Updates on stuff

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Like last year, I went to cama_sotz's place and had a very pleasant time. My brother offered me an invite this year a couple of days before the holiday, but quite frankly Thanksgiving last year is right when things started getting ridiculously over-the-top bad and it's going to be a while before I'm entirely comfortable associating my brother with Thanksgiving. Besides, Sean asked first and Curtis waited until the near last-minute.

In other news, the writing's been going slow because I've been distracted by other stuff I don't really feel like getting into here. "Quick Brown Fox" is going very slowly in part because the storyline's a bit more complex than my usual fare and I'm having a lot of trouble outlining it. I'm having trouble plotting out the 'wheels within wheels' Trickster stuff going on in that one.

And I've got a bit of a side-project. This is the first time I've mentioned this publicly (I've only mentioned it to a couple of people privately), outside of a couple of oblique references on Twitter. But thing is, when I'm working on a story I need something else on the side so I can switch over to that for breaks. It's an attempt at a horror story (although I suspect it won't really be that scary in the end, but I'd settle for 'supernatural thriller' or 'slightly creepy urban fantasy') in an original setting that just kind of coalesced one night out of little story ideas I'd scribbled down and stashed away for the right opportunity (whether gaming-related or otherwise).

It's called "Tradition's Test" and I'm still deciding whether I want to keep it. I probably will, just for something to poke at for who knows how long it takes me to finish it or give up on it. It's about a college student named Daniel who, thanks to a confluence of events, starts to become aware of a sort of curse that's settled over his town that subtly affects the town and the people in it and starts questioning whether he's going crazy (or someone or something is driving him crazy) or whether he's the 'One Sane Man' (as the trope goes). I'll keep people updated on whether it looks like it's going to go anywhere.

I think the attempt at a gaming club at WVU is about to collapse, partially because the group of friends who've all voted each other in charge lack the organizational skills to coordinate a pizza order. If the club survives I'm still willing to help it but I've posted a thing on their forum (which they hardly ever read) saying that I'm done making special trips to Morgantown just to make the club meetings. Membership-wise, the club's like 7 people, most of them live in the same house and all voted each other into being in charge and half of them (one of them the vice-president) just stayed home and played video games rather than come to the meeting. Quite frankly, at this point the meetings feel like a joke that I haven't realized is on the people still attending. The most recent meeting just didn't happen and they didn't bother to tell anyone it wasn't happening until a housemate who isn't even in the club sent us a text ten minutes after the meeting was to start (which means we didn't get it until we were standing in the empty meeting room). So yeah. Tired of it.

Anyhow, dinner's just arrived and I'm gonna go eat that. Catch you folks on the flipside. Mahalo.