Stuff happens! What do you do?!
So guess what guess what guess what!
My sister got engaged!
We're all super happy for her, her fiancee's a great guy and they really make each other happy. They're getting sealed in the San Diego temple next month.
Okay, so, besides that, not much else. I've been super, super busy with KotOR: Origins, which now has a spiffy new site put together by my collaborator!
http://sites.google.com/site/kotororigins/home
For all you non DA-ites out there.
My classes are still going awesomely. I'm so glad art is my major. It means I get classes I enjoy.
Also, you know how I've been big on the Gaia Online RPing scene lately for no real reason except sheer boredom? I finally got it into my head that I really need to not join non-lit RPs any more. The reasons are threefold:
- Post quality. I tend to write prolifically and in great detail. Which means I don't think it's necessarily entirely a balanced RP when I'm laboring over five-paragraph novel chapters and the other people in the RP are dashing off glib one-liners in text talk.
- Time between posts. This sort of goes along with the quality discussed above, as obviously it takes far longer to write a lit post than a non-lit post (unless you're an incredibly slow typist), but lit RPers tend to spend more time on their posts, meaning the RPs move more slowly, meaning if you happen to be a college student who's also shouldering a massive graphic novel project and you can't sit there refreshing the thread all day, it's quite a comfort to know that if you can't access the RP for hours at a time, you're not going to come back to find that three pages have been added to the thread while you were gone and your character is hopelessly behind on the plot.
- General maturity of the other RPers. I have nothing against RPing with people who are younger than I, and I am fully aware of the fact that not everyone writes at my skill level. But I have seen far too many non-lit RPs that quickly devolve into either a dramafest or a powerplay war, and when your character is the only one trying to keep the peace and stay reasonable in a hurricane of 14-year-olds trying to one-up each others' characters, it gets tiring. Quickly.
So, only lit RPs for me from now on.
My sister got engaged!
We're all super happy for her, her fiancee's a great guy and they really make each other happy. They're getting sealed in the San Diego temple next month.
Okay, so, besides that, not much else. I've been super, super busy with KotOR: Origins, which now has a spiffy new site put together by my collaborator!
http://sites.google.com/site/kotororigins/home
For all you non DA-ites out there.
My classes are still going awesomely. I'm so glad art is my major. It means I get classes I enjoy.
Also, you know how I've been big on the Gaia Online RPing scene lately for no real reason except sheer boredom? I finally got it into my head that I really need to not join non-lit RPs any more. The reasons are threefold:
- Post quality. I tend to write prolifically and in great detail. Which means I don't think it's necessarily entirely a balanced RP when I'm laboring over five-paragraph novel chapters and the other people in the RP are dashing off glib one-liners in text talk.
- Time between posts. This sort of goes along with the quality discussed above, as obviously it takes far longer to write a lit post than a non-lit post (unless you're an incredibly slow typist), but lit RPers tend to spend more time on their posts, meaning the RPs move more slowly, meaning if you happen to be a college student who's also shouldering a massive graphic novel project and you can't sit there refreshing the thread all day, it's quite a comfort to know that if you can't access the RP for hours at a time, you're not going to come back to find that three pages have been added to the thread while you were gone and your character is hopelessly behind on the plot.
- General maturity of the other RPers. I have nothing against RPing with people who are younger than I, and I am fully aware of the fact that not everyone writes at my skill level. But I have seen far too many non-lit RPs that quickly devolve into either a dramafest or a powerplay war, and when your character is the only one trying to keep the peace and stay reasonable in a hurricane of 14-year-olds trying to one-up each others' characters, it gets tiring. Quickly.
So, only lit RPs for me from now on.