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Jan. 31st, 2019 06:51 amDQXI continues to be charming, despite doing annoying things with the female characters. There are only two of them, FFS! Make them interesting! But no. And in the cut scenes I watched last night, they didn't even make an appearance! I can only assume that I've made it back to this part of the game later than the developers thought I would, ie, before the women returned to the party. But still! This second half of the game is, however, much more interesting than the first half, story-wise. Things Have Happened, most definitely. I just wish they'd treat the women with more respect. It might be a JRPG but we are in 2019 (OK, it came out in 2018) after all.
I'm on to the last of the Anne novels with two books of short stories to go. I don't think I'll read them all back to back again - I'm a bit LM Montgomery-ied out. Her writing style is very easy to read and there is lots of humour, but eight novels in a month by the same author means I've spent A LOT of time in her headspace. And I know one of the children is going to die because she foreshadowed it two novels ago. And I don't want any of them to die, especially that one. Oh, and there's too much prophetic dreaming and visioning in this book and the previous one. Oh, and the way the death of an early character was described seemed too - casual. Taken in the context of the MC for this novel, I suppose it makes sense, but I would have handled it differently. And there are continuity errors, which I'm probably only picking up because I'm charging through them at such a rate. It must be difficult to keep track of all the Details over 30 years! Anyway, on the whole, an excellent purchase. Just... a lot of it.
Had an interesting conversation with my team boss, yesterday. I get the impression she goes into some conversations expecting a row and, in the past, I might have given her one. But meditation has helped a lot in terms of perspective. And I wouldn't have rowed because of her critique of my document, I would have rowed because of her expectation of a row - her attitude would have triggered mine. But I am in (more!) control of my emotions, these days. I did have to ask the same question four times to get an actual answer, though, rather than us debating Documents, Project Definitions, and Everything. But I was calm and persistent, and got the answer. With an interesting debate on Documents, Project Definitions, and Everything on the side. I think the Answer is 42 but I'm blessed if I know what the Question is!
Writing-wise, I'm finally getting my latest 'flash' (hollow laugh) fiction piece to behave. I'm on attempt #3. I don't suffer from writer's block - I don't think I've ever sat at my PC and been unable to write SOMETHING - but that doesn't mean writing isn't sometimes a struggle. Mostly, I put this down to my feeling that I don't so much create as channel the words; the rest I put down to the discipline of setting aside 'writing time' and using it for writing. However, there has definitely been some form of signal interference with this piece!
OK, that's all for now. Bye, DW!
I'm on to the last of the Anne novels with two books of short stories to go. I don't think I'll read them all back to back again - I'm a bit LM Montgomery-ied out. Her writing style is very easy to read and there is lots of humour, but eight novels in a month by the same author means I've spent A LOT of time in her headspace. And I know one of the children is going to die because she foreshadowed it two novels ago. And I don't want any of them to die, especially that one. Oh, and there's too much prophetic dreaming and visioning in this book and the previous one. Oh, and the way the death of an early character was described seemed too - casual. Taken in the context of the MC for this novel, I suppose it makes sense, but I would have handled it differently. And there are continuity errors, which I'm probably only picking up because I'm charging through them at such a rate. It must be difficult to keep track of all the Details over 30 years! Anyway, on the whole, an excellent purchase. Just... a lot of it.
Had an interesting conversation with my team boss, yesterday. I get the impression she goes into some conversations expecting a row and, in the past, I might have given her one. But meditation has helped a lot in terms of perspective. And I wouldn't have rowed because of her critique of my document, I would have rowed because of her expectation of a row - her attitude would have triggered mine. But I am in (more!) control of my emotions, these days. I did have to ask the same question four times to get an actual answer, though, rather than us debating Documents, Project Definitions, and Everything. But I was calm and persistent, and got the answer. With an interesting debate on Documents, Project Definitions, and Everything on the side. I think the Answer is 42 but I'm blessed if I know what the Question is!
Writing-wise, I'm finally getting my latest 'flash' (hollow laugh) fiction piece to behave. I'm on attempt #3. I don't suffer from writer's block - I don't think I've ever sat at my PC and been unable to write SOMETHING - but that doesn't mean writing isn't sometimes a struggle. Mostly, I put this down to my feeling that I don't so much create as channel the words; the rest I put down to the discipline of setting aside 'writing time' and using it for writing. However, there has definitely been some form of signal interference with this piece!
OK, that's all for now. Bye, DW!
