Hello people! I left this one kind of late purely because I couldn't really be bothered to do it today. Given that if I was just challenging myself to writing every day I probably would have given up today and lost. But seeing as I've said I'm doing this for a week and people actually read this - I kind of have to putt through, which I guess is a good thing. So yeah, perhaps it's not so hard to force yourself to write something - but who really has the motivation to start stuff these days, really? Ah well.
I got into the beta testing for FF14 yesterday and I managed to play it today. It's actually really quite good and if I had the time or money I would definitely play it. But I don't - So I really can't. Still, it's cool I was picked for the beta, probably something to do with the fact I've played so many FF games. I still need to re-play a lot of them though.
Yesterday I played Risk but Lord of the Rings version - so it's just risk in Middle Earth, basically. And it was quite fun but I realised I'm not very good because I was nice to Woody while playing and then he pulled his troops back and practically almost beat me. My only saving grace was my little friend Steve who held a single position on the map and didn't move - but he defended it against 29 other battalions of troops. 29! He was a legend, properly unbeatable. Until he was beaten by Ben, of course. The same guy present on my traumatic circus trip for my 20th birthday. It's like he follows around the worst moments in my life. I wanted Steve to do better. Sad times... I have some video of the game and there are some pictures. I might flick through it and possibly actually make a video out of it - could be kinda fun.
Though I do have to admit that I was going to do more with Steve (not like that you dirty fuckers - it's a tiny plastic toy, how could you be so crude?) in the way of making him a Facebook page and a Twitter account. But I really can't be bothered to do that - posting every day just to see how many followers I could get with him. It's not really worth the effort methinks. Made for quite a funny game though despite absolutely failing from a very good starting position. Might play again sometime.
Of course I've run out of food too and can't be bothered to go to the shop to get more. Today I ended up having just a tin of spaghetti hoops on it's own for lunch. How depressing. But I'm just in such a lazy mood today, I can't really be bothered to get dressed or have a shower either - so it might not be best to go out in public just at this moment in time.
Overall I think it's been quite a success with my little writings and this blog and stuff - I'm not sure how confident I am gonna be with making videos, but it's been quite fun, it's something differeny. Though there are a few problems with this little experiment in particular. I don't really do anything topical, it's not too much of a problem but it made me realise a little bit how ignorant I am. I don't watch the news or anything I only watch the odd comedy panel show for the only information I get on things that have been happening. And topical stuff can be kind of interesting to read about - I could even make some jokes and things, because I'm funny really (please believe me!) I also realised it's kind of just devolving into me talking about what I've been doing, I go on a couple of tangents about my bigoted (but entirely correct) ideas about the world - but generally there's a lot of stuff like this little paragraph here that I can't really work with, but it's currently my line of thought so I have to write it down and it's the only thing I'm currently thinking to write down.
Of course my spelling and grammar I've realised I end up mildly correcting as I go, mostly spelling really there I'll spell a word wrong and delete what I've written to re-write it correct, which is kind of a cheating way from my original play, but it fits into the whole idea of personally training myself for writing discipline and stuff - also some misspelled words are just incomprehensible (I got that sentence right first go though, woo. And then I go and spell 'go' wrong. Oh golly gosh!)
I think it's kind of dull to be honest, when I'm in moods like this where I'm trying so hard but all I can think to write id how much I can't think of what to write. So I'm gonna have to change that for future episodes. Perhaps if I try this again in a future week I might write down a few 'go-to' prompts to get me rolling if I start to fail.
I also had an idea where I try to do this 30 minute thing but with an actual fictional writing - just write a story off the top of my head as I go without stopping and see how it turns out. Obviously it'll be horrible for me to read back, because writing is all about the editing. But it'd be cool to see if there was a good story rather than just a purple dragon called Dan.
Though a purple dragon called Dan is a story I'd probably give a quick skim read to be honest. Ah well. I'm thinking I might try to find and invest in a game of 'Booty' which is like a table-top game with cards that I played a pirate version of round my friend John's house once or twice. It was a really fun game and I'm pretty sure it'd lead to more nights like last night's little Risk game. We did try to add 'drinking rules' to the game, but it was so slow paced that we ended up scrapping them and drinking at our own rate. Which turned out was quicker than a drinking game. Either way it was a fairly casual type of drink. And considering everyone's buggered off home for Easter aside from, like, one other person - It's quite fun to actually do something social for a change. That being said, after I go shopping tomorrow I'm unlikely to be leaving the house again for about a week. Gives me time to catch up on all the reading / gaming and writing that I've put upon myself to do.
I actually have 12 books lined up at the moment, and then I have friends recommending more and I'm like 'Nooo!' but I might do if I run out of stuff. My reading pace has sped up quite a lot since I got my Kindle because reading seems simpler to carry on and get lost in the story so I've read more than I would have otherwise resulting in my quickening of reading. I'm a pretty slow reader too, by the way. Most of the books I have still to read at the moment though are horror books, and I've got a couple of random ones that I'm working through at random slow paces inbetween other books like Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and Cloud Atlas. Which reminds me that I didn't go to my last creative writing lecture of this uni year, so I didn't say bye to all the people who definitely weren't my friends. And I'm not carrying it on so, that was a strange experience. They were all dull as fuck, as well. They just didn't get a 'dry sense of humour' at all. Considering they're supposed to be able to know a lot about people to write good characters, they really had no idea. I tried to make a few dry jokes at the start of the year, and the teacher was just mentally quirky enough to believe I was telling the truth. It was kinda awkward, so the whole class didn't really speak to me much because they all thought I was just this clever smug person with weird opinions from the year above them (because I took a first year module instead of this year - purely because I wasn't interesting in any other singular module in the entire university. Just goes to show my academic interests...) So yeah, that wasn't very fun. But it's over now and they can stop trying to make me write in ways that I literally have no interest in using ever again - so I can peruse my own style and things. That being said, it still needs to be honed. I need to be a 1 in 1000 kind of writer if I want any chance of getting an agent and therefore publisher to get my amazingly entertaining and brilliantly written books into the world. And if that never happens - well everyone else is wrong for thinking I'm not good enough... because I am I definitely am. (This is the kind of dry joke I would make in class, it needs to be taken at least a little tongue in cheek, given. But in speach it's not hard to notice... Gah! Morons.) I've been putting a lot of random stuff in brackets today. I dunno what that means but time is up so ciao for now!
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