Zombie Desk

1/05/2012 at Thursday, January 05, 2012 | By: Alex

Some pictures

Since my sister made a ninja tree, it seems only fair I make one as well.

=))
Joking, I tried to find a ninja Christmas tree... but I couldn't find it.
Anyway...

I went to my aunt last week and saw my little cousin at her place and he made me decide: HE is the ONLY exception to the idea that all kids are trolls. So far he's the only one that made me laugh and not try to tear my head off.
Really, the little guy's funny:

I haven't changed my mind about the rest of the kids though: TROLLS!

I've been following some artists blogs lately and I found this a few days ago:
Zombie Catocalypse
This explains sooooo much about the end of the world...

Not staying on the subject of pictures, check out the artist's website and especially her beautiful online comic:
A Redtail's Dream
Minna Sundberg

Returning to the subject of pictures, 9gag.com has the funniest pictures, memes and other funny stuff I've seen lately.

Hmm... I'm getting sleepy. So, until next time: watch out for zombies!

1/04/2012 at Wednesday, January 04, 2012 | By: Alex

Sketch Dump 2010-2011

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The horse sketch was made after this: horse
The guy on the right side shooting fire from his hands at the Medusa is Evell, an OC of mine. On the lower right corner is the sketch I'm currently trying to make an actual picture. Still a WIP for now. The rest are random doodles I drew while in class, work or at home.

1/02/2012 at Monday, January 02, 2012 | By: Alex

Chrono Cross music

I love this song!

I've played Chrono Trigger some years ago and it was one of the first games I've finished and liked. This is the opening song to the sequel: Chrono Cross, which I'm playing now.
This song is also perfect to play as background music when I'm writing.

Schedule

I'm not promising anything except I will TRY and keep this up:

Wednesday - Update with drawings
Saturday - Update with stories
In between - Most likely rants on different things.

I'm also going to try and make some reviews for books I've read and liked, movies I've watched, games I've played... stuff like that. If I will not it's most likely because I've forgo...What was I talking about?:D

1/01/2012 at Sunday, January 01, 2012 | By: Alex

2012

Happy End of the World Year!!! ...also known as 2012...

Here's to more drawing, more writing, more music and more fun this year!
Here's to better of everything of the above!
Here's to making new friends and keeping the old ones (even when they turn into zombies at the end of the year)! Hoping I'll finally do what I say and not keep most of the things as plans. Hoping I'll lead the survivors of the Apocalypse, or at least be among them. Hoping I'll read just as much as I did last year but make more time to see my friends. Hoping I'm going to be a better person. Or at least a vegetarian zombie.
Here's to a new, better year than the one that passed, here's to the end of the world only in dreams and movies and not reality (I haven't been everywhere I wanted to go and I haven't met everyone I wanted to meet yet).
Here's to 2012! May it be unforgettable!

11/29/2011 at Tuesday, November 29, 2011 | By: Alex

51055 WORDS!

11/18/2011 at Friday, November 18, 2011 | By: Alex

Stats

This month, as I've written before, I started the NaNoWriMo Challenge. I've already written a lot (more than half) of it and I'm pretty sure I'll reach my mark (50000 words) by the end of the month.
That's not the point of this post though.
Because I've been constantly checking how many words I wrote, I got curious enough to wonder myself... just how many words have I ever written? Now, I obviously can't sum everything I've ever written up. However, I can and did actually, sum up everything that I've written (concerning stories and whatnot) that I've found in my computer. This doesn't include school assignments (although adding those would probably double everything up:D).
I have in my folder titled "My stories" a few categories:
I have Mesmeria, with its multi sub-folders (for every area in Mesmeria): 238225 words !!!
Then there is the "Finished" folder with dozens of short stories (most of them suck though): 26924 words
"Other Stories" folder (where the stories that don't happen in Mesmeria and that have something to do with fantasy end up): 26813 words
Chrono - 2215 words (some synopsis on one of my stories)
I dreamed the end of the world - 381 words (a dream I've had with zombies that I wanted to dissect with a friend but never got around to do it... sadly...)
Story beginning - 46 words (a fleeting idea that needed to be put on paper... er... screen?)
General Book of Potions... - 2955 words (this was my Harry Potter phase... don't ask...)
Pirates - 1883 words (my "make a game" phase... I was supposed to write the plot for a game that a bunch of us cooked up but the project fell through...)
Last, but not least, there is a story I was writing online with this girl from the other side of the country. It was fun until I went to college... Then I gave a lot of things up, writing was part of them for a while at least. We never really finished this story: "Jeux a la Magie" - 28688 words (written with Ana).

I stopped and thought about this after I've actually seen how much I've written... Without counting the collaboration, I'm almost at my 300000 word mark.

So, here's to 300000!!!
Over and out!

11/02/2011 at Wednesday, November 02, 2011 | By: Alex

NaNoWriMo

Nation Novel Writing Month is, as the name implies, a widespread (international actually but the name wouldn't have sounded so nice with Int:P) challenge addressed to all the writers (both published and unpublished) which has been taking place for many years already.
Last year was my first year participating, with "The Witching Hour" actually. Didn't win then but I plan to do so now.:)
Basically, NaNo is an exercise for all writers. During the month of November, you're supposed to write day and night and achieve at least 1667 words per day, so that at the end of the month you'll have a draft of 50000 words. I only managed around 35000 words last year since it was my last year in college and I had a lot of projects to do.
NaNo started yesterday but unfortunately I wasn't able to start then. When I came home from work there was no power. When the power finally came back (my candles were almost dead, thank God!), I went online. My internet connection died 5 minutes after I opened my computer (yeah, rotten luck).
So, I'm starting NaNo today. A day late, so for me there will be 1725 words to type per day. I'm going to take a break from Adva and Cassie and Taegan and the rest of the cast and concentrate on another region in Mesmeria, the country of Ylenea. The story I'm writing this month is more or less a twist on "1001 Nights", only the "Tales of Ylenea" will be told by a drunken 1000 year old parrot bewitched by a lonely dragon.
If I forget to update Zombie Desk with any choice tidbits, I humbly apologize and I will give you a metaphorical candy to shut you up. :D (chocolate or bacon flavored, pick one)
Until next time, cheers!