NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 14

     I'm not progressing as fast as I'd like.  Or rather, I didn't progress as fast as I would have liked before the game came out, and now that it is out, my progress is even slower.  :(  On the other hand, I'm enjoying the game so far (and something happened last night that makes me think it's a direct sequel to one of the endings of Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, which is super-amazing!)

    Aaaaaaaanyway, yesterday's total word count was 59,201.

    Today's total word count is 62,006.

    So, today I wrote 2,805 words, plus a few more 'cause I jotted down some story ideas for my next game as well, but I didn't count those.

    Oh, also today's scene completed what was Chapter 7 in the original 2014 version of this novel.  The new draft of this chapter ran for 9,017 words, and the previous draft of this chapter was 8,186 words.  It would be interesting to pick a chapter and see how its length changed over all the successive drafts!  (Might explain why that one chapter is less than half the length of all the others.  Maybe the others have been inflated over the drafts, and that one short one never was?)

Another Day, Another NaNo Rebel Post

     So...I would rather be playing Shin Megami Tensei V than writing a blog post right now, but I have to let the Switch recharge because the battery keeps draining when I play even though it's docked.  :(

    Anyway, my NaNo word count yesterday topped off at 56,221.

    My word count today reached 59,201.

    So, today I wrote a mere 2,980 words.

    I did actually contemplate going on to the next scene, but it was going to be long and complex, and would have (among other things) made my lunch more complicated...

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 12

     Not much to say today.

    Yesterday's total word count was 52,978.

    Today's total word count is 56,221.

    So today I wrote 3,243 words.

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 11

     Today's been pretty quiet.  In part because I hurt my ankle with all that walking around yesterday, so today I've been trying to keep off it as much as possible. 😓  (Ooh, didn't know I could do emojis on here! 😀)

    I didn't get as much done as I'd have liked to, in terms of writing, but I guess I did all right.

    Yesterday's total word count was 46,893.

    Today's total word count was 52, 978.

    That means today's words written were 6,085.  So...yeah, that was actually pretty good after all.  (It's hard to tell before I look at the numbers, because I'm working in terms of scenes, and I only got through two of them.)

    Today's writing also finished off what had been Chapter Six in the original draft of the novel, and it runs 9,270 words in the new draft, and was 8,426 words in the previous draft.

    Not sure if that's good or bad, in the long run, that I'm consistently adding that much to the text as I go.  But the thing is that it's necessary additions:  clearing up things that are unclear, adding some descriptions to long passages that have desperate need of them, and of course fixing places that the old version didn't match the actual terrain of Thessaly.  That was the biggest addition to Chapter Six, for sure; the sequence where they're planning their battle needed a huge additional explanation of why they're going to be having a pitched battle inside one of the passes between one of the few not-flat areas in the entire region.

    In other news, after looking over several alternate spots I could post these novels, I've decided to go ahead and put them on pages here on the blog, because I just do not want to deal with making a new account somewhere, wrestling with formatting, and then dealing with the site's pre-existing audience that has expectations and/or desires not in line with my book.  (Which, at best, would merely get me ignored, and at worst might get me mocked, my work verbally torn to shreds, etc.  Better to just stay here where I can feel safe in the knowledge that the internet as a whole will simply flow on past me without noticing I exist, as per usual.)

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 10

     Whew, am I exhausted!

    Not for any writing reason, though:  it was a nice day today, so after finishing my writing for the day, I went out to a local antique mall that's in a building that used to be a pretty large supermarket and I walked through every single section (some of them twice, in fact), so I was on my feet for like two, maybe even two and a half hours.  (I probably still have mask marks on my face even now, more than an hour later...)  At least I got my exercise!  :D

    As to writing, I didn't do that much today, but I actually did a lot more last night after posting my progress to the blog. :P

    See, I went to take a bath yesterday afternoon, and as happens surprisingly often, I had a flash of inspiration while I was in there, basically composing a piece inside my head in the latter half of the bath.  As always, it wasn't as good when I typed it out as it had been in my head (someone needs to make a thought-recorder, dangit!), but I'm still pretty pleased with it, and it's way better than what it's going to be replacing.

    Of course, what it's replacing is the prologue to book 4 in a series, and my current NaNo project is the rewrite of book 2, but...hey, a win is a win, and finally having a good prologue to that book is a major win.  (Probably also means that I need to start taking more baths than showers...)

    Anyway, after I wrote that, then I also went ahead and did some more rewriting on the actual project.  So, when I posted yesterday, the day's word count was 4,736, but then I wrote 1,908 words of prologue for book 4, plus another 3,313 words on book 2, making a total for yesterday of 9,957!  (Wow, that's probably in my top ten days ever...)  That last bit on book 2 finished the rewrite of what had been Chapter Five in the original 2014 version, which ran 8,027 words in the new version, and had been 7,498 in the previous draft.

    So, anyhow, that means yesterday's total word count ended up at 43,697.

    Today's total word count was 46,893.

    So today's words written was 3,196.  Which is not a big day, but...eh.  It's okay.

    I need to write a heck of a lot tomorrow, though, 'cause Friday is when Shin Megami Tensei V comes out, and my productivity is likely to take a nosedive once I've got my greedy little hands on that. :D

NaNo Rebel 2021, Day 9

     Not much going on today.  Had another new game idea late last night, which I'll be using to test the graphical method I was showing off yesterday.  (Won't be working on it until December or January, though; it'll be my submission to a game jam that runs in February, but which lets you work before the jam period starts.)

    Yesterday's total word count was 33,740

    Today's total word count is 38,476

    Making today's word count 4,736

NaNo Rebel Day 8; Clash of the Titans

     Nope, no titans in what I wrote today:  I watched Clash of the Titans.  (Which also doesn't contain any actual titans, lol.)  :D  Because recently Big Bad Toy Store listed a pre-order for a life-size Bubo model (which I so want and so can't have because it's almost $300), the listing for which made me realize that the movie came out in 1981, and thus is 40 years old this year.  So, in order to celebrate that anniversary, I decided it was high time that I rewatched it.

    Unfortunately, I made the mistake of seeing if my parents and my brother wanted to watch it with me.  And my mother was...um...not quiet.  And not in a good way. D:  (And I don't know what her problem with Harry Hamlin is...)

    Still, I can't help loving the movie, despite how crazy some of its uses of mythology are.  And I entertained myself with a game of mentally dating the various archaeological finds they reproduced in the set design.  The art spanned about 3000 years, give or take about five hundred years.  ;)

    Most amusing, pretty much none of it was the right period.  Though there's not a whole lot for that period; Perseus is the legendary founder of Mycenae (post-rescuing Andromeda, lol), so a period- and culture-appropriate work would be pretty much anything found in Grave Circles A and B from the famous excavation at Mycenae.  (Y'know, like the hilariously misnamed "funeral mask of Agamemnon.")

    Aaaaaanyway, in addition to watching the movie and doing today's writing, I also worked on a possible form of creating character art for game versions of these novels.  It's just a test, but I've done a 3D/2D render based on a Mycenaean fresco:

    I feel like it might work, except that the lips need...like...everything.  The fresco didn't really do much to delineate the lips (obviously, they didn't go in for lipstick in the Late Bronze Age!) so I was sort of floundering as to how to show them.  They didn't show an iris on the eye, either, so I just sort of had to wing it to give her one.  (It's gray because one of my heroines has gray eyes.)

    I'm not sure I'll do much with it--it would be better to have a full 3D render, but I think that's gonna be outside my abilities--but it's still kind of exciting as a first attempt.  :)