bjornwilde

Retooling my writing goal for the year. I'm still committed to writing 240 days this year and only counting journaling or original writing, with a minimum of 100 words a session. Stretch goal will be to use journaling as a warm up to original writing. Again, my year is going well so far but I am learning that my life is nutty enough I can't depend on a perfect time to be left alone to write so I need to grab time where I can.

Had a good walk with the dogs this morning. I left a little later so the park with the lake would be open. I'm glad I did as it was beautiful. The dogs did turn into feral goblins at the end of the walk, play fighting with each other and winding me in the leash. I am ashamed to admit I lost my temped and yelled. Yes it was frustrating and nerve-wracking, two large dogs who can easily knock me over fighting around me with big sharp teeth, but they are still kids. I need to remember this and redirect the behaviors rather than freaking out.

I'm having the urge to read the old Shadowrun novels. Not sure why. I mean I love the world of the RPG but never read the books, and from what little research into the books I did, the main characters are all men, but the first book was only a buck on Kindle so what the hay. Might have fun regardless. I mean all the characters can't be guys right?

I'm also looking into checking out a Chinese Korean fantasy drama called Arthdal Chronicles based entirely on some fan art I saw on Tumblr and the trailer.

ETA: Thanks Genarti for the correction on where Arthdal was made. And speaking of Korean goodness, I am so looking forward to Space Sweepers which reads to me like a mix of FireFly and The Expanse.

I haven't really mentioned it here but two dogs have taken up residence at my home. Onyx, who we got from a friend of a friend from an accidental litter...okay, we're not so sure it was accidental any more but he is awesome and we totally lucked out. He is totally amazing, but I wanted to talk about the other dog, Sandy.

We adopted her from another family who gave her up for reasons. I'm not entirely sure what those reasons are but I look at this adorable golden doodle (75% poodle and 25% golden retriever) and my heart just melts. She is so good. She is smart and loves to just walk around the house checking on everyone.

Yes, she is a big dog and not perfect. She trash dips and isn't afraid to scratch or throw herself at closed doors, but I just can't imagine giving her up. I don't mean to harsh on the other family but my heart breaks at the idea that Sandy might feel less for having been given up. I am so happy we were there to take her in and give her the love and safe place she deserves.

So I watched the live action, Western remake of Ghost In The Shell and oddly, I do not regret having watched it. Thoughts and spoilers behind the cut.

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I have succeeded with my habit goal for getyourwordsout  this year! \o/

Admittedly a lot of my writing this year came from playing in Milliways but I am still pleased. 247 days writing isn't anything to be shy of. Next year I am going to repeat the 240 days of writing goal but add some personal qualifiers, mainly that I will only count journaling, original works, and maybe OOM/Fan fics. I'm not going to count Milliways as while it is writing, I feel like it is too easy for me to tell myself I don't need to work on personal works as I already did the days writing. As a stretch goal I'm also going to aim for 100 words as a minimum target for a day's writing. Or maybe I'll call it 15 mins of writing and not care so much about the word count. Or both. The word count is nice to see at the end of the year, but what I feel I need to work on is allowing myself the time to just write and not rush to a word count. Basically allowing myself the time to do something completely for myself and completely creative without some other purpose assigned to it.

I will need to work around the firewall work has put in place for work at home. I know it's all just to keep their intellectual property and internal details safe, but I am kind of grumping that they are tightening restrictions on sites I visit while I am working at home using my internet. There are easy work arounds though, like doing the day's writing on the notepad app and then saving it to a thumdrive to transfer to my laptop and thus to Milanote. Milanote does have a web version I could access but since work has been giving me warnings when I access my G-drive, I figure I will likely get the same warning if I access Milanote.

Enough of that.

I've been reading the Magic the Gathering novel War of the Spark: Ravenica and struggling with it. But then I realized what was bugging me (it's less a novel and more a radio/audio drama) and now I am able to just enjoy it. I don't know why I need to define what a work is before my critical self can get out of the way and let me enjoy the piece. I've done this before and just need to figure it out. Or accept this is part of how I am learning to write, the critical examining of a piece, and let it do its things.

One last thing on the writing, I need to consider waking up early so I can have a cup of coffee, let the dogs out to do their business, and then do some writing before the house is up and needs me to do things. Fitting the writing in during work and house needs is stress inducing and makes me grumpy, which isn't good for the house, the work, the writing, or me.

I am struggling today. I keep wanting to focus and do things productive but stuff keeps competing for my attention. Either the dogs or the birds, or the internet drags its feet or new coworkers need some help or....or....or

I have since eaten lunch and things are mellowing some what. The internet is still sucking. Not sure if it's my router or if it's work's encriptions slowing things down.

I think I have decided to play Eve Williams, Traci 13, and Queen Maeve in sandboxes and All-SKates before I do anything definite with them. Make sure they are voices that I can play well and they are voices that people would want to play with.

Guess that's about it for now.

So as always I have pups my goblin brain is thinking about playing.

First one has been around a while, but I had mostly forgotten about her until I noticed a new book was out and in rereading canon, I find I really want to play her. I've toyed with the idea of a white hat or at least not-vile and evil necromancer for a while, but never really found one whose canon I wanted to play in and whose personality clicked with me. Then I found Bramble and Blood and met Eve Williams. The world building does leave a lot of questions for me, which I've talked about before, but I love that Eve isn't the bad-ass in a leather jacket Urban Fantasy type. She's more Cordelia (minus the mean girl) than Buffy Summers and that might be fun to play with. The challenge, at least as far as I've seen in test drives is her having to deal with other necromancers that may not have her moral code.

Next up is Traci Thirteen. I love her in the NuDC, post-Flashpoint but at the same time she doesn't seem to be featured in a lot of books. And those she is in she is a supporting character. I do love how her magic ties into the city she is in, and that could be fun to play with. Advantage would be free reign from canon restrictions, which I do honestly get myself tied up in.

Lastly, I keep finding myself thinking about playing Queen Maeve from The Boys. The show itself was over the top for me, but I did love her character arc and it could be fun to explore how she became the jaded person we see at the start of the show. I do find myself thinking of stories and she already has a playlist, which is usually a strong sign of the good head voice. I can't decide on journal names though. It's tempting to recycle "streetwise_hippolyta", but that is mixing in the wrong mythology and I am not so sure she is streetwise. The other names I've thought of were "tarnished_glory" which captures her jaded self and how the world of superheroes is in this canon, or "flick_my_bic" which is a pun-ish sort of name referencing when she dealt with a hostage situation by borrowing a detective's pic pen and throwing it 28 yards into the eye of the gunman to end the stand off. So yeah.

This review is based entirely on the TV show as I have not read the comics. I remember seeing the comics but the covers just did not look like my jam so I didn't bother reading them. As I've heard the comics are more brutal and more Garth Ennis that the show, I will definitely not be reading. Spoilers behind the cut.

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I keep wanting to write and then things get loud and distracting here. Like either work starting going off the hook, the puppy needs attention (like puppy's do :), or the birds are being very social and doing flock calls. All normal stuff but not helpful when I want to focus. I'm beginning to think I need to just get up early, before people are awake and get some writing in while it's quiet.

I need to watch the Protector of Concord Dawn to clear up some details on three different OOMs I want to write. For the most part I'm not sure Sabine is a canon write up pup for me, but if it touches on Mandalore, I need to address it.

I've downloaded two new games to my phone, Eve Online Echos and Magic: ManaStrike (which seems like a spin on Magic the Gatherings and is PvP. Eve Online I have always been curious about but never got around to the game. Since it's on the phone, I thought I'd try it out as the Star Trek game didn't work for me so well.

I've finally started watching Titans on DC Universe and I think I am liking it. I'm only on the second episode. More thoughts behind the cut in case they count as spoilers, though I will be vague and mostly talk about things that I am assuming happened before the show.

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Behind a cut as I'm not sure if I'll get into spoilers and if you even care about my thoughts.

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