...it's what you type when you're not typing an essay...

[morsla]

Six thousand words to go. Everything's now officially overdue, so I'm eating into my holidays while I rack up penalties. At least the Editing work is in, and the last part of my non-fiction folio will be submitted this afternoon. That will leave five thousand, split between two papers.

I'm finding short folio pieces (1000 words) to be damn hard to write - all my ideas seem to be too big, or don't have enough in them. I've started about six different pieces, eventually picking an entirely new topic for one when I got to Deakin last Friday. I wrote it in a few hours, and handed it straight in without a second glance. If only they were all that easy to write...

I've blocked out ideas for the next one (an actual research essay - no changing topic this time). Turning the essay structure from dot points to prose is like pulling teeth, though. I think I might make some headway writing it with an active, personal voice - although it probably breaks every unwritten rule about academic essay writing, anything will be an improvement on my lists of bullet points.

I went to RetroCon (briefly) and Golgotha (also briefly) over the weekend. Only ran a single session of A Broken City, but I had some good players. Spent three hours dancing at Golgotha, which seems to be more exercise than I've had in weeks... it must have done something good, though, as I managed to run from McKinnon college to the station in time to catch my train on Monday night. I also got to dispel some more rumours about UniCon not running, and got a cheer at the RetroCon award ceremony when I announced dates for the convention.

Quote from RetroCon, when I mentioned we'd be plugging unicon online/in stores/by LJ:
Kid in audience: "Livejournal is for emos!"
Me: "Yes, yes it is. But we need to promote to emos as well..."

I lay awake until about 5am, brain in overdrive while I thought about the million things I want to do in the holidays. My body clock wanted to power down at 9am, but I can't afford that luxury yet.

Comments

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Blurbs will be taken until at least August, due to the late notice. There seem to be a lot of games planned for this year, so we're trying to make sure there's a convention for them to run in :)

I've reactivated unicon_games@yahoo.com.au - probably best to wait until there's a blurb submission form online, though. What system are you thinking of running?

[caerell.livejournal.com]

Since I like trying out new systems, I picked up Secrets of Zir'an in response to the RPGnet hype. I discovered that I would be unlikely to run a full campaign in it, but I think it would be a workable system / setting combination for a con game. Murder-mystery in a technomagical world should be odd to write and open up all sorts of possibilities.

Thankfully, the system is mostly simple enough that I don't need to strip it to use it. The exception, of course, is combat. Hit locations are not something I want to deal with in a con setting.