Hello!
There's one more thing I feel like posting today: A teaser for my blog-related summer productivity!
The following more or less sums up my blog-related productivity aims for this much-anticipated summer of 2014:
- Write a whole bunch of chapters of Love Lilycove, and possibly also chapters of another one of my stories (not a fanfic) called Jackie! (the exclamation mark is a part of the title!). The total combined chapters will probably, and hopefully, range from 10-25. I'm sure I can manage a lot more than ten, but no promises!
- Write a vast variety of character biographies, info sheets, and so on. First of all, all of the characters from the stories I'm currently writing (i.e. particularly Love Lilycove's characters, but also a bunch from my many other yet-to-be-written stories) will have all kinds of the aforementioned documents written up for them and posted!
- Exceed 100 poems! This should be an easy summer feat, as I already have around 70 poems completed and stored in my Evernote~ I believe I have only posted 2 poems to Nevermeltice so far. It's because I'm not clear on what the scoop is for literary/conceptual theft, as well as how internet publishing affects future career-related usage. That is, if I post poems and story chapters and things here, does that limit or hinder my ability to get my works published in the future? This is an issue about which I must further inquire...
- Write a bunch of each of the following:
- Story synopses
- Story one-shots
- (Possibly) manga chapters by me with poor drawings for the sake of visual story-boarding
- Some more quotes, at least bringing my total to 10-15
- Several big articles/essays on certain topics I'm enthusiastic enough about to the point that I'd go as far as to work hard on such things outside of school. For example, in addition to a big essay on Fate (Fate Zero especially, but also the Fate universe), I plan to write up something big I brainstormed that takes on some big real-world philosophical matters and life problems, particularly pertaining to school, parenting, careers, career counseling, advice and opinions, philosophy, the education system, grades, social judgement, and additional relevant matters. You'll see!
- Go stories and articles/tutorials, one of many examples being my new Joseki Explained series (or more broadly, my "Go Explained" series). I'll be writing at least triple what's needed for the CGA newsletter schedule as far as Go articles/tutorials go. I'll also be posting some other content that should prove helpful for Go players, specifically for students of the game but also for teachers.
- Role-play sessions for Pathfinder, D&D and whatever else will be written up as many stories and posted! Furthermore, my characters and everything about them will be posted. Other information, such as my imagined worlds, races (etc.) will also be posted.
- I'll be posting a lot into the Magic/card game section too, starting with my current decks, my deck plans, my personal taste, and some of my MTG aphorisms.
- In addition to everything else, there will of course be a lot of more random posts, or random tangents. Plus, I'll be sharing all kinds of interesting content from other blogs, especially those of my close friends - and that means even more stories, characters, magic, role-play and more!
- Anime reviews and related will of course also be featured. I will do some writing about Fate, Gundam SEED, Hataraku Maou-sama, and many more.
- And let's not get ahead of ourselves! I still need to write up some autobiographical posts. As all of my passions and a lot of my many personal ideas are being exhaustively poured into the many sections of Nevermeltice, I figure I might as well allow you the chance to get to know me through more than just topical posts in which I rant about, share, or guru things.
- All of the sections of this blog will be activated and fully operational pretty much as soon as the summer begins; as I'm not planning on taking any courses this summer, I'll have a lot of time to write, blog, and Youtube - or should I say, YukiTube - which brings me to my next points;
- My friends Johnny and Allen and I will be having weekly (or maybe even more frequently) short story contests. We''l choose either anime or other stories, scenes, or themes to write about and each be given like 1-3 hours (we haven't decided yet) to speed-write it all in separate writing environments and then return with our stories at a certain time. We'll then rate several aspects of each story and discuss them. I think this will be a lot of fun, and it was Johnny's idea.
- My Youtube Channel, probably to be named "YukiTube", will be fully active as soon as the summer begins! First, I'll finish adding all the music and other videos I've been meaning to fill it up with. I have various playlists with which all my videos will be organized, such as: Go, Fate, Pokemon, Interesting, Education, and so on and so forth. I plan to immediately make at least one Go video - the first video ever of my new and up-and-coming channel - before I get to other tasks.
- I will be practicing not only with Photoshop and Illustrator (I am currently Level 0 in Illustrator and Level 1 in Photoshop), but also with Visual Novel-making software such as Novelty and whatever else I can find that might be better. I have strong intentions to advance myself in terms of VN-making as well as (or especially) programming. Due to some unease about my future, I'll be doing a little more programming than I had originally planned.
- Also, as far as games are concerned, I also plan to download some other game design software and tools and see what else I can do. I'm very interested in the game-design industry. I might even read up on that specifically, as I'd really rather not procrastinate or half-ass an interest of mine that's both potentially career-relevant and about which I have plenty of enthusiasm.
I have lots of other tasks to do that don't necessarily relate to my blog as well, such as:
-Using Athletic Centre and improving my fitness with a light daily exercise regiment and a certain number of days a week of "intense workouts" (but also exercising near/in home).
-Learning Python (I'm not taking it in school, I can only teach myself, learn from others, and study up on it online. But I really want to develop my skills seriously and turn myself into a prospective computer science professional. I think the more I learn, the more I'll like it and be able to fool around with programming stuff. When that happens, It will be easier for me to devote more and more time to developing those skills. I am, however, planning to take CSC108 next Fall.
-I have some other more specific goals and "to do" tasks, and well, I guess even these things (above) will find their way into the blog :)
So stay tuned!!
Once Summer comes around I'll be pumping out an average of two or more posts per day - and staying true to the original-but-seemingly-forgotten purpose of the blog, I'll be pumping out chapters of Love Lilycove for you to read, critique/comment on, and share! ;)
De wa!
~Yukigami
