Nothing Like a Good Cup of Joe

A few nights ago, Essays.ph contacted me saying that I had passed the first part of the application screening. For the second part, I was to write an applicant sample article. Either that or I travel to Makati for an interview. Since I obviously couldn't do the latter, I made do with the former and spent two days brainstorming on what to write. Finally, I finished an article of 600+ words. My article was initially 1,119 words and the instructions said I only need to write around 500 words but I decided to go with it since I couldn't think of anything else better to pass the second phase with.

True Blood found me this morning and once again seduced me to its nest of sex, blood and violence. A few days ago, I started reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, which loosely inspired the first season but essentially inspired the entire tv series. I just heard they were done with Season 2, which I have yet to begin watching, and were already working with the third season. Season 4 is in the planning phase as well. I just read the summaries for each episode of Season 2. Looks like things are going to be heavily supernatural.

Horror, as far as I'm concerned, is a tricky thing to write, mainly because you have to elicit fear from your readers. On the other hand, they say that anything with death and supernatural or psychological hell makes for something that belongs to the genre.

I'm now stuck in a creative rut for VDDC, my attempt at a sugarcoated horror novel, after staring at it for a few hours and thinking to myself, "Wow. This is fucking cheesy."

I'm in desperate need of the writer bug. I might steal True Blood 2's recipe of intertwined story-telling with 2-3 subplots thrown in the mix. VDDC is absolutely weak with its one plot. It reads poorly, as of this time, and I have yet to write anything aside from the flimsy Chapter One. Wish me luck!

Pepe Out!

† Jofer

Normal day, Back on dA

Last night, I posted five (5) literary deviations on my deviantART account with varying awesomeness, though most of them are failures. They vary in titles and themes such as: Dear Greasemonkey (fiction in letter form), Why You'll Never (hatepoem), Life in Depression (non-fiction), Words (fiction) and Vampires Don't Drink Coffee (creative non-fiction). So, yeah, don't forget to check them all out. I'd love to hear feedback, even the scathing ones. We can't all survive on sugar, you know. The Library Lounge on deviantART accepted all five of my new deviations to their gallery so I guess that makes them read-able for some people. Now I'm thinking of venturing into digital arts or photography as a side passion. Weird since I can't do both well.

Days ago, a friend asked for me to proofread his work but today Yahoo Mail! was on a glitch so I couldn't email him back. My sister couldn't send emails too so it's possibly a glitch. Thankfully, later this evening, things went back to normal. Man, Yahoo! should maintain its good service or it may risk losing a majority of its users.

So instead of getting all worked up for the setback, I instead focused on and finished modifying my old resume. I downloaded my jobstreet one as well which means I now have two resumes on hand. Talk about being too excited to go to work.

To end the irritating day, I cooled my head by watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (HP6), which is still good in movie format, though I think it's much more better in book form. Of all Rowling's Potter Books, I do have a special place for it in my heart. It's tied with Tales of Beedle the Bard, of course. I have yet to read Deathly Hallows and that's a little painful to admit but, hey, it's just about finding the right time to read it now thanks to Marx and his e-book copies!

Pepe Out!

† Jofer

Vampire Sex

I was surfing the web earlier when I came upon this certain scene from HBO's True Blood, inspired by Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Novels, which exemplies what basically makes horror horrific:


Anna Paquin Nude True Blood Season 2 - The best video clips are here

If you're a true blue horror buff like myself then you'd notice that most, if not all, horror stories usually have sex, violence and gore. There'll usually be couples having sex or, in it's place, a scene that just about screams, if not blatantly implies, sex. What's horror without violence? Someone gets hacked and slashed into tiny pieces of its former self. Victims die by getting killed (no duh?!) with just about every weapon a sadistic bastard can think of. Then there's gore. Gore. Gore. Gore. Can we even make horror without blood and deaths? The difference between gore and violence is but a thin line, with gore usually attributed to the product of sheer violence. Still, it all depend on what type of horror you're making, whether it's supernatural or psychological. Either way, it'll be fun. Let's go kill some Mary Sues!

By the way, yes, vampire sex looks pretty fucked up in real life but it sure looks better on animation. Though, I have yet to see an animated version of vampire sex. Sadly, this is my first vampire sex. Thankfully, I'm not writing vampire sex in my novel project. That'll just be like bestiality or necrophilia. Ewww.

Pepe out!

† Jofer

Vampires Don't Drink Coffee

Reading webcomics can sure help get ideas for a novel. 

For example, Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name by Tessa Stone is one inspirational comic that you can read online. It's free too so it's really that epic. Stone describes the genius art as sugarcoated horror, something that caught my tiny brain. "Wow. Horror for the wuss... That could work for me."

And then the comic's title forced me to change my attempted novel's own title to be more witty and smark. So, yeah, I did. What was I to do? Fight with text?

Either way, seeing my attempted novel in a new light sure ignited my creativity. Then my headache doused the fire.

† Jofer