Untilted 2011 story, chapter 3

At this rate, I'll probably have all the finished chapters posted before the end of the week... or maybe even before the end of the weekend, depending on how long my homework takes.

Untitled 2011 story, chapter 2

Second chapter of my 2011 NaNoWriMo attempt.  Probably the last one I'll post here tonight, since it takes a while to fix up the spacing after copying these from Microsoft Word.

Untitled 2011 story, chapter 1!

Yep... it's nowhere near finished, of course, but I do have six chapters done, so I figure posting at least some of this thing here might be a good idea.  Here's the first chapter.

The Fnrrf Ygm Schnish wiki is growing again!

Yeah... lately I've actually gotten some work in on expanding the Fnrrf Ygm Schnish wiki, adding more than a dozen new pages just in the past week or so.  In addition to filling in some stuff that was missing before (characters like Upchukk and Nummy, items like the Blubbermax pill, and critters like the Nummorrian centipede), I've also started adding pages about some of my old games and stories.  If you happened to see the wiki in its earliest days, you might remember that these things used to have their own pages but then they got deleted when I decided that the wiki wasn't going to cover my old stuff that's no longer being used.  Well, I've changed my mind on the issue, at least when it comes to old stories and games--even though characters and such from my old stuff will continue to not be covered, the stories and games themselves now have pages once again.

A few examples: an old Supernum story titled "Supernum Meets Commander Keen," the first ZZT game I ever made, and my attempt at making a card game in 6th grade.

EDIT: The wiki is dead, so none of these links will work anymore. :(

Random name generators... sometimes actually work?

Yep... a few days ago someone suggested that I use random name generators to come up with names for some of my new characters that I was planning on writing about.  At the time I thought "nah, that'd never work," but just now I actually tried it, and... after a bit of fiddling here and there (changing one letter each in two names, adding one to the end of another), I now have names for five of my seven (possibly eight, depending on if the robot needs a name at all) important characters.

This means I most likely will be able to write something for National Novel Writing Month this year, since the one thing really holding me back was the fact that I didn't have names for any of my characters.  I still don't have names for the two main characters, but hey, still needing to come up with two names isn't nearly as bad as needing another seven of them.

The names themselves, by the way, are:

1. Mekedzis, formerly "sneaky guy."  I had gotten the idea a while back that he would have a name starting with an M, and then one of the random name generators came up with "Meredzis."  I liked the look of it but thought a C or K in place of the R would work better, so I changed that bit.
2. Aiore, formerly "spiky-haired girl."  Straight from the random name generator.  Coincidentally, according to Google there is a manga or anime or something titled "Ai Ore," which I've never heard of.
3. Hegamel, formerly "spiky-haired guy."  Also straight from the name generator.
4. Vahrago, formerly "old guy."  Straight from the generator, and apparently is spelled similar to an actual word that means something like "an unpleasant woman."
5. Isahralah, formerly "scary old man."  The generator came up with "Isahrara," and I fiddled with the end a bit to come up with the current version.  Seems like a pretty good "ancient old man" name.

Random semi-related news

Apparently SVU decided to un-block fictionpress.net from their content filter thingie.

Which means... now you can read about Pugh the vampire in two different places: in my posts here, or on my page over there.  The only real difference is white text on a black background vs. black text on a white background, though, so if you've already read them here there's not much reason to read them again on a different website.  Unless you just wanted to read them again, I guess that's okay.

The Fnrrf Ygm Schnish wiki

It's still really, really incomplete, and I probably don't update it as often as I should, but... here's the link to the FYS wiki, which (when finished) will cover pretty much everything from all of my current games/stories/etc.  Annoyingly, they put giant banner ads for things I've never heard of all over the place at some point a few months back... but generally stuff should still be readable.

The Fnrrf Ygm Schnish wiki

EDIT: Wiki has been dead for quite a while now... this blog is slowly accumulating information to replace it (see the Khurbyish Dictionary and "Khurbyish Lesson" posts for a good example of that) but it's... not quite there yet. XD