SemTheLegend

I recently started a little writing project called "Stagnation", it's basically a collection of short stories and poems I wrote because I never seemed to finish anything. I wanted to see if I could write seven stories in the course of about a week and then go back and improve on them. I wrote far more than seven, mostly because I wasn't happy with some of them and ended up completely replacing them, and it really took me a bit longer than a week. The point is, I did finish it. Then I just let it sit for a while.

I now went back to it and surprisingly it's mostly pretty good. The collection contains three poems and four short stories. I've already uploaded three of them here (Owl, 10.49pm and For You) but I thought I'd upload a few more because I actually quite like them.

A couple days ago I wrote two more poems which I'm going to add to Stagnation and probably upload after I've had another look at them. In other writing news, I'm working on a slightly longer story of mine which will hopefully come together somehow. Currently I'm struggling with dialogue, pacing and direction (In other words, I don't know what the point of the story is. It's not even artistically pointless, it's just pointless).

Finally I've also drawn two pictures. They're not quite finished yet (My pens both ran out of ink, I'm going to have to buy new ones). One of them is very likely to end up here, the other one will if it scans properly but my scanner is legendarily rubbish so we'll just have to wait and see.

This is probably the most relevant journal I've written on dA since ever (I've been here since 2006 on various accounts so that's quite an achievement. How many points do I get for it?) I suppose I should keep up the influx on irrelevant information by mentioning that my dog smells horrible and I'm doing bad at school. It's also very cold and winter.

-Semyas the Hardly Legendary

P.S: I recently wrote a short story called Vera. I love it and sort of want to put it up but I don't want to type it on a computer, it would ruin its artistic integrity (or some such shit). If it ends up here it will be scanned and you'll have to make sense of my beautiful handwriting. This also means buying the right kind of paper and re-writing it. If I ever get it done it will be beautiful.

I was going to write something today but then I remembered I'm crap at that. I still wrote it but it made me want to throw my computer screen across the room.

But fear not nobody, for I plan on drawing something tomorrow. Oh yes. Like a birthday present from me to me perhaps. Sounds good. I've actually been pretty productive in terms of drawing lately but that's just been for a diploma thing and it's much too big for me to scan anywhere. Otherwise I would, it's actually quite lovely (though I haven't actually finished yet, it's big. Much bigger than anything I've ever done before.)

Also, sorry to all you Teamspeak guys for not having been on lately. I've just been busy/anti-social/tired to death. I'll be back sooner or later.

On a side note, movies. I'd forgotten how great a musical Evita is, I saw it on stage once and from what I remember it was better than the movie version but the movie version's AMAZING as well. Go watch it. What I don't recommend you watch is "Paris at Midnight" (or whatever that bollocks is called). It's a some-face-Allen movie and it's the worst piece of shite I've ever been made to watch. If I could have I'd have walked out of that English class and gone straight home. I very nearly did too.

P.S: I think I lost my marbles somewhere, please tell me if you've seen them! Thank you.

Don't ask about the title. It's not even accurate.

Anyway, I was thinking I should probably get off my arse and actually draw something for a change. So anyone who cares enough say Aye!

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Is that all? Oh well! So I need you people to inspire me. Tell me what you like about the shit I've uploaded and what sort of thing you think I should focus on. Or maybe something you'd like to see me try. I'm not going to put any pressure on you, this isn't about whether or not you actually like my stuff, it's just about being friendly and all that.

So thank you dears, and goodnight. I'll try to remember to visit this page to see your answers. If I don't well you can just tell me on TS anyway.
Love you if you read this,
-Sem

I am using you to my own ends dA. Just being honest.