[SUM] - And this is where we are at right now:

It's Tuesday and that means it's short-update-madness day for me, for you ... for all of us so to speak.

First on the list of many things: 'Loner's Peak' and it's ongoing series.
   During my holiday last month I decided on a couple of things. First of which being the name of the series will be 'Omnivore' for the time being, hopefully only subject to change if a publisher subjects to the name. That being said - I'm still waiting for that one reply to my queries telling me 'Yes this agency is in fact offering you representation for your work.'
Though not all queries have been replied to yet, but the thing to do will be mostlikely sending out another heap of those in the near future.

Second on the list: 'Bloodstained Shadows' - my fan-fiction
   I've been going on about this project for a while now and the editing has been going surprisingly slowly until now, but just as expected it took up a lot of speed with part three of the four. And as of right now there is roughly a fifth of the whole text still to be done. Expect that to get finished up soon/-ish.

Third: 'Sleeptalking' - the Victorian horror
   Editing run number four, which was originally announced to happen parallel to the editing of 'Bloodstained Shadows' will pick up as soon as I'm done with BS - CoaLS. That should put it on par with Loner's Peak.

Forth: 'The Bamboo Labyrinth' - the short-short short
    We be finished as my schedule allows me to... there are a couple of things I need to address myself to that are just simply more important. Take it as unfinished for the time being, although there isn't that much that still has to be added to complete the picture.

Fifth: Project 'Nightingale' and 'Kaleidoscope'
    Both of which have been subject to a lot of thinking over the one short week that was my holiday in the U.A.E. Most important thing to note is that there will be a name-swap for the two.
The story formerly know as "Nightingale" will be renamed to 'Heavy Silence' for now (although I'm not completely happy with it yet) and "Kaleidoscope" will be - much to anybody's confusion renamed to 'Nightingale'. Also... the prologue I had posted on this site for 'Nightingale' - now referred to as 'Heavy Silence' is heavily outdated and might as well be re-posted in the future.

And last but not least - a short scribble from my notebook taken from the notes to 'Heavy Silence' so you see I haven't solely been sitting at the beach or pool the whole time (which in fact I did :s) :


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'My name? You'll find it to be utterly pointless but if you so desire to know...
Michael - it's the mashed potatoes of name seeking: no matter how you turn it or try to spice it up, it never changes. Helplessly bland, boring and not even the shot of milk, or in my case whisky, added anything to the mix.'


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No offense to the Michael's of this world btw... it's not my opinion but that of the main character.

Aaaaand there you go... Short-update-madness successfully uploaded. Enjoy the overload of information.
As always thanks for reading and have a great week.
Marc, now quickly back to editing again - maybe I'll get that part done today. (Editz: Yays... only one part left to go!)

Oh wow...

So it's September already... my my... time flies by indeed. But isn't this one of the many things that makes life so sweet? Knowing that you only have one and that it passes by. The flow of time... as much a blessing as it is a curse.

But enough of my pointless ramblings, not that anything I say actually has a meaning to it, or does it?

I finally gave in to buying Minecraft... yes... consider me one of the addicted. I've spent my free-time of the past two day with building some basic stuff, only to burn it down again soon after, still in search for the perfect world to settle down.
(For the extra thrill -> Winnie the Pooh skin and Beni sitting next to the laptop... oh, I'm such a child...)

Story-wise - I started working on the Short stories and texts that I'm writing for the textbook. I brought the first one onto (virtual) paper, started toying around with various others and got down to making a rough grid for all twelve of them.
Concerning my fiction I'm starting to get entangled in the many ideas I have - I seriously need somebody to help me write all of those books stored in my head - but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?
I even had another idea - yes even more to write down. It's getting a bit out of hand and I'm still not at the point where I would give in to cutting on any of them. Though this 'idea' I got there is somewhat of a neck-breaker. Yeah... admittedly it seems to be a bit overkill - despite it being nothing too fancy when you think about it a bit more in depth. But for you guys (and garrrls) out there I'll leave you with just a hunch for now - Kaleidoscope.
Anyhow - expect any work on this project in maybe... a year or two? If I decide on starting to work on it as early as this. First of all I need to get finished with 'Loner's Peak' and the two other parts following its storyline. And after that next in line would be 'Nightingale', at least if I don't decide on changing that.
Yet I'll stop whining about getting nothing done for now - it's not that easy all that studying, part-time-jobbing, writing and living the life of a 'pseudo-normal' student with all his social liabilities ... if you get my drift. But what better point in time to start changing some of the old ways and habits in my life than now?
Especially as my birthday is coming rushing towards me.

Nevertheless I'd feel better if I had some new excerpts to show you, but in all honesty, there is none this time (that I really wanted to show off..., that is). But I'll promise you, the next time I'll post on this here blog of mine, I'll have something new and shiny for you to read.

Btw: Ouch! ... burnt my right hand on the inside of the oven yesterday ... kinda hurts (and looks... well let's not talk about that...)

That's all for now - as always thanks for reading, and have a great day / week.
Marc, the... block-y

P.S.: New Kitteh coming soon
P.P.S.: New Kitteh up and online... A "Get-Well-Kitty"-Picture of my own, still sick kitty. Why did you do something so stupid, sweetheart?
P.P.P.S.: The "Get-Well-Kitty"-Picture seemingly did not have any positive effect... it will be re-captioned.