Its been a while...

Hello again!

It’s been a while since I’ve last blogged, as I’ve been so busy with writing and browsing through DeviantArt. As for the latter, my friend David (Birmingham David) suggested that I set up an account on there, as my Facebook account for my illustrations has been very pointless as of late. So far, it’s Ok. Two of my paintings have been downloaded and my illustrations have received a lot of page views (does 14 count for a three day old account?). But to be honest, visitors and artists on that site have better taste and the ones that look like they’ve been drawn by professionals receive the most comments, downloads and views. I was tempted this morning to draw a picture of Harley Quinn, my favourite Batman villain, but this time, making more effort with the style and detail so it’s up to standard. But alas, I tried to draw her sitting in a secretary chair and gave up. It’s been too long since I’ve drawn anything and I’m too out of practice right now to attempt anything ambitious.

So I did what I did best today (or rather better at)….writing. I have just completed Chapter 13 a few minutes ago. I must say, I am very happy, for now I have only ten chapters to go. Yes, ten chapters may seem a lot, but for me, it tends to get lesser as quick as my nephew waffling down a Cornetto.

At the moment, I think my progress is going well. Again, I’ve deviated from the original chapter plan, because as I’ve said before, stories tend to write themselves. My protagonist now has magical powers, for I could not think of any way a burning house could be put out. But rest assured, I am happy with the results, because not only do I have a spectacular scene (won’t give too much away) but I suddenly realised that the protagonist needs to develop powers as he is half Devic.

At the moment, I am watching Match of the Day, waiting for the Germany vs Spain match. I am going to stay neutral today. I’m still annoyed with the German goalkeeper for conning the linesman into thinking that Lampard’s goal was not one and I’ve heard that a few of the Spanish fans have been making monkey noises in the stadium. Yes, I know that they are not representative of all Spanish people and that most of them are pretty pleasant. But making monkey noises is even worse than using any of the racial derogatory words. In the words of Joey, ‘it goes so far past the line, they can’t even see it. The line is a dot to them!’ No pun intended by the way.

On the subject of the World Cup, I’m really happy that Holland won yesterday. Over the past few weeks since England lost, every team I have supported have lost: Portugal, Brazil, Ghana (I only supported them because my ex was supporting Uruguay) and Argentina. I was beginning to think that my shouting and cheering were a bad luck charm. But, alas Holland performed really well yesterday despite it and I’m definitely going to support them in the final :)