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Hey, wow! The Carlson Septs have a new story, AND a new picture by me, AND some new gift art! Thanks for the pictures, Micha! The story is just a sort of fluffy glimpse at them from an outside perspective, but I figured some of you might enjoy it. :-)
In the queue: Continuing the novel. It's making slow but steady progress. Big plans are still underfoot for this domain.
I've just added a new picture to Twilight Star. I really want to get back to working on this story, but first I have to finish working on my current project!
In the queue: I'm on page 42 of 120 in the second draft of my new novel project. Everything else (except drawing) is on hold until I finish it, but I hope to be done by my birthday (at the end of August). After that, I have big plans for sprucing up just about everything on my domain, and then I'll probably do Twilight Star as my next novel project.
It's been my dream to go to Australia ever since I was little, and I finally got to go! I've just returned and put up an album, where you can see over 300 pictures of my adventures. I also am working on writing up travelogues which you can find in my LiveJournal archives. I've also updated my Travel Page with new skyscrapers for my list and a "Cities I've Visited" map.
In the queue: Once I finish writing my travelogues, it's back to editing. I'm going to have a finished manuscript by the end of the summer, I hereby declare! (Or at least a finished second draft. Manuscripts are never finished until they're published, and even then I hear it's questionable.)
I've got a couple more new essays at the Back Cover, with some responses this time. (Feel free to add your own if you like.)
I've also added my YouTube clip of the Septs and me on CNN to a special page on their site.
Oh, and in the past month I updated my skyscraper list after my trip to Sapporo. :)
In the queue: Getting my manuscript into second draft form so I can share it with all interested parties, and adding more content to my personal page. I've got some new drawings and other little bits for the Septs, too.
I have a couple new essays on my personal page. Take a look if you're interested. I have more to come when I get a bit of time!
In the queue: A few more essays; meanwhile, I'm almost done with the first draft of a manuscript that I hope to submit to real, paper-based publishers one day, so that's taking up most of my creative time these days. I want to spruce up Aka-chan sometime semi-soon, too.
The Septs have a new picture now, too, which I started on July 12 in honor of their 25th birthday. :)
The Back Cover also has a fun new section—well, fun for me, anyway, but if you're my friend or if you like little kids, you'll probably get a laugh out of it. It's full of things that I did in elementary school, including a letter to the president and a story.
In the queue: Writing! And the new Aka-chan layout, but that'll probably be once I actually get to Japan.
Twilight Star has a new picture, of Celeste and Cozoqui, which you'll find in the group pictures. In more exciting but less immediately gratifying news, I have about 50,000 words done on the current TS draft, and I hope to be sharing that with people at the forum in the next few months. :D
In the queue: Some other little updates, whether other pictures or new material for The Back Cover. And I still want to do that Aka-chan layout, though that may have to wait until I actually get to Japan and have Internet set up over there. (I leave August 4.)
I've updated The Back Cover with some photographs of my room and of my friends, and with a revised profile and some other small changes. I have more I want to add to that site, so we'll see when I find some time.
I've also added a new project, which is my writing journal. If you have a LiveJournal account, feel free to friend it if you'd like to see what else I'm up to.
I've been working on a lot of writing lately; that's what has kept me from updating the domain itself. I'm doing pretty well with Twilight Star; that, of course, won't be posted on-line because of first publication rights and all that, but as always you can drop me a note or post a comment in my LJ and I'll be more than happy to share it with you!
One other bit of news is that I'll be going back to Japan to teach English through the JET Program on August 3. I hope to continue working on the site as usual while I'm over there; we'll see if I end up with lots more time or lots less!
In the queue: I simply must get a better layout with fewer Japanese mistakes for Aka-chan before I go back to Japan. (And a better title for that matter.) I also want to add some more content to the Back Cover, as I noted. And I want to do some minor adjustments to this main domain layout. I don't want a new one even though this one has been up for over a year, because I still really like it. But I've got a few changes to make.
Chapter Two of Twilight Star is available!
As before, if you wish to read it, you'll have to get an account at the Skygawker.com forum, or else e-mail me and I can send you a copy of it.
In the queue: Chapter Three! It shouldn't take quite as long now that I've got the story rolling, and my life is a little less crazy-stressful than it was for the past few months. I also want to do some stuff with The Back Cover.
Long time no update, I know. I've been trying to work on actual story material, which took a lot of time in the prewriting (and therefore no-updating) stage. But I am proud to announce that today marks the end of that stage and the debut of the new Twilight Star!
If you would like to actually read the new material, you will have to be a member of the Skygawker.com forum, because it will be posted there in a locked forum. See the Twilight Star Story page for more details on how to read it.
In the queue: I've got a really, really busy couple months coming up with the rest of August and September, but I'm hoping to get a good bit of writing done in that time if I can. Twilight Star is officially underway, so you can expect to see more; it just might be at a fairly slow pace. It'll keep coming, though. :)
In my on-going effort to polish and freshen up all parts of the domain, I have two things to announce today. First, I've revamped my personal page, replacing the old Kaleidoscope (which was very 2002) with the new, more minimalized site called The Back Cover. Take a look if you're curious. I've added pictures from my most recent trip to Japan, too.
This includes a new layout for my blog, Kumori, as I'm merging it with my personal page.
Second, as you may already have heard, I've opened up a new phpBB. We're shifting the focus a bit to focus more on writing (though general chat is of course still welcome!) by adding a forum for writers to get critiques of their work in a private forum, too. (Anyone who demonstrates real interest is will be welcome to join the private forum; it's private only to protect the first publication rights of potentially publishable material.)
Whether you're a writer or just looking for good stories to read, I hope you'll drop by and join the chat.
In the queue: To finish up my polishing of all parts of my domain, I want to spruce up the painfully 800x600, 日本語の間違いいっぱい layout of Aka-chan in Nihon. After that, I'm going to be focusing very heavily on writing publishable material. That means that it might not be publically posted, but if you're interested in reading it, I highly encourage you to join the new forum and hang around there. *smile* I'll be looking for people to help me with my drafts, after all....
If you're not interested in that, I've got some Sept stories coming up too. :)
Finally, I'm done with that! It took me over a month, but I finally got a new layout done for the Septs' page! I've wanted to spruce up the layouts of all parts of Skygawker.com since returning from Japan, but this one gave me the hardest time I've ever had designing a site. I had a different scheme in mind entirely, but that just didn't work out, so I ended up teaching myself a bunch of new CSS and trying something totally different. I hope you like what I came up with. And I get it up just in time to be in honor of the Torino Olympics, as I'm watching the Closing Ceremony as I write this. Heh. I watched a lot of women's hockey while working on this! ;)
In addition to the new layout, there's also a new article, new wallpaper in memory of the old layout, and a new "About the Septs" FAQ in the Information section. Instead of talking about the site background, this one is about the Carlsons' lives. There are only a few questions on it now, but I plan to add more later.
In the queue: Some actual story material, and some more redesigns, which I hope will be up before the next Olympiad. (Really, though, I should get back into semi-regular updates now that this layout is done. It just gave me a surprising amount of trouble!)
Happy New Year, everyone! The Septs have three new articles this week, including one that I think is the most important one in their scrapbook. (You'll have to go there to see what it is.)
In the queue: I have all manner of projects to work on; the only problem is picking which one and devoting all my time to it. Classes also start next week, but I'll do my best to keep weekly updates going! If not, at least bi-weekly.
I've wanted to revise the Septs' scrapbook for a while now, so that's what I'm finally doing. Three new articles and one old-but-revised one are now available at their site. I pruned out all the old ones, too, so you can be sure new and improved content will come to replace it soon. I see that as a really important part of the Septs' story and website, so it was getting embarrassing to have such not-at-all professional "articles" up. I wrote those when I was in high school, but now I have a B.A. in English and have been published in a college newspaper, so I should hope these are better. ;)
In the queue: Fixing up the scrapbook will probably take up a couple weekly updates, but I will be working on other projects at the same time. They're the sort of projects that take a long time before they reach a publishable stage. I'd like to do new layouts for the rest of my sites, too. It seems like I need to do a lot of spring cleaning-type updates on the domain after being in Japan for over a year, but I will have some major new content up soon too.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Io Saturnalia, or whatever I'm supposed to say to all of you to best convey that I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday of your choice, or at least a nice ordinary month if you don't choose any at all, while also noting that for me the holiday of choice is Christmas and that I am quite excited that it is here!
With all of you, the Septuplets and I have a brand new picture, which you may find at their site in the picture gallery. We dug through the boxes of photographs in their basement and found this picture from 1987. :)
In the queue: Basically the same as last time, though this picture is not the only thing I meant when I referred to "Minor Septuplet Stuff" last week. We do seem to be in a spell of Septuplet updates, but as that's my most popular site, I don't see a problem with that. If you do, however, you should definitely make it known to me and I will be happy to adjust my plans accordingly.
And I am doing good on weekly updates, aren't I? *smile*
New layout for Skygawker.com! Jessie climbs Mt. Fuji! As noted in the updated layout section of the site information page, I simply love this picture and I just had to use it for a Skygawker layout. I mean, could you pick a more fantastic photograph? And then have the real-life opportunity to take it? I love it.
In the queue: Minor Septuplet stuff, some other new layouts, and I hope that Aka-chan/Septs Expo crossover story. I'm working on TS, too, but it'll be a bit before any of you see any of that.
So far my weekly update plan has been a success. Okay, so it's only been one week—but just you wait until next Wednesday and see if I don't have an update for you! *grin*
Part 2 of "The Writing on the Wall" is now available at the Carlson Septs' site. I definitely still want to hear what you think.
In the queue: Lots of stuff. More Septuplet stuff, TS stuff, Aka-chan stuff, and stuff for other parts of the site. I say again: yay!
Hello again, everyone! I'm so very sorry for the long absence. I bet lots of you thought I was gone for good, as happens with so many college writers' domains. As it turned out, I ended up staying an extra nine months in Japan because I was selected to be a guide at the United States Pavilion at the 2005 World's Fair in Aichi, Japan! I'm now back in the US, and since I returned I have been working on lots of projects. Rest assured that I am still dedicated to Skygawker.com and do not want to see my projects languish into oblivion.
So! I have been working on lots of different things, and today I finally have an update to show for it! I have the first half of a new Septuplet story available! It's a scarier and less happy story than I'm used to writing for the Septuplets, so I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it.
In the queue: Part 2 of the Septs' new story, naturally. That will be up next week. I also have other Septuplet updates nearly ready, so if you're on the Septuplets' mailing list, you can expect a lot of mail this week. :D I also am working on Aka-chan in Nihon and Twilight Star. I hope to get ALL my sites polished and updated in the coming weeks. Updates, updates, updates for everyone, yay!
Hey, it's my BIRTHDAY! :D And to celebrate I have lots of new stuff! First off, there's a whole new layout for Skygawker.com itself, which you must already have seen if you're reading this now. ;) Second, the second chapter of Twilight Star is finally up! Third, I did a few things to Kaleidoscope: specifically, I posted a lot of pictures from my Europe trip in the Travel section (under Tidbits) and added a few other random things to that page (SoundBytes Radio MP3, Amiga OS quiz, heh). A few weeks back I also added lots of Easter eggs to the Profile page, which I never noted here, so you could take a look at that too. (If you don't know what Easter eggs are, you'll have to go there and look for them.)
In the queue: I'm going to Japan! I'm leaving on August 31 and will be back at the end of December or possibly the beginning of January. Don't expect updates while I'm there, but I hope to have some fun stuff to add (including new story material, and not just for Aka-chan!) when I get back.
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