Nook Contest: Preview of First World
Here’s a preview of the first world we be exploring in the contest. I made this with Frapps (a program I never used before) and edited it in Openshot Video Editor for Linux (first time for this too) so you’re not getting blow your brains out video art here, but you’ll get an idea. Check back tomorrow for more on how we’ll play the game. Credits: A preview of my world at Kitely. This world has a minimum of trees and buildings. Rooms are lightly furnished. This provides new virtual world explorers a simple environment where they can learn to navigate in an avatar body. Credits: Music– Free to Fly…
Housewarming
All moved in.Used to be I forwarded mail.Remember mail? Now I forward domain names. The curtains are hung, fresh paint on the walls.Had an earthquake while I was hanging pictures.I think one’s still crooked. Stay awhile. Put your feet up.Be it ever so humble,This blog is my cyber home. This post was written as part of G-man’s Friday Flash 55. Click here to join the fun or see what others wrote. ***I’m holding a contest on the blog, sort of a blog warming party. Over the next six weeks visitors here will have the opportunity to win various gift cards or the grand prize of a ColorNook. Keep checking that…
The Never-ending Story
Was there a beginning–a time when that scratching,papery scurrying wasn’t?A time before ideasfeeding in the shadowswere lured in with scattered crumbsand incantations,spun onto a page,then shredded. Ceramic clinking–mortar and pestlegrinding frail symbols to dust.Blended with sweat and tears,forming the paste,binding the thousand bonesthat frame a tale. Bubbling black brothconsumes:one eye of critic,six toads and a frog.A pair of princesand a rogue plot bunnytossed in for spice. Watching the plot thicken.Chanting.Stirring.A mist rises,glittering metaphorsclinging to bones like dew. Alchemyadds flesh,breathes life into form. Dragons are slain.Damsels rescue princes.Princes find the magic amulet.Spells broken.Kingdoms freed.People rejoice.The fire goes out.The gate clangs shut.The drawbridge drawn.Tale Told. Time to say goodbye. No!It needs a…