Blog Entries from mugen shiyo

  1. The Young Lion

    this is not a prologue or anything, but just a short thought I had in my head... "I want to be king, father. How do I become king of the whole world?" The father looked down at his boy, dressed in red robes and carrying the spear and shield of the Annutasi. Not sure how to answer, he looked over the rocky shelf they sat on and gazed at the field of tall grass spanning out to the African twilight. "The world is very big, my son. Even the wind cannot cross it without getting tired....
  2. Comparing Prices of Different Times

    I don't know why I get so obsessed on these types of details. One of the most troubling things I try to hunt down is a more-or-less structured comparison between the prices of two different ages (modern vs late medieval, specifically). After doing this for so long I'd just caution other writers not to follow this red herring. It's impossible. There can be no general comparison because things like the ease of production, the relative value of certain items back then, and the shifting demand...
  3. In the Waves

    There wasn't anything in the waves when I first looked. Kneeling by the rocky shoreline as the light faded from a gray sky, the wind blew in from waters that carried the chill of the approaching winter and the salt of the sea. The rush of the tide rolling up and sliding back towards the horizon filled the air as I lay back on the sand and let the rawness of the moment sweep over me. But it was getting darker and for some reason the darkness and being so near the water made me feel...
  4. A Secret Between Two...

    I guess there's two types of secrets you would have; your own and someone else's. At least in my case, when the subject of that secret arises in conversation, there is always an urge to tell if it is someone else's, whether negative or positive. There's almost a giddy joy in it that you have to restrain yourself from letting slip. But if it is a subject edging close to your own secrets, you only want to let slip if it is something that would reflect positively on you. Negative secrets make...
  5. North, South, East, or West

    Imagine your soul hanging in a void surrounded by a perfect nothing but empty blackness. So light your thoughts are the heaviest thing on you. You are only aware of the four cardinal directions. Which direction do you feel a pull to; a spiritual affinity towards? Looking at a compass and thinking about it, it seems like each direction has a general spiritual characteristic about it. North: travel, discovery, danger, challenge South: apathy, pain, runaways, lifeless East:...
  6. Wanted: A New Perspective

    I'm wandering what can I do to be different? How can I tell a story people have never heard before? My story is not different. My story is the same, only rearranged. A simple con but not convincing. So I scraped it...and made another from the pieces. Or rather, I made more pieces. Nothing fits together. They cannot because the story has no plot. The story has no plot because I cannot think of one that has not been used.
  7. Sinners and Saints

    So I called someone a saint today in the only way I ever call someone a saint...dripping with sarcasm. Well, more like a flash flood, but afterwards I wondered what does it mean to be a Saint. I think many people, as I did, think a Saint is some morally flawless person; some heavenly God-servant with nothing but angels and worship on his mind. A moral leader of the people. Maybe the Church (insert religion here) believes that also, but to me it seemed a Saint was someone who was perhaps...
  8. Love Never Lies?

    Was wondering about the saying that love adheres most to lies. OK, I said that, but I was wondering if it is true. Most people may deny this, but then I would ask them...what would your relationship be like if you never lied to her and she never lied to you. Never. Not even about the littlest thing.
  9. F&@# Playstation

    Step 1: Buy $400 Gaystation Step 2: Play enthusiastically Step 3: Watch hours of gameplay trashed when console abruptly shuts off with Yellow Light of Death Step 4: Recover composure and resume breathing Step 5: Go to Internet for help. Step 6: Wonder at how many people share my problem. Step 7: Buy freakin Heat Gun and thermal paste, fix it, and feel accomplished Step 8: Play for next three days Step 9: Watch Playstation simply snap of with blinking red light....
  10. Things Learned...

    Some things I learned recently... - Cooking is an awesome alchemy - Never leave your valuables in the open when arguing with women - Do not lend out what you are not prepared to lose - The dog will indeed bite the hand that feeds it if it is hungry enough - History and life are the most frequented victims of plagiarism - imagination is not creation, but the reconstruction of abstract thoughts and things. the chimera of writing - A man's situation is more accurately...
  11. Sudden Thought...

    If Iraq had weapons of mass destruction...why didn't they use them against the invading coalition?
  12. Thinking More Or Less In Reality

    Deleted due to diarrhea of the mind...
  13. Just Writing For Fun

    I can change your mood with the colors I say red, green, white, or gray I can change your mood with the words I choose win, fight, hurt, or lose I can change your thought with symbols and signs smiling, sinking, a baby dying I create, but much more I influence it's part of the fun of writing.
  14. New Years Resoultions

    New Years Resolutions... Don't really have any. Maybe just avoid all the mistakes of last year...become a little stronger this year...cut the fat...and stay focused. Sounds good. Why am I thinking about this now... Why wait till the end of the year? Why am I typing this out anyway...
  15. The King

    I think chess is a great metaphor for life, but it lacks three basic things as far as I have been able to notice... 1. In chess, a piece that begins as a king stays as a king. In life, any piece can become another piece. The method and the difficulty of doing so is determined by the situation. 2. Aside from the pieces themselves, the situation also changes with varying degrees of unpredictabilitiy. It would almost be like three-dimensional chess where players had to deal not only with...
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