Okay, once again–rough, unpolished, needs a lot of brutal handling to get up to snuff. Still, this is how it starts–at the moment–and if Nanowrimo isn’t about parading your literary shame in front of your long-suffering friends, what good is it? Now I have to go deal with a male assassin that for some odd […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Goddamnit, I’ve run through like five variations, the memory of “Find/Replace” looks like an annotated encyclopedia of chivalry, and the only one I LIKE is “paladin.” Mark Twain was right. Damn him. I suppose, like with everything else, the only solution is to try to carry it off so that everyone comes along for the […]
Nearly 16K. I keep myself amused, anyway. I’m running into one snag, which is the word “paladin.” It’s a good word for a purely religious warrior type, it’s the one that I, geek as I am, default to immediately, but I worry that it has too many D&D (or these days, WoW*) connotations behind it. […]
It would appear that in the last day and a half, I have written 10K words on that completely unrelated story idea, leaving me with 13K. Hmmm. I suspect it’s not very good. It’s not terribly funny, anyway, and funny is sort of my stock in trade. I have not found any good spots to […]
Athena just tried to hiss Ben out of a sunny spot. Unfortunately, she got the dry heaves halfway through–you know, the I-don’t-know-if-I-have-a-hairball-lets-find-out horking noise. “HissssHORKssssHORKssssHORK!” Ben stared at this strange apparition, not sure if she was going to attack him or vomit on him, or which would be worse. Eventually they decided to share the […]
I am displeased with the ending. On t’one hand, fine, you really DO have to leave it open for your expansion packs, I grant you. On t’other hand, we like CLOSURE, people! Closure! As much for the NPCs as me! I want to know they all lived happily ever after, except for the one who […]
Okay, I realize I’m doing nothing but rhapsodize about video games, but I’m jazzed with adrenalin from playing the end game, and had to take a break before my brain melted, so I went and raked leaves. Which gave me too much time to think, and so I’m inflicting it on you. Awhile ago, I […]
Another weekend, another marathon session of Neverwinter Nights 2. My inevitable destruction of the game was delayed by my own inevitable destruction, when I hit a patch where I discovered that I was simply too wussy to continue, due to my rather foolish multi-classing choices. So I had to start the thing over and re-play […]
Wanting to get at least ONE THING done this week, I sat down and painted the first thing that came to mind. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43200358/ Sometimes the first thing that comes to mind worries me…
It’s been a singularly unproductive week. I got the studio cleaned, and that is IT. There’s a board with some stuff on it, there’s the obligatory Digger, there’s prints run off, but otherwise…total wash. Blargh, sez I.