I’ve been taking a small break in the week since I posted here; I was really very tired, and have had some physical health stuff coming up. It’s also been intense leading up to the announcement of the game I’ve been working on for my day job, King of the Castle, which happened this weekend at Twitchcon! Very exciting, but it’s meant that I’ve had less brain for other things.
(I’m also looking forward to a time where I’m not writing about royalty, since I’ve ended doing that for the last four years…)
Finished my big creative project for the start of the month. As for the rest of it, I need a short break and then I’m doing the Halloween Jam, if I can.
Second chapter of new Heart’s Choice is having a slow start, but I still feel good about getting most of it done in October.
I feel both embarrassed and outraged that I never thought of this before, but also pleased to think of a shortcut:
but instead of writing ${npc_they}'@{npc_singular s|re}, I’ve realised I can just … make another variable called ${npc_theyre} and it doesn’t mind having the apostrophe in the variable text. Mind blown, potential hours saved…(as much as I love multi-replace, I make a ton of errors in the first draft no matter how hard I try otherwise!)
Oh, yes, that’s very true. Discovering this was great for me, too. Now, I only really use multireplace for verbs, and to be honest, I could have chosen just to use it for certain irregular verbs. But having a text file from which I copy and paste @{plural say|says} is easy enough, compared to having a variable that’s just named s (which my programmer heart rebels at).
I had a day off from my day job today and spent it doing looots of writing. I feel really proud because I wrote just over 3900 words on Royal Affairs Chapter 10 Not every full writing day is like that (most aren’t!) so I’m going to take that win where I can!
Still prepping for Nanowrimo, right? I’ve reached block 6 of my 9 block outline. Honestly? I’m not happy with the midpoint and reversal. I keep telling myself “it’s ok, the outline is supposed to be quick! I can expand on those points in my actual first draft!” it barely helps. It sucks because, just yesterday, I reached the midpoint and I was like “Yes! Half way! I’m awesome!” But today my mood did a 180
Edit: I think know my problem. I entered the reversal too early. I put what I had for the reversal back in the midpoint that’s better. I think I’m going to rest tonight and write a new reversal tomorrow.
In contrast to @HarrisPS, I spent today deleting 5,000 words from my Patchworks story. This is emotional for me for two reasons.
First, now that I did this, I streamlined this part of the story and made it easier to rewrite and edit this weekend as I work on the rewrite/edit. This is good. I consider this a win for that reason.
The second thing is that 5,000 words is more than a few days worth of writing for me, especially when this was originally written. I feel very vulnerable doing this to myself, even it is better for me in the long-run.
I hope the second half of October will go good for those participating in this thread.
Remember, @poison_mara has her Halloween Jam going on and there are 16 days remaining in it.
Never got that update finished months ago because of flights/jobs. Finally got to South Korea, for which half the reason was to get some sources I couldn’t get in the past 2 or 3 years. Went south to Busan since that is where the story takes place, visited historic sites, talked with curators who seemed glad they weren’t sitting around for once, and took some pictures. Everything went according to plan as my final destination took me to that mountain where the MC lived. Elevation 504m, behind one of the local universities. In and out, twenty-minute adventure, have a nice cold pint, then take the train back to the capital the morning after.
Me to my traveling partner, “504m? Where I come from, that’s called a hill.”
It is said that these mountains have their own spirits. If so, that old bastard must have heard me because I got turned into a rotten egg, hard-boiled by the sun from the Teletubby, smiling at me like some raving predator. You barely see anything at the summit because of the trees and whatnot. And as if to make me remember this day for the rest of my life, I got a fever, which later turned out to be Covid.
I will live, but I still feel like a hard-boiled egg. At least there is finally a good excuse to lie down and write.
Other than that, have a nice rest of the month of writing or rest folks.
Right now, getting this project done is the overriding issue. I learned from both my Donner project WiP and from others who are more experienced in IF than myself, that completing your story is perhaps the most important thing, even if it is the most difficult for some.
.
Edit: @Schliemannsghost – speaking of finishing. Huge congrats on finishing both your third installment and your entire series!
Did you ever find out why Tumblr took down your blog? Was it because of the nazi content?
And just for total clarification for anyone else reading this, when Eiwynn says “Nazi content”, that’s a reference to the fact that my blog talked about Nazis a lot since they’re the main villains in my game. There is absolutely no “Nazi content” on my blog other than that!
I’m afraid I didn’t see any zombies, Gong Yoo or Ma Dong-Seok. But there was a lot of screaming. Screaming from a group of very young children, perhaps with too much energy.
50 words in three hours. Each onr of them an agony. Still I keep going somehow. My therapist says writing is key to my improvement, so I keep trying even if it is really hard. Hope the rest of you are in a better situation as all of you deserve the best.
Not every full writing day is like that (most aren’t!) so I’m going to take that win where I can!
