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crankyoldmanSo a few good things.
- We got Phase II funding for sure now. Which means that the game is moving along and I won't suddenly have to learn how to program java to become as useful at work as I am currently. This is good, as I like my job and like being useful. Even if writing up mission logs has been like pulling teeth. People need to get back from dying and being on travel, we need to progress in other areas, especially now that we definitely can afford to pay our programmers. Also might be coming up with a job class system as while I was gone we apparently put in some grant proposal to put career explorations in, which means I get to bastardize all sorts of systems to come up with one that might be useful.
- Boxes that were taking over my room have been condensed down to one. Mostly because I realized my eighteen year old self was a raging packrat that had no idea the difference between nostalgia and junk. Also found some more artifacts that reminded me of the Lost Year, and am in the market for a new Athame
- That steampunk story I have due tomorrow is turning out rather cheeky and satirical and uses characters from a long since abandoned project that I wrote when I was thirteen. So far we've got an ex-aeronaut (because it's turning into fantasy steampunk, much to my surprise) zombie as a narrator who is strangely polite and a couple of kids that practiced necromancy in order to give this inventor girl a robot friend, in a way. It's giving me warm fuzzies about my childhood, as I was always a bit morbid and had a dry sense of humor from the age of eight. Hopefully I can get it to a point of some kind (likely some weird discussion on the girl's obvious thanatophilic tendencies) and have it done by tomorrow.
This came about because I found the materials and writing bits for it in one of the multiple boxes I just cleared out, and it was kind of funny which cliches I kept up with and which ones I broke utterly. I've since renamed the characters because I had all the skill of naming that your average thirteen year old sue writer has, but the main girl is surprisingly decent even if she's Special (and from a tribal society, I think I was on a Native American kick then), and the side characters are enough to make me genuinely want to do something with it. Also, the "main party" is coincidentally comprised of 12-13 year olds. Luckily there's a snarky wizard boy with an inappropriately fierce name, an inventor type chick who is obsessed with death, and what on the surface appears to be an angsty sword kid but is actually the most well-adjusted of the bunch and writes home frequently. Haven't worked out all the villainy, but there is a lot of Strange Forces and children being kidnapped to serve as magicky conduits of Doom.
That was a bit of babble, but I find random shit that I've written/drawn because school bored the hell out of me once I got past the age of 11 to be somewhat entertaining. Especially my playwright phase (complete with costume doodles on stick figures and set design). The angst poetry is particularly humorous in its sincerity. Might actually make me want to start writing it again, as my ability to write it suddenly disappeared and was replaced with artsy prose writing. Still have the jury out on whether this is good or bad. Or nothing. XD
~Cendri
P.S. The movie 21 has a kickass soundtrack. Almost makes me want to see the movie now.
- We got Phase II funding for sure now. Which means that the game is moving along and I won't suddenly have to learn how to program java to become as useful at work as I am currently. This is good, as I like my job and like being useful. Even if writing up mission logs has been like pulling teeth. People need to get back from dying and being on travel, we need to progress in other areas, especially now that we definitely can afford to pay our programmers. Also might be coming up with a job class system as while I was gone we apparently put in some grant proposal to put career explorations in, which means I get to bastardize all sorts of systems to come up with one that might be useful.
- Boxes that were taking over my room have been condensed down to one. Mostly because I realized my eighteen year old self was a raging packrat that had no idea the difference between nostalgia and junk. Also found some more artifacts that reminded me of the Lost Year, and am in the market for a new Athame
- That steampunk story I have due tomorrow is turning out rather cheeky and satirical and uses characters from a long since abandoned project that I wrote when I was thirteen. So far we've got an ex-aeronaut (because it's turning into fantasy steampunk, much to my surprise) zombie as a narrator who is strangely polite and a couple of kids that practiced necromancy in order to give this inventor girl a robot friend, in a way. It's giving me warm fuzzies about my childhood, as I was always a bit morbid and had a dry sense of humor from the age of eight. Hopefully I can get it to a point of some kind (likely some weird discussion on the girl's obvious thanatophilic tendencies) and have it done by tomorrow.
This came about because I found the materials and writing bits for it in one of the multiple boxes I just cleared out, and it was kind of funny which cliches I kept up with and which ones I broke utterly. I've since renamed the characters because I had all the skill of naming that your average thirteen year old sue writer has, but the main girl is surprisingly decent even if she's Special (and from a tribal society, I think I was on a Native American kick then), and the side characters are enough to make me genuinely want to do something with it. Also, the "main party" is coincidentally comprised of 12-13 year olds. Luckily there's a snarky wizard boy with an inappropriately fierce name, an inventor type chick who is obsessed with death, and what on the surface appears to be an angsty sword kid but is actually the most well-adjusted of the bunch and writes home frequently. Haven't worked out all the villainy, but there is a lot of Strange Forces and children being kidnapped to serve as magicky conduits of Doom.
That was a bit of babble, but I find random shit that I've written/drawn because school bored the hell out of me once I got past the age of 11 to be somewhat entertaining. Especially my playwright phase (complete with costume doodles on stick figures and set design). The angst poetry is particularly humorous in its sincerity. Might actually make me want to start writing it again, as my ability to write it suddenly disappeared and was replaced with artsy prose writing. Still have the jury out on whether this is good or bad. Or nothing. XD
~Cendri
P.S. The movie 21 has a kickass soundtrack. Almost makes me want to see the movie now.
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Date: 2008-05-09 09:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-09 09:53 pm (UTC)The story sounds pretty awesome so far, though, I may not be a good judge as I don’t actually mind the whole sue element to stories as it would deny most of my childhood favorites, so yeah. Cheeky is fun. Though, can you write pre-teens anymore? ^^
The characters certainly sound interesting and inventive.
Well, if you didn’t start writing artsy prose I would have met you, so it was a good thing for me.