Waltz-With-Me

Yay. :3

I'm a finalist in the youngARTS program and get an all-expenses-paid trip to Miami for master classes in poetry.

*bounces around the house and then comes back to sit down*

This is...exciting.  Mondo-exciting.

I am embarrassed.

I was caught escaping.

She told she knew what I was doing, and that I had to stop.  That she loved me.

All right, then.  I can do that.

On a lighter note, love lives are terribly exciting.

Yay! :3 "Goodnight Saigon" waltz-with-me.deviantart.com/a… won grand prize at bekkia's "Tell me a Story" contest!  Now I have a subscription for 27 months. O_O That's two freaking years, man.  Crazy!

Now for the promised features for the other awesome-tastic stories that won! ...Which I will edit in later because my Internet is spazzing.  Curse you, stolen Wi-Fi from the Piggly Wiggly!

edit: YAY FOR GO-HOME WEEKENDS!  Here are the other winners!

SHORT WINNER = At Dawn on a Friday Morning startoverhesaid.deviantart.com… by startoverhesaid

SHORT RUNNER-UP = Ballad of the Bishop speedy421.deviantart.com/art/B… by speedy421

MEDIUM WINNER = Family Portraits losingmyfaith.deviantart.com/a… by losingmyfaith

MEDIUM RUNNER-UP = How to Save a Life kneelingglory.deviantart.com/a… by KneelingGlory

LONG WINNER = The Terrorist vito-toni-costello.deviantart.… by vito-toni-costello

LONG RUNNER-UP = Path of Malious Lamont fonz99.deviantart.com/art/Path… by fonz99

They're all fabulous, and I'm proud to be placed next to such great writers. *feels small and insignificant and abashed and all those good humble feelings*

Ciao, bellas.

Jules

Yes, web comics.  My friend has been trying to get me to read her favorites for a long time, and I just recently started.

And may I just say they're absolutely FANTASTIC?

My favorites, which you must must MUST check out:

Two Rooks: two-rooks.com

Dreamless: dreamless.keenspot.com

The Phoenix Requiem: requiem.seraph-inn.com

Do you all have any recommendations for me?  All of the above are fantasy with epic plot lines, with enough romance to keep me going.    I'm not really into manga (anime?)-style drawings, but if the plot line were good, I'd be open to anything.

As you can see from my latest poll, I'm thinking about trying to find someone to do a comic-collaboration with.  Not that I know any artists (damn me and being so stuck up about literature!), at least none that have any extra time.  Or technically know how to write for a comic in the first place, ha.  I have a new concept, which I was going to try to novelify, but I think would actually work better in a visual setting rather than entirely words - so I figured I'd give a shout-out a try and see where it led.

That is all.  Cheers, chaps!

Ah, another year gone by.  I have now lived for one and seven-tenths decades.

I'm the last in my class to turn - one of my best friends, in fact, is turning either nineteen or twenty, I can't remember which.  My consolation is that I'm more than half a foot taller than her.  Hehe.

About to fly to Seattle tomorrow, to visit a good friend of mine, Stellaciel where we'll work on a new layout for the Ughy Club www.ughyclub.com and write some more songs for our group Swallow Coat.  We only got two done last year, so if we continue at that rate we could have a debut CD, oh...never. It's fun work, though, so I don't mind if it comes to nothing.

I'm really glad I'm going away for a few weeks, actually.  I know you guys don't want to hear a diary entry, but I have no one to talk to during the summer, except my family, and as per usual, my family's the problem.  I told my mother last night at dinner that she was making herself unhappy, since she was having one of her "my life is horrible and it's your fault" hissy fits, and she's yet to say a word for me.  And it's my birthday.  I wonder how long she can keep it up.

Uhh...oh, yes. My friend Rachelle and I are collaborating on a novel together, called "The Romancing of Tuesday Dennings."  I just posted a poem I wrote for it, in fact.  I won't be posting it on dA, since it's so awkward to post longer prose and no one wants to read it anyway, but if by any chance you DO want to check it out, it's here: www.fictionpress.com/~jwoodandrashman It's basically about a man named Simon who writes fan letters to his favorite poet, Tuesday.  I write from Tuesday's point of view, and she's a cynical joy.

Other than that, I will hopefully be posting a lot of new poetry once school starts again on August 1st.  Poetry class is first semester!  Have yet to hear back from the lit mags I submitted work to, but as my librarian (of all people) told me, no news is good news. So we shall see.

Cheerio, friends! Jules