DIA

Sooner or later we’re going to discover that there is actually a coven of vampires underneath Denver International Airport, and we’re all going to be kinda surprised. But no one in Denver is going to be that surprised. Like, it’ll be a surprise, of course. IRL vampires, et al. But the fact that they were hiding under DIA?

Yeah, I think we all kinda saw that coming.

Spotify

Spotify makes an Intimate Mix for you. Most of my songs are fairly straight forward.

Gravity of Love by Engima, I understand.

Angel by Massive Attack would invoke a fairly intense romantic session, but hey, I’m down.

THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND [caps original] by Bad Omens is like, ah, really?

My Least Hot Take

I hard-core want to play DnD in Middle Earth.

Not some homebrew clase enough to resemble Middle Earth, I want to go full Bilbo. I want to see mountains again, walk the paths of Laketown, do it all.

Sirens

Friend on Tinder: That is a bot.

Short pause.

FoT: A hot bot.

I never really understood how Odysseus’s crew could fall victim to the sirens, but it seems I unfairly doubted Homer.

Block Breaker

If you get stuck, a good thing to do is to ask yourself what the characters would be doing if your main character wasn’t there. Then write them doing that, interrupted by the MC.

This is also true in real life. If you get stuck somewhere, ask yourself what the people around you would be doing if you weren’t there, and then try to make their lives easier doing that.

But for fiction, we have the plot.

Song Lyrics

One of my favorite songs of all time was Plush by STP.

Up until about a week ago, I thought it was a guy thinking about some girl after they separated. My misheard lyrics include ‘Where you going when the masks are found?’ which I thought was the guy wondering what she would do when other people found out she wasn’t as cool or popular as she appeared. Further misheard was ‘When the dogs begin to smell you, will you stand alone?’ as in, when the people coming after you find you (in light of discovering you’re not as cool as you appear), will you stand by yourself as who you are? So on and so forth.

I’ve always liked the track because I thought it was a melancholy but somewhat reasonable lament after a breakup/loss. The guy didn’t seem mad or too upset, just sad and a little melancholy. He’d gotten to know this person, and now she was leaving.

That is not what Plush is about. There’s a lot more murder in lyrics, and now I have a hard time listening to it at all.

Thoughts

Okay, jokes aside I have got to figure out some way of burning myself more evenly. I’m not willing to let go of some stuff, but there has got to be a middle ground in here.

I’m drawing maps for TiH to keep the details clear. The first map is usually pretty crude and little more than names with a few iconic shapes for mountains, roads, and waves. The second is a bit more refined, and the geography gets added. The third is vaguely cogent in terms of geology and setting, while the fourth actually looks like something I can show people.