Hey there folks. Much to my surprise, I found out that I was getting 3-5 hits per day on this blog, and I haven’t even been doing anything! I don’t think that has anything to do with my having popularity; I suspect it has something to do with using WordPress tags correctly and search engines like Google finally adding my blog to their list of websites.
At any rate, now that summer is nigh here in Maine, I have a little time to spare (though not long, as I have a summer job coming up next week). In light of this recent gift of time, I’d like to get a few thousand words down in Eddentide. I think my word count is somewhere around 20,000 at the moment, and my goal is 120,000. As I’ve said before, word counts are nice goals, but satisfying a word count is not the be-all end-all point of my writing. With these few thousand words, I’ll be experimenting with progressing farther with less words. What I mean by that is that I want to tell more of the story and advance the plotline as concisely but as beautifully as possible. This will certainly be a challenge. I will do my best to hold true to this experiment, but if I get a damn good idea I’ll revert to my normal method of writing, wherein I write as much about the topic or idea as I can and then edit for content and conciseness.
In other personal news, I’ve been playing Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption on my Xbox 360 lately. Although the game is very well done, I am still experiencing some of the problems that I had in Grand Theft Auto IV. Running, jumping, some AI continuity issues, and, above all, maneuvering in tight quarters. In many ways I must agree with the professional critics that RDR is more or less Grand Theft Horse; indeed, essentially a Wild West theme seems to have been laid over the GTA IV control scheme, which has suffered no upgrades, really. That, to me, is slightly frustrating. However, RDR is a good game overall, and was a decent investment because of the multiplayer and upcoming online co-op. This game gets an 8/10 for me.
Anyway, stay tuned, I’ll be posting an excerpt from Eddentide this week!
