Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Odds and Ends

Writing Challenge: A big pile of cool points to Eric and Millo for their very nice entries on this week's writing challenge. And one big sympathy cool point to atomic bombshell.

NaNo: Looks like their servers are up again, so if you're interested, you're now able to sign up.

GERA: You may have noticed the word count stuck at 6k for quite some time now, but, believe it or not, I've actually been doing a fair amount of work on it. The only reason I haven't updated is because most of that work is scribbled into a notebook and hasn't yet been typed up. Hopefully, when I do get it all typed up, I'll be pushing that 10k mark again.

Nerdly Salivations: Let me state my position about video games; I think they're cool, but rarely do I go out and by one. To put it frankly, most games just don't get me very excited. But when one does, I become obsessed with it. Currently, I'm in the throes of obsession for a game called The Movies which isn't even due out until early November. Being a film buff, the premise that you can run your own movie studio holds immense appeal to me. But here's the kicker - you can make the movies. No joke. There are upwards of 7000 sets to shoot on, customizable actors and actresses, and...well, I can't do the range of options justice in a short post. You'll have to check out the site to see it for yourself.

6 Comments:

Nukapai said...

Ok, here's a stupid question: where can I read Eric and Millo's entries? I thought the challenge was posted as a comment to the writing challenge entry itself, alas, I can only see mine and one other there!

3:37 PM  
Cavan said...

I think you're looking at the wrong writing challenge - I don't think you entered this one. Scroll back to the post on Sunday the 2nd.

3:39 PM  
Nukapai said...

I'm confused. What about the one with the blade of grass?

If this is just my brain freezing, I blame the day I've just had - a bit "challenging" as they say in the corporate world.

3:53 PM  
Cavan said...

Ah, yes. I believe I entirely forgot to hand out cool points on that one. Oops!

10:34 PM  
Daedalus said...

Where did you get your 60K goal, if you don't mind me asking?

3:06 PM  
Cavan said...

daedalus - to be perfectly honest, it's somewhat arbitrary. It's a sequel to a piece that was 47k and I imagined that this time around I had a bit more story to tell, but not too much, so 60k seemed a good number.

4:21 PM  

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