I actually got some writing done for my novel! Admittedly, it was only a page or two, and I'll probably need to go back and rewrite everything, both having the same cause. I ended up stopping writing because I realized I was getting too emotional. Keep in mind, I'm a fairly decent human being, and I see my characters as real people, and I'm writing them as such, and writing some rather poignant scenes brought me to tears. I'm positive that someone reading would be impressed at the level of humanity captured in them, but the writing itself is a bit shoddy, and I don't think it's remotely what I was aiming for.
Probably won't scrap it, though, and will save the rewrite until the third draft. I did, however, stop at a convenient place, since I felt the need to rest. I could have turned in early (this was shortly after midnight, mind you), but I got sentimental, so I suddenly made the decision to play Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 4, which--mind you--I have to do from scrap given this is my new computer. And let me tell you, I think that if I continue to play that game too often, it will murder my wrist. Honestly, when I do my daily typing, my wrist already feels strained, perhaps because it still remembers when I played that game every single day. So to bring it back up was extremely stressful...
...But a ton of fun. Between lag and lack of practice, I never got any perfects, but I got a fair amount of golds, and all silvers except the last song which I got a bronze on and I beat three of the bosses. Didn't do any in pro, but it should be noted that a lot of the time, I wasn't hitting the notes off of the screen. (Lag made that nearly impossible--my computer is not as good as my original computer was.) I was listening to the song, and knew which notes to hit and when based off of that.
...Did I mention that I downloaded as many of those songs as I could get to listen to them on my old computer? Yeah, that's because I liked them so much, I obsessed over them so much, that I created a playlist from them, that would be on a loop for hours upon hours. Throw in daily dosage of playing, and it's no wonder that I got 7/10ths of the way to the hard achievement originally. And just today, in the course of an hour, I did all the above.
It was time well spent as far as I'm concerned.
Probably won't scrap it, though, and will save the rewrite until the third draft. I did, however, stop at a convenient place, since I felt the need to rest. I could have turned in early (this was shortly after midnight, mind you), but I got sentimental, so I suddenly made the decision to play Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 4, which--mind you--I have to do from scrap given this is my new computer. And let me tell you, I think that if I continue to play that game too often, it will murder my wrist. Honestly, when I do my daily typing, my wrist already feels strained, perhaps because it still remembers when I played that game every single day. So to bring it back up was extremely stressful...
...But a ton of fun. Between lag and lack of practice, I never got any perfects, but I got a fair amount of golds, and all silvers except the last song which I got a bronze on and I beat three of the bosses. Didn't do any in pro, but it should be noted that a lot of the time, I wasn't hitting the notes off of the screen. (Lag made that nearly impossible--my computer is not as good as my original computer was.) I was listening to the song, and knew which notes to hit and when based off of that.
...Did I mention that I downloaded as many of those songs as I could get to listen to them on my old computer? Yeah, that's because I liked them so much, I obsessed over them so much, that I created a playlist from them, that would be on a loop for hours upon hours. Throw in daily dosage of playing, and it's no wonder that I got 7/10ths of the way to the hard achievement originally. And just today, in the course of an hour, I did all the above.
It was time well spent as far as I'm concerned.
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