The week after the meeting had actually gone incredibly well. What a way to start a chapter! Bam! A week has passed. I hate both documenting every day and blithely jumping forward. That’s a bit of a conundrum. Right now, I’ve got 39 days in 26 chapters, which is pretty much every day. A lot,Continue reading “Totally Stealing This”
Author Archives: Mark
Structure Two
There’s always a two. The “one” is way back in January. I had good thoughts. I’ve made some decisions, since. At least book two is going to be continuing chapter numbers. The so-far unnamed and unranked army guy arriving in the first snowfall is going to end book one. Book two will pick up immediately.Continue reading “Structure Two”
What I Wanted To Be
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a scientist. I didn’t have any particular field in mind, but Tom Swift Jr and Tom Corbett were my ideal, so more physics/engineering than chemistry/biology. As it turned out, I’m smart, but not that smart. It might have been possible, but it would have beenContinue reading “What I Wanted To Be”
Dumb Charity Crap
I don’t give much money to charities because so much is staff salary, but that’s not what this is about. There is some charity out there that collects the pop-tops from aluminum cans – those pop-tops that were purposefully designed to not come off. Apparently, they, whomever “they” are, get $50 per pound for them.Continue reading “Dumb Charity Crap”
Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me
Finally. What used to be the problematic Chapter 18 is now chapters 18, 19, and 20 – and they are all done. 21 and 22 were mostly done, already. A new chapter 23 got injected. It’s not done. Looking up the link, that took almost four months. Tempus has fugitted. I’m not in any particularContinue reading “Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me”
Quotes of the Day (1)
I’m trying to decide if I want to start aggregating them and doing a weekly post. Here’s the latest (from an HFY story): You fight to annihilate. You do not view war as a spiritual trial; you view it as an engineering problem. This editing page has been open most of the week and that’sContinue reading “Quotes of the Day (1)”
24 Cookies
I just put 24 cookies in the oven. (Ghirardelli Coffee Dark Chocolate Chip cookies.) Cookies are generally counted in dozens, so 24 is 2 dozen + 4 aka twenty eight. For those of you who don’t deal with non-base-10 number systems, this can be confusing. The digits work the same way base-10 digits do. TheContinue reading “24 Cookies”
Yeah, No Quests
Another book with System quests (called “tasks” here). I do not like them. They are too directly manipulative or too trivial. Our intrepid hero (from Proving Grounds: Annals of the Runeguard Book 1) is being targeted by a group of thieves. After some escalation, they kill the blacksmith (Gorman) making him armor and steal it.Continue reading “Yeah, No Quests”
User Pacification Dots
Back in the day, one would type a command into a computer at a prompt and press enter. When that command was complete, the prompt would reappear, awaiting the next command. Sometimes, things would get stuck and the command would not complete. Sometimes, a user would get impatient waiting for a command to complete. TheContinue reading “User Pacification Dots”
Dystopias
Like them I do not. That’s my biggest issue with Dungeon Crawler Carl (once it gets going and stops info-dumping). I just tried to read Apocalypse Eater. It’s a bit unfair to the author, but I only made it to page 2. The universe is awful enough that I don’t want to know any moreContinue reading “Dystopias”
