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  1. Johnathan Colourfield
    Time for another entry
     
    This one will be an update but also a few questionsfor GA Authors or Members
     
    Update
     
    Well I'm now i'm officially halfway through with Woman's Game. I've gonefrom 16808 words to 18089. Very pleased with myself with that J The story is reallycontinuing and i'm really looking forward to getting Cia's thoughts on it Excellent editor and beta. Reccomend her to anyone J Can be harsh, butonly does it for the best
     
    Angel 3 hasn't gone up as much but i finished the chapter and i'm alsohalfway through with it as well.
     
    So that is brilliant.
     
    So 3 chapters done andi've gone from 10103 to 10822. A small increase but worth it.]
     
    I currently haveFrostina looking at the entire series for me and looking out for the dastardly little things called Plot Holes. And i'm going to do something different frommy norm. I'm going write the rest of the story, primarily based on what ismissing and what my Reader would like to see in it. I love the story and i havethe whole thing planned to the last word but i wanna see what the readers have to say!
     
    This links into one of my questions J
     
    Story Word Count Increase Since The 7th: 2000 Words Exactly
     
    Question Time
     
    1) Have you ever loved astory that much, that have never wanted to end it? I mean Angel means alot to me. It was my first 'proper' series on GA andit means alot to quite a few people. The primary inspiration was Nephylim. Shetells such beautiful tales and the stories of her past lives are so fascinatingthat i had to change them into a story.
     
     
    2) Leading on from that, Whatinspires you? I find people. What inspires you to write? Irepeat, people inspire me. If i see a story in the street or in my dreams. Theyare usually about real people or people that i have had described to me. Iguess thats why the majority of my stories are so character based. I know otherwriters such as Marzipan or Lugh get inspired by diagram. All i wantto know is how do you get fueled?
     

    3) My final question, which is the hardest toanswer. How do you write a good fight scene? I have a bigfight scene coming up in both of my stories and i want to get it right becausei want to do each story justice.
     
    So thats it really for today's entry. Feel free toanswer my questions J
     
    Signing off for now
     
    John xx
  2. Johnathan Colourfield
    Well Hello Guys and welcome to my new blog
     
    I'm going to talk about my writing here and problems i encounter and how my word count is doing and that sort of thing.
     
    Any comments would be appreciated and stuff
     
    But i'm just going to start on a basic list of my stories and their current word counts and in future work from there
     
     
     
    Womans Game: Book of Genesis: 16808 - 8 Chapters So Far
     
    Angel 3 - 10103 - 3 Chapters So Far
     
    Fall Anthology - COMPLETE - Really need to submit it
     
    Winter Anthology - Idea Created. Just need to write it
     
    In Future i've got also the sequel to Womans Game: Book of Revelations
     
     
    Well in the last few weeks i've written around 26,000 words Amazing Quite proud of myself to be honest
     
    And then add on my writing classes (ones from lugh and one with novelwritingschool.com) and i'm pretty set
  3. Johnathan Colourfield
    Hi Guys
     
    I havent written in here for a long time but i think i need to.
     
    You probably think i'm a moany little whinger and should grow some balls but bleh.
     
    Three things to rant about today
     
    Firstly, Jason. I dont know... I should explain...
     
    About 9 months ago i met his old sixth form friends and lets say we had a large argument (me and his friends) and they started insulting my disability. I got very annoyed.
     
    And he's meeting them tommorow for the first time in a long while
     
    Now not that i have a problem with him meeting them, i just... can't see how he can like them.
     
    They are bitchy, they are fake, most of them didnt go to university and are lazy arses...
     
    Just generally a few of them are a waste of human space.
     
    I just don't get how he can change his opinion. Literally every five minutes "I like them" " I hate them" "i'm never speaking to them again" "i love all my sixth form friends" I don't know if its his autisic tendencies but i just dont get it.
     
    First time really when i havent understood him. Then there is the fact that the way they are doing it confuses me, again, probably my dyspraxia kicking in i just don't understand how half the people come from his village and they aren't holding it in the village pub where you would expect in stead they are going way out of their way to go to a village in the middle of nowhere...
     
    *sigh* Just i don't know what to do... I mean we talk about everything but i just don't want to seem jealous or just generally rude. Cuz tbh i just don't like them.
     
    For example, he met a few of them last week, they kept being condescending to him and rude to him and stuff and still he goes running back loving them...
     
    Their group had a major split up, to the point of numbers being deleted etc. and i just can't get it into my head
     
    Second
     
    Jason again...
     
    He's at home and has been for about a week now.
     
    And when he's at home he just seems like a different person. Not the jason i know and love but someone different.
     
    Just not him...
     
    Y'know? Just feels wrong I know he needs his family time and stuff, but i've just been rejected multiple times and it doesn't feel too good.
     
    Just want my Jason back, the real Jason. Just .... meh
     
    I just hate talking badly about him cuz i do really love him and i just don't wanna upset him
     
    And there he goes again, rejects me again to go off with someone he told me he couldn't stand to go game and stuff. I just don't get it I have heard from him pretty much barely over the last few days
     
    Thirdly... My neighbours.
     
    They came down for an evening and we were talking about 'Theatre' and the 'Business'
     
    And they said i needed to toughen up and grow some balls. Now i'm a very sensitive person and i hate being just told and not constructed... I just feel as if all the progress i've made in confidence over the last year and a bit has all been to waste. I was very shy a year ago, i wouldnt even go to a shop counter and buy a magazine or a bag of crisps and a drink.
     
    Just *sigh*
     
    Any advice would be greatly appreciated
     
    Just try not to be too blunt...
  4. Johnathan Colourfield

    My JR <3

    By Johnathan Colourfield,

    Well... today was f**king brilliant. just bloody brilliant.
     
    We started off both on our buses texting each other, really excited. We talked LOADS. then we had to find each other in the bus station and yeah that was difficult. So we found each other and obviously started talking. It was good, we did a few of his errands and such and just were friends.
     
     
     
    We got back to his place and got comfy, he was sitting on the chair opposite me, i was sitting on the bed. We started talking and we both really started to open up. it was him first, opening up about his childhood and his life and his , i wont call it properly because he doesnt like calling it, he opened up to me about his "flawing", he broke down in front of me and i really wanted to hug him but i thought not to.. When i had my rant about my life we went onto our laptops and played a game together . It was then when it happened. I dont know why... but i leant over and i kissed him on the cheek.
     
    Just a simple peck on the cheek. But it meant the world to jace. I rested my head on his shoulder and we played more of another game on his laptop and i got comfy and then we got really emotional together and he asked me to be his boyfriend. I said yes.
     
    We then spent i think like 2 hours kissing and holding each other on his bed, I ran my hand so many times along his back, i still get shivers as to how it feels. It was so soft and gentle and amazing..
  5. Johnathan Colourfield
    i .. i dont know what it is..
    i feel like i could cry.. i feel like i could scream... and yet... i'm overly happy and way too happy clappy and happy with someone..
     
    Is this what real depression feels like? To feel like you have barely anything to believe in..
     
    I shouldnt be saying it because i know people will just say "dont talk like that.. youre just being depressing"..
     
    but i just dont know... theres something wrong... something wrong with me... and i cant figure out what it is..
     
    I've looked everywhere for an answer.. theres a few i have found.. but they arent very permanent answers.. i have a permanent answer but that isnt going to happen for a while..
     
    Theres one.. but hell am i ever going near that one again.. i dont even like to mention it..
     
    I dont know what to do with myself... i'm depressed.. but i'm happy at the same time.. its just i feel all the emotions at once and i just need someone to help me..
     
    Anyone.. i just need to get my mind sorted..
     
     
     
    I need the loving arms and mind of my boyfriend... god i miss him so much sometimes.. sometimes its so painful.. its been nearly a week now since we last spoke.. and i want to do some special... next saturday we have been together for 3 months.. i want to show how much i am devoted to him.. but i dont know how to show it... Help me.. i feel like i'm losing my mind...
     
     
  6. Johnathan Colourfield
    Right.. it was the other day.
     
    I got up early so i could be nice to my mum for one day. Just one day wasnt going to hurt was it?
     
    So i got up , i made her a cup of tea and got a chocolate eclair out the fridge for her ready for when she gets back from the weekly shop.
     
     
     
    So she gets home and i give her a hug ( i was feeling good ) and a peck on the cheek and she seems quite happy. She walks into the room and sees the tea and smiles lightly.. i offered to bring the shopping in. Good Deed 2.
     
    But then , she groans at me saying "john why did you put it there , it doesnt go there." That started to get on my chest.
     
    Then it comes late afternoon
     
    Dad has a dentist appointment next week but we had a different time on the calendar than to the letter. I took it into the living room and in the nicest way possible i pointed it out to her. She freaked. "how dare you say that i made a mistake , go put the calendar back you little sh** ". i didnt even say it was her mistake and then she went on about how its not even her handwriting.. her's and my dad's are identical practically.
     
    Then i tried being nice again by starting to tidy the house , we got a little behind on the tidyness cuz we have had alot of guests recently and then she snapped about saying that i shouldnt be tidying its her job. So i just dropped everything and walked upstairs and sat in my room for an hour and cried.
     
     
     
    Every time i try to help or be nice to her she just throws it back in my face!
     
     
     
    So i've come to the conclusion that i'm only speaking to her when spoken to and not attempting to be a nice person again
     
    Thats fair right? I did nothing wrong... i didnt offend her as i usually do... i didnt flip at her as i often do... its just like as soon as i try something nice and new she loses it with me.
     
     
     
    Oh well..
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Two years time and shes not my problem anymore.
     
     
     
     
  7. Johnathan Colourfield
    Well..i've been asked to explain it all so i am going to.
     
    I will start with the less case scenario and build up
     
    CASE 1 - My Dad
     
    Raised in a care home from the age of 5. both parents died when he was five. he has worked all his life for everything and is a brilliant dad to me. i love him pieces. he is a very funny man and nothing else than honest. However , i cant tell him things. if i tell him stuff , he just goes ahead and tells mum. Thats why i dont trust him anymore , i never want to lose him , i love him so much and i respect beyond anything. he is a model of a man and something people should aspire to be like. Out of my two parents he is the one who i have the least problems with , we laugh about mum when she gets stressy but if i tell him stuff he tells her.
  8. Johnathan Colourfield
    So hey! I thought it'd be a good idea to write a post here, which i'm going to try to do every month from now on, just so that I feel a bit more motivated to do stuff lol
     
    So first, I started a new job in September which I actually forgot to blog about lol I'm an elementary school cover teacher, 3 days a week I cover all the years from Year 1-6, and I spend a morning or afternoon with them when their class teachers are doing their lesson plans and marking etc. Giving teachers 3 hours to plan/mark everything is a bit ridiculous in my books, but that's beside the point... Thats the british education system for you
     
    I'm employed by an agency sadly, not directly through the school. And that's where my problem lies.
     
    The company I work for can be a bit chaotic with the paperwork. I mean they've been great when i've had to have days off recently either due to other contracts I agreed before starting or illness.
     
    If i worked directly for the school, I could negotiate extra hours to do additional work for the school but because I work for an agency, I can't do that. This works good for them, but not for me. It's bad for me because I don't get paid for any work I do outside of the time i'm employed for. I really want to contribute more to the school, but I can't do it if i'm not being paid for it. If i was a full time member of staff, i'd be more willing but i'm on a 0.6 contract, so there's only so much I can do.
     
    For example, the company I work for expected me to write 688 reports in February and July (One per child), plus 42 class evaluation papers (twice in the year) without claiming any extra hours. Thinking in terms of employed hours, I'd need 80 hours (about 2 weeks full time). It's just very demotivating and unaffordable in terms of my time. Especially when in comparison to my normal rate, I'm getting not very much.
     
    I just have to think its good to have a year's teaching experience under my belt... That's my motivation....
     
    So i'm applying for all sorts of other part time positions to see if I can get a better deal directly through a school... Here's hoping...
     
    I have to go part time because of Masters exam issues and then on top of that starting my PhD in October, i'd like something I can continue doing alongside my continued study.
     
    Oh yeah! I got a place! At University of Reading, which i'm very excited about. It's like almost Ivy League lol Add in that I might be doing a collab project with University of Bristol, it's all very exciting.
     
    That's my november update
  9. Johnathan Colourfield
    Hello everyone!
     
    Its been a while since i updated my writing blog.
     
    I moved to university in September so I haven't had that much time to write.
     
    I have 'finished' Womans Game 2, i'm currently working through Cia's comments and i've kind of re-created the idea of the story in Book 2. I'm making it way more Post Modernist than originally planned but it is good
     
    Womans Game 2 currently stands at: 23600 so i'm aiming for around 23000 so the whole series is 54,500 words long This makes me very happy So it should be around 55k when i'm finished editing it and then i'll finally start posting the story It's been too long...
     
    Now Angel, I recently started writing the second half of Part 3 and i'm halfway through Chapter 4 of 6. This is always good and it stands at 15,000 roughly at the moment so should be around 20,000 words like bringing the whole series to 55k again. I have a thing with that number I swear.
     
    Recently submitted a story for the anthology over at FSO, I'm probably going to be just an anthology author over there, just because of uni taking over my life.
     
    I've started tidbits of three different stories, some more than others.
     
    My current targets are going to be:
     
    MARCH 1st - Finish Angel 3 and have it edited.
     
    Then between then and June i'm going to panic write my novella anthology entry "The Soul of Hogwarts" (A Harry Potter Fan Fiction Story. Although, it doesn't really have any gay characters.' I may use "The Best Little Whorehouse In..." for the novella anthology. 20,000 Words minimum, I can do that in 3 months. I have 875 words already on it. Only another 19,000 to go... woop
     
    So yeah, anyway back to targets.
     
    JUNE 1st - Novella Entry Finished and sent to an editor and then beta read. Fun Fun Fun!
     
    So yeah I haven't dissapeared off the writing planet, i'm just incredibly busy with uni and work.
     
    I should really do my Dr. Faustus Essay and read The Good Soldier now. Oh well. I have all day tommorow to study
     
    Thanks for reading. Review and respond for me
     
    Thanks!
  10. Johnathan Colourfield
    My new story has been released onto GA.Stories
     
    The Woman's Game: The Book of Genesis is the title of the first half and afterwards the second half will be posted when it is written.
     
     
    https://www.gayauthors.org/story/johnathan-colourfield/thewomansgame
     
    Enjoy reading and leave me honest reviews
     
    Love Johnathan xx
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