Title: Curiosity
Rating: PG
Pairing: Rose/Scorpius
author's note: written for drcjsnider who requested Rose/Scorpius and gave me the prompt "The thing about magic? There's always consequences. Always." Every relationship has a beginning.

( “He’s )

So here are some brief recs for those of you looking for something to read, laugh at or listen to.

( recs below the cut )

So this month's been pretty busy for the most part. My wife and I have had something going on almost every night for the last few weeks, but in that time I was able to draw my first comic strip, a gift for my friends' anniversary, and I also did stand-up comedy for the first time.

The stand-up comedy bit was a lot of fun, but completely different from doing improv. I was less scared because I was just relying on me, but at the same time I missed the energy that comes from improv. 90% of my jokes got laughs and a few of the higher level comedians told me I'd done well, so that was nice. My set was just under the five minute time limit, so I'm trying to think of some more enhance it.

In other news I owe drcjsnider a story and I am also in a contest with a friend to see who writes a scarier story, which I haven't even started. These will be worked on this week though as I've gotten better about ignoring my playstation 2 and just working on the things I want to do.

Title: Day Trip
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lavender/Anthony
author's note: written for vegablack62 who asked for Lavender/Anthony and gave me the prompt 'wands'. Thanks to bk03 for the beta.

( Someone at the Portkey agency has a sense of humor. )

Hello friends. I haven't done this in a while, but I just got the urge to do it. So here's the deal: give me a pairing and a prompt and I'll write you a drabble. I'll set the limit to the first five people to respond to this.

In other news I finished my sketches for the art trading card sessions and I shudder when I look at the rough drafts. Its the bad thing about being an artist/writer, you're constantly reminded of your earlier mistakes.

Hope all is well.

OK so below the cut are a few rough sketches I did for the project. I really tried hard with them, but one of them I messed up when I tried coloring over it with a Sharpie and another just wasn't as well done. A friend of mine agreed to work with me this week on drawing and my wife's given me some really nice insight, so hopefully I'll be improving.

( rough sketches )

In other news I'm pretty certain the level 4 improv course won't be held till next year. However, they do offer workshops one or two saturday's a month so I can at least go to those till then and keep getting face time with the owners of the organization.

How was you guys' weekend?

I had my improv show last tuesday and it went really, really well. I got to play the following characters: a father whose toupee has been hidden by his son, a man who's addicted to the nails of his mistress, a man buying a broom on E-bay with the help of his wife, a doctor who is attacked by his robot bug infested patient (a scene which ended with me falling and tearing a small hole in the leg of my pants) and, briefly, a scientist whose robot cleaners have rebelled. Most importantly people laughed :)

Right now I'm working on a project called Artist Trading Cards, which is exactly what it sounds like. Each artist is expected to create three cards and they trade with another artist in exchange for three cards of that artist's choosing. I hope to have some rough sketches up this weekend.

been a while since I posted and I have to say I'm sorry. I've actually been busy with creative stuff for the last couple weeks.

First, I actually took a week off from work which I haven't done in almost three years. I didn't go anywhere except to my bro-in-laws house to record some footage for the soccer team DVD he's working on. Speaking of which he's my new hero. The guy's 40 and he just decided about three months ago to quit his job because he's hated it. He's now going back to school to study film editing.

Second, when not filming with him I was watching lots and lots of youtube videos on drawing and marketing webcomics and I practiced drawing a lot, which was painful because while I've never been a great artist, I was starting to get halfway decent before I stopped. Anyways I've been sketching things out and it's starting to come back to me bit by bit, which is nice.

thirdly, lots of improv. My class' show is next Tuesday and I have to say we've been busting our butts. This teacher's a bit different from the last teacher in that she's quick to correct you and point out what she would have done. The problem is she's sort of a natural whereas the other teacher we had regarded improv as a discipline that one could spend a life time learning and still never quite grasp it. She's a good teacher though a bit harsh from time to time. Still, I think the show's going to be OK and hopefully I'll get the nod to move on to the next level.

What about you guys?

What are three stories/storylines that you never quite got around to writing or got halfway through and just stopped?

I've got three:

1. Ernie makes a yearly list of the 5 girls he's most interested in. This just sort of followed him throughout his time at Hogwarts. I think I got all the way to 5th year and just stopped.

2. 24 hours in Mandy's life. This was just going to follow Mandy Brocklehurst throughout a regular Saturday. I got to hour sixteen or seventeen I think.

3. Scorpius/Rose 100 drabbles. I got thirty done and then just stopped.