Fun. Hobby. Play.

[elfs]

Hey. Whenever I read the posts of jaylake or autopope, they always describe their daily wordcounts as "work" (or as Autopope puts it, "wurk").

Since I'm doing this for something else, I've decided to label mine "play."

Today I played for 2536 words. The intermission is over (and it has a nice love scene with Rhiane & Illonca), and started the scene where Saul realizes that he's out of his depth with Khrystyne, but he's not willing to admit it to her because then he might lose her (man, how soap can I get?). It won't be for a few weeks before Ash & Arwen make him realize just how out of depth he is.

Hah! And I've figured out who my cross-dresser is. Oh, this'll be fun.

The really nifty part is that the timing actually works. I was afraid that there would be too much, or worse too little, time to get all of the scenes in that I wanted between when they left Sparta and when they arrived at llerkin. It's going to be close, but it actually works so damn well that they'll be on llerkin for the (ahem) climatic scene where... nah, I'm not giving away everything. Not even the obvious.

Comments

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I actually know two people named Ash and Arwen. And they're both kinky. That's just too weird for coincidence.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Well, it was Charlie Stross who led me to the idea of naming one of these characters after the protagonist of the Pokemon series, and since the original name for the arc was "A boy and his robot," the other character's name staretd out as "R-something-or-other," then "R-Wen," and then I gave up on the arc but cannibalized the characters for this arc, and Arwen ceased to be a robot and became something else entirely: avatars for for youthful exuberance and lust incarnate.

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

Please, please tell me that you were listening to Knight Area ironically, or that you didn't know what you were getting into...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It's almost completely by accident. They're mostly in the background. Why, is there something I should be aware of?

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

I overreact a bit, but... they represent nearly everything that can go wrong with neoprog, and they were utterly atrocious live at NEARfest last year. One of a handful of NEARfest bands I've walked out on in 8 years.

Out of curiosity, have you tried IQ or The Gathering?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I've just been working my way through a collection of random recent prog bands, and that one was just awful. They sounded more like an 80's hair band (and not even heavy plastic) that had relabeled themselves prog in a desperate bid to get attention. "If we call ourselves prog, maybe our lack of inspiration will seem, I dunno, inspired or somethin'!"

I liked IQ, although I have to admit that I was very unimpressed with "Harvest of Souls." Okay, I get the whole Genesis-before-PG-left thing, but the 9/11 references were no better than the cheese that oozes through Linkin Park's "Ports of Authority."

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Elf, I take your point on work vs. play. However, I will point out that I'm pretty much always having fun, even when I'm bitching...

Which is kind of your point, I think.