Not a whole lot to say here, just more updates (rewrites) over on the larger story. I also have another short story started that I will be posting up when it’s ready… probably in a couple weeks I would think.

I’ll be breaking the hell out of the story over here for the next little while. It won’t make a lot of sense and whole scenes will come out to make way for the revisions I’ve been doing. Like always, I don’t recommend actually going over there to read it, because it’s broken, but hey, you can if you want.

If you are in Canada, I hope you are having a good Canada day. If not, well have a good day anyway.

It’s nearly 40 years since the Rubik’s Cube came out. I just learned how to solve one yesterday. I can’t really take any credit for that. Tutorials and guides have obviously existed for decades. Whatever depths there are to plumb in that plastic toy have been fully plumbed. I think I even had a second hand book on How to Master the Cube, or something like that but I don’t know that I ever got more than a page or two into it. We had a couple of cubes, a pyramid, some 2x2’s from cereal boxes, and, I think, a ball. I don’t remember ever solving any of them. If I had any interest in learning how to solve one I certainly didn’t apply it.

Best Games - Forza Motorsport I’m not really a car guy. A lot of my family are very mechanically inclined. They might even qualify as car guys. I grew up in a car guy town. So much so that a lot of the car guys were girls. Maybe a car folks town. I have paged through the autotrader. I know the difference between a hemi and rotary. I change my own oil and have done minor maintenance on every car I have ever driven. Still, I don’t consider myself a car guy.

A lot of small changes over here while I work on the scenes and changes in other parts of the story. I’ll be lifting out entire chunks and rewriting them to make the story flow better. I’ve been working on this for a while, and only now have I figured out how to use the planning parts of the writing software I’m using. Just been scratching all my plans and ideas down in another document until now. They actually have tools for that sort of thing, and it turns out they work pretty well. Strange?

I wrote some later scenes, but haven’t patched them into the story yet, because I don’t really know where they go. I’ll puzzle that out and try to get them in there in a few days.

Best Games - Pac-Man There are a lot of games that I tend to shy away from when I write one of these. Games that are so universally loved, and commented on, that it’s difficult to find anything interesting to add. I could write a bunch of drivel about how the game plays, how it makes retreat an advantageous strategy, or how Pac-Man is the originator, and pinnacle, of the maze chase genre. Probably stuff you already know and probably stuff you don’t need to read again.

For the second week in a row, all the new writing is going on over here. It’s still very much in an alpha state, so I don’t actually recommend reading it, but you know, you can if you want. Next week I will have something a little more expansive for this spot.

​Changed some stuff o​ver here. The writing, editing, and rewriting continues.

I’m going to post up writing of a different sort today. I have reworked the rules of the board game I have been making. I reworked them so hard that I removed the ‘board’ aspect of the game entirely, and now the whole game is played with cards. The old version was, to put is succinctly, dull. Dull isn’t something you want a game to be, and so, the reworking of the rules. Below is part of the new rule document. I’m going to leave out the combat phase of play for now, since I still haven’t play tested the new style and they will likely change at least a bit. Anyway, here you go. 

As this story approaches the end of ’episode 1’ I have been going back over the writing, and like you might guess, I hate most of it. I’m told this is normal. This is to be expected. The good news is when you are writing you have the ability to change what words go where and what characters say and when. I still have characters that don’t ’talk to me’ but I’m very definitely finding ones that do. I don’t really pick what they say, I just listen and write it down when they say it. That is sort of cool. Hopefully that will make the second draft easier to lay down than the first. Hopefully that will make the second draft better than the first. I doubt it though. Probably won’t be properly ‘okay’ until the 3rd or 4rth draft.