Mondayne Matters
Jan. 3rd, 2011 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinNews For Today
This isn't personal news, but looks like Borders is in some trouble. If you got gift cards for Christmas, you should probably look into spending them soon... if they declare bankruptcy, the cards could be voided. And if they go out of business entirely, then obviously you won't have anywhere to spend them.
I'll be making a post soon about the upcoming MU relaunch so people know what to expect... I'm leery of both underselling and overselling people on the magnitude of the change. On the one hand I don't want people to be taken by surprise by it, but on the other... well, there are people reading who apparently can't stand any of the characters and are dissatisfied with my every creative choice.
I just want everyone to know that no matter how much the characters or I change and grow, they're still going to be them and I'm still going to be me. If you're worried about the change, take that as reassurance. If you hate the story but you're hanging around because you're sure if you focus your will strongly enough you can force it to become something you want to read out of sheer determination, then I really hope you find something better to do with your time. I've made no bones about the fact that I'm not writing a story for everyone.
Personal Assessment
My knees are a mess. My sleep schedule is a little off because of New Years. The chapter that goes up today may be following a somewhat flexible definition of "today"; i.e., before I go to sleep again.
Dreams From Last Night
I was traveling around the western hemisphere, within a video game that seemed to combine elements of the "Cruisin'" series and Burnout Paradise. The whole of the contiguous Americas was an open sandbox of roads, with only five real cities, in the center of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Panama, and Brazil. (The U.S. one was a mash-up of New York and L.A., despite being located in Kansas.) Each city contained an airport, which could be used to travel instantly to any of the other cities, a hotel, and a Wal-Mart-like store that had only very slightly different selection than the other cities.
Interestingly, it seemed to me like I was actually traveling, even though the medium was clearly a video game.
Random Link For The Day
Optipess, a surreal webcomic. I'd call it "darkly humorous" but part of its charm is how lighthearted it manages to seem no matter the subject matter... fitting, given that its name is supposed to be a mash-up of "optimism" and "pessimism".
Plans For Today
Get a chapter written. I'd wanted to have a longer task list for today, but I just got up a little bit ago and I've found that when I say something will be done on a certain day, the most vocal response comes from the people who are most pedantic about the definition of "day"... i.e., the loudest ones are the ones who start grumbling when it's not done before that night, and I'm declared a lazy layabout and failure as a human being if it's not posted before 12:00 a.m.
Part of my ongoing personal journey is to stop giving people like that any purchase inside my skull. As this newly reinvigorated production schedule continues, I'm going to build up some schedule padding and also make a permanent notice that when I say something will be up "Monday", it means "before my day begins on Tuesday", and after that people who want to gripe about it will be referred to the office of Mr. Bender Bending Rodriguez and his shiny metal ass. But for now, I'm just not in the mood to deal with it. I said there will be a chapter Monday, so I'm just writing a chapter and will post it before midnight tonight.
This isn't personal news, but looks like Borders is in some trouble. If you got gift cards for Christmas, you should probably look into spending them soon... if they declare bankruptcy, the cards could be voided. And if they go out of business entirely, then obviously you won't have anywhere to spend them.
I'll be making a post soon about the upcoming MU relaunch so people know what to expect... I'm leery of both underselling and overselling people on the magnitude of the change. On the one hand I don't want people to be taken by surprise by it, but on the other... well, there are people reading who apparently can't stand any of the characters and are dissatisfied with my every creative choice.
I just want everyone to know that no matter how much the characters or I change and grow, they're still going to be them and I'm still going to be me. If you're worried about the change, take that as reassurance. If you hate the story but you're hanging around because you're sure if you focus your will strongly enough you can force it to become something you want to read out of sheer determination, then I really hope you find something better to do with your time. I've made no bones about the fact that I'm not writing a story for everyone.
Personal Assessment
My knees are a mess. My sleep schedule is a little off because of New Years. The chapter that goes up today may be following a somewhat flexible definition of "today"; i.e., before I go to sleep again.
Dreams From Last Night
I was traveling around the western hemisphere, within a video game that seemed to combine elements of the "Cruisin'" series and Burnout Paradise. The whole of the contiguous Americas was an open sandbox of roads, with only five real cities, in the center of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Panama, and Brazil. (The U.S. one was a mash-up of New York and L.A., despite being located in Kansas.) Each city contained an airport, which could be used to travel instantly to any of the other cities, a hotel, and a Wal-Mart-like store that had only very slightly different selection than the other cities.
Interestingly, it seemed to me like I was actually traveling, even though the medium was clearly a video game.
Random Link For The Day
Optipess, a surreal webcomic. I'd call it "darkly humorous" but part of its charm is how lighthearted it manages to seem no matter the subject matter... fitting, given that its name is supposed to be a mash-up of "optimism" and "pessimism".
Plans For Today
Get a chapter written. I'd wanted to have a longer task list for today, but I just got up a little bit ago and I've found that when I say something will be done on a certain day, the most vocal response comes from the people who are most pedantic about the definition of "day"... i.e., the loudest ones are the ones who start grumbling when it's not done before that night, and I'm declared a lazy layabout and failure as a human being if it's not posted before 12:00 a.m.
Part of my ongoing personal journey is to stop giving people like that any purchase inside my skull. As this newly reinvigorated production schedule continues, I'm going to build up some schedule padding and also make a permanent notice that when I say something will be up "Monday", it means "before my day begins on Tuesday", and after that people who want to gripe about it will be referred to the office of Mr. Bender Bending Rodriguez and his shiny metal ass. But for now, I'm just not in the mood to deal with it. I said there will be a chapter Monday, so I'm just writing a chapter and will post it before midnight tonight.