tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39353156252164892942024-02-20T02:29:53.568-08:00A Creative Writer Unleashed 2.0The journal of WM86, a creative writer since 1995.Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-70945491980565772502017-07-23T09:34:00.003-07:002017-07-23T09:34:25.621-07:007/23/17 Quick Update (mostly Contestant 25-related: Main character change)-New main character in <i>Contestant 25</i>, Darien Wilder, previously Dakota Warren. Thanks to <i>LittleBigPlanet 3</i> a month ago, I have decided to keep my word in terms of what I said on Twitter in 2015 when I announced the novel (which was <i>Agent 25</i> at the time) that the main character was female.<br />
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-Darien can be traced back to the 1999-2000 year, from a weird, strong dream had in 2000 after eating fishsticks for dinner, which resulted in me getting sick a few days later, I think, was a combination of stress and food poisoning. I was also in 8th grade at the time of the dream.<br />
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-As with the post from six months ago, the storyline is still the same. Darien is a 14-year-old charged by her U.S. Secret Service Agent parents with the task of saving the world from the villainous Sterling clan and the evil Japanese megacorporation they work for, 3654Tech, on her 15th birthday. The story still focuses on the history of video games, and still has a wacky cast of characters determined to keep Darien on her toes as she finds out the cause behind the case of missing video game controllers and consoles from history.<br />
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-This story has taken me 22 years to get perfect (yep, that's right--1995 - the year I started writing at the age of nine).<br />
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-Darien is inspired by my personality. Since she came from a dream I had in the 1999-2000 year, she is inspired by actresses Larisa Oleynik (<i>The Secret World of Alex Mack</i>, <i>10 Things I Hate About You</i>), Jewel Staite (<i>Are You Afraid of the Dark?</i>, <i>Space Cases</i>, <i>Firefly</i>) and Katie Holmes (<i>Dawson's Creek</i>).<br />
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-Other inspirations include Amanda Kimmel and Parvati Shallow (both <i>Survivor</i>), Ciji "StarSlay3r" Thornton and Kat "Mystik" Gunn (both <i>WCG Ultimate Gamer</i>), Jessie Graff and Michelle Warnky (both <i>American Ninja Warrior</i>), and finally Cara Maria and KellyAnne (both MTV's <i>The Challenge</i>). She is also inspired by my time playing as Blaze Fielding from <i>Streets of Rage</i> and Tyris Flare from <i>Golden Axe</i> on the SEGA Genesis--the first video game console I ever owned, respectively.<br />
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-The story also revolves around two mysterious Arcade Sticks: Magenta (whose "guardian" was female) and Azure (whose "guardian" was male). This idea came from dreams I had between the years of 1993 and 1995--a couple of months before I started writing when I changed schools. More on those characters later.<br />
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-I am now writing this and <i>The Racer Diaries</i> in Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word. From now on, all new writing projects will be written there.<br />
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Got a busy schedule, so I'll stop the entry here. Until next time, WM86/DFW<br />
<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-81383497138931709292017-01-22T06:22:00.003-08:002017-01-22T06:55:07.562-08:00Quick Update (sorry it's been so long) - 01-22-17<br />
Been really busy and basically life problems kept piling up on me, so here's what I've been working on since October 2015:<br />
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-<i>The 025 Diaries</i> is now <i>Contestant 25</i>. The main character of this series is Dakota Warren, inspired by my personality, like before with Aaron Kirsch, a 16-year-old charged by his U.S. Secret Service agent parents with the task of saving the world. This story has many elements of <i>The 025 Diaries </i>from 2015 carried over and revolves around the history of video games, and still has the villainous Sterling clan who works for the mysterious mega-corporation 3654Tech as well as a wacky cast of characters determined to keep Dakota on his toes throughout the adventure while he finds missing video game controllers as part of an investigation by the FBI.<br />
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-<i>Warrior25</i> is now <i>The Gearbox Diaries</i>. The main character here is Darren Wilder, also inspired by my personality and my passion for cars. The story here revolves around the sudden disappearance of famous TV and movie cars, including Danny Krueger's Subaru Impreza WRX STi from <i>Born 2 Race</i> (played by Joseph Cross), Johnny Tran's modified Honda S2000 from <i>The Fast and the Furious </i>(played by Rick Yune), Ricky Bobby's #62 Me Ford Taurus from <i>Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby </i>(played by Will Ferrell), Cole Trickle's #46 City Chevrolet Chevrolet Lumina from <i>Days of Thunder</i> (played by Tom Cruise), etc.<br />
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One of the main antagonists, the ringleader responsible for the thefts is rumored to be driving what appears to be Nathan Scott's 1984 Honda Accord hatchback from <i>One Tree Hill </i>(played by James Lafferty) and has caught the attention of the FBI and the CIA as well as Interpol. They are determined to keep this from becoming an international incident, and they need Darren's help--as always--to save the world. Another main antagonist is inspired by Brian Tee and Rick Yune (both from <i>The Fast and the Furious </i>series of movies) mixed with James Lafferty (<i>One Tree Hill</i>, <i>Crisis</i>, <i>Underground</i>, etc.) that will also keep Darren on his toes--and rumor has it both antagonists have ties to the mysterious 3654Tech as in <i>Contestant 25</i>.<br />
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Like <i>Contestant 25</i>, <i>The Gearbox Diaries </i>also has a wacky cast of characters determined to keep Darren on his toes throughout his adventure while he multitasks in the most treacherous, extreme conditions possible between trying to become a stuntman in Hollywood and becoming a professional race driver.<br />
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-I am also working on something new: painting cars for every mod in the PC game <i>NASCAR Racing 2003 Season</i>, featuring characters from both <i>Contestant 25 </i>and <i>The Gearbox Diaries</i> in the world of NR2003. I have been working on this project since March 2016. Similarly, I am doing the same thing in other games such as <i>WWE 2K17</i>, but only for <i>Contestant 25 </i>characters, as they created their own Superstars in the world of WWE in said game--the PS4 version.<br />
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And yes, I <i>must </i>try to update here more often -- but there's just way too much stuff going on that's preventing me from doing so, and I'd like for <i>that </i>to stop. Until next time, WM86/DFW :) <br />
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<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-31524005048032983082015-10-16T05:00:00.003-07:002015-10-16T06:08:35.780-07:00Quick Update: 10-16-2015 / Upcoming Projects-I am working on a new series called <i>Project 025</i> (the working title was <i>The 025 Diaries</i>). The series follows the life and trials of teenager Aaron Kirsch, who is inspired by my personality.<br />
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Along the way Aaron meets a wacky cast of characters, such as teenagers who are NASCAR fans (two in particular are fans of Jeff Gordon (4x champion) and Tony Stewart (3x champion)), a street dancer from Compton, teenage video game reviewers who mostly review games by SEGA and Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco Bandai Games, then Bandai Namco Games), people who are fans of certain college sports teams, young dancers from Illinois and Indiana who started out in (get this) a <i>night club</i>, and more -- on the way to find the elusive "Midnight Child" -- and defeating the villainous Sterling clan and their evil corporation bent on world domination, as ordered by his parents who trained him for this kind of thing.<br />
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-Other projects I am working on are <i>Gearbox Diaries</i> (more on that later), and two YA projects -- one inspired by films such as <i>Bring It On</i>, <i>Mean Girls</i>, <i>Freaky Friday</i>, <i>Clueless</i> and <i>Barely Lethal</i>, and more; the other is inspired by all things Halloween and focuses on a mysterious character and his/her journal.<br />
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-Finally, I have switched my default font around as well when using programs such as Microsoft Office Word to write, making a total of 5 fonts I have worked with since 1998. They are Architect (Tekton), Courier New (2000-2014), Times New Roman, Gill Sans MT (2004) and now Calibri (2015-present). <br />
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That's all for now. Until next time, WM86 :)Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-79252995754950434602015-08-06T14:27:00.001-07:002015-08-06T14:27:34.386-07:00BREAKING NEWS: Change of plans regarding writing projects / new project announcedDue to unforeseen circumstances and life catching up to me again, I have decided to put <em>Warrior25 </em>on temporary hiatus. It will <em>still</em> happen--it's just that I had this feeling that I didn't want to start with a racing story first.<br />
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On the other hand, feeling inspired by back-to-school shopping, I have decided to work on a new project, which is yet to be named. I have decided to bring every character introduced in previous blog posts into the project. Like always, there are new characters planned, <em>and</em> the project is <em>still</em> inspired by a video-game adventure. <br />
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Until next time,<br />
WM86<br />
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Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-55503244950104626832015-07-30T05:15:00.000-07:002015-10-16T05:14:59.744-07:00Quick update: 7/30/15 / 2 new tools arrived-I am still working on <i>Warrior25</i>; however, more character ideas seem to be coming. Oh, and did I mention I haven't made it past the first chapter because of this?<br />
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-This is my first blog post using a Surface RT, a hybrid between a tablet and a laptop. I got it in the mail on 7/2/15, but forgot the charger, which came from the other Surface I had that crashed with the "BitLocker Recovery" screen. This happened as I was <i>stupid</i> enough to leave my previous Surface in sleep mode for too long (and it was charging up), and when I went to turn it back on, the BitLocker bug happened. Microsoft has an update that stops the BitLocker bug from happening.<br />
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-I also purchased a new USB flash drive from SanDisk last weekend, which stores up to <i>(get this) </i><b>128 GB </b><i>of</i> space. The last one I've had since 2013 had a cover fall off my keychain, dropping the outgoing drive--which was able to store 16GB of space--to the floor at times, and caused the light to glow, and sometimes the processing unit found in the drive to be exposed. I am in the process of getting a lanyard to place the new flash drive and keys on, as I am constantly getting tired of having to carry everything in my pocket at once.<br />
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-Back to <i>Warrior25</i>: Each teacher character working in driver's education (Ashton, Darren, Amanda) has a set of students. However, unfortunate events happen with his two friends, Darren and Amanda, so he has to teach <i>their</i> students. I may have mentioned this before, but <i>Warrior25 </i>takes place between 2012-13 (failed projects <i>Project Dylan </i>(actually 2011-12) and <i>Redline Kid </i>(2012-13)) and 2014-15. There are more teacher and mentor characters planned as well.<br />
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-Since the days when I tried to <i>write Insert Coin</i> (2010-11), I have been obsessed with making certain writing projects inspired by a video-game adventure. This explains why, starting <i>with The Story of Aaron</i>, I have placed a "1-1" underlined on the upper right hand corner of my documents, similar to how Louis Sachar--one of my favorite authors and one of my inspirations to write since my days at both Adams and Underwood--did in<i> There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom</i>, a book I read when I was younger besides <i>Sideways Stories from Wayside School </i>and <i>Wayside School is Falling Down </i>as well as the 1994 finale, <i>Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger</i>. I think Sachar placed the chapter number followed by a period while aligning said text to the right.<br />
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-Speaking of inspirations, some of mine in regards to writing are (in no particular order): James Patterson, R.L. Stine, the late Stephen J. Cannell<i>, Survivor</i> host Jeff Probst (he's a writer, too), <i>CSI</i> trilogy and <i>Whodunnit </i>creator Anthony E. Zuiker (like Jeff Probst, he's a writer, too), Nicholas Sparks, <i>One Tree Hill </i>and <i>Royals</i> creator Mark Schwahn, <i>Rocko's Modern Life </i>creator Joe Murray and a bunch of others I don't have enough hours in the day to list--the sky's the limit!<br />
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Whew, I think I just said a mouthful.<br />
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Until next time,<br />
-WM86 :)<br />
<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-57452159594140633682015-06-29T05:12:00.004-07:002015-10-16T05:18:08.971-07:00Quick update: 6/29/15-I know it's a shame, seeing what I've been through in 2014, but I have decided to combine <i>The DFW Diaries</i> and <i>The Story of Aaron</i> into a new final project, <i>Warrior25</i> (when I mean final, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing). This move means that all the characters I wrote in both stories (except for narrators Aaron and Dusty) are going to be in this writing project I am currently working on since Fathers' Day weekend. (I had life problems sneak up on me again...)<br />
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-Like <i>Diaries</i> and <i>Aaron, </i>the story first starts in California with a new narrator, named Ashton Hobbs. His story is inspired by my adventures in life as a babysitter and a 1-time caretaker (in 2009), and--of course--my personality. His story is also inspired by my dad's mentoring at-risk teens, and still, like I said before in an earlier post, his job as a substitute teacher since 2006. I have also brought Darren and Amanda from previous failed projects back as well<i>.</i><br />
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-This Aaron this time around is an automobile enthusiast, a gamer, and a lover of music. When he and his friend, Tyler get their driver's licenses, the adventures start coming in, like, for example, helping a teen in Hemet buy her first car and it was her 16th birthday.<br />
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-However, they soon realize that they are in way over their heads when Ashton tells Aaron of a dream he had upon seeing a mysterious teen in blue walk to the DMV just as soon as Aaron and Tyler left.<br />
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-That character, however, is <i>still</i> inspired by dreams I had of a character from 1993-2012, and some things I read about Josh Hartnett (<i>The Faculty</i>, <i>O</i>, <i>Pearl Harbor</i>, <i>Hollywood Homicide</i>) and James Lafferty (<i>One Tree Hill</i>, <i>Crisis</i>, etc.), but this time joined by Cameron Bright (<i>Motive</i>, the <i>Twilight</i> series of movies, etc.), backed up by--<i>still</i>, of course--all my research I've done on the state of California (as always) from 1998-99 to now. The dream leads Ashton to believe that the teen in blue is a CIA agent, but Aaron and Tyler don't buy it at first.<br />
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-There are characters planned that are inspired by some of my favorite YouTube users, and some of my favorite <i>Wipeout</i>, <i>American Ninja Warrior</i>, and <i>Survivor</i> contestants.<br />
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-I am in the process of getting a new Surface RT tablet sometime this weekend. It is where I wrote <i>The DFW Diaries</i> (my first story written on a portable device, saved to a 16GB flash drive) before life caught up to me again. As you may have guessed, I had a feeling my old Surface was either hacked, or crashed because I had installed way too many apps.<br />
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-Again, I have <i>got</i> to start updating this blog more often...<br />
Until next time,<br />
WM86<br />
<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-83353648928519546212015-05-04T05:50:00.001-07:002015-10-16T05:16:24.512-07:00Quick update: 5/4/15-I turned 29 three days after my last post a month ago.<br />
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-I am in the process of working on a racing story. It (yet to be named) will be somewhat inspired by a video game adventure, like <i>The Story of Aaron</i> where I named chapters "Stages". Returning will be some characters from stories I've written in the past 20 years (1995-now), along with new ones exclusive to this series. Idea gathering has just begun for this untitled series as of the week of 5/3/15.<br />
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-Speaking of <i>The Story of Aaron</i>, I am putting it on temporary hiatus, as life outside of writing has caught up to me again just like the mid-to-latter half of 2014.<br />
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-I welcomed a new item to my family of writing tools (and you may have heard this before): a wireless USB keyboard. To be more specific, it's a Jeff Gordon USB wireless keyboard, with his 2015 3M colors. Sadly, 2015 will be his last season to race full-time in Sprint Cup. When I went to purchase it online, my dad told me to instead get a Jimmie Johnson version of it, but I've been a fan of Gordon the same year I started writing, which is 1995. I may collect other wireless keyboards in the future.<br />
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-Speaking of the wireless keyboard, I am in the process of writing my first story using it, and it may very well be the project yet to be named as explained above.<br />
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-I may begin writing original stories on this blog.<br />
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-I may begin reviewing items I own on this blog as well.<br />
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That's all for now.<br />
Until next time,<br />
-WM86Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-70339858266855375462015-04-06T07:52:00.003-07:002015-10-16T05:16:56.845-07:00Quick update on what I'm working on (sorry it's been so long!)Sorry I wasn't able to update in a couple of months, but here's what I have planned/what I've done so far:<br />
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-The story series is now (tentatively) known as <i>The Story of Aaron</i>.<br />
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-I have added events from a failed story I worked on all throughout 2013-14, <i>The DFW Diaries</i> (I had to stop immediately due to bad luck issues), where Dusty would stop a bullying attempt involving teenage girls and even substitute teach at the bullying victim's school.<br />
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-There is a character where 4-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon (big fan of him since 1995) is one of the inspirations.<br />
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-Aaron actually has 2 pen pals--not just Michelle. The other pen pal, Brandon, who writes to Aaron mentions the mysterious "Midnight Child", who in a previous post is still inspired by things I read about Josh Hartnett (<i>O</i>, <i>Pearl Harbor</i>, <i>Hollywood Homicide</i>) and (a younger) James Lafferty (<i>One Tree Hill, Oculus, Crisis</i>). (<i>Fun Fact: The idea actually came from a dream character from a dream I had in the 1992-93 year in the state of Maryland after my mom and dad separated. When we returned to North Carolina in summer 1993, they would divorce by 1994.</i>)<br />
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-There is another character in the works that could be the person one story revolves around, and is inspired by a weird dream had in either the 1993-94 or 1994-95 year when all I could remember were blue and pink kaleidoscopic patterns, revealing girls. The girl revealed under the pink patterns, named Amanda, is known as the "Carnation Soldier". The "Midnight Child" is looking for her, but everyone is so scared to even come near him. More details on her inspiration later.<br />
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-There are <i>two</i> more characters planned from Aaron's hometown of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and one is inspired by a character I drew on a sketchpad <i>and</i> notebook paper in 2006 in college, who is female. More on their stories later.<br />
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Well, that's it...I hope to update this blog (as soon as I get past this stupid cold I picked up over the weekend) soon... -WM86Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-29017282230582552392015-01-10T07:03:00.000-08:002015-10-16T05:13:31.493-07:00Pen pals / other main characters besides Aaron in the project that I am working on...I have been toying with the idea of giving a main character a pen pal since 2005 in the "guest room" when I was working on a story on my dad's laptop that ran (yes, I know) Windows 95 or 98. While I was working on something later that year (more than likely over the summer), the laptop froze and then crashed to the point where nothing would load anymore. (I believe the laptop was given to him when he got a job at Nortel, which unfortunately, laid off its workers. He is now a substitute teacher since 2006, and just had a birthday yesterday.)<br />
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Fast forward to 9 years later after <i>finally</i> giving up disks in the fall of 2007 in favor of a flash drive and going wireless with keyboards and mice (between 2010 and now in terms of flash drives, I have gone from 1GB to 8GB to finally 16GB - I hope I can get a 32GB flash drive soon. On the wireless side of things, I want a #24 Jeff Gordon or #14 Tony Stewart wireless keyboard and mouse (<i>yes, I am a NASCAR fan</i>--<i>since 1991 at the age of five</i>).) I am still toying with the idea of giving a main character of a story a pen pal, and I am on the verge of making it happen for sure in the case of Aaron.<br />
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(<i>Fun Fact: I have NEVER had a pen pal growing up, but over the summer from 4th-5th grade, one of our assignments assigned by a teacher was to write a letter to her on how we were doing and what we were doing over the summer. She even wrote to me when I had finished 6th grade in the 1997-98 school year. Not sure if this counts as a pen pal, though.</i>)<br />
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In regards to pen pal character ideas, I just can't seem to escape the state of North Carolina, OR Sanderson or Southeast Raleigh Magnet High (where I attended)--two of the <i>best</i> high schools in Wake County--for said pen pal to attend since the character is going to be in his/her late-teens (or, in HS terms, a senior). I also cannot seem to escape the idea of making the pen pal <i>female</i>, either. This one is no exception, despite the fact I have to give her a name and initials (<i>yes</i>, I am obsessed with arcade game high score screens, by the way).<br />
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One of her dreams is to attend North Carolina State University, or NCSU (both my mom and dad's alma mater) for short, despite one of her childhood friends keeps pressuring her to attend the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (<i>Fun Fact: As a Wolfpack (ACC) fan, I can stand neither the Tar Heels (UNC) nor the Blue Devils (Duke) in terms of men's basketball. I am also a fan of the Stanford Cardinal out in California (PAC-12) as well</i>) against her wishes. <br />
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I think I want to make her and Aaron pen pals since childhood. I am also working on how they first meet in person as well, despite the fact Aaron (loosely based off my lifestyle/personality) starts in California from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (his birthplace; also one of my favorite locations I would like to visit someday). (<i>Fun Fact: I forgot this in a previous blog post, but his parents weren't born there. Also, his mother is from North Carolina; his father is from California.</i>) I also got the idea for her from everything I had learned about the state of North Carolina since the 1998-99 year. <br />
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Another character in the project I am working on (*spoiler alert*) is someone who flies under everyone (including the main cast--more on them later)'s radar, and Aaron gets to know him, unfortunately, when sometimes he wishes he hadn't. He is inspired by some things I read about <i>The Faculty, Pearl Harbor</i> and <i>Hollywood Homicide</i> star Josh Hartnett and <i>One Tree Hill</i> and <i>Crisis</i> star James Lafferty, as well as Phantom Planet frontman Alex Greenwald--as well as various things I have learned about the state of California since the 1998-99 year (despite the fact I used to live there--the northern part near Monterey). He usually dresses in blue and comes off as mysterious, and basically everyone tells Aaron about him, kind of like the scene from the 2004 film <i>Mean Girls </i>where Lindsay Lohan's character, Cady Heron, asks people about Rachel McAdams' character, Regina George. Aaron's pen pal, unfortunately, knows about him as well. Like the pen pal, I still have to give him a name and initials as well.<br />
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I also got the idea for him back in the summer of 2011 after playing <i>Race Drivin'</i> on the SEGA Genesis and <i>finally</i> beating the Phantom Photon ghost car on the Original track a few times, and playing <i>Extreme-G 2: XG2 </i>and <i>Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing</i> as well as <i>Cruis'n USA</i> and the <i>Rush</i> series on the Nintendo 64<i>, </i>and in another project I was supposed to work on, he was supposed to be the younger brother of one of the main characters, his older sister. I also came up with characters in the 2011-12 year after playing various non-<i>Sonic</i> games on the SEGA Genesis as well.<i> </i><br />
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Wow, I think I just said a mouthful, and I hope to get at least the first few chapters of the writing project done. Until next time...WM86 :)<br />
<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-53767552947177555442015-01-05T18:10:00.003-08:002015-01-05T18:10:29.181-08:00What I am working on right now/about the main character of the project...Lately, I have been playing retro racing games such as <i>"Ironman" Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road</i> and the <i>Track Pak</i> upgrade (Leland, 1989, 1990 (NES), 1992 (SNES & Genesis) - both regular <i>Super Off-Road</i>), <i>Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat </i>(Leland, 1991), <i>City Connection</i> (Jaleco, 1985 (arcade), 1988 (NES)), <i>Cruis'n World </i>(Midway/Nintendo, 1996 (arcade), 1998 (N64)), the <i>Rush</i> series on N64 - as well as <i>Rally-X</i>, <i>New Rally-X</i>, and the <i>Pole Position</i> series on the <i>Namco Museum</i> PS1 compilations. Why? To come up with character ideas.<br />
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I couldn't do this last year due to bad luck plaguing me, all starting with the Rose Bowl, hoping that Stanford would win over Michigan State. Also, life kept getting in the way at times, and my Surface tablet is being fixed after receiving some weird error mid-August (this kinda feels like a scene from a movie), so...<br />
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Anyway, back to the main point: I am working on a car novel in which the main character, named Aaron, visits the states of California and North Carolina, which later turns to a trip around the world. After moving to a beach house, he is then haunted by weird dreams, hears wind and stormy conditions, and then a piece of paper--likely coming from a girl's diary--hits his face. Along the way, he runs into an interesting cast of characters, too. More details about a story plot coming later, as I am in the process of writing a rough draft for this project. <br />
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About the character of Aaron: Aaron is kind of like me. He's a car enthusiast and a video-game nut who just loves adventure. (<i>Fun Fact: Aaron is also inspired by Canadian actor Jay Baruchel, American actors Jensen Ackles, Jake McDorman and Ben Stiller, as well as the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton.</i>) He has a lot of things he wants done on his to-do list before he retires...and he's only in his late teens-early 20s. And like me, his birthday is April 9.<br />
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With all that said, it is now time for me to get to it. Until next time, WM86 :)<br />
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<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-9982124515408349002015-01-01T06:31:00.002-08:002015-01-01T06:33:25.335-08:00New Year's resolutions / what I hope to achieve in 2015New Year's resolutions<br />
-to write more<br />
-to find new adventures<br />
-to regain my writing form I lost in 2012<br />
-refrain from typing Internet memes at random while thinking while writing<br />
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What I hope to achieve this year:<br />
-get rid of all "bad luck" issues from last year<br />
-writing a young-adult fiction novel<br />
-master the art of screenwriting<br />
-become a better person than I was in 2013 and 2014 - 2014 was BRUTAL for all the wrong reasons for me.<br />
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That's all I can think of right now.<br />
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-WM86 :)Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935315625216489294.post-58940611151695315472014-12-31T19:36:00.001-08:002014-12-31T19:36:03.196-08:00Welcome to my blog / about me...Sorry for the delay -- it's been 2 years and a lot of stuff has happened over that time--mostly bad, but I won't go into detail. As a result of this, I have decided to retire <i>A Creative Writer Unleashed</i> and start <i>A Creative Writer Unleashed 2.0</i>, which will be updated often.<br />
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Anyways, about me:<br />
-I got my first computer in 1994 (a Brother WP-3410 word processor), but didn't start writing until mid-to-late 1995.<br />
-I am a big gamer. I have been video gaming since 1992 and I enjoy playing platformers, racing, action, sports, and miscellaneous (game shows, etc.) games. I also enjoy playing arcade games as well.<br />
-I enjoy all types of music.<br />
-I love adventures.<br />
-I have a bit of a vivid imagination.<br />
-I enjoy doing research and exploring the world around me.<br />
-I love writing and blogging.<br />
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Where to contact/add me:<br />
Twitter: @PlayerWM86<br />
PSN: PlayerWM86<br />
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Well, that's about it!<br />
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Until next time,<br />
-WM86 :)<br />
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<br />Williadf25http://www.blogger.com/profile/15712476873701928968noreply@blogger.com0