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List post, here we go:
# I still have the eczema on the first two fingers of my right hand. I thought it was going away, but it seems to have flared up again. The index finger is super itchy around my knuckle, so that's fun! (not)
# I have a sinus infection which, as usual, is causing pain in my teeth. And it's the worst it's been in literal years. This resulted in me sitting around on Sunday, not doing a lot*, holding an ice pack to my face because the painkillers I had (ibuprofen**) weren't working, and numbing the nerves with ice barely did, but it was better than nothing. Then I slept like crap because the pain was so bad.
I was "better" on Monday, but I had the chills, and other various things that made it apparent I wasn't well, so I spent most of the day in bed, reading nonsense on the internet.
Luckily I was well enough to do a food shop/visit the library yesterday, but I still feel crappy now, so I'm going to continue not doing a lot, and hoping the library buys Gideon the Ninth for me.
# I watched Aoife play Tell Me Why, which is a Dontnod game, but not a Life is Strange game. I enjoyed it okay, but I was a bit frustrated with the conclusion.
Alyson and Tyler find out that they should have had an older brother, but then nothing else comes of it, and it feels like it was just plopped in there for shock value more than anything (it does explain why their mother was so protective of them, to some degree, but also considering how much care they took with other topics, I'm sort of surprised this was treated so off-handedly). Also the reveal of who their dad is! It's very, like, "oh well, that happened," and then we move on. When like, the entire premise of the game is they want to find out who their dad is! FFS! I like Dontnod games in general, from what I've seen, but I do feel that sometimes their storytelling could use some work. (Don't even get me started on True Colours, which, okay, that's Deck Nine who made that but ohhhh mannnnn).
# So I've not been playing any video games for a few weeks now, since I gave up on Ni no Kuni, and I've discovered two things:
1. I suddenly have a craving to read books. Hence why I asked the library to buy a ding danged book I want to read.
2. I have been thinking about writing! In very nebulous terms, mind you.
And then I saw this screencap of a tumblr post on pinterest, which said (paraphrased) when you have a story idea, you don't need to make it into a whole g dang book, but somehow, a lot of us think we have to. And you don't! It's cool if you only write a short story, or not even something as long as that, and I was like, FUCK YES!
Because when I was a teenager, and in my early twenties, and I wrote, I didn't concern myself with writing anything as long as an entire book. And the books I have about writing don't even go, "THOU SHALT MAKE AN ENTIRE BOOK OF THIS!" - one of them is actually focussed on writing for TV because the author used to write for Star Trek! But when I was looking up book writing advice on the internet, everything I looked at was "how to plot your novel", and a lot of very in-depth stuff, and I actually think it didn't help me one flipping bit.
(Admittedly, the abominations story was planned to be book length because I wanted to see if I could do 50K words in a short space of time, and it turns out I can, but I don't enjoy it).
Not that it was bad advice. Like, if you want to write an entire novel, do it! There's some cracking advice out there! It just wasn't for me. Because that's not how I write, and never how I have written.
I don't know what I want to write yet, or even if it will be anything set in places I already thought of, but I do think I want to do some, eventually. (I know I said this earlier in the year, but this time I mean it).
Also, if you're interested, this is a link to my writing board on pinterest, which will probably clue you into my brain for the past few years/almost a decade :O (sadly, because I will let pinterest rec me things related to this board, I still get "OMG WRITE UR NOVEL NOW!!!!" pins, which is annoying, but at least I can ignore them, and most of the time I get more interesting stuff instead).
Edit from the future: Please don't take this as me saying vidya are bad, or that they stifle creativity, because I don't think either of those things. But I just wanted to add this to clarify. It's more to do with my weasel brain and what bits of it get taken up with what things. [/edit]
# That's my lot for now, I think. I should probably go and get something to eat.
~
*I ended up watching a 2 hour video recap of Gideon/Harrow the Ninth, because I'd spent most of the previous day reading about them on TVT and now I want to read them. I have asked the library to buy Gideon because I can't afford to pay £12 for a book. And that's the paperback price with a discount.
**I know ibuprofen does nothing for me, and YET. I bought some, because I thought maybe I was wrong about that. I was not.
# I still have the eczema on the first two fingers of my right hand. I thought it was going away, but it seems to have flared up again. The index finger is super itchy around my knuckle, so that's fun! (not)
# I have a sinus infection which, as usual, is causing pain in my teeth. And it's the worst it's been in literal years. This resulted in me sitting around on Sunday, not doing a lot*, holding an ice pack to my face because the painkillers I had (ibuprofen**) weren't working, and numbing the nerves with ice barely did, but it was better than nothing. Then I slept like crap because the pain was so bad.
I was "better" on Monday, but I had the chills, and other various things that made it apparent I wasn't well, so I spent most of the day in bed, reading nonsense on the internet.
Luckily I was well enough to do a food shop/visit the library yesterday, but I still feel crappy now, so I'm going to continue not doing a lot, and hoping the library buys Gideon the Ninth for me.
# I watched Aoife play Tell Me Why, which is a Dontnod game, but not a Life is Strange game. I enjoyed it okay, but I was a bit frustrated with the conclusion.
Alyson and Tyler find out that they should have had an older brother, but then nothing else comes of it, and it feels like it was just plopped in there for shock value more than anything (it does explain why their mother was so protective of them, to some degree, but also considering how much care they took with other topics, I'm sort of surprised this was treated so off-handedly). Also the reveal of who their dad is! It's very, like, "oh well, that happened," and then we move on. When like, the entire premise of the game is they want to find out who their dad is! FFS! I like Dontnod games in general, from what I've seen, but I do feel that sometimes their storytelling could use some work. (Don't even get me started on True Colours, which, okay, that's Deck Nine who made that but ohhhh mannnnn).
# So I've not been playing any video games for a few weeks now, since I gave up on Ni no Kuni, and I've discovered two things:
1. I suddenly have a craving to read books. Hence why I asked the library to buy a ding danged book I want to read.
2. I have been thinking about writing! In very nebulous terms, mind you.
And then I saw this screencap of a tumblr post on pinterest, which said (paraphrased) when you have a story idea, you don't need to make it into a whole g dang book, but somehow, a lot of us think we have to. And you don't! It's cool if you only write a short story, or not even something as long as that, and I was like, FUCK YES!
Because when I was a teenager, and in my early twenties, and I wrote, I didn't concern myself with writing anything as long as an entire book. And the books I have about writing don't even go, "THOU SHALT MAKE AN ENTIRE BOOK OF THIS!" - one of them is actually focussed on writing for TV because the author used to write for Star Trek! But when I was looking up book writing advice on the internet, everything I looked at was "how to plot your novel", and a lot of very in-depth stuff, and I actually think it didn't help me one flipping bit.
(Admittedly, the abominations story was planned to be book length because I wanted to see if I could do 50K words in a short space of time, and it turns out I can, but I don't enjoy it).
Not that it was bad advice. Like, if you want to write an entire novel, do it! There's some cracking advice out there! It just wasn't for me. Because that's not how I write, and never how I have written.
I don't know what I want to write yet, or even if it will be anything set in places I already thought of, but I do think I want to do some, eventually. (I know I said this earlier in the year, but this time I mean it).
Also, if you're interested, this is a link to my writing board on pinterest, which will probably clue you into my brain for the past few years/almost a decade :O (sadly, because I will let pinterest rec me things related to this board, I still get "OMG WRITE UR NOVEL NOW!!!!" pins, which is annoying, but at least I can ignore them, and most of the time I get more interesting stuff instead).
Edit from the future: Please don't take this as me saying vidya are bad, or that they stifle creativity, because I don't think either of those things. But I just wanted to add this to clarify. It's more to do with my weasel brain and what bits of it get taken up with what things. [/edit]
# That's my lot for now, I think. I should probably go and get something to eat.
~
*I ended up watching a 2 hour video recap of Gideon/Harrow the Ninth, because I'd spent most of the previous day reading about them on TVT and now I want to read them. I have asked the library to buy Gideon because I can't afford to pay £12 for a book. And that's the paperback price with a discount.
**I know ibuprofen does nothing for me, and YET. I bought some, because I thought maybe I was wrong about that. I was not.
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