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- Missed Block
Okay, so apparently, I missed actually adding the last part of The Pocketwatch I had written. So there are two new parts now, Revealing and Bait and Switch . I had finish - Visually Speaking
As I continue working on Red Ice , I realized I needed to come up with some sort of map of everything, because, since its a fictional land and not based on our world, tryi - Branching
At the hospital currently, as my father has had an appendectomy. They were able to do it fine, but it was apparently in a pretty bad state then so its a good thing he didn - Filled Gaps
Interesting, there were no archive pages for the last like six months. Well, that is resolved now. I finally put up another piece of The Pocketwatch . I actually pretty mu - Double Zero
Well its the end of 2009, and the end of a decade. I don't really have anything profound to say, though, so I'll just say Happy New Year. I'm going to try to put up anothe - Low Fuel
It's Christmas, and I'm up late, writing for Skewed , finishing Act 2. Two and a half hours after I normally go to sleep, and I'm dead tired. I think it's finally time for - Different Again
I stand here, ever watching Watching in the forest of dreams The life here, the trees here They know me well For me, they bring me songs Songs of the sky And the birds tha - More Meat, Less Filling
I had mentioned last month that I had gotten into a rut as I was approaching the last part of the Spiral Island script, because I wasn't sure how I wanted some things to - Continuous Rewrites
Red Ice has been updated . I tried to do a Pocketwatch update too, but I couldn't decide where I wanted to go with it. The Red Ice part wasn't so easy either, I had tried - Never Again Open This
I keep a folder with all (well, almost all ) of my writings over the years. It's a simple migration of the default WordPerfect document folder, named MyFiles, even though - Missing Gear
By the way, I handled one of the Zune HD's while I was at Best Buy a couple days ago. They are thought defyingly thin. I've been in kind of a rut lately. I'm nearing com - The Green House
So after I cleverly quoted the line from my old halloween story , and since it's October once again, I remembered it's existence and that I can post it on here now. So I d - The Pocketwatch
I haven't really said much lately, because things have been relatively uneventful. The main necessary functions of the NPC scripting engine for Spiral Island are nearly co - Content Control
One of the things that's concerned me for a while is how much information to present in Spiral Island. There's a lot of backstory, but most of it isn't relevant to the act - Mathematical Impossibility
I have today put up not one, but two parts for Red Ice: First Craft , and Polonium Black . These collectively complete Chapter 1 of the story. Having more German vocabula - The Ad Is A Spy
Unlike most people on the internet, I understand the importance of advertising revenue for a website, and I don't use AdBlock. I don't mind seeing an ad, and sometimes the - Project Shovel
Then again, I could always change my mind. It really was time I got the renewed AnacondaSoftware site uploaded, since it had been sitting pretty much done for a month now. - Split Minds
Well, the AC still isn't fixed, but it is somewhat cooler today outside so the temperature's not so bad. I was going to go work from the library, but I woke up too late to - Holiday Relaxing
Trying to get work done this last week has been rather diffucult. To try and remedy that, I've been spending the holiday weekend unwinding, and attempting to get back off - The Bard sRc
To bring everything to head, we'll recap the story so far. Ever since I started on the internet, all the way back in '97, I was known by the alias "The Anaconda". But, rec - Continually Different
I stand here, watching the man He cannot see me, But this is the only place we exist together He is telling of his past, of the place he works His desk was a store, That r - Cloaked
As of right now most of AnacondaSoftware is now closed, leaving just the forum. I had a security issue come up with my hosting account, and so in the process of doing secu - Low Bandwidth
Been working on trying to get the rough draft of the main script for Spiral Island done by the end of this week, probably not going to happen though. My main problem with - New Alexandria
What if the world were to end tomorrow? It doesn't really matter how , that's not important. It could be neutron bombs, it could be a pandemic disease, but for whatever re - The Story So Far
So I realize, as I'm writing up the script for Spiral Island, that there's a LOT more to what's going on then what is presented in-game. Granted, one of my main points for - Semi-machinated
A new part of Red Ice is now posted. And I'm not sure how exactly to pronounce the name, to be honest with you, it's been ages since I did any study of German and so the - Finite Infinity - Delayed Reaction
It's been two weeks now since I upgraded to PivotX. It's worked well, and I'm really digging the Page function. However I had forgotten one of the first things I had wante - Original Content
So I've got a second part up for that story now, accessible on the left. I might get one more out this week, then set it aside for a while before doing some more work on i - Red Ice
Okay, now I think I have everything stable in my configuration, and all my templates are uniform. Everything seems to be moving smooth, so time to roll forward. I'll have - Temporal Thoughts Alike
Since Spiral Island and some of my other titles are RPGs, one of the things I reference to sometimes for ideas is the OGL-licensed System Reference Document , a subset of - Time off of Work to Work
So, as I mentioned last time, I took two days off to get some work done, with some specific goals. I managed to get an update to Skewed out finally, after almost 2 months - List Mess
Every so often if I need to try and find something I've written, but not sure what document I've written it in, I'll just go through every document until I find it. Doing - Renewed Resolve
So it's the end of the year again, once again time to reflect on the past year and make resolutions for the next. Overall the biggest shift for the last year of course is - 410
I rarely ever delete files. I have collections of files that I've migrated from older machines, some for a very long time. The reason being is I never now if I will need s - Media Blitz
So I'm setting a goal for myself for Skewed: I plan on finishing the chapter I'm working on now, and the whole next chapter, by the end of the year. That will end out the - Dawn Over a New World
I'm rather amused that I managed to come up with 3 different arcticles named in the format of the Holders series in such a short span of time. That was an unexpected arran - Holder of the Game
I've talked about the Holders series once before , I wanted to touch back on it one more time, as I remembered something while rereading that article. I wrote some time ba - Finite Infinity - Triad Rule
Apparently font kerning and leading differences exist between WordPerfect and OpenOffice, because I remember these documents having more pages in the past. I noticed the s - Archival
What if the world were to end tomorrow? What if everyone suddenly died from some mysterious thing, and there was nothing left. There wouldn't be any point in talking about - Holder of Language
Being from the internet, I see a lot of it. A lot of misinformation, a lot of fierce opinions, and most interestingly, a lot of culture. The internet is truly a place with - Cruise Control
There's a point in which things simply fall into place. The point where you no longer are writing a story, natural progression is allowing the story to write itself. You s - Naming Conventions: Dry Well
I resort to using those generic names because I have so much difficulty coming up with names for characters. In cases where I do have names for specific charactes, I usual - Naming Conventions: Self-Referencing
I am not very good with names. I never have been, even my close friends I'll cycle through different names until I get the correct one. It's something my father and grandm - Third Shift
Our flights start leaving early tomorrow morning, so we have to be to the airport early. I decided to just stay up and sleep on the flight, so I'm going to be here for the - Version Three - Spiral Island Trilogy
Looking over aged discs of end-of-year projects burned off from my multimedia classes, the transitions to the Spiral Island Trilogy was decided by the time my Sophomore ye - Version Two - Spiral Island
Spiral Island started out using the the three characters I had in Leviathan : Amy Carter, Marcus Tilden, and Queen Sarissa Croshid. RPG Maker 95 let me have up to 12 chara - Version One - Project Leviathan
As I mentioned in the last entry, I wanted to give an introduction to the Spiral Island storyline. I figure I'll start this off here by telling how I have gotten to this p - Cross References
If you have read my story Skewed , then you probably have seen in it that I like to make references, because I'm having a lot of fun writing this story, and all the rules - Something From Nothing
It's been a while since I last updated Skewed . While this should come as no surprise given my promptness on this so far, there have been some factors that have actually c - A Little Carried Away
As I've mentioned before , I use a MediaWiki installation to organize my AnacondaSoftware projects. I'm about to announce a new project on the DevBlog, once a particular m - New Machine, Review
Since it's finished I might as well link it here, I finished the review on my new notebook, it's found on Notebook Forums. Dell XPS M1530 Review Now that that's written up - Quote of the Day
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. - Samuel McChord Crothers So - Something Different (Continued)
The roads forced him down a new path A path he didn't normally travel Yet, As he went along the road, something was familiar. He knew that building there He knew that curv - Evolving
I don't really have much time, so I'll keep this fairly short for now, and go more into what I had wanted to talk about tomorrow. This blog - and it's older sibling the An - StoryLines
One of the things I was taught in Elementary School was to organize for large writing projects. I had done that using index cards, and on the computer using the Cardfile p - A Month Mostly Wasted
Back in 2004, while bored at work during the Halloween season, I started writing a ghost story. I didn't finish it then, I only barely got started. I had decided at that t - sRc
Since I accidentally dropped it on the Gentoo forums, and it's a part of my Steam tag, I guess I'll explain my alias name 'sRc'. To do that, however, requires some explana - C-c-c-combo Breaker
Well I'm going to have to break off my seven days of Skewed updates, because I still have some more things I have to take care of before I go to Hawaii. So I'll have to sp - Bilingual Illiterate
Writing Skewed occasionally presents an unusual problem. Skewed takes place in Japan, and its characters are (with a couple exceptions) Japanese. However, I'm obviously no - Blitz Week
I'm going to try something different, I'm going to try to do a full week of updates to Skewed. Already done 2 so far, so I just need to do five more each of these weekdays - Gone, But Not
The song echoed through his mind He hadn't known him that well, But the memories of others soon rose It all began to blur together, Until it mattered not how well he was k - Buried Treasure
In High School, I kept a notebook for stuff related to the AnacondaSoftware title Spiral Island. This is a white notebook, with a sheet slid in the front with the Spiral I - Something Different
Here I stand at the crossroads I can see the four winds The wind of the north, bringing a chill on it's breath The wind of the east, with the stories of the travelers The - Description and Direction
Most of the time I plan out things in a script format. I have stories told by the characters, with conversations between characters explaining the situation. Anyone readin - Five Letters
So I finally got the update to Skewed posted, after working on it for two weeks and scrambling all yesterday to find a way to defeat the invincible boss I had inadvertentl