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Juho Pohjalainen

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I've never not written.

Some of my earliest memories involve telling tales: I began writing them down when I was four... or maybe when I was five, when I stopped to just mashing the buttons down to make a mess. They weren't very good stories, of course - I'm not entirely sure if even the ones I write as an adult are - but still, I just had to get them out there.

Even now, "have to get them out" is my primary motivation to write: I write largely to purge the thoughts out of my mind, to put them down in a solid form where they will stop bothering me so much. It's an eternal and ultimately futile struggle, because for each one I so conjure into the world, two or three more will take its place - sometimes directly spawned by that previous one. La
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Juho Pohjalainen I listen to music virtually all the time, across a number of genres and styles that I can't really even name - my interest in music itself isn't reall…moreI listen to music virtually all the time, across a number of genres and styles that I can't really even name - my interest in music itself isn't really very deep, apart from just listening to whatever sounds good. I don't like silence.

Whenever possible, I try to listen to similar stuff as the story I'm writing at the time, to get the right kind of inspiration and to keep me in the correct sort of mood. The Straggler's Mask, for instance, has a lot of Blind Guardian running behind the scenes. Return To The Tribe, by Edguy, would be about as close to a theme song as possible for Peal if only he weren't so meek.

Other times it doesn't work out that well. Lately I've had my mind for a lot of synthwave (and a bunch of related things that I can't name), and this brings very little of value or mood in relation to a steampunk pirate story I've been writing. At best, it just keeps me in a good creative mood in general, rather than giving me any particular ideas.

On the other hand, I've got some Bal-Sagoth ready for something a little darker for NaNoWriMo. We'll see if that works out better.(less)
Juho Pohjalainen I stop working with this particular thing and skip ahead to another part in the story that I've been itching to put to paper. At the time of this writ…moreI stop working with this particular thing and skip ahead to another part in the story that I've been itching to put to paper. At the time of this writing, I've recently skipped about ten chapters, give or take.

More often than not, for me it's the opposite feeling: I run out of story to write but still feel like writing, and then I've got a few days when I have no idea what to do with the sudden free time I've gotten.(less)
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It's a holiday sale! And by "sale", I mean "everything's free!" Come grab ye gifts!

No reason not to go for the free stuff, especially when it's digital and does not clutter places, yeah?

The Straggler's Mask is a bit old and outdated now and I've been meaning to do a rewrite, deal with some retcons, tart it up - so now's as good chance as any to read the original, how it really started for Peal, and for me.

Scourge of the Silver Wings almost wrote itself - I'd intended for Mask to Read more of this blog post »
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I'm doing another culling of my friends list & like last time I'm letting you know so there are no misunderstandings. Nothing personal, I don't dislike you either, I just need my list to be manageable & see updates from those that interact with me, but I've too many people who never "like" or comment.

Hope there won't be any drama like last time I did this. You can always ask to be re-added.
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“Are you a human yourself?”

No.

“Are you one of the following: leper, witch or cultist, undead, werewolf, mutant, bureaucrat, bard?”
Juho Pohjalainen, The Straggler's Mask

“For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...”
H.P. Lovecraft, Night Ocean et autres nouvelles

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls

“Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was engaged in all forms of cruel and despicable behavior. To attribute war, killing, and violence to film, TV, and role-play games is to fly in the face of thousands of years of recorded history.”
Gary Gygax, Role-Playing Mastery

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
Neil Gaiman

“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague De Camp, Queen of the Black Coast

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Eilonwy Thanks for the friend request! Anyone who recognizes where my screen name (and says it's their favorite character in the books, to boot) gets my guaranteed friendship. :-)


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