Round One

Hello and welcome to me giving into everyone on the internet. I remember back in the day I used to have a blog that I shared with my friend and creator of WorkBytes.net, and all we'd do is create sentences out of track listings on CDs. It was pretty fun and we or I might end up doing that again sooner or later.

I personally run the HTML creation and maintenance of WorkBytes.net, having created now three different versions including the current format of the site. The title is an obvious pun and the comic itself was based off of life in a call center and soon grew past that. But all of that information is available under the Creators tab on the site. This is about blogging.

I read various blogs and livejournals, though most of them are the same at heart, places for people to pour their hearts and/or troubles out where people can decide whether or not to take the time to actually read them. And it gets addicting. Though I'm bad at guaranteeing, this blog is mainly going to be a place to post quick story ideas and random chapters from whatever I'm working on. It helps keep my mind focused on the big picture, or the main title I'm trying to work on.

And when in doubt, I follow Heinlein's Rules for Writing (author of Starship Troopers):
1 You Must Write.
2 You Must Finish what you Write
3 You Must Refrain from Rewritting, except for Editing
4 You Must Put the Work on the Market
5 You Must Keep the Work on the Market until it is Sold

"Writing is nothing to be ashamed of. But do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."

My current big title is "The Paradise War", a work in progress that originated out of my desire to leave mecha fighting for a while and go back to old-fashioned fighters in space. The idea and plot quickly formed for the 2005 Nation Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) which was sent to me by a friend from the States.

In 2006 I put that idea aside to work on "The Prodigy", an idea created solely to compete in the 2006 NaNo. In early 2007 I picked "The Paradise War" back up, dusted it off and resumed writing, and shortly thereafter, I created the idea of "Inner Visions" to keep all the various ideas unusable for "The Paradise War" in check.

"Inner Visions" is going to be a collection of short stories, poems and quick rhythm and rhymes that pollute my head. I cannot afford to stop writing one book to start another and then drop the second and go back to the first, so instead they get logged. Whether or not Inner Visions actually gets published is another matter entirely, but one might consider this publishing, according to some rule about publishing.

Thus is why the stories posted here will seem short and quick. They are ideas given five minutes of time, nothing more. And of course the random internet quizzes. So I fare thee well after having to read all that text, and I hope you'll be back to read my future posts.

Adios!

Ninja ... VANISH! *p00f!*

ShirtNinja Theater Presents: Inner Visions (c)2007 Kiyoshi Perkins