Last updated:30/07/2009
Blog-ish: I've graduated! And unemployed! Sad state of affairs really at the mo... Nevertheless, I'd actually been making a Synopsis of ML through year (I read thru it in my spare time and edit along the way very sparsely) and it's finally finished! I can safely say it's quite impossible to read through ML in one reading, though doing that would be good in picking up things and moods. Writing-wise, I'm actually on FF.net at the mo and I don't think I'll start a story here any time soon. About RPG cliché, I'm sorry to say I really don't think I'll ever have the strength to finish it unless something miraclous happened. I feel horrible but this is so true that I feel I shouldn't write this unless I'm drunk. Either way, that is all right now and it's always fun to come back and see what my past self wrote here.

(Warning - bio contains some answers from chainletter-type questionnaries... I used to have quite a lot of those things...)
Pen name: December Morning Owl
Gender: Male
Location: Scotland
Starsign: Sagittarius (and it's always so hard to spell)
Ex-Dream place to build a house: "Sweden, i like the cold... the barmaids... the alcohol... and there's something about the name that attracts me." Been there, but haven't built anything yet. It is actually VERY cold, and the alcohol VERY expensive... so i don't know where is a good place for a house, but the Swedish living envoirnment is definitely one of the best in the world.
Most romantic city: Maybe Milan or Venice (been to Rome now, not exactly every corner of Italy is romantic). The cities all provoke thoughts with their buildings or landscapes... from the pictures anyway. Venice is about to sink as far as I know but...
Fav food: Probably chocolate. But there're plenty of things I dont like... General rule is+ meat&fruits, - veg&seafood
Fav animal: Dogs... but I'll probably not get one this life-time, and definitely not in the near future, and unless I really try hard at it.
Fav sports: Quite a few on the list actually, some important ones are badminton, fencing, and basketball.
Fav anime:DBZ, Slam Dunk, Yu Yu Hakusho,Gundam Wing/SEED, FMP and the list goes on... Then again, I perfer many of the mangas over the anime, but I'm digressing.
Fav manga: I''s by Masakazu Katsura, though not so sure now. But there are many others that I really like: Yakitate Japan(turned sour as it went on), Naruto(dragging on...), Flame of Recca, Death Note, S.D.Kenichi, Ranma 1/2, late Ken Akamatsu stuffs, most/all of Adachi Mitsuru stuffs... it goes on...
Fav mangaka: Adachi Mitsuru - enough said.
Fav DS game so far: Jump Ultimate Stars!
Fav PS RPG: Fanl Fantasy 7 (though I played the PC version)
Fav GBA RPG: Golden Sun series, but Gyakuten Saiban series (Phoneix Wright for US) comes a close second. Don't count the 4th one for the DS, it wasn't that good. I think they do plan to make a 5th though, from the way it ended.
Fav SNES RPG of all time: Seiken Densetsu 3
Recommanded SNES RPG: Chorno Trigger, Front Mission, StarOcean, Tales of Phantasia, Bahamut Lagoon(ok i'll stop with Squaresoft titles), Lufia series(although the newst two are for GBC and GBA), Breath of Fire 2, Uncharted Waters 2... ok the list can go on forever so i'll stop here. One more thing - SNES days are the best.

Projects in progress(slow or fast, writing or in planning, whatever):

RPG Cliché - Really on hiatus indefinitely. The theme and atmosphere of the thing will most likely change if I pick this up again (can't help it, complain to Time) but hopefully it'll still be a good read. Gaming will also have changed too most likley...

Adachi's Short Program series inspired compilation: This will be a work where many of the random romance story ideas that I somehow generate come together under the code name "Cupid". I will not divulge the 'link' here yet because it is quite precious and I haven't started the compilation yet... and it doesn't seem to be getting started soon since I lack time and motivation thanks to reality. Hope to do this though since I have a good storage of ideas indeed.

Untitled Fantasy - A team project between me and a fellow writer and friend. We talked about this during summer 2007, and it got underway. Progress kinda died, we don't have much attention span...

Another Fantasy - My own this time. Got prologue and chapter 1. Couldn't resist the temptation and started this but now regret starting it at all. The passion for this was once so strong but kinda died now... It's really not easy to take up such a big project for someone like me in my situation. I'm actually even tempted to just delete what I wrote.

Many others - They're kinda just padded out ideas, developed over time when inspiration strikes. Not enough for the full bodied novel, but a structure of sorts. They are all different genres I'd like to give a try if I have the time. Ranges from something like Full Metal Panic, to a Gundam-like post-apocolyptic idea, even to a short Thriller. Ever growing new story ideas also include another post-apocalyptic dark-ish fantasy, a potential harem manga and a TV reality game show. Someone should pluck my brains for all these, I think, prosperous ideas! If only one was rich and have bundles of free time eh?

Finished projects:

A Melody Untitled - My first posted and finished story. The main plot flows around the seemingly 'perfect' basketball captain who has a regret tugging behind him and a dreadful loud-mouth gossip queen waiting in front. Apart from the main plot, there are other sub-plots in the story revolving around the 'Square'. It's pretty much six romance stories with one more prominent as guide. I don't see much romance pieces with a male lead around here, and this was one of the longest ones around.
Completion time - around a year... not counting the years I've spent trying to write my numerous first chapters of course... Currently the oldest 6000words+ completed story there is in the section...

My Legend - My second completed novel. The main character leads a peaceful life in a rural village - until a world-famous pop star moves in with him. Clichéd as that may sound, the main character doesn't fall in love with her at first sight, but even accepted a job to try and ruin her career. If that was not enough, her arrival somehow changed the distance between him and the girl he currently has feelings for - by making him into the school's badminton club's saviour. He may be happy about that development, but his old childhood friend and crush just had to have the total opposite fate. This story is far from troubles around this quadrilateral, with stems of a love rival, an oblivious jock, a nosy under-classman, villians, fake actors, a mischievous sister, badminton talents... the list goes on. Another rare romance with a male lead, with what I believe is a truly twisting plot worthy of being broadcasted as one of those hit US series and more.
Completion time - Counted wrong the first time cause of the site's reversed dating system, but this story actually took me about five and a half years! Granted, there have been long hiatuses but the fact that this story spanned half a decade is really something. It's also almost four times the length of my first novel... Looking back, I really wonder if I can do something like this again... Probaby - if I still have a lifestyle that could offer me as much free time as I had, maybe more. Youth sure flies by quicker than you know it.