What has been filling my time

My parents just bought a new entertainment center for the new TV and they had to get rid of the old computer desk. So I "offered" to Put it in my room, now many of you will see these pictures and realize that this is a dream come true for me. I have a lot of Electronic stuff and its really nice to be able to hide all of those wires, Rather than reminding me of my high school days it looks very professional.

In other news I found a old computer in the basement and decided to fix it up, it was a long and frustrating experience by all accounts, but I actually really enjoyed it, I think that kind of stuff is becoming my hobby. Next I want to build Linux based server, just to see if I can get it too work. (DI sells old computers for 25 bucks I bet I can find a suitable one there.)

I have made a breakthrough on the magic system for Kadence Effect. I had been trying to come up with a complex system of rules that the characters would have to follow, and I may come back to that
later. But for now the major limitation for the characters and there magic is that they know nothing about it or more importantly how to control it. Now there may be some complex system behind it all, but it's not important yet. that may seem like a small thing to most of you but it was an important decision for me.

Now I'm off to study the Xubuntu build of Linux and its viability as a server operating system.

Shameless advertisement and some news

This is a new book from the author I told you about last week, he asked everyone that goes to his web page to post it on their blog so there you go. it went on sale today but I tricked the local Borders to give it to me last friday!

Here's some Kadence Effect news, Today I worked extensively on the magic system, I'm having a hard time coming up with rules for it. I think that if you give somebody an all powerful ability the story ends, My characters are special but they have to follow the rules like everybody else.

Another thing that I've been working on is giving all of my character's quirks to seem more real, and I don't mean over the top quirks but things that make them unique, the entire process has been really fun and I am excited to see how these characters will work through the plot I've given them.

Great Books and other thoughts

I just finished the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, and have to say that I am completely blown away by how great it was!

After 1,000 years of oppression the memory of hope has all but faded in a mist-haunted, dust-ridden world where powerful Great Houses rule the serf-like Skaa with a cruel, bourgeois hand. In one of the Lord Ruler's hellish prisons, however, Kelsier discovers he is one of the Mistborn, a select group of individuals with impressive, metallurgic powers. Together with a band of elite, cutthroat criminals Kel wrenches his way upwards to stage a coup of unprecedented proportions, but are his powers alone enough to topple the immortal dictator known as the "Sliver of Infinity"

Anyway, that's the 'back of the book' movie trailer type explanation, but I don't think it really does the book justice. The Character development was so great in this story! I haven't really felt attached to character's in a book as much as I was in this Trilogy!

Brandon Sanderson is a local author who teaches a creative writing class at BYU, also he was chosen to finish the last book of The Wheel of Time.

I wish I could write in a way that would compel everyone to read these books, but I can only try a more direct approach, honesty has always been my forte: Read the Book you will love it, even if its not your genre of book or the specific age group that you like.

You may be intrested to know that I have started to write a book entitled Kadence Effect, I have been trying to gain enough courage to write something that will probably suck, but everybody has to write a first book, more updates on Kadence Effect soon