I'm back--hopefully for good. Announcements/Updates

So, yeah. Inkweb has kinda been thrown by the wayside for a while now, while I've been focusing on NaNoWriMo, Iron Wyvern, and life in general. But I'm back and I'll be following my schedule a bit more regularly than before.

So, before I begin in earnest, a few announcements/updates:

1. I've got a dog!!!
His name is Oliver, he's a Boston Terrier mix, and I got him around the beginning of summer. Anyway, I just had to tell everyone.

2. The schedule will be changing very soon.
Please bear with me as I get back into my stride. Blogging regularly requires a lot of work. I'll post schedule updates as I figure them out.

3. I'm no longer that much of a pantser. I will soon be changing my Pantser logo and replacing it with a Planner logo. (I have no idea how long I'll be a Planner, I may flip-flop at some point.)

That's about it for this post. Thanks for sticking around if you already kept track of Inkweb. If you're a new visitor, thanks for visiting and I hope you come back soon!

Short Story Saturdays - An Audacious Australian Adolescent

Welcome to Inkweb! I have slacked off extremely over the past months, but I plan to make it up to any of my readers still out there by coming out with much more new, regular content according to my planned schedule. Procrastination is definitely my strong suit, but I will try to combat its inertia.

Now, for Short Story Saturdays, I have taken a writing prompt given to me by a friend and have written a (very) short story. I hope you enjoy! I will post again on Mad Monday!

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1: One Big Mac

2: A library's roof

3: And a marsupial

George sighed as he looked out over the landscape of Australia. He gently swung his dangling feet, sitting on the library rooftop as he stared into the sunset. The silhouetted lifeforms, trees and kangaroos alike, provided a wonderful foreground to the keen light of the evening sun.

“Hey! You! Get down off the roof!”

George peered down at the tremendous drop before him and saw a thick-set security officer staring back up at him, chewing pensively on the biggest Big Mac George had ever seen.

George scrambled to his feet and darted away across the rooftop. He made the daring jump over to the next building, some sort of office complex, and took a ladder down to the ground. He ran off before the security officer could find him.

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Leave a comment if you enjoyed, have a question, etc., or if you want to suggest an idea for future posts of any sort. I hope you liked it!

-JW

Announcement: November Noveling

Okay, readers of Inkweb, I have, on the spur of the moment, at the flip of a coin, at the roll of a die, decided to participate in NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month is quite fun, and although I do not have the faintest inkling of an idea what to write, it will still be fun to try. I've completed it once before, and also Camp NaNoWriMo, which was the more successful time of the two.

However, readership, I will not abandon you! My schedule will remain largely the same, except for one small detail:

DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, I WILL NOT BE POSTING SHORT STORIES.

Well, that's the major change for the month. I will still post HyperLinkzer's suggested story this Saturday, November 2nd. I will still be posting cat monologues and fact lists and poems, and, of course, mad things (maybe even novel excerpts) on Mondays. But I will not be posting on Saturdays this month.

Toodles!

-JW

Poetry Tuesdays: "On A Play Twice Seen" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

So, I've decided to make a change to the poetry schedule here on the blog. Thursdays, I will still post my own compositions, but on Tuesdays, I will post other poems that I think noteworthy. This week I am posting one by a great author of the 20th century, F. Scott Fitzgerald, called "On a Play Twice Seen":

On A Play Twice Seen

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here in the figured dark I watch once more;

There with the curtain rolls a year away,

A year of years--there was an idle day

Of ours, when happy endings didn't bore

Our unfermented souls, and rocks held ore:

Your little face beside me, wide-eyed, gay,

Smiled its own repertoire, while the poor play

Reached me as a faint ripple reaches shore.

Yawning and wondering an evening through

I watch alone--and chatterings of course

Spoil the one scene which somehow did have charms;

You wept a bit, and I grew sad for you

Right there, where Mr. X defends divorce

And What's-Her-Name falls fainting in her arms.

Mad Mondays: Creepy Dog Thingy

It's Mad Monday! I have to post something today, so here you go:





Disclaimer: THIS IMAGE DOES NOT BELONG TO ME.


I'll get something of substance to post for next time.
I'm underway with a short story for Saturday, I've got some poetry tomorrow and Thursday, and I will post 25 facts about bears on Wednesday. Cat Monologue #5 is coming up on Friday.

So that's our schedule for the week, guys! Toodles!

-JW

Sorry! No Post Today

Sorry I wasn't able to post any poetry today. I have to take the PSAT tomorrow, so I've been busy studying. Anyway. Hopefully it won't happen again, but no promises.

Announcement: No Posts Today

Hello, readers of Inkweb! I won't be posting today because I've already done a fact post this week, and those lists are harder to compile than one might think at first. Plus, this is my first week using my new schedule, so I'm going easy on myself.

Tomorrow will be another short poem, Friday I will post a cat monologue, and then Saturday I will post a short story entitled "The Gravestone." Please note that the short story is a first draft and is not polished nicely, so have mercy on my writing.

Thanks for reading!

-JW

P.S. I urge you to listen to "Explorers" from the Coraline soundtrack. It's quite beautiful.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE A POSTING SCHEDULE!!!

Greetings, human and not-so-human readers of Inkweb, my humble internet abode! I bring peace, and cherries, and good tidings, and various other things.

First off, and perhaps most importantly:

I NOW HAVE A DAILY POSTING SCHEDULE!!! HOORAY!!!

Sweet, right? No more prolonged lapses in posting (hopefully), and it'll keep me writing, especially for Short Story Saturdays.

I've added a tab about my blog schedule, entitled "About Inkweb," and it's up above, so if you want to check out my schedule, you can. Basically I'll be posting six days a week.