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veryroundbird) wrote2018-02-01 03:09 pm
veryroundbird) wrote2018-02-01 03:09 pm
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GYWO: January 2018 Recap
Writing
This month I worked mostly on The Real Housewives of the Court of Stars, which was my NaNoWriMo project. I'm going in for the first editing pass, tidying stuff up and doing a bit of restructuring, but I think I might need to take a day at some point and re-outline it. There's also one structural problem that I have a few ideas about solving by merging a couple characters, but I'm not 100% how I'm going to do that yet or what the final product will look like.
The other two things I worked on were some ideas for Twine games, both of which I think need a little workshopping before I work on them further, because while I can produce endless streams of stream-of-consciousness words in the sort of tone that a lot of IF is written in, the point is they need to go somewhere.
One is this thing called "Save Yourself" which... I guess is like... a combination of me doing some fictional exploration of the idea of self-care and also me reacting to a specific genre of anime that I simultaneously am very fond of and also want to pitch into a fire, which is shows about Suffering Magical Girls.
There's this one franchise called Yuki Yuna that I think could do some really interesting things with the idea of expectations of self-sacrifice from girls if it would stop with the uncomfortable fanservice of teens and preteens and do more with the question of "why is the world this way?" In the epilogue season that just came out, we got the answer, but I was still hoping for a "Miria vs. the Organization from Claymore" situation honestly, haha. But, anyway, I guess it's about the idea of feeling like you need to save everyone and solve all the problems, and how do you survive in a world that mostly cares about what use you have as a tool? And is that world worth saving?
The other twine game I'm trying to sort out and get writing on ASAP because I found out
the Twine Discord (which I just joined) is having a game jam about fairy stories and this idea I've had for approximately ages fits into that real well. It's sort of like Tam Lin? In retrospect I think it has a bit in common with Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones in that it's about storytelling and the way your stories can change the world, and saving your beloved from the tithe to Hell. I've been writing and re-writing it for about... 15 years? since I think the characters originated in Tortall fanfic of all places. I feel like this is going to be the year I finally finish it? I'm not sure if it's actually going to be in time for the game jam, though.
Personal
I felt pretty good about keeping up with the pace so far. For most of the month I was well ahead, but slipped back to "just about on track" in the last week or so. I've been having problems getting restful sleep all month and I think it's starting to catch up with me, and makes it hard to do creative hobbies, but I saw the doctor yesterday and got a handful of prescriptions and appointments for more tests, so hopefully that'll help fix things soon.
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