A day late. That means something good right? I don’t know about that.
I’m starting my first MBA class today, thus beginning a two or three year adventure that’s sure to eat up my free time and turn my haphazard writing schedule even more on its head.
Whether by coincidence or intentionally cramming, I’ve tried to toss do as much reading, watching, playing as possible this week, with some amount of success. My short-story is half edited and as long as today remains an intro class without too much work, I’ll be able to finish the rest of it today. This short story, called Widget, is only around 3,000. I intentionally made it short, partially because the 10,000 stories just take the wind out of me, but I’m also hoping the shorter format will prove to be a bit more publishable. If nothing else, I need to learn how to write an engaging piece in less than 5000 words for the sake of the trees.
I always find myself trying to balance informative blog content versus a real need to not give any of my stories away. I really can’t give out too much otherwise they become unpublishable, but that leaves me with some pretty bare scraps to talk about. Again, I’m falling on the side of wasting words, but my hope is that its come together as a cross between a 30s hard-boiled detective story and a comic book. And no, I’m not ripping off Watchman either. Dick Tracy maybe…
Beyond writing, I’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption. The reviewers have been calling it Grand Theft Horsey and it is very similar to GTA IV, but that’s hardly an insult. They took GTA and made it about cowboys. No complaints whatsoever. If anything, it’s been refreshing because the Western has been so soundly underplayed within computer games. For whatever reason, that genre has been neglected.
In Red Dead they have done a good job balancing the necessity of Hollywoodesque drama with a more realistic As with every game and movie mad ever, there’s that weird sense that there’s just a little too much going on it the world for it to be realistic, but again, I’m not going to complain. From the moment I hopped on my horse, crossed the desert during a thunderstorm, and then jumped on a train to get to the next town I was thoroughly hooked. So far, I’d say that I haven’t been this engrossed in simply exploring the world since Morrowind. Not even Oblivion or GTA IV encouraged me quite as much to just walk around and see the scenery.
Until I know my schedule, I don’t have any plans for future plans; no games, no books, no stories. Today, tomorrow, and for the foreseeable next 5 weeks the only thing I’ll be doing is studying up on be Micro-Economics. Not quite sure how or why that managed to come together, but seeing as class starts in 1 hour and 50 minutes, I guess it did…
For the ones that haven’t been in this field long enough – I do know that the internet isn’t the most reliable resource for info. but for sure I can say the author is correct, however strange it might look