A short note today. I’m in the
middle of another string of rejections and the push for ever more words in my
nanowrimo document. (Currently racing –
ever so slowly – towards 17,000.)
It’s a good sort of melancholy here this morning. Quiet and empty. Beautiful snow slowly spiraling out the
window. I’m sitting here typing with hot
coffee close by, hoping for inspiration while battling the ever encroaching
thoughts of the giant to do list that floats over my head. So I push for the word count while watching
the world whiten out the window.
Narratives I’m enjoying this week:
-James Richardson’s collected poems and aphorisms – a really excellent
collection (and I’m not one to typically take a shine to collected volumes for
one reason or another).
-The Walking Dead season 1 and 2 by TellTale Games – Some fantastic
character narration in this point and click title. While there are issues (both technically and
narratively), I feel this is one of those games that show where writing in
video games is headed, at least I hope so.
Kirkman’s Walking Dead is sort of a cultural juggernaut right now, but I
think there are some moments in these games that are the best written moments
across all media. (Make sure to avoid
the action game based on the tv show – video game mediocrity at its
finest. And if anyone reading this has
an interest in the narrative art of the video game, please seek out Tom Bissell’s
fantastic book Extra Lives: Why Video
Games Matter if you have not read it. It’s
an excellent starting point to a serious look at the medium.
-Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words by Susan Goldsmith
Woolridge. Helping me to get the
creative juices flowing on those mornings when it is hard to make the words
flow. Also internet searches for writing
prompts has brought some entertaining things my way over the last week.
-Just starting a new graphic novel – American Born Chinese by Gene Luen
Yang.
Back to the word-count race. And
hopefully today brings something inspired – or at least workable.
To today, then.
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