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Just kidding.. Things have been the same as the past couple of weeks. Slow. Been playing Jak and Daxter the past three or four days. Will be through with that tomorrow. It never ceases to amaze me how well game writers can make a script. Jak says not a work throughout this first game. Not sure if he gets any lines in his next games, but I'll find that out this week. But there's FFX, as well. At the beginning of the game, you can choose to name Tidus something else, so not once in the game is the name Tidus said. It's really quite amazing. A step up from the text-heavy voice-lacking rpgs, where the thing's just programmed to plug in whatever name you stick in. Though, this does remind me of the fact that it took me three month's to remember my best friend's name, and I think even longer to remember my otoutousan's name.. I don't remember where I was going with this when I started..the powers of good writing, maybe. ::sigh:: Who knows. My mind's everywhere but here, I suppose. Still trying to settle into the new house. The couch has started to kill my back, so I think it may be time to start pulling out the futon again. But anyway..this isn't supposed to be about me, it's supposed to be about the books.. God, I hope I finish the first within a couple of years.. So tired of every day "How's the book coming alone?" as if overnight I might be three chapters further along. Writing is a very delicate and nit-picky process, people! It's not like poetry, that should just flow without too much deep thought. This is storytelling. Everything has to be precise and perfect if the readers are going to get the clearest picture possible. Sure, every now and then, it just flows out of my pen, but that's just a few paragraphs or pages at a time. All of these little blurbs have to be sorted, sifted through to see which ones are good as-is or need to be changed, then strung together with filler and the rest of the important stuff. All of that, and I just can't accept the fact that I don't have to write from beginning to end.. ::cough::