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Here’s recent progress on my fin de siecle gothic epistolary about Lizzie Borden fighting Cthulhu with her trusty axe, now with Bonus! ghosts, guilt, girlfriends, arcane science, and an accidental villain who's losing his mind and his humanity in tandem:
Project: Maplecroft
Deadline: October 15, 2013
New words written: 2596
Present total word count: 58,321 words
Things accomplished in fiction: Well, the doctor wanted to know what was really going on. Now he knows at least as much as Lizzie does.
Next up: The doctor gets to fight his first monster.
Things accomplished in real life: Daily jaunts around the neighborhood with the dog; lots of housework including laundry after the cat barfed all over our bed; recorded a great couple of hours for the SF Squeecast with all the cool kids; got some clean-up work done in the yard in the landscaping lady's wake; repotted a Norfolk Pine my mother shipped to me, from Florida, which will make you laugh if you know anything about these things*; spent the day with an old friend, heading out for tea and then kicking back at her place, cleaning out the Awesome Dress-Up Things closet; took the kitty to the vet to have a suspicious growth on her back removed.
Other: Yeah, I know I've been bad about updating the last few days - even after I said I'd stop doing it on weekends, I still should've logged something for Friday. The truth is, the Write Every Damn Day streak got broken on Saturday, because sometimes having the flexibility to spend the day with a friend (on a weekend, even) is ultimately more healthy than a self-imposed death march. Or that's how I figure it. Anyway, this puts me a little behind my goal to average 1k/day for the weekend, but I'll catch up over the week. Or that's the plan.
Pet-related other: The kitty is fine. The vet knocked her out with some kind of gas, so she was fast to go under and fast to wake up again. The skin lesion in question is probably no big deal, but it was changing shape/color and causing a bald spot to appear around it ... so just like people-moles, you gotta get that shit checked out. The vet thinks it's probably no big deal.
Pet-related other, redux: The cat's stitches are purple, and need to come out next week. I tried to get a picture of the purple stitches, but my phone wasn't cooperating. Sorry.
TV-related other: The husband and I have picked up Ripper Street , as it came recommended when I was at AnachroCon a few weeks ago. Only a couple episodes in, but we're really enjoying it - despite my initial doubts that it was really too gimmicky to be great. Looking forward to more of it.
VideoGame-related other: Picked up the new Tomb Raider, in no small part due to the fact that so many people are speaking so well of it - despite the early rumors. I'm lead to understand that the incidence of "rapey bits" has been vastly overstated, and possibly made up entirely - assembled from the foot some PR guy put in his mouth. Anyway, we're going to give it a shot - and we've gotta play it now, because once Bioshock: Infinite comes out, that's pretty much all we're going to be doing for a while. We'll sit inside and play that thing until we look like cave fish.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 54,194
* They can't live outdoors anywhere in North America...except Florida, basically. It's okay, though. They seem to do well indoors.
Project: Maplecroft
Deadline: October 15, 2013
New words written: 2596
Present total word count: 58,321 words
Things accomplished in fiction: Well, the doctor wanted to know what was really going on. Now he knows at least as much as Lizzie does.
Next up: The doctor gets to fight his first monster.
Things accomplished in real life: Daily jaunts around the neighborhood with the dog; lots of housework including laundry after the cat barfed all over our bed; recorded a great couple of hours for the SF Squeecast with all the cool kids; got some clean-up work done in the yard in the landscaping lady's wake; repotted a Norfolk Pine my mother shipped to me, from Florida, which will make you laugh if you know anything about these things*; spent the day with an old friend, heading out for tea and then kicking back at her place, cleaning out the Awesome Dress-Up Things closet; took the kitty to the vet to have a suspicious growth on her back removed.
Other: Yeah, I know I've been bad about updating the last few days - even after I said I'd stop doing it on weekends, I still should've logged something for Friday. The truth is, the Write Every Damn Day streak got broken on Saturday, because sometimes having the flexibility to spend the day with a friend (on a weekend, even) is ultimately more healthy than a self-imposed death march. Or that's how I figure it. Anyway, this puts me a little behind my goal to average 1k/day for the weekend, but I'll catch up over the week. Or that's the plan.
Pet-related other: The kitty is fine. The vet knocked her out with some kind of gas, so she was fast to go under and fast to wake up again. The skin lesion in question is probably no big deal, but it was changing shape/color and causing a bald spot to appear around it ... so just like people-moles, you gotta get that shit checked out. The vet thinks it's probably no big deal.
Pet-related other, redux: The cat's stitches are purple, and need to come out next week. I tried to get a picture of the purple stitches, but my phone wasn't cooperating. Sorry.
TV-related other: The husband and I have picked up Ripper Street , as it came recommended when I was at AnachroCon a few weeks ago. Only a couple episodes in, but we're really enjoying it - despite my initial doubts that it was really too gimmicky to be great. Looking forward to more of it.
VideoGame-related other: Picked up the new Tomb Raider, in no small part due to the fact that so many people are speaking so well of it - despite the early rumors. I'm lead to understand that the incidence of "rapey bits" has been vastly overstated, and possibly made up entirely - assembled from the foot some PR guy put in his mouth. Anyway, we're going to give it a shot - and we've gotta play it now, because once Bioshock: Infinite comes out, that's pretty much all we're going to be doing for a while. We'll sit inside and play that thing until we look like cave fish.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 54,194
* They can't live outdoors anywhere in North America...except Florida, basically. It's okay, though. They seem to do well indoors.
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Mar 12, 2013 09:08AM
I was a slow covert to Ripper Street, too. Recorded and watched the first three or so until I realized it had taken hold and that it was better than the early shows indicated. Also like the Game of Thrones character crossover - at least three aside from one of the main characters. By the time of the season finale I was sufficiently bummed that it was over that I realized I am a true fan now.
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Yea Ripper Street is a good show. As for Tomb Raider... Well. After playing and finishing it, I can safely say that the "rapey bits" are completely overstated. The intent is there alright, but thankfully it doesn't get further than his hand on her thigh and his nose on her neck. However, this game puts the whole "I yelp/moan/shout/gasp every time I do something" to a paroxysm and I found myself muting the game 15 minutes after I started playing it (and I'm not joking at all - I actually went through the data files to find a way to suppress those horribly annoying sounds).
Otherwise it's a rather bad game. Bad scenario, massive plot holes, good gameplay but little replayability, nothing new, clichés everywhere, inconsistent and shallow characters... I didn't expect much from it, and I wasn't too surprised (though the gameplay was rather good - and we had a semi-realistic main character for once : one that gets bruised, wounded, freaked out... Even though It's sometimes over the top. But hey, I guess "too much" is better than nothing sometimes...)
Oh, and you actually get to stab people in the knee. With arrows. Hint hint nudge nudge.
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