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May 26, 2018
How Aggretsuko Tackles Multiple Important Subjects
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As you may guess, I’ve been analyzing Aggretsuko lately. I just ran a marathon of the series for a different group of friends. This dark office comedy from Sanrio bears multiple viewings because it’s a well-crafted show. It just happens to look cute until you realize what’s going on.
Having seen it again with another group of people, many more insights came to mind. These provide good adv...
May 23, 2018
A Bridge To The Quiet Planet – Religion
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Let’s get to know more about the setting of my upcoming novel, A Bridge To The Quiet Planet. It’s out late this fall but you can find out about the world now . . .
Religion
Religion on modern Telvaren and it’s colonies is a practical affair due to the simple matter that aeons of worship, theology, magic, science, and a few confused holy wars and philosophical battles have led to religion beco...
May 21, 2018
Aggretsuko, Style, And Experiences
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I’ve just run a marathon of Aggretsuko for a bunch of friends. If you haven’t seen or heard of this Sanrio cute-dark office comedy, it’s worth checking out. It’s the story of a twenty-something office worker, her lousy job, her friends, and her attempts to do more in her life – and the tales of the people around her.
The obvious part of why you want to check it out is that it’s well-acted, s...
May 19, 2018
Civic Geek: An Update
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So what have I been up to as a Civic Geek? I figured I’d do a quick summary.
First, still doing social media work for a local political group. I’ve been focusing more on making sure people are aware of local and national/international groups they can join, as well as doing daily activism posts – ideas of what to do that day. I may have mentioned this recently, can’t recall as it’s been awh...Steve’s Update 5/19/2018
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Looks like I forgot an update last week. Things are still a bit busy. So let’s get to it!
So what have I done the last week? A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: I got the first set of pre-read feedback in and it looks like my second big pre-read feedback and my own final twists can be integrated in one go – so that starts this week. Agile Creativity I got this blog-posts-turned book into one book...May 16, 2018
Book Cover Musings
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As I edit A Bridge To The Quiet Planet (Motto: “Sorcery, Science, Sarcasm”), I’m back to practicing book covers. I’ve been doing more of my fake book covers, with attempts at colorful kitch and e-book pulp action. I’ve realized I want to get better because I’ve got more books coming out – though my “tentpole” books are best with professional art.
I also realized some of my other books desperat...
A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: Technology
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Let’s get to know more about the setting of my upcoming novel, A Bridge To The Quiet Planet.
Technology
The humans of the worlds of Avenoth find the division between Technology and magic to be very clear. This is probably why some people talk about it too much.
Magic is defined as that requiring direct human involvement to exist, calling upon the magic in the world. Items created using magic...
May 15, 2018
Finishing Flawed Fiction And Processing Piecemeal Prescriptions
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As I edit A Bridge To The Quiet Planet to get it ready for my awesome professional editor, I reflected on what I went through to write the book. I see now this could have been faster if I hadn’t spent time editing as I went, chapter by chapter until the halfway point. In short, I actually aimed for quality too early.
At first this violated my expectations. Being into Agile, I figured that d...
May 10, 2018
Playing Producer: An Overwatch RPG Character System
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Taking a break from my more dramatic posts to do a bit of game analysis here – I’m playing Product Owner and Producer in my head asking just what an RPG of hit game Overwatch would need. I’ve noted that it’s probably viable (if the target date is 3-4 years from now), that it’d have to be highly personal – so now let’s get to the final question. Also feel free to use any of these ideas.
What...
May 9, 2018
A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: Magic
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Let’s get to know more about the setting of my upcoming novel, A Bridge To The Quiet Planet.
Magic
Magic has three definitions to the humans whose worlds orbit the star Avenoth:
Magic is the potential for a person or being to alter beyond its nature and/or the liklihood of probability. The alteration of something by a person whose mind is able to, via various disciplines, call upon the potent...
