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What have you been writing lately? Are you feeling stuck or thinking you are writing some really nice articles? Do you want input or just to rant? Post it here!
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I'm writing a survey for investment communication needs for a bunch of stakeholders of our platform for defined contribution pension plans. It's actually pretty fun and interesting.
I'm feeling guilty that i haven't been writing movie reviews and reading Repo's latest x-men review makes me want to start seeing movies again. The only movie I've seen this year is The Lego Movie.
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Other than that my usual torrent of snarky half or ill informed opinions on this that and the other.
Occasionally something interesting.
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Not sure if he's A) Too Busy, Ignoring me because you have to be a known designer/company to warrant his attention or C) He's blacklisting me for creating the original Up Front thread which drew a lot of criticism to him/BGG for burying it and posting Rik Falch's "nothing to see here" response in the news section
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hotseatgames wrote: I'm writing a lot of flavor text and rules for a card game I'm making. I really like writing flavor text; it's fun trying to hint at something much bigger with only a couple of lines of text.
What ever happened with your miniatures "arena" game?
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SuperflyTNT wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: I'm writing a lot of flavor text and rules for a card game I'm making. I really like writing flavor text; it's fun trying to hint at something much bigger with only a couple of lines of text.
What ever happened with your miniatures "arena" game?
I haven't personally been involved with it in a couple of months. I stopped working on it so that the publisher could catch up with sculpting, art, etc. I'm not sure where they are with it. I got focused on City of Lycans, and now another game. If they get to the point where they are going to launch the kickstarter for realz, I'll turn my attention back to it.
I actually would like to see it happen. I had an idea for an "ooze" faction, which would allow me to create a gelatinous cube unit. I don't have a bucket list in life, but if I did, that would be on it.
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I'm still posting occasionally to the blog ( dichotomouspurity.blogspot.com/ ), although a lot of what I post in spring and summer is critiques of GoT episodes, so be careful of spoilers there if you're not caught up (I specifically avoid spoilers for non-book readers, so no worries there.) Otherwise, I tend to focus on films and social issues (I have an idea percolating about the Isla Vista shooting/#NotAllMen/#YesAllWomen phenomenon based on a some conversations with friends in a bar tonight.)
I just finished the final edits on the proof for my story in this collection: www.gwdbooks.com/cthulhu-lives.html
And I'm in the midst of three short stories which are forming the first third of a serial novel based on a setting I created for a comic studio I co-owned in the 90s. I may pitch that to the same publisher, depending on how well it's flowing.
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One of them is a show about being a geek. It's the fourth show I and two other comedians make, and it's usually a lot of fun to write. The other one is based on a character inspired by Stephen Colbert and thus a lot harder to write. But I'm only doing an hour with a fellow comedian (whos persona will be an extremely left wing douchebag) and I have some great stuff already so I'm not that worried.
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I have a lot of projects on the go right now. But the one I'm most excited about is my solo album. I've been working with several different bands over the years and I've always written songs that just don't fit into any of the projects. My buddy has a great studio and liked the tunes well enough that he offered to help me record these pieces for an independent project. It's so nice to work on writing things with no one but myself in mind, to call all the shots and what not. Much, much better.
I'm also working on an autobiography (more for my son than anything else but also as a kind of experiment to see what I remember about my own life). It's weird and really hard to not censor yourself.
There there is the wildcats project which is a series of really offensive songs I've written with buddies over the years (20 years worth now) and we're trying to write short shows to highlight the tunes. Probably mostly animation with a little live action sprinkled in. I'm really excited to see how this one turns out, if it's palpably satirical or just comes across as bigoted. If it isn't working we'll shelve it and keep it hidden, if it does... well that would rock but I have no clue what will happen just yet.
I'm always on the lookout for more writing projects and there are a couple of bands that I'm buds with that have hired me to write (and in some cases re-write/edit) their lyrics for them. That's pretty fun too. I openly admit that I'm not the best musician out there, but I'm pretty good with lyrics so I've kind of earned this rep in my group of buddies as the go to guy for this kind of work.
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I've been trying to update my blog more often and so far I've managed to update it six times this month despite skipping one week! I should also have another review this weekend and another by next week so I'm very happy about this, the more I wrote the easier it is to keep writing and when I stall, I risk stalling for weeks.
I feel my last article, which was a review of The Republic of Rome is pretty representative of my strenghts and flaws right now. What I try to do with my reviews is to tell the reader what a game's raison d'être, why it is interesting or why it is not. But this is hard and I often don't quite find the words to do it so I substitute personality and insight for grandiloquence because it makes it easier to write.
Basically, I feel my reviews lack humanity. You know how a good reviewer can make you go "Oooh, I understand where you are coming from!" with a good phrase or a sharp description? That's what I lack, and it's more noticiable in my most positive reviews which I think are harder to write than negative ones.
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