What has Sylverstone been up to? (Week of October 17-23, 2010)

Hello all, and welcome back to Sylver's Edge. The last post had me babble about my latest offerings for my school's newspaper club. So far, I have submitted a refurbished review on Kirby: Canvas Curse (previously reviewed for DSiHub) and a brand new comic strip called "The Facts of Life", which I was tinkering with for the past week. I'll post it up when the newspaper is available. Speaking of the newspaper, the site is up but we still need clearance on a few things, so in the meantime, check out the BLA (II) Times at blatimes.webs.com!

Now, on to more important updates, I have been continuously working on the newly restored "Stress-Related Insomnia" pilot project and so far, it has garnered great success and a loyal readership of about..... 10 people, if I may recall correctly. The plan is to let them read the first 5 chapters and the prologue, then I'll continue to write until the book reaches some sort of end. It still has a long way to go and it is really shaping up to be a great writing experience for me.

The DigiPen Institute of Technology (which I'll refer to as DigiPen throughout the blog) sent me more mail this week, this time regarding the ProjectFUN Summer Workshops for 2011. I would really love to go to Redmond and get a dose of how game development is done. The tuition is hefty with the $995 tag, but I have plans for possibly raising that money to pay up by April next year. As of now, I haven't moved much further with Mizuna development due to work with Stress-Related Insomnia but rest assured, development will continue. Other concepts are also being discussed and worked on with my peers.

Now, you did see that I said I would have a plan to raise money for that. The thing is, I've submitted a job application to a nearby Toys "R" Us Express store in the Bronx so I can go ahead and earn cash for the stuff I want, including the ProjectFun Workshop tuition, DigiPen tuition and the Nintendo 3DS. I only sent it yesterday (October 22) and I'm currently waiting on the call to arms, so wish me luck!

Finally, I haven't done much with the YouTube channels as of late, and I'm thinking of severing SylverstoneSpeaks to just keep one channel. I can always make a new channel when I feel like, just that now wasn't the greatest time. I have academics to keep up, as I am passing all my classes so I don't want to stop the momentum. I will post videos occasionally, but as for a definite return, I can't say when.

Plug time! Check out my good friend, SuperTrainStationH at http://www.supertrainstationh.com and http://www.youtube.com/user/gguru1! Don't forget Suzanne's blog, "A Piece of Cape: Soaring with Super Suzy!" at http://www.supersuzy.com and a new plug, Harlan Batchelor (also known as Lunchmeats101) at http://www.moldylemonmedia.com/blog, and you know where to follow me.... the Twitter widget is there! That's all that I did this week, guys so keep it here at Sylver's Edge!

Until next week!

A great creative output appears!

Hey guys, been a while since I posted, but I'm still here. Anyways, the main story here for the blog is that my new school's first newspaper club meeting went so well, so I have a new creative output to foster my growth. I'll be doing video game reviews, as well as comics and occasional movie reviews and short stories. I'm thinking of bringing back an old idea of mine, though I am looking to build on something new: a 4 or 5-panel comic about something. I'll think of something.... eventually.

Also, I finally got my locker to stuff any extra baggage away while at school. Right now, the only thing in it is mouthwash.... don't ask. Also, I found out I'm having good grades in Chemistry, which is awesome compared to my flunking of the Chem final I did in my old school.

The other big news is that for this week, I picked up on an old story that I cast out a few months back. It's called Stress-Related Insomnia and I have been watching a lot of anime and television in order to grab some great concepts. It is a typical boy-meets-girl story with a lot of different perks and twists. So far, I was able to hook a few of my new friends into the story. I'm working on the second chapterl on my free time so it should be all good.

Last, but certainly not least, I've been looking around for a good job so I can get cash to purchase the Nintendo 3DS next year and other things I'd like to get for myself in the coming weeks. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a debit card so I can really harness all the cash I have. It's safe to say that I'm daunted by banks and getting an account seems to be a pain in the arse right now, so maybe when I do have the time, it'll happen.

But for now, just check out my new Twitter widget on the blog, follow me @Sylverstone14 and also check out these blogs by my friends Jo-Hannah (The Commons by Jo) and Suzanne (A Piece of Cape: Soaring with Super Suzy).

Until next time, thanks for hanging with me by Sylver's Edge!

(Don't worry about me not talking about Mizuna or Dances with Wolves as they are being worked on! Also, I signed up for two gaming websites that fosters both game design and development so it'll be my little sandbox!)