Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Noldere]

Well, my work's firewall is now cutting off manga sites. It had to happen, sooner or later.

This is going to put a crimp in my romance manhwa reading.

Any luck with remoting in to your home computer, or something?

[Sharpandpointies]

Any luck with remoting in to your home computer, or something?

Sadly nope. They have all kinds of protections against that kind of thing.

Just means I'll need to pick out a time of day when I'm home to sit for a half hour and read them. ^_^ Granted, that will become easier when I retire.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

So Bluestring universe which is the universe of the manhwa To Not Die s apart of is mostly Manhwas about bullying and gang stuff. a entire Manhwa universe mostly foucsing on bullying and gang stuff.




Also speaking of Manhwa the fans of the Manhwa Sweet home, tore into Season 2 of Netflix's adaptation. They did not have any good things to say about, and they have a right to complain. Season 2 of Sweet home lost the point of what manhwa was about by a mile. To compare Sweet Home Season 1 and the Manhwa = Resident Evil 1 while Sweet Home Season 2 = Resident Evil 6.

[Dark Soul # 7]

I've finally found a writing rhythm that works for me.

It's not a lot, just at least 200 words a day (except for fridays). But I've been able to produce that much consistently since the start of the year. Which is a great improvement over failing to meet other goals and quickly spiraling into debilitating self-loathing.

And on my days off I can write a lot more than that. Which is nice and feels like a bonus for the story.

So while I'm still just kinda starting jotting down a story that's been in my head for years it feels nice to have some progress. Really looking forward to having an ugly little first draft that I can spruce up.

[Sharpandpointies]

I've finally found a writing rhythm that works for me.

It's not a lot, just at least 200 words a day (except for fridays). But I've been able to produce that much consistently since the start of the year. Which is a great improvement over failing to meet other goals and quickly spiraling into debilitating self-loathing.

Isn't it funny how choosing something small but manageable produces tremendously better than going bonkers then crashing all the time?

So while I'm still just kinda starting jotting down a story that's been in my head for years it feels nice to have some progress. Really looking forward to having an ugly little first draft that I can spruce up.

Sounds good!

[Sharkerbob]

Yep. I know, weird right?

I mean, I don't BLAME them for cutting me off or anything. I can't check anything RPG related (including PbP boards) any more because 'Games!' so they get axed. And that's fair as well.

Someday I'll probably lose access to forums, as well.

You could try pre-loading/save/scraping pages onto your phone or a tablet to bring with you, so you have local copies to read from.

[Sharpandpointies]

You could try pre-loading/save/scraping pages onto your phone or a tablet to bring with you, so you have local copies to read from.

Interesting idea! Will consider.

[Postmania]

I've finally found a writing rhythm that works for me.

It's not a lot, just at least 200 words a day (except for fridays). But I've been able to produce that much consistently since the start of the year. Which is a great improvement over failing to meet other goals and quickly spiraling into debilitating self-loathing.

And on my days off I can write a lot more than that. Which is nice and feels like a bonus for the story.

So while I'm still just kinda starting jotting down a story that's been in my head for years it feels nice to have some progress. Really looking forward to having an ugly little first draft that I can spruce up.

Nice stuff. I should try finding time myself I think.

[Iron_Twister]

Constantly expanding the family lore of my characters and even some are admitting there are things not easily explained.

Like Maxtaro's great grandfather may have an idea why most of the family are inherently tough going from street level to arguably peak human (with most of the narrative BS that comes with it) at their best...But the man is long been dead and Maxtaro's grandfather is just as lost bout previous family history while also having nothing but bitter memories of the con artist of a father who abandoned him to an orphanage as a child.

At least Maxtaro's love interests family history at least linked to people with tiger spirits.

[Sharkerbob]

Constantly expanding the family lore of my characters and even some are admitting there are things not easily explained.

Like Maxtaro's great grandfather may have an idea why most of the family are inherently tough going from street level to arguably peak human (with most of the narrative BS that comes with it) at their best...But the man is long been dead and Maxtaro's grandfather is just as lost bout previous family history while also having nothing but bitter memories of the con artist of a father who abandoned him to an orphanage as a child.

At least Maxtaro's love interests family history at least linked to people with tiger spirits.

Its fun when fleshing out one backstory ends up fleshing out the world and/or other aspects of the cast as well.

[Iron_Twister]

Its fun when fleshing out one backstory ends up fleshing out the world and/or other aspects of the cast as well.

Oh yeah. I hear that.

Maxtaro's grandfather Lent and his best friends Enishi and Nanako (those two being Kyoko's grandparents) grew up in the same orphanage and were treated poorly because of it. Then Lent and Enishi joined the JSDF and went through peacekeeping operations before both eventually left with their friendship supposedly over due to major disagreement and misunderstandings (they planned a business together...They just didn't really explain to each other what the business would actually be as Lent wanted to be a carpenter while Enishi wanted to be a fisherman). They go back in town reuniting with Nanako...And crazy stuff happened akin to a Yakuza game where they become urban legends for a bit until things finally calmed down running respective businesses and having families.

...That's honestly just background fluff atm.

[Tami]

Sadly nope. They have all kinds of protections against that kind of thing.

Just means I'll need to pick out a time of day when I'm home to sit for a half hour and read them. ^_^ Granted, that will become easier when I retire.

I'll never retire.....if I can help it. I'd go crazy if I wasn't working.

[Len Ikari145]

[Dark Soul # 7]

Nice.

I see spoilers:

Sequid-man (with some haunting changes to that encounter), Omnipotus, Immortal vs. Allen, that one fight against the Lizard League that goes real bad, Angstrom's whole revenge bit and just the briefest appearance of one of the evil Invincibles. And more obviously, but those are the most interesting bits to me.

end of spoilers

Seems like a stacked second part.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Isn't it funny how choosing something small but manageable produces tremendously better than going bonkers then crashing all the time?

Sounds good!

Indeed. I'm currently writing with stuff semi-planned out and just allowing myself to be flexible (I.E. make **** up on the spot) for the details. If I like something I can keep it and if I don't like it I can remove it later.

I also don't need to have every detail planned out right now. Letting go of that helps a lot.

Nice stuff. I should try finding time myself I think.

I usually get in my 200 words after dinner on week days. By then I've usually released all work related tensions so they don't clogg up the writing.