff to watch for ideas. Any recommendations? I finally got around to watching The Day The Earth Stood Still (which was a great film all around BTW), so I'm looking for more.

I may have mentioned here before, but although I originally conceived of UFO Girl as a single novel, the moment I started thinking about sequels I wound up having tons of ideas. If it were to become a series, the first one would be called "UFO Girl and The End of the World", to be followed by "UFO Girl vs. Vampire Boy". After that, either "UFO Girl on Planet Me" (where Janet wakes up on a planet populated entirely by clones of herself), or "UFO Girl in Giant Monsters All-Out Rumble" (where Janet becomes friends with a kaijuu).

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/15452575/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/15452575/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:27:36 PST
I'm currently working on a short story about Rita called "Slime Story: Graduation." A good friend of mine is collaborating with Mori on an anthology thingy, and the story (with some illustrations) is going to be my main contribution. Although I'm sure most everyone who's actually reading this would like to read the story, I haven't yet decided whether to post it up here. At the very least I'll be letting you guys know how to get the anthology.

I've also started working on another short story, though it's still embryonic to the point where I don't have a title or anything yet. That probably will be posted up here, along with drawings of the main character, whenever I decide it's ready. I've also wound up working a lot on a tabletop RPG called Catgirl: The Storytelling Game. It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek parody of the World of Darkness, but it's been trying to turn into this weird mashup of Neil Gaiman, otaku culture, and Night Watch (so far). I wasn't planning to actually write any of the zillions of sourcebooks implied by the rulebook, but I'm sorely tempted to make Shinigami: The Storytelling Game a reality. Anyway, more info about that is on my RPG blog. I may try my hand at writing some fiction based on the game's setting too...

There are relatively few artists that make plushies, and even fewer who do good ones on commission. That's why I was delighted to stumble across Squisherific's gallery (while searching for Stephen Colbert stuff). Not only does she use the right materials (UFO catcher dolls use robe velour for the skin, which seems to be pretty hard to find), but the results are very detailed and generally awesome. Hence my next piece of custom Kurumi-ness is going to be a plush doll made by her.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14670994/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14670994/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:13:08 PDT Melanie. I also commissioned her to do one of Kurumi.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14402056/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14402056/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:54:06 PDT
So, if you like my stuff, I'd be deeply grateful if you'd take a look at the playtest version of my current game project: Raspberry Heaven, even if you're not into RPGs. It's meant to be at least somewhat accessible to people who don't know RPGs, and on top of that the perspectives of people who haven't been playing other games forever can sometimes be interesting and fresh.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14134495/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/14134495/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:10:20 PDT
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to mention to the people who watch me at DA is that I'm going to GenCon Indy this week. So yay. :3

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/13137497/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/13137497/ Wed, 30 May 2007 18:38:38 PDT LiveJournal entry if you really want to know about it), and even got to meet up with porku. She did an *awesome* full-color piccy of Kitty and Kurumi, which is now up on DA.

I also commissioned Sue-chan for a drawing of Janet from UFO Girl, which wound up including chibi versions of the other characters from Chapter 1. Check it out here. \^_^/

Now, back to work!

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12689413/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12689413/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:29:05 PDT Combined with the sparseness of programming (APE is more of a geeky crafts fair) that would explain why I spend barely two hours there. I think I enjoyed it more last time, but then I wasn't worrying about money nearly as much last time too.

Anyway, here's what I got:

Girls and Monsters; a sketchbook by Ben Seto.

Klaw Berry; a full-color storybook about a monster girl's quest to get back her stolen eye.

Gashapon Shop zine; a sampling of a comic about geeky randomness.

Snowball in Hell; the first two chapters of a cute comic about a kitty that winds up in hell.

Two sketchbooks ("The Fallen" and "Burn") by Camilla d.Errico, who is looking to become another of my favorite artists.

Side Scrollers by Matt Loux, an incredibly fun romp, kind of in the same vein as Scott Pilgrim, about some teenaged guys messing around.

Peng, which looked neat but I haven't read just yet,

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12689238/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12689238/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:12:48 PDT
]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12110142/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/12110142/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:52:51 PST role-playing games, for one thing. On the other hand the near-spring weather has me feeling invigorated, and I'm really, really wanting to write stuff lately. Hopefully I'll finally be ready to send out submission packets for Nekomimi Land soonish too.

I just finished re-doing Windows on my computer earlier today. My main desktop's install of XP was a little wonky before (WinAmp never worked right for one thing), so now everything's running better than before. I also added Jabber/Gtalk (nekoewen AT gmail DOT com) to my too-extensive collection of IM stuff running through Trillian (see my profile). Feel free to message me some time; I've been bored a lot lately, and I won't feel so dumb for tying up like 10 megs of RAM all the time.

This year I'm planning to go to two conventions (plus hitting up APE for a day): FanimeCon (where hopefully I'll finally see porku and TheSax in person...) and GenCon Indy (where hopefully I'll meet some of my gaming online acquaintances as well). I think between those I'll be getting more than enough con in my life for 2007.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/11082760/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/11082760/ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:37:56 PST
In the meantime, just when I thought I had finished my freelance work for the moment, a new project came along that is the most rushed I've had to contend with to date, and I still have some finals to contend with. The stress is getting to me a bit, so during those long train rides to and from school I have a hard time doing much of anything beside watching Keroro Gunsou until I feel a little bit better. (It usually works, temporarily at least). The only problem with the literary writing style is that I'm always at my most inspired when I feel bad. On the plus side, Christmas is really close and I'm actually looking forward to the festivities planned with friends and family, starting with a Christmas party on the 23rd. ^_^

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/10275807/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/10275807/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:55:07 PDT blown away. He normally mainly does cartoon-style pinup art, so I wasn't sure how well it would work, but as usual he far exceeded my expectations. There's still some more work to do, but I'm just about ready to start submitting it for publication. Happy dance! More on that when there's more to tell.

On a whim, I went and saw This Film Is Not Yet Rated today. The MPAA is kind of scary, and evidently utterly opposed to any kind of transparency of process. And as an added bonus, filmmakers appealing a rating (since contrary to what Valenti says, an NC-17 is basically a death sentence as far as theatrical distribution is concerned) are specifically not allowed to cite other films as precedents, much less actually know the identities of the panel that's judging them (which turned out to be made up of movie industry executives, plus a catholic priest and an episcopal priest). I'm kind of glad I'm not into making movies, since it means I won't have to put up with this kind of crap.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/9871619/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/9871619/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:12:34 PDT Tokyo Heroes later today). On the other hand I've been drawing a lot more lately, as evidenced by the new pieces I finally scanned and uploaded this morning (including three scraps).

(And at some point I need to find an artist to commission to do the cover for Tokyo Heroes. My concept for it is IMHO neat but pretty elaborate).

I've also been trying to learn how to do page layouts in InDesign, which I'm finding to be powerful but not terribly intuitive. I'm also reading an incredibly good book on typography and layout called The Elements of Typographic Style, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to do that kind of stuff.

More importantly, my first day of graduate school at SFSU is tomorrow. Which is kind of annoying since I don't meet with my advisor for the first time until the day after tomorrow. Argh. The good news is that the train ride is simple and relaxing. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/9492388/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/9492388/ Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:04:15 PDT very differently (more friends coming, *much* closer hotel, and probably fly instead of driving). I did a comic about it, and wrote a long LJ post with lots of grammatical errors.

The good that came out of it is that I picked up some really kickass stuff, and I got inspired to get back into doing actual creative stuff. Of course, I need to recover from the con, and I need for the heatwave to let up some. San Diego was hot and humid, and the whole time I was thinking that it'd be nicer back in San Jose (what with how it's like 500+ miles north), and I was SO wrong. I got back to my house at 10:30 at night, and the inside of the house was literally over 100 degrees. I have one room with AC in my house, and I had to lie on the floor of that room and wait for the temperature to drop below a boil to get any sleep.

The aforementioned LJ entry has a fuller accout of the loot I picked up. Still, I got some really awesome sketchbook thingies at the con. There's this certain drawing style that uses a particular kind of American cartooning to do really incredible pinup art, which I'm starting to fall in love with. I also came upon Jose Lopez' sketchbook Mariachi Samurai, which I find too cool for words (and I want to play the title character in an RPG some day!).

I attended a panel on translating manga (Surprise! I'm already qualified!) and one on writing for comics (which was overly geared towards superhero comics unfortunately). Still, I'm starting to think more seriously about writing scripts for comics. I have an idea for a mini-comic I want to do (starting Akiko no less), and I may post the script here. I'd also like to see a comic adaptation of Ignition (an anime-style story I did a few years ago) some day, though that would mean finding an artist who can draw cute bubbly girls, Initial D style car races, AND cool fighting scenes, and would be willing to do a fairly long comic. If I can find that holy grail of an artist made of god and win, how much adaptation I'd have to do from the original version (which is done up as though it were an animation script) would heavily depend on the preferences of the individual artist. I also need to think about some other shorter comic ideas.

I also got some inspiration for the "Very Tolkien" short story I'd been neglecting for ever, so hopefully I'll get that done some time this century. And I know I have some poems I want to write. ("We dream in color, light, and sound / We dream in Japanese.")

Lastly, I've been taking random pictures of random stuff with my camera, and I've started uploading them to Flickr. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8949139/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8949139/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:14:23 PDT I'm so writing a poem about this. Never a good sign.

FanimeCon was fun, though I missed Saturday because of graduation, and very few of my friends actually made it.

Still plenty of freelance work left to do, but at least with school out of the way I have *some* time for creative stuff.

Random Thought: There was that thing going around the net years ago about the "Top Ten Sexually Tilted Lines In Star Wars" ("Get in there! I don't care what you smell!", etc.). Someone really needs to do that for the dubbed Dragon Ball Z. There's some that are really obvious, like when Krillin says "I love Mr. Popo!" (I swear I am not making this up). Or when Vegeta sees Porunga and says, "Gosh! That's one whopper of a lizard!" ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8426659/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8426659/ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:57:21 PDT APE (the Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco. It was pretty neat all around, though I mostly paid $7 to go around a big dealers room. The main difference is that more often than not you're buying stuff directly from the creators, so their eyes light up in a way you don't get from most purchases. I'm also sorta weird in that I'm never too concerned about getting anything signed, but I wound up with a lot of stuff signed because the creator was right there offering (and although I have antisocial tendencies, even I know it'd be pretty crass to refuse). But anyway.

There was all kinds of stuff there, and I wound up spending about $70 or so on various comics, and I still have some flyers and URLs to investigate. So far of the stuff I picked up my very favorite is Lost At Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim. Rob Ullman's mini-comic "That's Just Super" is just plain wonderful too (and it even got pimped on BoingBoing).

I also went to a panel called "Pitch," about submitting stuff to publishers. (They have one room for panels, with maybe six of them each day). It was mostly common sense and the same stuff I've been hearing about publishing prose, except the indie comics guys seldom have dedicated editors.

As one of the artists said, being there was very inspiring. For me that makes it that much more annoying that I'm buried under schoolwork (and really, I shouldn't be sitting here messing with internet stuff right now, but I need to do something to let my brain rev up some). I'm also starting to wonder if Otaku Dreams, the novel I'm working on that's mostly in planning stages right now, might work better as a graphic novel... But going down that path would require [1] Learning how to write decent scripts for comics (and I'd best practice with non-magnum opus type stuff first) and [2] Finding an artist (someone who unlike my existing artist friends wouldn't be busy with school, MMOs, or drawing teh pr0n). All stuff I don't have time for... Summer can't come soon enough.

Anyway, APE was a fun way to spend an afternoon, and I'll definitely consider going next year. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8149087/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/8149087/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:25:44 PST Animal Town... hopefully I'll be posting it here soonish, and maybe even getting some work done on the other short stories I've been wanting to do. I've been doodling more, but I haven't had any inspiration for poetry in a while.

The BBC has been putting out some really kickass stuff lately BTW. Not only the new Doctor Who, but also The IT Crowd (an incredibly funny comedy) and Life On Mars (a sort of retro cop show with a sci-fi twist). ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7937488/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7937488/ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:52:36 PST

I somehow wound up starting in on the third draft of Nekomimi Land, beginning with mostly re-working the scene where Kaylee discovers Sarah's suicide. I think I waited long enough to get a semi-fresh perspective on the story, though it's sort of depressing to still be finding parts that desperately need revising. And as I said before, I'm kind of afraid of what'll happen if I try this process with a full-length novel.

Of course, part of why it takes so long is I keep getting distracted by other stuff. Right now I'm working on an RPG adaptation of Halo and a mini-campaign to run with my friends. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7844494/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7844494/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:53:44 PST
Anyway, school's been weird in that my classes are mostly extremely mundane and boring (but all absolutely necessary to graduate...), and my imagination is starting to really kick in. It helps that I've been looking at books on Salvador Dali (who was far weirder than The Persistence of Memory suggests), and that I recently watched Mirrormask (an acid trip of a movie, with Neil Gaiman as the main writer), and occasionally having weird dreams as a result. I think I'm going to get at least a short story out of all of it, if I can get my mojo going properly again. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7432440/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7432440/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:08:17 PST a separate blog for RPG stuff BTW), working on Tokyo Heroes (my sentai/magical girl RPG). I think after Nekomimi Land I need to get away from writing prose for a little bit. Hopefully I'll get back into it soon. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7233552/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7233552/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:27:34 PST
(It's probably going to take me a little while to get over that...)

A much lighter "spinoff" short story called "Another Catgirl" (guess what it's about) is nearly done, so I'll be posting that in the near future, and I'm working on a follow-up to that called "Animal Town."

So much for focusing on schoolwork.

Although I was planning to dive into Akihabara Love Story, I think the next longer fiction thingy I want to work on is UFO Girl a silly romp through UFO stuffs that I started writing a while back. I miss writing comedy. But, one thing at a time. Dear god please one thing at a time. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7121283/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/7121283/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:28:40 PST
More importantly, after teasing everyone about it for months and months, I've decided I'm going to be posting the second draft of Nekomimi Land here on my DA account, partly because I don't want to leave everyone in suspense for however many eons it takes me to get it published, and partly so I can get some feedback. My artist friend did up a cover design (with more illustrations to follow for the final printed book) which you can check out here. I'm relatively close to getting it done, but I'm being distracted by another creative project too:

I think it was something like ten years ago now that I started working on a tabletop RPG called "Thrash," based on fighting games and martial arts anime. It was fun to play, but there are a lot of things about it that are just plain wonky, and I've been trying and failing miserably to write a second edition for the past four or so years. Now that I have a lot more experience with RPGs in general, and recently I had a couple of important breakthroughs in rapid succession. Suddenly I have the basics of the new system (which keeps some things but for the most part is a whole new beast), so I want to try to get that finished (ready for playtesting) by the end of the year. For both I have to survive through finals first, but for Thrash 2.0 (which will be a free PDF, though I may try to put out an inexpensive print version through lulu.com) I'll eventually be looking for illustrations (hint hint).

I'm almost caught up on the reading for my Ethnicity In American Literature class; I just need to get through the last two thirds of Victor Villasenor's Macho!. Kite Runner, despite being a little overhyped, was a great book, and an interesting look into Afghanistan. I also started reading Kafka's Metamorphosis, basically just for the hell of it. Although Kafka was German, I think they should've made him an honorary Russian. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6982842/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6982842/ Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:20:18 PST
I really hope I can finish Nekomimi Land some day soon. The new stuff I'm working on adding is proving to be more extensive than I expected. Kotomi (the nurse) started out as a fairly flat antagonist, and she's evolved into a fairly deep character who is thrown into a crisis of faith over the course of the story. When she was young she was a devout believer like most catgirls, and when she became a nurse she saw behind the scenes, but stayed faithful because she was convinced it was all necessary for the greater good. In Kaylee she faces for the first time someone for whom everything that makes Nekomimi Land "work" is poisonous, and for the first time she encounters the idea that there is no god.

I still need to write three more poems (including an Italian sonnet) for my poetry class this semester, plus lots of creative nonfiction stuff, not to mention all that reading. The poem I'm working on now ("Cosplay") is, I think, turning out fairly well, though it's going to take a lot of work. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6923887/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6923887/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:17:12 PST
Naturally I haven't been doing much reading for myself lately, though when I heard about DramaCon I went out and bought it the next day and read it within a couple hours. I just can't gush about it enough, so I won't get started except to say that it's ten kinds of awesome, wrapped in bacon. Basically it's really well-done soap opera drama mixed with equally well-done comedy about a girl going to her first anime convention. ("TENTACLES!")

For some reason while I was totally failing to read books because of cold symptoms I did a lot of scribbling in my notebook -- I think I literally filled 14 pages over the weekend. As a result I finished a new poem (Saffron and Azrael) and got back into working on Nekomimi Land (some day I'll finish rewriting it...), especially for fixing up that one really weak chapter towards the end. I also got some Neko Machi stuff done, but since the scanner at home it out of whack I don't know when I'll be able to post it up. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6791080/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6791080/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:03:35 PDT
I also have another BIG translation job that promises to be really lucrative, and oddly fun. I've been watching LOTS of Buffy and Angel while working on it. I still have a while to go before the episode in Angel Season 5 where Angel gets turned into a puppet... I gave into temptation and found a screenshot, and it took a while to stop laughing. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6606804/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6606804/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:49:01 PDT
For my Ethnicity In American Literature class I just finished reading a novel called "Comfort Woman" by Nora Okja Keller. As the title suggest, it deals a lot with a former Juugun Ianfu (the girls taken as sex slaves by the Japanese government in WWII). Akiko, however, is haunted by spirits, and her daughter, growing up in Hawaii, tries to cope with being between two worlds and having a mother that most people are sure is batshit crazy. The end result is something really compelling, that deals not only with the "comfort woman" horror, but with clashing cultures, the meaning of womanhood, coming of age, responsibility, etc. All in all it was a really good book, and I'm thinking of reading the author's follow-up, Fox Girl, when I have the time. I also got some more ideas for Nekomimi Land... ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6545381/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6545381/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:57:58 PDT massive revisions with, plus I managed to get a much better handle on Kotomi's character, necessitating certain changes in the scenes where she shows up. Writing with speech recognition is kind of a pain, frankly, if only because when it comes to generating prose I tend to think at about the same pace as I type, which isn't quite right for voice recognition, so I'll probably get much more writing done when I can do it all by hand again.

Anyway, the original Nekomimi short story mutated into the first two chapters of Nekomimi Land, but those are one of the parts I'm mostly rewriting (as it is right now you can really feel the 90-degree turn between the part that was a short story and the rest), so I updated the Deviation post with the new revisions.

I'll probably be posting more creative nonfiction stuff soon too, considering I have to turn in a couple of pieces on Wednesday. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6376030/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6376030/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:33:32 PDT
The so this semester I’m taking both poetry and nonfiction writing classes, which means I’ll have plenty of stuff to post up here. On the other hand and going to have insane amounts of reading to do once again. The creative nonfiction writing teacher assigned a 300 page book as a textbook for the class, and on the first day she told us that we had to read it by next week. I still have a hundred pages so to go by this afternoon…

I think I’ve decided that with poetry I have so many other forms of expression available to me that I don’t want to bother with poems unless there’s something lyrical about them – unless they actually feel like "poems." But who knows if will be able to pull that off.

And on the plus side my new desktop computers working great and I should be getting my new glasses soon. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6304459/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6304459/ Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:47:18 PDT
I'm also thinking of trying to take the Writing Nonfiction class -- it's full but I might be able to add. Like the Writing Fiction class it seems to be a little misleadingly named. "Writing Fiction" should be "Writing Literary Short Fiction" and "Writing Nonfiction" should be "Writing Creative Nonfiction," which is a genre that's actually less widely known than poetry. In high school I really dreaded doing any kind of autobiographical writing assignment, but I think through fiction and poetry I've figured out how to articulate the nature and meaning of my existence in writing, even if there isn't a whole lot that acually happens. "Write what you know" can be really frustrating to anyone who wants to write speculative fiction. "Know what you write" (i.e., do the research, talk to people, etc.) is a bit better, but I'd say "Write what you are." You can write about anything and still draw on personal experience to create something worthwhile.

I'm also getting more interested in developing/writing RPGs again... Dunno how that's gonna turn out, but it can be ludicrously time-consuming at times.

One definite plus is I got paid for the giant freelance translation job I did back in July, so I was able to buy myself a new desktop computer and a new pair of glasses (the frames on the ones I have are about ready to fall apart...). I don't generally think of myself as photogenic per se, but I've been thinking of taking a picture, if only for when people harrass me for one online. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6016243/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/6016243/ Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:41:05 PDT Nekomimi Land. I've never had a story require so much continual revision and soul-searching to get done before. All through the process I've been alternately thinking that I'm accomplishing something really impressive and thinking I'm a total worthless hack. Right now my feeling is that it's just a matter of putting in the time to get it how I wanted, though if I become a professional writer I doubt I'll have the luxury of spending months agonizing over every little sentence. And considering Nekomimi Land is going to be under 20,000 words, I'm frankly a little scared of how long it'll take me to write a full-length novel. I've mentioned before that today a novel is a minimum of 80,000 words, and it occurs to me that there are plenty of great classics (including Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 -- a "mere" 50,000 words) that could've been rejected by publishers on account of length. Of course, there was a time when a 1,000 page book just wasn't practical (which is also why Lord of the Rings was published as three books instead of one).

I think that Nekomimi Land is fundamentally about the individual and soceity, about the cycle of consent that lets culture reproduce like a virus, even if it's constantly mutating. One of the great things about writing is that even for the writer it can be a process of discovery, and it's taken me a long time to really understand what the hell I was getting at all this time. Chloe has been surprising me a lot lately too, and there's a certain important turning point in the story where I got it to a point where I found myself feeling really upset about how things turned out, right alongside Kaylee.

I also started working on a sonnet I've been thinking about, tenatively titled Otaku Prayers, and some initial planning for my next screwed-up novel, Akihabara Love Story. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5902293/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5902293/ Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:29:55 PDT Takashi Murakami, a Japanese artist who uses elements of otaku and pop art to make really bizarre, deep stuff, and brought about a movement in Japanese art called Superflat. The results are always intriguing and sometimes outright grotesque too.

I'm especially fascinated with blurring the line between fantasy and reality as a theme. It already happens in people's minds, and technology is gearing up to bring that blurriness to us from the physical plane. Video games and androids are starting to look a lot like the real thing (with the Uncanny Valley coming into play of course), and it raises questions about how much of reality is inside the mind.

That in turn leads to questions of the continuum that resides between connection with people and total solipsism. (*man* i'm using big words...) In Japan it seems like being an otaku automatically cuts you off from a substantial portion of normal social existence. In his book Denpa Otoko, Toru Honda mentions that in college he was pretty average, until one day he announced that he would become an otaku, and suddenly none of the women would go near him. And now in Japan some women's magazines are advocating that 30-somethings should find otaku and try to convert them into normal men, suitable for marriage.

And there's also the ways in which otaku media present things from real life -- relationships, sex, technology, and on and on.

Much to think about. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5747775/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5747775/ Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:38:44 PDT

I've managed to find some time to write, and I have plenty of ideas for new short stories to work on, and quite a few more I want to sit down and revise. Looking through my documents folder, I stumbled across an unfinished story about two friends going to the mall, deliberately written in an overblown Tolkien type writing style, and I definitely want to finish it. I'm also working on a couple of really weird short stories -- which may turn out to be flash fictions or vingettes. And then comes the important step of trying to publish stuff.

I've actually been doodling a lot lately too... ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5697541/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5697541/ Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:01:20 PDT
I can be a pretty cynical person (actually I'm a cynical optimist -- "life sucks but there's always tomorrow") so my opinions sometimes need to be taken with a grain of salt, but I'm starting to see a pattern of sorts with doing freelance work. I find I have to assume that my contact has what I've decided to call "office disease" -- an affliction that makes a person able to ignore or only selectively reply to any communications that aren't real-time (i.e., anything other than meeting face-to-face or talking directly on the phone). It's necessary to assume that once an assignment is recieved, you'll just be working on it without any further guidance. Don't get me wrong; the freelance stuff has been really rewarding (god forbid, work that has a real feeling of accomplishment) and I've been working with really cool people over all, but yeah. Office disease. My regular work is ten times worse anyway; apparently voice mails might as well not exist as far as my manager is concerned.

Anyway, now hopefully I'll be able to get back into creative stuff. Kingsley's been doing the art for Neko Machi and the results have been great, though I need to find time and energy to work on scripts more. And I've been itching to work seriously on Nekomimi Land -- I've been reading lots of satire/dystopia type books (just finished 1984 and started Battle Royale today) so I've got plenty of inspiration -- plus I have a few ideas for poems and short stories and other things I want to work on. And RPG stuff. And so on. Bleargh. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5600950/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5600950/ Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:51:50 PDT
Anyway, thanks to everyone who posted comments and encouragement and whatnot -- it really helped. ^_^ ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5589238/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5589238/ Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:55:46 PDT
My friend Kingsley is going to be taking over the art side of Neko Machi, at least for the time being, so I need to get my act together and start seriously writing.

Only right now I have massive, rushed freelance translation work to deal with, and I'm stressing out (hence the two scribbled comic thingies in my Scraps section). I had hoped to attend cons, and then relax a bit, but after getting back from A-Kon I had even more stuff to worry about. But once that's done with... I can start summer stuff for real, and I should have some fat checks on the way. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5503293/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5503293/ Mon, 30 May 2005 14:51:19 PDT LiveJournal and on Neko Machi about FanimeCon (note the part about how I'm contemplating finding someone else to do the art for Neko Machi), but there are a few things I wanted to add here.

I also attended a panel on drawing with Steve Bennet. The major thing that struck me there was that he started off with very basic exercises intended to "loosen up" aspiring artists, to prevent art from being an overly linear process, just drawing circles, squares, and triangles without looking at the paper or particularly thinking about anything. It really illustrated what Thinh is always saying about loosening up, and it seems to be one of the more fundamental things in art.

Inspiration For Writing
I'm also going to get a few poems and short stories out of the whole experience. I had been wanting to write something about anime fandom before, but I'd just never figured out how to come at it, how to find the soul of it as it were. I'm glad I got into poetry, because I think it's helped me to learn how to recognize when poems happen around me, to see those moments when the world slows down to the speed of words. For example, once I was just hanging out and a fellow staffer sat down with a bowl of macaroni, clapsed his hands, and began to pray. And it was like, for just a moment this guy transformed from an otaku into a priest, and then "Amen," and sacred silence and it was over. You can't make up stuff like that.

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5461999/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5461999/ Wed, 25 May 2005 22:10:30 PDT FanimeCon is upon us! O.o

I'm actually going in a day early to help out with staff stuff... I'll also be putting on an Anime RPG panel again this year, on Saturday at noon, and participating (along with =dragynstorm and who knows who else) in the Webcomics panel, which will be on Sunday at noon. Wai!

]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5377658/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5377658/ Mon, 16 May 2005 20:33:25 PDT
And I finally finished up my calligraphy final project, such as it is. For anyone out there thinking of doing stuff with calligraphy on a big long roll of paper, my advice would be DON'T. It makes every step of the process about ten times more annoying. Getting the characters to fit the desired length, storying it, gluing it to a backing, etc. I'm probably still going to do some calligraphy stuff now and then (I still have enough materials to last a *long* time), but nothing like that 40-some character poem. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5350258/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5350258/ Fri, 13 May 2005 18:34:11 PDT
Well, for the calligraphy final project I decided to write out a tanka poem by Takuboku Ishikawa... The problem being that I'm trying to do nearly 40 characters on a scroll, which makes it really hard to keep them reasonably balanced on the paper. On the plus side the rolled paper I got is really absorbent, so at least I don't have to worry about the ink from one part of the paper blotting onto another as I scroll it along. On the other hand I still haven't figured out how the hell I'm going to affix it to the backing. Tape was a bad idea... Hopefully the aerosol glue we have in the basement will actually work... I should test it on something beforehand.

I got a good start on the short story... The assignment is to do a story based on one of the stories we read for the class, so I picked Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Writing about a creepy nutcase is fun! Anyway.

I definitely want to do lots of my own creative stuff over the summer. Hopefully I'll actually be able to finish my novella (or at least complete a first draft... ), and maybe work on some short stories. I also want to try and do something a little more ambitious with Neko Machi (possibly including harassing artists I know to do "mini-series" for the comic ), work on the T-shirt designs I started on a while back, get back into the RPG projects I've been neglecting, and probably too many other things besides. For that matter since after looking at the class schedule it looks I'll probably wind up taking poetry writing again next semester (with the same teacher no less) I might as well get a head start on writing more poems. I have a few more ideas for poems that I never finished anyway...

nyo~ =^.^= ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5265030/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5265030/ Wed, 04 May 2005 12:52:17 PDT
I wrote a mediocre non-metrical sestina, inspired by the lyrics from the .hack//SIGN sountrack (naturally it's called "Twilight"). Making a metrical sestina is really freaking hard because the form is based on a repetition of the last word of each line in a specific pattern, so the end words need to be perfectly metrical. Argh. If I can get it to be metrical... Though it'd probably have to be in trochaic meter so that "TWIlight" fits... but then I'd have to ditch "aLONE." Or just have "twilight" break the meter every time it shows up. Or something. Argh.

I got started a bit on "The Hand That Feeds." I think part of the trick is to have the cliche phrase be in the title and nowhere else in the poem, conspicuous by its absensce. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5207120/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5207120/ Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:27:22 PDT
For Calligraphy, I need to do my final project, which can be pretty much anything that involves painting or carving on something in Japanese. I'm thinking I want to do something with poetry or somesuch, but I'm still not sure what exactly. And on top of that we're carving hanko (name seals/stamps) in class.

For the short story literature class I need to write a short story in the style of one of the stories we've read -- I'm planning to do one based on Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.

For my poetry class I need to write FOUR poems to turn in on the last day of class. o.O I have a few ideas, but it's taking some time to develop them into poems. I can never just write the poem; I have to throw out random prose first, and sometimes I can't even do that, and have to scribble random words. I have two at the prose stage, called "Electric Me" and "dreamspam." The third I'm working on is a bit weirder, and may or may not work out. When I heard that the title of the first single from NIN's new album was called "The Hand That Feeds," I was expecting something using imagery of some kind of evil, hungry hand to make some point about something, so I was kind of disappointed to find that the actual song has kind of generic "anti-establishment" themed lyrics, so I'm trying to create the kind of thing I wanted out of that title for myself.

And I'm not getting nearly as much of any of that done as I should because I keep getting sidetracked by this really fucked up novel I'm working on called Nekomimi Land. Chapter 1 of it is a refined version of the Nekomimi story I posted here a while back, and from there the main character gets kidnapped and taken to the land of the catgirls. From there the story is about her learning why Nekomimi Land is actually a horrible dystopia and finding a way to escape. It's easily the darkest story I've ever written, but so far I think it's also one of the best. This is partly because studying the likes of Hemingway has shown me how to work on controlling and tweaking diction and syntax, something I was always kind of weak on before. Lately when I go through stuff I wrote before, I find myself slashing away a lot of "fat" from the prose, and trying a lot harder to "show rather than tell." At some point I ought to finish revising and actually post Grand Theft Dignity, the story I did for a writing workshop class a while back about a video game store clerk. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5143299/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5143299/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:15:00 PDT here), but things have worked out so I'll be able to go to both FanimeCon *and* A-Kon this year. ^_^ I don't know what exactly I'm gonna be doing there (apart from visiting some friends who've moved to Texas), but I'm definitely gonna check out (and prolly spend too much money at) the Komick Market thingy they're going to have. =^.^= ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5074399/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/5074399/ Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:43:27 PDT ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4797169/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4797169/ Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:23:24 PST
I'm getting the hang of writing in iambic pentameter, but I find fitting in rhyme scemes to be a pain in the butt sometimes. But anyway. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4614027/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4614027/ Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:15:49 PST

In other news, I finally got around to collecting some of the interesting bits from my writing notebook and typing them up. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4539360/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4539360/ Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:54:57 PST
Part of the problem is that in the entire four years of high school my English teachers all miserably failed to adequately expalain how the hell meter works in poetry. This is, I understand, an important point because poetry without meter is a relatively new concept. In the Fantasy and Science Fiction course I took last semester the professor, while teaching about Lord of the Rings, managed in about five minutes to explain meter more or less perfectly, and we had Tolkien's examples of different kinds of meter right at our fingertips. The contrast between the Hobbit's iambic tetrameter and the barrow wight's trochaic tetrameter were particularly useful.

On the other hand she also mentioned that pentameter is kind of unnatual to English -- quatrameter is much more natural -- and I'm inclined to agree. In trying to write my sonnet I keep coming up with lines that are perfect except that they need another iamb.

Still, in spite of all the fiddling and frustration involved it's sort of rewarding. Iambic pentameter gives words a certain pleasant "rolling" quality, though it's subtle.

Regardless, I'll be posting up my sonnet pretty soon. ]]> ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4292582/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/4292582/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:00:56 PST ~nekoewen http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/3911250/ http://nekoewen.deviantart.com/journal/3911250/ Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:05:12 PST
I kinda wish I had time for NaNoWriMo, but with everything going on it would've just been impossible. Hopefully I'll be able to get into some novel writing over winter break though... ]]> ~nekoewen