Previously...
Weekends…
it’s when I take a big break from weekly writing. I game out, take a breather,
read stuff, enjoy life, all that good stuff. Weekends are also where I try to
catch up on whatever I more than likely missed. Took some time to play The Elder
Scrolls V: Skyrim, which I am a bit behind on since the Xbox 360 days… which of
course I traded in plus all of its games at GameStop, purchased a few more Ps3
games including the repurchase of TES V and a few others, like the whole Mass
Effect Trilogy for one.
As for TES V: Skyrim. For those who don’t know, it
is a single-player RPG (role-playing game) by Bethesda. It is number five in The
Elder Scrolls series and takes place 200 years after TES IV: Oblivion (done ate
that game up myself in play). In this era of TES, the High King of Skyrim got
whacked, and civil war is rocking the entire land. Got two sides (can even
choose which side to fight for), but above it all casting its deadly wingspan
is Alduin, a god of destruction (Nord god I believe… yup Nordic), who wants to
do the usual… you know. This also marks the return of the dragons.
Somebody call Sisqo! They have done UNLEASHED THE
DRAGON in this piece!
You play as the Dragonborn (fully customizable),
which in the world also is called Dovahkiin, and you must take down Alduin… as
well as other dragons (but some are good…ish), thus save the world… or
something of the sort. There is a lot to do; even I haven’t completed ‘Everything’
in the 360 version. Now I have the Ps3 GoY Edition (Game of the Year Edition)
so I get to run through it all again. Currently done with main story, and just
messing around with miscellaneous questing before doing the others, like
joining the Thieves and Mages… and if not mistaken I have yet to ‘really’
finish the Companions quests… keep thinking I am forgetting something.
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| This big mammoth of mine, you can't get inside! |
All I know, I was hunting for tusks for this one
chick… arrow-whacked a mammoth and two giants (after one giant clubs my mage
woman to the moon). Then one vengeful mammoth… who I name Bojack for some odd
reason (DBZ reference?) chases me down all the way to Whiterun where he is
stuck unable to pass through the gate.
…until it somehow made it in.
Given
that I am elsewhere with attention, there is a show that was on my list to
watch once it premiered. Today I went on ahead and watched. I now have
something to hold me off until good ole Game of Thrones, and a few other shows.
The Strain
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| Looks like the ole worm in a apple is too mainstream? |
An
American horror drama with vamps… of the WTF-Kind. I haven’t read the three novels,
but watching this first episode… I have to say it’s pretty damn NICE!
Well
given the fact Guillermo del Toro is also behind it, yeah, I knew it will be
good.
Hearts… nasty hearts everywhere… with worms in them.
Will give one of weak spirits the freaks.
But the part that had me was the mass freak-vamp
attack. Yeah, for a moment, I thought them straight zombies… but I was wrong.
These ‘vamps’ are on a whole other level of ‘suck’.
Wait… no that was the second part that got me. The
real deal was the true evil of them all pulling a smash-worthy fatality end on
poor ole Bishop. Yes… this show is OFF THE CHAIN!
...ahem... pardon me.
I aim to read the trilogy soon sometime or another.
I like to keep a bit of knowing to shows based off books—like everyone else do—and
in truth, I actually like this vamp concept. Don’t see these all the time aside
from your average bloodsucker (other than the twinkle-fangs) and it caught my
attention big time. Uniqueness is always acceptable in my book, as long as it
makes sense in some form of way.
Check out The Strain, Sundays at 10pm on FX
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Meanwhile, this whole revising process appears to be
taking its toll on me. Maybe it is because I want to get this done and over
with so I can finish revising the other half of SG:I (Book 2) then completely
redo part of what I had done for what could have been Volume 2 but is now Book
3. My biggest challenge is dialogue, making it real, fleshing the characters
out thus making them believable, and keeping that pace. I believe I have done a
decent job, nothing of perfection for as said before There Is No Perfection. I
just want this series to stand true, the way I want it to be, and not just some
dinky story.
In the midst of my edits are notes and notes and
more notes. New notes added each day. I have the plot redone; I even started
summarizing quick on a few things for ahead. I have so many characters (both
minor and major). Keeping them together is a challenge, with personalities done
to the best of my ability ‘NOT’ to make boring. Sometimes I feel like one scene
is not good enough, needs something additional, and a hint of Writer’s Block
seeps in. In the end it dies out, and I am back to writing again.
Writing a novel is no easy street, but I am riding
it through despite its rough course.
Stay Tuned .
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