50YFN is a very cool concept in Flash Fiction, a website where all stories exist in a consistent shared universe, that of our own planet, 50 Years From Now.

I urge you to visit it.

Anyway, my first piece there went live about ten minutes ago. It is called:

"The Man Who Couldn't Look You In The Eye"

(And in case you aren't certain whether you want to be reading it or not, I should mention that it has, you know, kinda sex in it.)

Saturday was my turn to post to Elephant Words. I went with a piece giving advice on saying goodbye to your platonic girlfriend.

One day, your best loved friend, the girl that your mates always rib you about, your perfect platonic chum, is going to want to leave... it has potential to be devastating, but it doesn't have to be. Here are five easy steps to help you let her go.

It is full of advice for tragic men of all ages, and was inspired by this week's picture:

Hope you enjoy it!

(I know it's late, but I'm about to have a play with the graphics tablet that a friend lended me today. Oh yayus, I'ma gonna be an artist!)

Oh, and I know no-one asked, but this is the list, to date, of writing I've done at Elephant Words.

12/11/07 - Forest Of The Dead

06/11/07 - Stranger Abroad

31/10/07 - The Wire Jumpers

25/10/07 - The Day The Earth Might Have Moved

19/10/07 - Store On The Borderland

13/10/07 - Bell Vs Sebastian

01/10/07 - mixTape

25/09/07 - Each Night I Ask The Stars Up Above

19/09/07 - The Indistinct Affair

13/09/07 - And I Feel Fine

07/09/07 - The Girl Who Never Smiled

01/09/07 - The Hallowed Spires Of Eamon-Ra

20/08/07 - Grateful

14/08/07 - All The Gods, All The Monsters

08/08/07 - Matt Groening, My Betrayer…

02/08/07 - Secrets Uncovered, Mysteries Made

27/07/07 - Jericho Wept

21/07/07 - An Ancient Terror To Tea

Hold, originally uploaded by Nick Papaconstantinou.

This is this week's image at Elephant Words. Go over there to see how our writers decode it, one a day, all week, or join in the fun yourself!

Image by Nick Papaconstantinou at flickr.
Inspired by the story "pennyappleblack"
by Andrew Cheverton

This is the first bit of Elephant Words inspired art I've done, and as such is my first ever piece of fan art, I reckon. I'm quite pleased with it. Click on the image to get a better look at it, because it looks a lot better before being resized for this site.

Although I suppose I SHOULD call it Friend-Art! It is by my friend and associate Andrew Cheverton, it is of a character from my story "Forest Of The Dead", and I love it!

Those of you who know, know that Andy is a great writer, and an extremely versatile and cool artist. You should certainly check out his writing over at Elephant Words.

My girl just started reading the final Harry Potter book. She has decided to take her time and really enjoy it, but I suspect that excitement and the threat of spoilers from idiots will force her to consume it quickly.

For anyone who might be interested, from a scientific or just curious perspective, I'm going to endeavour to track her emotional state and progress through the book using my Twitter account… look in Digital Breadcrumbs on the right hand side of www.nixsight.net. I promise you now, no spoilers… if there's a moment where she starts crying uncontrollably or something, I won't tell you whereabouts in the book it happens.

Okay, so maybe it's time that I actually started putting this blog are to good use, if for no other purpose than promoting things I like on MySpace, and nudging people in the direction of my own website updates (something I'll probably still put in the bulletins, anyway).

So, main point of post: I've just created a new category area on my website called Broken Narratives, which is all about the unfinished bits of writing that I've probably forgotten what I intended to do with, but I still think have some merit. Click Broken Narratives above, or use this address to get there: http://nixsight.net/?cat=26.

Thankyou, MySpace. Youse are all beautiful, yo.

What seems like about twenty minutes after my first blog post here, (but was actually nearer to a month) my relationship drastically broke down, and I lost some friends (who, to be fair, I could probably have done without in the first place)... so no posting.

I gave up the idea of a home web-server, at roughly the same time that I realised that, okay, Linux might be the dog's bollocks, but I'm not capable of seeing the practical use of canine genitalia at my current level of experience.

So I ended up just getting a new host, and now have a new website, with full wordpress action going on... it's at www.nixsight.net, if you're interested. And you should be. I'm a fucking genius.

Heh, well, genius like a dope, anyway.