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Back to Reality
Sep. 28th, 2014 11:47 pmWe're back from Placerville for a week now, and it feels like a return to reality. Amazing how much away-time you can squeeze into a couple of important, active days like that.
Designers & Dragons continues on, but now we're knocking down major milestones.
The first major milestone was the end of the Kickstarter, which today feels like it was a billion years ago.
The second major milestone was the complete polish of the final index, which I finished a few hours ago. This is a pretty big deal.
A minor milestone beyond that will be my OKing the final corrections on the book, which should happen in the next week and should be my last work of note on the print books.
The third major milestone will be completing all of the new writing for the "Platinum Dragon Appendix" PDF. I got a bit more than half of the new writing done before I got the '00 index about 10 days ago, and now it feels like it's been forever since I worked on it. I'm currently planning to get back to it on Friday or Saturday. I'm scheduled to finish it all for October 31st, but there are so many moving pieces (writing, verification, corrections, editing), that I'm not sure if it'll all fit or not.
Skotos continues on too. There have been some kerfuffles in recent weeks and annoying internet-wide security issues, But I've also been helping Chris with some nice privacy writing and we have a co-op gaming book just about ready to go, so there's good stuff going on there too.
After having spent last weekend in cars, this weekend I went out for a long bike ride, about 32 miles — up to Hilltop Mall, out to Miller Knox Regional Shoreline, and back. Nothing new, but it was nice, and that's pretty much been the story of this summer.
Of course when I was out was when I got some of my weekend writing work done. "R"-"Z" in the '00s index bit the dust while I was at Miller Knox yesterday.
In the media world, the new fall TV season has begun. Thus far we have just one new show, Gotham. I found that the pilot last week had interesting characters but was over-directed and over-musiced. There was way too much over-dramatic (dark, sweeping shots and loud, booming music) in both of those things; I was pleased this afternoon to find another reviewer who said the exact same thing. I'm hoping that gets polished out and the show improves with the first new episode, as the pilot was interesting enough but it made a disadvantage out of what I thought would be advantages.
We'll have Constantine next month, but sadly my hopes there are even lower than for Gotham. At least it doesn't star Keanu Reeves.
Over on DVD, we just started watching Dexter (quite good, once I got the taste of the mediocre but exciting books out of my mouth) and Arrow (OK, primarily due to characters and fan service to DC readers).
And in the reading world I am close to finishing The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Been reading that (occasionally) since 2009, and whew those are dense, long books. The wikipedia page says 3.3 million words or 11,000 pages. Still, they've been pretty great for their world creation, their deep characters, and their plotting, in that order. I've even gone back and reread the first one already, and I plan more rereads of my favorites. (I think #3, Memories of Ice will be next, then probably #5, Midnight Tides.) So I guess I'm only sort of almost done (and I have over 700 pages still to go on #10, The Crippled God).
Designers & Dragons continues on, but now we're knocking down major milestones.
The first major milestone was the end of the Kickstarter, which today feels like it was a billion years ago.
The second major milestone was the complete polish of the final index, which I finished a few hours ago. This is a pretty big deal.
A minor milestone beyond that will be my OKing the final corrections on the book, which should happen in the next week and should be my last work of note on the print books.
The third major milestone will be completing all of the new writing for the "Platinum Dragon Appendix" PDF. I got a bit more than half of the new writing done before I got the '00 index about 10 days ago, and now it feels like it's been forever since I worked on it. I'm currently planning to get back to it on Friday or Saturday. I'm scheduled to finish it all for October 31st, but there are so many moving pieces (writing, verification, corrections, editing), that I'm not sure if it'll all fit or not.
Skotos continues on too. There have been some kerfuffles in recent weeks and annoying internet-wide security issues, But I've also been helping Chris with some nice privacy writing and we have a co-op gaming book just about ready to go, so there's good stuff going on there too.
After having spent last weekend in cars, this weekend I went out for a long bike ride, about 32 miles — up to Hilltop Mall, out to Miller Knox Regional Shoreline, and back. Nothing new, but it was nice, and that's pretty much been the story of this summer.
Of course when I was out was when I got some of my weekend writing work done. "R"-"Z" in the '00s index bit the dust while I was at Miller Knox yesterday.
In the media world, the new fall TV season has begun. Thus far we have just one new show, Gotham. I found that the pilot last week had interesting characters but was over-directed and over-musiced. There was way too much over-dramatic (dark, sweeping shots and loud, booming music) in both of those things; I was pleased this afternoon to find another reviewer who said the exact same thing. I'm hoping that gets polished out and the show improves with the first new episode, as the pilot was interesting enough but it made a disadvantage out of what I thought would be advantages.
We'll have Constantine next month, but sadly my hopes there are even lower than for Gotham. At least it doesn't star Keanu Reeves.
Over on DVD, we just started watching Dexter (quite good, once I got the taste of the mediocre but exciting books out of my mouth) and Arrow (OK, primarily due to characters and fan service to DC readers).
And in the reading world I am close to finishing The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Been reading that (occasionally) since 2009, and whew those are dense, long books. The wikipedia page says 3.3 million words or 11,000 pages. Still, they've been pretty great for their world creation, their deep characters, and their plotting, in that order. I've even gone back and reread the first one already, and I plan more rereads of my favorites. (I think #3, Memories of Ice will be next, then probably #5, Midnight Tides.) So I guess I'm only sort of almost done (and I have over 700 pages still to go on #10, The Crippled God).