It has been quite a while since I last used my blog but with this entry I want to go on about something with which I have been wanting to go on about for quite some time and this of course the music of 1991. What a year for music this year was. As far as I am concerned 1991 is the greatest year of all time in regard to the music that year produced.
First of all seeing that I am a big time U2 fan I have to mention their amazing 1991 album 'Achtung Baby'. Featuring the sings 'the Fly', 'Mysterious Ways', the incredible 'One', 'Even Better Than The Real Thing' and 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Ride Your Wild Horses'. One debate is as to which of their back catalogue of albums is their best, most would respond with either 'Achtung Baby' or 1987's 'The Joshua Tree'. 'Achtung Baby' brought with it huge change for U2 and with it U2 launched into the amazing Zoo TV world tour.
1991 also saw the release of Metallica's self title album which is also known as the 'Black' album. Every song on this is a classic. 'Enter Sandman', 'The Unforgiven' and 'Nothing else matters' are still classics. 'Sad But True' has been covered and sampled by the likes of Snopp Dogg and Kid Rock. Brilliant album from start to finish.
Another of my favourites from 1991 is Pearl Jam's début album 'Ten'. Mostly known for the singles 'Alive' and 'Jeremy' I also love the songs 'Even Flow', 'Black' and 'Why Go'. I also think this this is by far Pearl Jam's Best album.
It was a big year for 'Grunge' maybe even the year that saw the beginning of this new genre of music as Nirvana released their classic 'Nevermind'. With 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'In Bloom' and 'Come As You are' really setting it up perfectly. Have you seen the Youtube video where a child awakes to the song 'Breed'? Classic video.
The year of 1991 also saw the release of R.E.M's 'Out of Time' which features 'Loosing My Religion' and 'Shiny Happy People' which also saw Kate Pierson from the B-52's join in on vocals. Michael Jackson's 'Dangerous' also came out this year, an album which features the singles 'Black or White', 'Heal The World', 'Jam' and 'In The Closet' just to name a few.
Also in 1991 the Red Hot Chilli Peppers hit it big with 'Blood, Sex, Sugar, Musik' with the likes of 'Under The Bridge' and 'Give It Away'. Guns'N'Roses put out 'Use Your Illusions 1 and 2' and Primal Scream put out 'Screamadelica'. Blur didn't hit the big time until they released their 'Parklife' album in 1994 but they did release their début album 'Leisure' which features 'She's so High', 'Bang' and the very excellent 'There's No Other Way' the video to Which Damon Albarn has a very dodgy looking hair cut.
Have I missed out on mentioning anything else that is worth mentioning? But what a year it was, definitely my favourite year in music. Is there another year which could possibly challenge or surpass 1991 as the greatest year in music?
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
I love to write but I don't take what I write too seriously. I enjoy it and will keep going with it while being happy to share it with anyone and everyone who would like to have a read of anything I may get to come up with, without thinking of any sort of gain for myself from it. However even though it is just a hobby, a pass time for me it would still be nice to see something in print.
Something I have been thinking about for quite some time now it to take some of the stories I have written, gather them together and print them up in maybe a book or magazine like format, maybe get 100-200 copies printed up and sell them between family and friends with the though of donating any and all profits from such a project to charity. If I was to do this the charity of choice for me would be the Make A Wish Foundation.
My main problems are however, first of all I am not a naturally confident person. I keep trying to tell myself not to worry as my efforts would be going to a good cause. Secondly if I do go ahead with this, how should I go about it? Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on rewriting two groups of stories. One of which is a series of continuing short stories based on the ideas of Vampires. The other story is the story I wrote for last Novembers NaNoWriMo. Both still need a fair bit of writing and rewriting.
Thing is now, should I just say 'feck it' and go ahead with this project? Then if I do, should I only do up one of the two stories or go ahead with both? If I only do up one then which one should it be? If I go ahead and do both should I keep writing the way I am at the moment alternating between the two? Adding to one story then taking a break before going through the other one, or maybe stick to completing one story at a time. Maybe I should keep the writing as a hobby and do nothing at all with the finished stories.
Is it worth my while to do any of this? I don't know. If I do print anything up I may not even get the cost of doing so back, then again it may prove to be a successful project. So now the question is what should I do? I am quite confused.
Something I have been thinking about for quite some time now it to take some of the stories I have written, gather them together and print them up in maybe a book or magazine like format, maybe get 100-200 copies printed up and sell them between family and friends with the though of donating any and all profits from such a project to charity. If I was to do this the charity of choice for me would be the Make A Wish Foundation.
My main problems are however, first of all I am not a naturally confident person. I keep trying to tell myself not to worry as my efforts would be going to a good cause. Secondly if I do go ahead with this, how should I go about it? Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on rewriting two groups of stories. One of which is a series of continuing short stories based on the ideas of Vampires. The other story is the story I wrote for last Novembers NaNoWriMo. Both still need a fair bit of writing and rewriting.
Thing is now, should I just say 'feck it' and go ahead with this project? Then if I do, should I only do up one of the two stories or go ahead with both? If I only do up one then which one should it be? If I go ahead and do both should I keep writing the way I am at the moment alternating between the two? Adding to one story then taking a break before going through the other one, or maybe stick to completing one story at a time. Maybe I should keep the writing as a hobby and do nothing at all with the finished stories.
Is it worth my while to do any of this? I don't know. If I do print anything up I may not even get the cost of doing so back, then again it may prove to be a successful project. So now the question is what should I do? I am quite confused.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
A STRANGE OCCURANCE
As some of you may know, all through my life I have had experiences which you could say were a bit super natural or paranormal, moments which con not be easily explained. Well it has been quite a while since my last 'strange' encounter. Been a while that is until this morning.
Having been up quite early I decided to head back to bed and I fell asleep fairly quickly. About an hour or so later I awoke to and straight away felt a strange presence. Having not yet opened my eyes, I had this feeling that I was not alone. Before I could do anything I felt what seemed to be two hands wrap themselves around my neck. All of a sudden I became paralysed. I could not moved what so ever.
A second or two passed and I began to struggle to breathe. Ten or fifteen seconds passed and I still could not breathe. Still being paralysed I knew I had to do something quick or I would not survive this moment. I fought to open my eyes and as soon as I did I was once again able to breathe, through my nose at first. I could feel power return to my limbs and I got out of bed as quickly as I could and found that I was indeed alone, and I could no longer feel a presence.
I generally don't mind the strange moments that I experience, though as this shows, not all of these strange experiences are pleasant. Seriously hope I do not have another moment like this one.
Having been up quite early I decided to head back to bed and I fell asleep fairly quickly. About an hour or so later I awoke to and straight away felt a strange presence. Having not yet opened my eyes, I had this feeling that I was not alone. Before I could do anything I felt what seemed to be two hands wrap themselves around my neck. All of a sudden I became paralysed. I could not moved what so ever.
A second or two passed and I began to struggle to breathe. Ten or fifteen seconds passed and I still could not breathe. Still being paralysed I knew I had to do something quick or I would not survive this moment. I fought to open my eyes and as soon as I did I was once again able to breathe, through my nose at first. I could feel power return to my limbs and I got out of bed as quickly as I could and found that I was indeed alone, and I could no longer feel a presence.
I generally don't mind the strange moments that I experience, though as this shows, not all of these strange experiences are pleasant. Seriously hope I do not have another moment like this one.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
NaNoWriMo 2011
If you have been on my facebook page at any stage you probably know by now that NaNoWriMo which stands for National November Writing Month and it is a challenge whereby if you accept it, you are challenged to write a story in excess of 50,000 words in just one month and obviously being the month of November.
Ever since I have been a kid I have been writing short stories, but unfortunately over the years I have lost so much of what I have written, so a few years back I decided to start typing up what stories I still had a well as stories I could remember, and of course I continued writing new stories too. I have also been posting these stories on-line.
Even though I love to write short stories I have always wanted to write a real long story but until now I have not been motivated to do so, therefore I took up the NaNoWriMo challenge. The story I decided to write is called THE PATHFINDER MISSION, basically it is about a starship by the name of THE PATHFINDER, it is the end of the world and planet Earth is being evacuated, so The Pathfinder is charged with finding a new home for the human race.
So for 30 days and 30 nights even though I have existed on Planet Earth I have been living aboard The Pathfinder. Unfortunately right from the start of the month I was behind on the daily word targets but I had always been fairly confident that I could catch up but when I got up on the morning of November 29th I still had 13,400 words to reach the 50,000 target. Up to this day I had only 3 days where I had written more than 2000 in one day, 2,500 twice and 2,300 once and with a 14 hour effort I got through over 7,500 words.
I ended the story before the 50,000 word mark as I felt I that by going any further I was only dragging out the story, however I still had time to go so I wrote an introduction to the story to bring the word count up, and my validated effort reached 50,055 words therefore I am a NaNoWriMo winner.
So many of you kept me motivated all month long even when I thought it was beyond my reach, so me being a winner makes all you guys a winner too. Thank you all so much for helping me reach a personal goal, and who knows Maybe I might just get to try this again next year.
I have been posting the story in 15 parts on-line at short-fiction.co.uk where I post under the name 'actung'.
Ever since I have been a kid I have been writing short stories, but unfortunately over the years I have lost so much of what I have written, so a few years back I decided to start typing up what stories I still had a well as stories I could remember, and of course I continued writing new stories too. I have also been posting these stories on-line.
Even though I love to write short stories I have always wanted to write a real long story but until now I have not been motivated to do so, therefore I took up the NaNoWriMo challenge. The story I decided to write is called THE PATHFINDER MISSION, basically it is about a starship by the name of THE PATHFINDER, it is the end of the world and planet Earth is being evacuated, so The Pathfinder is charged with finding a new home for the human race.
So for 30 days and 30 nights even though I have existed on Planet Earth I have been living aboard The Pathfinder. Unfortunately right from the start of the month I was behind on the daily word targets but I had always been fairly confident that I could catch up but when I got up on the morning of November 29th I still had 13,400 words to reach the 50,000 target. Up to this day I had only 3 days where I had written more than 2000 in one day, 2,500 twice and 2,300 once and with a 14 hour effort I got through over 7,500 words.
I ended the story before the 50,000 word mark as I felt I that by going any further I was only dragging out the story, however I still had time to go so I wrote an introduction to the story to bring the word count up, and my validated effort reached 50,055 words therefore I am a NaNoWriMo winner.
So many of you kept me motivated all month long even when I thought it was beyond my reach, so me being a winner makes all you guys a winner too. Thank you all so much for helping me reach a personal goal, and who knows Maybe I might just get to try this again next year.
I have been posting the story in 15 parts on-line at short-fiction.co.uk where I post under the name 'actung'.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
PLEASE READ THIS
November may the month of NaNoWriMo, a month of writing that I am currently taking part in, but November is also the month of Movember, a month when men all over the place don weird and wonderful moustaches or facial hair in general for charity. This year I am taking part but since I already have facial hair I will give Movember a bit of a twist.
Now I have been able to grow facial hair since I was 12, so when I was 18 I had a pain in me back side shaving so around about this time of the year in the year 1992 I began to grow a full beard. After about two weeks it began to itch and itch so bad that I shaved. I started with shaving the cheeks and when I got to the chin I noticed that this part of the beard had never itched so I kept what was left and it has been there now for nineteen years which is more than half my life.
So what I will do for Movember is give what facial hair I have a new designer look but only if I raise at least 150 for Irish cancer society. So the deal is that if I raise over 150 euro by midnight November 22nd I will go get the designer look the following morning, have photo's taken, post them to my facebook and use one as my profile pick.
If you want me to give my facial hair a designer look then do what is said in the film 'Jerry Maguire' and SHOW ME THE MONEY. Come on people, who is gonna sponsor me.
Now I have been able to grow facial hair since I was 12, so when I was 18 I had a pain in me back side shaving so around about this time of the year in the year 1992 I began to grow a full beard. After about two weeks it began to itch and itch so bad that I shaved. I started with shaving the cheeks and when I got to the chin I noticed that this part of the beard had never itched so I kept what was left and it has been there now for nineteen years which is more than half my life.
So what I will do for Movember is give what facial hair I have a new designer look but only if I raise at least 150 for Irish cancer society. So the deal is that if I raise over 150 euro by midnight November 22nd I will go get the designer look the following morning, have photo's taken, post them to my facebook and use one as my profile pick.
If you want me to give my facial hair a designer look then do what is said in the film 'Jerry Maguire' and SHOW ME THE MONEY. Come on people, who is gonna sponsor me.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo stands for National November Writing Month, bu the National part should be replaced by Worldwide, for I am sure that it is something that does take place worldwide.
If you write seriously or just for fun, you are more than likely aware of what the whole NaNoWriMo thingy is. It is a challange more than anything else that challenges writers who take it up to begin and complete a novel length story of at least 50,000 words in just one month.
I have been writing short stories for as long as I can remember but I would like to write at least one Novel length story, just for the sake of being able to say I have actually written one, so this year I am going to take the challenge.
I have never come close to writing so many words in one month, so it will be some challenge for me to not only see if I can come close to writing 50,000 words in one month but to also have all those words in just one story. I have never taken myself seriously and write for fun, but I may as well give this a go.
As for the story I will aim to write,I have a basic Idea for it already. I won't start writing it until Novembere 1st. I may as well go all in on the challenge and give it a real go. However prior to November 1st I can organise and plan the story. Within the month itself the concern is with quantity more than quality. After the month has ended if I have completed over 50,000 word, I could alway begin to edit and attempt to improve the story.
In the weeks to come I can hopefully plan well enough to give this a real go, and if I do complete it I will post the whole thing, in parts of course, at my regular posting spot short-fiction.co.uk. Posting this blog entry will also, I hope, inspire me to complete this challenge and not abandon it, as I am sure there will be moments where I will feel like giving up.
I know I have said before that I know all that confident in what I write, but it is better to have what I have already written and will continue to write in a place where it can be read rather than on pieces of paper, or in a computer file or in an out of reach spot in the back of my mind. So the challenge is on, can I complete it? Well time will tell. :)
If you write seriously or just for fun, you are more than likely aware of what the whole NaNoWriMo thingy is. It is a challange more than anything else that challenges writers who take it up to begin and complete a novel length story of at least 50,000 words in just one month.
I have been writing short stories for as long as I can remember but I would like to write at least one Novel length story, just for the sake of being able to say I have actually written one, so this year I am going to take the challenge.
I have never come close to writing so many words in one month, so it will be some challenge for me to not only see if I can come close to writing 50,000 words in one month but to also have all those words in just one story. I have never taken myself seriously and write for fun, but I may as well give this a go.
As for the story I will aim to write,I have a basic Idea for it already. I won't start writing it until Novembere 1st. I may as well go all in on the challenge and give it a real go. However prior to November 1st I can organise and plan the story. Within the month itself the concern is with quantity more than quality. After the month has ended if I have completed over 50,000 word, I could alway begin to edit and attempt to improve the story.
In the weeks to come I can hopefully plan well enough to give this a real go, and if I do complete it I will post the whole thing, in parts of course, at my regular posting spot short-fiction.co.uk. Posting this blog entry will also, I hope, inspire me to complete this challenge and not abandon it, as I am sure there will be moments where I will feel like giving up.
I know I have said before that I know all that confident in what I write, but it is better to have what I have already written and will continue to write in a place where it can be read rather than on pieces of paper, or in a computer file or in an out of reach spot in the back of my mind. So the challenge is on, can I complete it? Well time will tell. :)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
A Second Story Published.
First of all I haven't quite got around to completing what I had set out for myself in my last blog entry but I will get to that in a bit. But before I do I would like to announce that I have been fortunate enough to have a second story published.
Almost 11 months after intrest was shown in a story I wrote entitled TORTURE by US magazine Horrotica I get an e-mail informing me that my story SCENT is to be published in the Autumn edition of 221b magazine. The magazines accepts entries through competition where the winning entries will feature in the next issue so I entered one story more out of intrest than anything else, and I have been informed it will feature from September 23rd.
The story SCENT came out of a friendship between myself and someone I have got to know through short-fiction.co.uk. I began to write SCENT and periodically e-mailed what I had written and got opinions back on it and continued writing accordingly until the story was completed. Then came across the competition and entered the story. So Rei :) thank you.
Now in my last blog entry I said it was time to really get going on my writing due to the sheer amount of thoughts and ideas I want to get through. Unfortunately my laptop went down not long after that post and I have lost a bit of what I had begun to work on, but I will eventually get there on what I want to get through.
I am still working on continuing my vampire series only the next part will have a different title than what I have said it would be and that will probably be my next entry at short-fiction.co.uk. Since my last blog entry I also had an idea for a story I hadn't previously mentioned is a story called ALTER-EGO which I have posted at short-fiction in two parts. It is a story I had a little bit of fun with since I have an alter-ego of my own and it gave me good cause to mix in elements to this story of stories I have written in the past.
Anyway People are still reading what I write, and comments are quite good and nice so I'll keep on writing, so until next time :) .....
Almost 11 months after intrest was shown in a story I wrote entitled TORTURE by US magazine Horrotica I get an e-mail informing me that my story SCENT is to be published in the Autumn edition of 221b magazine. The magazines accepts entries through competition where the winning entries will feature in the next issue so I entered one story more out of intrest than anything else, and I have been informed it will feature from September 23rd.
The story SCENT came out of a friendship between myself and someone I have got to know through short-fiction.co.uk. I began to write SCENT and periodically e-mailed what I had written and got opinions back on it and continued writing accordingly until the story was completed. Then came across the competition and entered the story. So Rei :) thank you.
Now in my last blog entry I said it was time to really get going on my writing due to the sheer amount of thoughts and ideas I want to get through. Unfortunately my laptop went down not long after that post and I have lost a bit of what I had begun to work on, but I will eventually get there on what I want to get through.
I am still working on continuing my vampire series only the next part will have a different title than what I have said it would be and that will probably be my next entry at short-fiction.co.uk. Since my last blog entry I also had an idea for a story I hadn't previously mentioned is a story called ALTER-EGO which I have posted at short-fiction in two parts. It is a story I had a little bit of fun with since I have an alter-ego of my own and it gave me good cause to mix in elements to this story of stories I have written in the past.
Anyway People are still reading what I write, and comments are quite good and nice so I'll keep on writing, so until next time :) .....
Friday, June 17, 2011
TIME TO REALLY GET STUCK INTO MY WRITINGS.
Usually when I write, what I write is usually whatever takes my fancy at that moment in time wheter it be an old story I want to type up or something new that I want to get through but for most of the time over recent months I have been trying to get through a back log of ideas and stories with which I'd like to post online.
In the blog I posted back in March I listed a number of stoires I wanted to get through and I have completed all of what I listed bar one. There is a story I began writing a couple of years ago now that when I completed what I origionally began with I thought there is quite a bit more I can do and would like to do with that particular story. That story is BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE . It went up @short-fiction.co.uk back in August 2009. I then wrote a prequel to this story which went up in three parts which went up in July and August 2010 simply with the title BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - THE BEGINING. Then back in November 2010 it continued with two more parts BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - HEROES, VILLAINS AND GHOSTS. So I plan to bring this story to it's conclusion soon.
Some thing else I'd like to bring to a conclusion is the Vampire series of stories I started last October. There had been so many Vampire stories out there that I thought I'd try write one of my own. I came up with a vampire character named Gabriel Grimmel and the story just seemed to write itself. The origional story turned out to be a couple of pages longer than I thought it would leaving me with another character to which I could continue writing with and that would be Seth in SON OF A VAMPIRE. I was left with do many ideas after that to continue writing the series but it wasn't until April the the third in the series went up WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GABRIEL GRIMMEL? Which was followed in May with three parts to the fourth in the vampire series DARK SHADOW. I had thought that I would be able to end the story there but there is still more to go yet so hopefully I will get through the fifth installment OTHER VOICES soon.
But before I get through any of that there is a series or really short stories I am currently writing NIGHTMARES OF THE DEAD with three parts already post with two more to follow shortly.
Another story I spoke about in the recent March Blog was a story called BEAST. It is a story which went up in three parts and one which I really enjoyed writing. There is more I would like to add to this one too so BEAST 2 is something else which will be coming soon.
One more tale I would like to get around too soon is one which is inspired by a recent trip to an old closed down jail in Dublin called Kilmainham jail. But my story KILMAINHAMS GHOSTS will be a fictional story based on my visit there and the tour I took of the place.
There are a few more stories I'd like to get through before I consider wheter my online writing should continue or come to an end, but for the moment I am enjoying writing as much as I ever have and feedback has been so possitive, so as I have mentioned before since people are reading what I write, for the moment I'll continue to write. So till next time :)
In the blog I posted back in March I listed a number of stoires I wanted to get through and I have completed all of what I listed bar one. There is a story I began writing a couple of years ago now that when I completed what I origionally began with I thought there is quite a bit more I can do and would like to do with that particular story. That story is BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE . It went up @short-fiction.co.uk back in August 2009. I then wrote a prequel to this story which went up in three parts which went up in July and August 2010 simply with the title BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - THE BEGINING. Then back in November 2010 it continued with two more parts BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - HEROES, VILLAINS AND GHOSTS. So I plan to bring this story to it's conclusion soon.
Some thing else I'd like to bring to a conclusion is the Vampire series of stories I started last October. There had been so many Vampire stories out there that I thought I'd try write one of my own. I came up with a vampire character named Gabriel Grimmel and the story just seemed to write itself. The origional story turned out to be a couple of pages longer than I thought it would leaving me with another character to which I could continue writing with and that would be Seth in SON OF A VAMPIRE. I was left with do many ideas after that to continue writing the series but it wasn't until April the the third in the series went up WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GABRIEL GRIMMEL? Which was followed in May with three parts to the fourth in the vampire series DARK SHADOW. I had thought that I would be able to end the story there but there is still more to go yet so hopefully I will get through the fifth installment OTHER VOICES soon.
But before I get through any of that there is a series or really short stories I am currently writing NIGHTMARES OF THE DEAD with three parts already post with two more to follow shortly.
Another story I spoke about in the recent March Blog was a story called BEAST. It is a story which went up in three parts and one which I really enjoyed writing. There is more I would like to add to this one too so BEAST 2 is something else which will be coming soon.
One more tale I would like to get around too soon is one which is inspired by a recent trip to an old closed down jail in Dublin called Kilmainham jail. But my story KILMAINHAMS GHOSTS will be a fictional story based on my visit there and the tour I took of the place.
There are a few more stories I'd like to get through before I consider wheter my online writing should continue or come to an end, but for the moment I am enjoying writing as much as I ever have and feedback has been so possitive, so as I have mentioned before since people are reading what I write, for the moment I'll continue to write. So till next time :)
Friday, May 13, 2011
30 songs in 30 days
I had been look around the web and had noticed that there was this 30 songs in 30 days thing going around where people were posting a link to a song a day. This ran by using the favorite song for day 1, their least favorite in day 2 and a reasoning for each song as the list went on. I liked this and want to do it myself but I decided to change the rules. I did have my favorite song at number 1 but as for the rest I made a list of songs which were of general popularity. I also thought that it might be fun to ask those on my facebook friends list to choose a number between 2 and 30. One song would go up each day according to the number with those who chose a number not knowing what song they got until their turn came around.
Now I was really unsure as to how it would be received. As it turned out it got a great response with plenty of you choosing a number. Many also commented and used the like button. It was amazing how much fun I had with it, so much so that I may just do it again sometime soon. So thank you all who joined in. As for the list of songs, the numbers they had, the day they went up and who chose what, well that is as follows :
Now I was really unsure as to how it would be received. As it turned out it got a great response with plenty of you choosing a number. Many also commented and used the like button. It was amazing how much fun I had with it, so much so that I may just do it again sometime soon. So thank you all who joined in. As for the list of songs, the numbers they had, the day they went up and who chose what, well that is as follows :
DAY NUMBER CHOOSEN BY SONG
1 1 ME PRIDE – U2
2 15 AMANDA EBINEEZER GOODE – THE SHAMEN
3 24 BECKS EVERY CAR YOU CHASE – THE POLICE
VRS SNOW PATROL
4 19 DONDA KOKOMO – THE BEACH BOYS
5 13 EILEEN 99 RED BALLONS – NENA
6 4 CELINE ATOMIC – BLONDIE
7 22 TOM SNOW – RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
8 3 CRIENA LETS GET ROCKED – DEF LEPPARD
9 11 ROSS SPIRIT IN THE SKY – DOCTOR AND THE
MEDICS
10 5 GEORGE HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH – LORDI
11 28 GARY OUR HOUSE – MADNESS
12 10 TRACEY BREAK EVEN – THE SCRIPT
13 7 ME MUM STAY – THE HOLLIES
14 16 GERRI ORINOCO FLOW – ENYA
15 26 HARRY R EVERYBODY HURTS – REM
16 8 HARRY C YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS – MC HAMMER
& KIDS
17 30 LIZ JUMP AROUND – HOUSE OF PAIN
18 18 REI SMOOTH CRIMINAL – MICHAEL JACKSON
19 2 STUART 500 MILES – THE PROCLAIMERS
20 21 KERRIE TAKE ON ME – A HA
21 9 SOFIA DON’T UPSET THE RHYTHM – NOISETTES
22 29 KEVIN LAND OF CONFUSION – GENESIS
23 17 AISLING JESSIE – JOSHUA KADISON
24 23 MARK YELLOW – COLDPLAY
25 12 AL USE SOMEBODY – KINGS OF LEON
26 6 THE KEY, THE SECRET – URBAN COOKIE
COLLECTIVE
27 14 CRAZY WORLD – ASLAN
28 20 GLORY OF LOVE – PETER CETERA
29 25 THE WAY I ARE – TIMBERLAND
30 27 RIGHT HERE WAITING – RICHARD MARX
Once again Thanks to all who joined in.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
THE TRUTH ABOUT GEORGE
Right, for anyone reading this who doesn't know me, my name is Karl O'Connor. For as long as I can remember I have had an alter ego named George. If I was arriving anywhere and anyone asked who is that? I would answer George. It has even got to the point where I have seperated personalities. Where Karl would be kinda shy, quiet and keeps to himself (myself), George would be out going and while being a good guy he basically does whatever he wants.
Now being Karl I am not one for getting up at gatherings to give speeches or the likes, but whenever I have done so I have attributed that to George as he has no problem getting up at all. Don't worry though, I am not schizophrenic. It is all just a bit of fun. I recently made a facebook post and commented on it twice before anyone else did, and was then accused of talking to myself, so as a joke I thought I should create a facebook page for George so I could really talk to myself without actually talking to myself.
Now George has been around for a long time, I can't actually remember when he was brought into existance, but it doesn't stop there. There is a third ego or personality or whatever it can be called. I have been using the name 'Actung' since 1995. Now that name came from the U2 album 'Achtung Baby' as I am a huge U2 fan. Now I have used the name Actung for email, chat and also for my online writing.
Actung has even been on the radio. I used to regularly go on a radio show back in 1999 with the name Actung. Actung is basically Karl and George on the loose at the same time. As I said being Karl I am not one for speeches and the likes but I really wanted to go on this radio show so George combined with Karl and Actung was born. Actung was the last person on that radio show on it's final night and that last show had an estimated listenership of 70,000. Now there was no way Karl would do anything like that but through George Actung was born.
While the radio show was still running I went into a shop to get something to drink having been on radio the night before when someone I did not recognize came into the store saying 'ah there you are Actung, I heard you on the radio last night', radio being radio and not tv and me not having said anything I was extremely surprised to have been recognised. Also, nine months after that show ended I went into a store to get 'Actung 00' on the back of a jersey. 00 for it being the year 2000. I spelt out the name Actung for the guys behind the counter, they smiled and laughed as they also knew who Actung was.
Anyway so this is why George has his own facebook page, I think it may be taking it a step too far to create a facebook page for Actung too, but then again .....
Now being Karl I am not one for getting up at gatherings to give speeches or the likes, but whenever I have done so I have attributed that to George as he has no problem getting up at all. Don't worry though, I am not schizophrenic. It is all just a bit of fun. I recently made a facebook post and commented on it twice before anyone else did, and was then accused of talking to myself, so as a joke I thought I should create a facebook page for George so I could really talk to myself without actually talking to myself.
Now George has been around for a long time, I can't actually remember when he was brought into existance, but it doesn't stop there. There is a third ego or personality or whatever it can be called. I have been using the name 'Actung' since 1995. Now that name came from the U2 album 'Achtung Baby' as I am a huge U2 fan. Now I have used the name Actung for email, chat and also for my online writing.
Actung has even been on the radio. I used to regularly go on a radio show back in 1999 with the name Actung. Actung is basically Karl and George on the loose at the same time. As I said being Karl I am not one for speeches and the likes but I really wanted to go on this radio show so George combined with Karl and Actung was born. Actung was the last person on that radio show on it's final night and that last show had an estimated listenership of 70,000. Now there was no way Karl would do anything like that but through George Actung was born.
While the radio show was still running I went into a shop to get something to drink having been on radio the night before when someone I did not recognize came into the store saying 'ah there you are Actung, I heard you on the radio last night', radio being radio and not tv and me not having said anything I was extremely surprised to have been recognised. Also, nine months after that show ended I went into a store to get 'Actung 00' on the back of a jersey. 00 for it being the year 2000. I spelt out the name Actung for the guys behind the counter, they smiled and laughed as they also knew who Actung was.
Anyway so this is why George has his own facebook page, I think it may be taking it a step too far to create a facebook page for Actung too, but then again .....
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Upcoming Stories
Time to step it up for a while with my stories. During March and April they will be going up online a little quicker than they have been over the last 18 months or so. I have a lot I want to get through and once they are up then I will decide if I will slow down or keep going at my regular pace. People are still reading what I write and leaving positive comment and I am very grateful for that.
Amoungst what is coming up in March and April are 'DEXTER'S HOUSE', a story with which I got the idea for while on a recent trip to the cinema with my sister Kerrie. We had a bit of time to kill before the film was to start so we went into a nearby hotel for a coffee. I was intrigued by that hotel, it's layout and layed back atmosphere that it had me day dreaming and the basic idea for Dexter's house came about. It also leaves a possibility for more DEXTER'S HOUSE stories that I may get to write later in the year.
Now the site 'short-fiction.co.uk' is primarily more of a site for adult and erotic stories, more so than of anything for other genres but of course does include many other genres. I don't write nor am I interested in reading erotica but I do have a slightly more adult tale coming up. It is called TEASE. I have had the idea for this for quite some time now so I guess I may as well get it out of my system. It is neither rude nor explicit but more along the kind of games played where love or maybe even lust are invloved. Hopefully I done a decent enough job with that one.
Also coming up is a story called THE HEALER. A story based on the idea of the seventh son of seventh son, someone because of the nature of his birth has certain gifts, one of which is obviously the gift of being able to perform miracle healing. Being the eldest of 7 (not all of whom are male) also gives me added interest in writing this tale. It is another story that could lead to future parts, who knows.
Another story coming up is that of JUDY"S STORY, the story of a girl in her late teens who has a fixation on a character from a series of stories that she has been following that Judy herself becomes part of the story she has been following. Sometimes when I write I like to imagine either being in the story or having it run in my mind as if I am watching a movie, so JUDY'S STORY is something that was alway going to happen.
Now I am not an agressive or violent person so when I wrote a story called TORTURE a couple of years ago now at this stage I was a little cautious of what anyone who reads it may think of it. A few months after writing it I posted it at short-fiction.co.uk and I was very surprised by the possitive reaction it got. It was was so possitive it lead me to continue adding to it. The reaction was so possitive that even a magazine in the U.S wanted to publish it. TORTURE was also one of the most enjoyable stories for me to actually write, so it is only natural I guess for me to sit down and write another agressive and violent story. BEAST is about a monster of a young man, raised on anger and ready to destroy anything in his way on an island designed for that very purpose. BEAST is also coming soon.
Something else that has my attension is a what if story. What if you found yourself alone on a long, dark winding road, with no memory of who you are or how you got there, what would you do? DARKNESS is another story coming soon.
Along with all this, I have also mentioned before that I want to get other stories up online such as the third and fourth tales in my VAMPIRE series, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GABRIEL GRIMMEL, and DARK SHADOW are also coming soon as is more on THE BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE, another series of stories with which I would like to complete. So in the next couple of months or so, I'll be kept more than busy with what I write.
I am still not confident with my writing abilities, but what I write is being read and people are genuinely leaving me possitive comments, so as long as they are being read I will keep posting more. Thanks for reading. KARL.
Amoungst what is coming up in March and April are 'DEXTER'S HOUSE', a story with which I got the idea for while on a recent trip to the cinema with my sister Kerrie. We had a bit of time to kill before the film was to start so we went into a nearby hotel for a coffee. I was intrigued by that hotel, it's layout and layed back atmosphere that it had me day dreaming and the basic idea for Dexter's house came about. It also leaves a possibility for more DEXTER'S HOUSE stories that I may get to write later in the year.
Now the site 'short-fiction.co.uk' is primarily more of a site for adult and erotic stories, more so than of anything for other genres but of course does include many other genres. I don't write nor am I interested in reading erotica but I do have a slightly more adult tale coming up. It is called TEASE. I have had the idea for this for quite some time now so I guess I may as well get it out of my system. It is neither rude nor explicit but more along the kind of games played where love or maybe even lust are invloved. Hopefully I done a decent enough job with that one.
Also coming up is a story called THE HEALER. A story based on the idea of the seventh son of seventh son, someone because of the nature of his birth has certain gifts, one of which is obviously the gift of being able to perform miracle healing. Being the eldest of 7 (not all of whom are male) also gives me added interest in writing this tale. It is another story that could lead to future parts, who knows.
Another story coming up is that of JUDY"S STORY, the story of a girl in her late teens who has a fixation on a character from a series of stories that she has been following that Judy herself becomes part of the story she has been following. Sometimes when I write I like to imagine either being in the story or having it run in my mind as if I am watching a movie, so JUDY'S STORY is something that was alway going to happen.
Now I am not an agressive or violent person so when I wrote a story called TORTURE a couple of years ago now at this stage I was a little cautious of what anyone who reads it may think of it. A few months after writing it I posted it at short-fiction.co.uk and I was very surprised by the possitive reaction it got. It was was so possitive it lead me to continue adding to it. The reaction was so possitive that even a magazine in the U.S wanted to publish it. TORTURE was also one of the most enjoyable stories for me to actually write, so it is only natural I guess for me to sit down and write another agressive and violent story. BEAST is about a monster of a young man, raised on anger and ready to destroy anything in his way on an island designed for that very purpose. BEAST is also coming soon.
Something else that has my attension is a what if story. What if you found yourself alone on a long, dark winding road, with no memory of who you are or how you got there, what would you do? DARKNESS is another story coming soon.
Along with all this, I have also mentioned before that I want to get other stories up online such as the third and fourth tales in my VAMPIRE series, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GABRIEL GRIMMEL, and DARK SHADOW are also coming soon as is more on THE BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE, another series of stories with which I would like to complete. So in the next couple of months or so, I'll be kept more than busy with what I write.
I am still not confident with my writing abilities, but what I write is being read and people are genuinely leaving me possitive comments, so as long as they are being read I will keep posting more. Thanks for reading. KARL.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Actung: Billy and Barney are 20 years old.
Actung: Billy and Barney are 20 years old.: " Early in 1991 I was at home minding my youngest three siblings, one of whom had just turned 8, while the the ..."
Billy and Barney are 20 years old.
Early in 1991 I was at home minding my youngest three siblings, one of whom had just turned 8, while the the other two were aproaching 7 and 4 years old. Kids being kids, there was trouble, noise, fighting and crying. Nothing I was doing was calming things down, well that was until I dived behind a chair, taking off my shoes and socks.
Diving behind the chair confused my siblings into silence. At last I had a bit of peace, and this is where the fun began. I put a sock over each hand creating sock puppets and raised them up to peer over the top of the seat. Calling the puppets Billy and Barney, a series of kids stories were born. Safe to say that my youngest brother and two youngest sisters began laughing, and I promised them that if they were good, that we would have a Billy and Barney story at bedtime.
The first Billy and Barney story began on that day twenty years ago. Over the next eighteen months or so another seven stories became part of bed time. The first five of those stories are up @ short-ficiton.com. I f i ever remember how the other three stories went I will add them too, but how time flies. However it its only in recent years that I began a second series of childrens stories, and they would be 'the Liggle Turkle' stories which I also have @ short-fiction.com. Being an uncle of eight (well soon to be of 8, with litttle Harry due any day now) I guess I have childrens stories for two generations. :)
Diving behind the chair confused my siblings into silence. At last I had a bit of peace, and this is where the fun began. I put a sock over each hand creating sock puppets and raised them up to peer over the top of the seat. Calling the puppets Billy and Barney, a series of kids stories were born. Safe to say that my youngest brother and two youngest sisters began laughing, and I promised them that if they were good, that we would have a Billy and Barney story at bedtime.
The first Billy and Barney story began on that day twenty years ago. Over the next eighteen months or so another seven stories became part of bed time. The first five of those stories are up @ short-ficiton.com. I f i ever remember how the other three stories went I will add them too, but how time flies. However it its only in recent years that I began a second series of childrens stories, and they would be 'the Liggle Turkle' stories which I also have @ short-fiction.com. Being an uncle of eight (well soon to be of 8, with litttle Harry due any day now) I guess I have childrens stories for two generations. :)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
2011
The reponse I have been getting to what I write has been really great, so I may as well continue posting my stories in 2011. In 2010 I had no real plan of what I was going to write and post. I still had plenty of old stories to type up and had no problems coming up with new stories. So it was whatever caught my fancy and whenever I had the time to type them up is how and when my writings went up. However for 2011 i have more of a plan and hopefully I will stick to it.
There are still more old stories to go up, and I have plenty of ideas for some new stories too. I also want to complete the stories that I have a series of, such as the 'Brothers Of The Village' series which I will be bringing to an end, and my series of vampire stories will also continue. The Vampire series started with 'Vampire Weekend' and continued with 'Son of a Vampire' which is a follow on to Vampire Weekend. The third story will concentrate on the main character from Vampire Weekend and will be titled 'What Happened To Gabriel Grimmel' which follows what happens to him in the years after that Vampire Weekend and why he abandoned his son Seth who is obviously the son in Son Of A Vampire. The fourth story in the series will concentrate on Seth and the friendships he has made in School.
So for anyone who does follow what I write I hope that you'll enjoy what goes up in 2011.
There are still more old stories to go up, and I have plenty of ideas for some new stories too. I also want to complete the stories that I have a series of, such as the 'Brothers Of The Village' series which I will be bringing to an end, and my series of vampire stories will also continue. The Vampire series started with 'Vampire Weekend' and continued with 'Son of a Vampire' which is a follow on to Vampire Weekend. The third story will concentrate on the main character from Vampire Weekend and will be titled 'What Happened To Gabriel Grimmel' which follows what happens to him in the years after that Vampire Weekend and why he abandoned his son Seth who is obviously the son in Son Of A Vampire. The fourth story in the series will concentrate on Seth and the friendships he has made in School.
So for anyone who does follow what I write I hope that you'll enjoy what goes up in 2011.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Merry Christmas
I always loved to write. It always was just for the fun of it, I never really took it seriously, but from posting my writings over the last 18 months I now feel a sence that maybe I have acomplished something. With about 44,000 views on what I have posted in those 18 months and plenty of nice comments, posting m writings will be something I will continue during 2011. Plenty of stories and plenty of idea's will keep me writing throughout the new year.
So to everyone who has read anything I have written, commented, generally made me feel good about writing I thank you. Merry Christmas to one and all and to all an excellent new year.
So to everyone who has read anything I have written, commented, generally made me feel good about writing I thank you. Merry Christmas to one and all and to all an excellent new year.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Paranormal experiences
Well if you know me, you may know that I have experienced a lot of strange happenings in my life. My soldier story for example, scares the hell out of me and will continue to do so when the next stage of this experience will come to me sometime in 2013. I have written about this and have it online @ short-fiction.co.uk entitled 'The Soldier'. It is something that is completely true and something that I seriously fear.
I have had experiences with what I believe to be ghosts or dead people. The most surreal of which took place early January 2010 in the apartment I am living in. While I was sleeping I was visited by the spirit of a 12 year old girl. I was half asleep when this experience happened. Just from her being in my room I somehow knew certain things about her without her actually telling me anything, such as I knew she was 12, and that her name was Mary Lou Kelly and that she was also known as Betty. She died in the mid to late 70's possibly from head trauma, she did tell me a couple of times that her head hurt. She also told me that she liked my long hair and she left after a few minutes when her father came to get her. I had not seen her father but I did get a feeling that when he had come that he was out in the hallway, and Mary went out through the door to him. I also was able to sense something from him, I got a feeling that told me that this man was probably from Russia or the Ukraine, or possible from somewhere like that and that he was once a big strong man. I so far have been unable to prove her exsistance. It would be an incredible thing if I could find that a Mary Lou Kelly did exsist and that she passed away when she was 12.
In early febuary of 2009 it snowed. I happened to have my camera with me so I took some photo's of the snow. One photo I took was on a bridge by the Square shopping center in Tallaght, Dublin. What showed up on the photo was something I guess I have been waiting for, for a long time. Proof that I do experience paranormal activity. In the photo which I have attached to this blog, there is a dark shadowy mass at the left hand side towards the rear of the bridge, I am alone on the bridge, there is no one there but I have clearly picked something up in the photo. Anyway that's it for now.
I have had experiences with what I believe to be ghosts or dead people. The most surreal of which took place early January 2010 in the apartment I am living in. While I was sleeping I was visited by the spirit of a 12 year old girl. I was half asleep when this experience happened. Just from her being in my room I somehow knew certain things about her without her actually telling me anything, such as I knew she was 12, and that her name was Mary Lou Kelly and that she was also known as Betty. She died in the mid to late 70's possibly from head trauma, she did tell me a couple of times that her head hurt. She also told me that she liked my long hair and she left after a few minutes when her father came to get her. I had not seen her father but I did get a feeling that when he had come that he was out in the hallway, and Mary went out through the door to him. I also was able to sense something from him, I got a feeling that told me that this man was probably from Russia or the Ukraine, or possible from somewhere like that and that he was once a big strong man. I so far have been unable to prove her exsistance. It would be an incredible thing if I could find that a Mary Lou Kelly did exsist and that she passed away when she was 12.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
TORTURE
I have been writing for a long time. It has always been something I have done just as a pastime, something just for myself, but over the years a lot of what I have written has been lost. The copies or notepads I wrote on have long since disappeared, so a couple of years ago I decided to start typing up what I can remember having written in the past along with anything new that I came up with, and instead of keepint them to myself I thought I'd put them up online. I never really thought much on what I had written as to whether or not it is any good.
Before I came across short-fiction.co.uk, I'd post my stories to my bebo page and when I had a fair few typed up, I began reading short stories that were online mostly to see if what I wrote could stand along side what I read. As I said I never really believed what I wrote was particularly any good, but what I was reading online got me thinking, what I was writing isn't all that bad. So when I came across short-fiction.co.uk I saw that not only could I register with that site but I could also upload my stories too. Even though it is a site that people primarily go to for it's adult content, and that I don't write stories of an adult or erotic nature I thought I may as well stick with that site and see how I get on.
In or around Febuary or March of 2009, months before I came across short-fiction.co.uk, I had a dream one night, quite a few of my stories come from dreams that I have had, but on this particular night I dreampt that I awoke in a dark room, chained to a chair and basically in this dream I was tortured. During being tortured, Recieved injuries to my left hand and to my nose, while also having hot wax poured onto my knees. When I awoke I had be sleeping in a fetal position. My knees in general are not in great shape, my left knee in particular had been badly injured in an accident from when I was 19 so when I awoke from my dream my bad knee was inflamed, my left hand was under my right elbow and the hand had 'gone to sleep' and my nose had been bleeding during the night. Weird how the injuries I recieved during my dream had been injected to reality. When I got up I completely forgot about this dream I had, and it was about a week or so later when it would come back to me.
In this 'torture' dream I manage to escape my experience and make it to a petrol station where I collapse. The petrol station from my dream is an actual petrol station, a place I happened to be walking near to a week or so after I had my dream and all of a sudden I was his by this De Ja Vu feeling and the memories of this dream came rushing back to me. It was such a strange experience that I couldn't help myself, that I had to write a story based upon this dream. Naturally enough the story is entitled 'TORTURE'. It is a story which is very different to anything else I had written. I usually tend to write about the strange and bizarre, weird stuff that happens and stories about death and the afterlife, so when I wrote Torture I was initially afraid to put it up online. I suppose it is a violent tale and I felt that it was so different to anything else I had wrote that maybe I should just keep this one to myself.
Eventually I did add it to my bebo page, and later after I had come across that short story website I put it up there too, and to my surprise TORTURE was getting more views and more comments than anything else I had added online. What people were telling me was that they liked the story but wanted it to be longer, and I was being asked if there were more parts to this story, and if there weren't more parts that there should be, so this got me thinking. There was quite a bit more I could do with this story. So i continued to write and soon I had five parts to my TORTURE story, with it not just focusing on physical torture but mental torture too.
I continue to be surprised by the responce to this story. As I mentioned earlier I had never really taken my writing seriously, I have never entered any competitions, I have never submitted a story for publication anywhere else but having them online, so imagine my surprise when I was contacted in October of 2010 by the editor of an American short story magazine asking if they could publish my TORTURE story. I told the editor that she could indeed pblish it, she had just read the first part so when I told her that there were five parts in total, she asked that I send on to her all five parts along with a brief bio of myself, something which of course I did do.
So if you do read my TORTURE tale I hope you read all five parts and I hope you like what you read. Take care until next time. KARL.
Before I came across short-fiction.co.uk, I'd post my stories to my bebo page and when I had a fair few typed up, I began reading short stories that were online mostly to see if what I wrote could stand along side what I read. As I said I never really believed what I wrote was particularly any good, but what I was reading online got me thinking, what I was writing isn't all that bad. So when I came across short-fiction.co.uk I saw that not only could I register with that site but I could also upload my stories too. Even though it is a site that people primarily go to for it's adult content, and that I don't write stories of an adult or erotic nature I thought I may as well stick with that site and see how I get on.
In or around Febuary or March of 2009, months before I came across short-fiction.co.uk, I had a dream one night, quite a few of my stories come from dreams that I have had, but on this particular night I dreampt that I awoke in a dark room, chained to a chair and basically in this dream I was tortured. During being tortured, Recieved injuries to my left hand and to my nose, while also having hot wax poured onto my knees. When I awoke I had be sleeping in a fetal position. My knees in general are not in great shape, my left knee in particular had been badly injured in an accident from when I was 19 so when I awoke from my dream my bad knee was inflamed, my left hand was under my right elbow and the hand had 'gone to sleep' and my nose had been bleeding during the night. Weird how the injuries I recieved during my dream had been injected to reality. When I got up I completely forgot about this dream I had, and it was about a week or so later when it would come back to me.
In this 'torture' dream I manage to escape my experience and make it to a petrol station where I collapse. The petrol station from my dream is an actual petrol station, a place I happened to be walking near to a week or so after I had my dream and all of a sudden I was his by this De Ja Vu feeling and the memories of this dream came rushing back to me. It was such a strange experience that I couldn't help myself, that I had to write a story based upon this dream. Naturally enough the story is entitled 'TORTURE'. It is a story which is very different to anything else I had written. I usually tend to write about the strange and bizarre, weird stuff that happens and stories about death and the afterlife, so when I wrote Torture I was initially afraid to put it up online. I suppose it is a violent tale and I felt that it was so different to anything else I had wrote that maybe I should just keep this one to myself.
Eventually I did add it to my bebo page, and later after I had come across that short story website I put it up there too, and to my surprise TORTURE was getting more views and more comments than anything else I had added online. What people were telling me was that they liked the story but wanted it to be longer, and I was being asked if there were more parts to this story, and if there weren't more parts that there should be, so this got me thinking. There was quite a bit more I could do with this story. So i continued to write and soon I had five parts to my TORTURE story, with it not just focusing on physical torture but mental torture too.
I continue to be surprised by the responce to this story. As I mentioned earlier I had never really taken my writing seriously, I have never entered any competitions, I have never submitted a story for publication anywhere else but having them online, so imagine my surprise when I was contacted in October of 2010 by the editor of an American short story magazine asking if they could publish my TORTURE story. I told the editor that she could indeed pblish it, she had just read the first part so when I told her that there were five parts in total, she asked that I send on to her all five parts along with a brief bio of myself, something which of course I did do.
So if you do read my TORTURE tale I hope you read all five parts and I hope you like what you read. Take care until next time. KARL.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Short Stories
Hi my name is Karl O'Connor. I have been writing short stories for a long time now. Unfortunately A lot of what I have written over the years has been lost. A couple of years ago I decided to start typing up stories that I still have or could still remember, along with newly written stories. I came across a website http://www.short-fiction.co.uk/ in June of 2009 and began to post my writings there, and have been getting a really positive responce so far. I would love to make a career out of writing, and even though I have been getting such a positve responce, I still wouldn't be confident enough in what I do write. Something that is aiding my confidence is that an American magazine showed intrested in one of my stories asking if they could publish it. Seeing that I have never forwarded anything I have to magazines or never entered any writing competitions, the fact that an editor to a magazine asked me for one of my stories has aided my confidence. Anyway I write with the pen name of Actung. So for me now it comes down as to if I should attempt to have myself a writing career or just keep it as a hobby and continue to post online.
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