Yelp! I need some reviews! Yelp! Not just any reviews!

As suggested by the title, I've started doing reviews for the website Yelp.

Yelp is a website dedicated to reviews for restaurants, places of amusement, and other varieties of businesses and establishments. This website helps in making an educated decision on which locale to go to or which one to avoid. It's also great for finding niche places or if you're stumped on which restaurant to find near you.

I opened up an account for Yelp back in 2016, initially only having one review under my belt. However, I started writing reviews for various places that I have traveled to. This is because Yelp's reviews are only visible to those with a certain amount of reviews. While I have no idea exactly how many reviews are needed for this, it's definitely in the double digits. Ever since, I've been writing reviews of varying ratings and descriptions to make my reviews get noticed. Now I have seven reviews of restaurants and establishments I have gone to, and that number will climb up pretty quickly.

Yelp has been helpful in finding new restaurants to try, but it also serves as an opportunity to help businesses, too. It's thanks to Yelp that the lesser known restaurants get some sort of attention, while others get the message to clean up their act.

If you want to yourself, you can make an account for Yelp here: https://www.yelp.com/
They also have an app on the go, which can be downloaded for Android phones here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yelp.android&hl=en
Apple users wanting to use this app can use this link to download this app here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp-nearby-restaurants-shopping-services/id284910350?mt=8

What a day (or night) for a dream

Recently, I have been writing entries in a notebook that was lying around in my home. This notebook is my dream diary, that is, a log of my various dreams.

This not only helps me back into writing as a side hobby, but also taps into my psyche and desires. As of this blog post, I have written twenty dream diary entries, and the number is growing by the day.

I will not disclose any entries in my blog, due to certain individuals being in the diaries. While the content of each dream is all ages to PG-13, they contain individuals very close to me. I will also not upload individual entries, either, nor will I sell my dream diary en masse.

That said, I will base my future writing on some of my dreams. Don't be surprised if a future novel contains an event based on a dream I had...

Animator's Dream is complete

I've done it. I've finally done it.

I can happily declare that Animator's Dream Episode I - Animator's Dream has been finished.

I am now in the process of proofreading the novel and, if necessary, removing redundant content. After that, I will find a publisher or have the novel self-published on amazon.com. I will also make a cover for my novel myself; I will hand draw the cover and color it using Photoshop and Illustrator.

This has been a novel six years in the making. Years of concept making and putting it off to take breaks has finally paid off. All I have to do now is get my work submitted and published, spread the word, and hopefully I'll have a hit on my hands. Granted, I may have better odds of winning the lottery, but you never know. Some novels become big overnight, others are sleepers, and a few even become cult classics. Hopefully my work will be big to the point I can make it onto the big or even small screens. Who knows? Maybe I'll put my work on Toonami...