It feels like ages since I've submitted anything up here..most likely because it's ages since I've actually done anything. So yeah, I'm seventeen now, not alot is much different, but suddenly I've just had this urge to just be as creatively productive more than I've even been before. This is mostly due to me being in the proccess of starting a book, and because I'm at that arrogant age, I've jumped straight into it having no idea what I want out of it or how I'm going to do it at all, it would be a really important personal goal to me if I actually got this story finished and written out, which is looking much less likely considering how ambitious and long the story is turning out to be. Eh, I guess it will be good excercise and practise. Also, in my arrogant seventeen-hood ...whatever...I've decided to make my book something that is reflective of the youth culture I'm emmersed in, reflective of reality and also the literature the culture immerses me in, largely comic books and manga. If it works out well, I'll be really pleased, and, if not, hey, I'm sure I would have written a good bit of pulp fiction.

I think the whole idea of doing the story as a comic sort of fizzed out largely due to the fact that I am lazy. It would have been nice, but, as things stand, just not realistic, and I would have no doubt rushed it or just completely failed, either way, I'm glad that the story has evolved into a book. While one picture can paint a thousand words, I don't think I'm skilled enough for that yet in terms of storytelling, besides, I think I'm better at selecting words to chisel into the reader's mind to paint an ambigious yet precise picture.

So yeah, as I said, seventeen, another chance for me to be overly ambitious and toss aside projects and ideas unfinished like I always do. But already I'm sort of sensing a change on that front, and that sure is encouraging. Afterall, writing a story isn't THAT time consuming; I know I'm lying to myself there but if I want any hope of getting it done before I'm thirty, I better keep an optimistic attitude towards it.

And now I had better go, to get some art done, if I want any hope in hell of passing my college course. Yay.