Putting Things Together

[lea_hazel]

I am trying to both write and feel good about things.

Things I am doing: morning words on 750words have treated me pretty well. stack Exchange has also been pretty good to me, especially writes.SE. Actual words on paper have not gone well, but I've been trying to put together plots and thinking about meta and characterization. I want to know how far I can stretch a character like Aya, who has no canonical backstory. I might have to cave and make a canon for her, IDK.

Staying with my sister went surprisingly okay. I have also succeeded in meeting a friend after work, so that's three evenings this week that I spent with company, rather than sitting in my living room. Paging through Tumblr and playing Sunless Sea. And not writing. Yesterday I worked the morning, which was a bit annoying. Next Friday is family birthday, and the one after that is friend birthday.

And the Friday following is Dragon*Con OMG.

During free hours at work, I've been studying up on HTML 5 canvas element, trying to make a dynamically generated family tree. Between JavaScript and DOM, I've succeeded in creating an interface that allows adding named nodes and creating edges between them. If I backed it with Rails and MySQL I bet I could produce a half-decent shipping chart generator.

Games I need to review on Dreamwidth, because I have too much to say for Tumblr to be sufficient: Sunless Sea, Unrest, Broken Age. Meta essays I need to write: magic, power and nobility in secondary world fantasy.

Comments

[lynnoconnacht]

Ooooooh, I'm curious to hear what you think of those games! (Especially Unrest.)

[lea_hazel]

I do have a review up on Steam, but I also have lots more thoughts to share.

[lynnoconnacht]

Now that Steam has finally let me log in so I can read the review...

It's a very good point you make about the way Unrest reverses protagonists and backdrop. It does and it's fascinating to see.

[lea_hazel]

Thanks. :) It's such a meta-worthy game. I really wish I knew more people who had played it, because I feel like I wouldn't be able to get at the pertinent points without some back-and-forth discussion. And you really can't do that on Steam. At least in my experience.

[lynnoconnacht]

I'd be happy to bounce ideas back-and-forth on it sometime if you like. ^_^ I can't promise I'd be much help, but I'd love a chance to talk about the game in more detail. ^_^