The house transforms Work abides Resumption of play
Hey, you shouldn't call yourself a Frustrated Novelist anymore, you're a Novelist. How's the second draft going? Have you heard anything about this film? The tagline reminded me of your possible 2004 Nanowrimo plans...
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
We’ve had three designer/builders through the house for quotes to build us an entirely new kitchen. The consensus view so far is that we want more appliances that we have space to put them in, and that it probably won’t be practical to put the washing machine in a cupboard.
Hmm. Well, I suspect in the end that we’ll go with the one that can do it most cheaply and doesn’t plan to install a toilet in the middle of the room…
Things seem to be getting more complex and busy than I have the patience to endure at work. Lots of conflicting agendas, lots of people unsure what they want me to do form them. But it appears that I have some useful purpose to serve until at least March next year, by which time I imagine I’ll be ready to do something else. And in the interim, I continue to hope for some kind of infeasible windfall that will allow me to walk away from my “career”. I’m starting to get extremely caught up in the notion of buying, renovating and on-selling houses as an alternative to the public service.
Following a clandestine rendezvous at the Civic Starbucks with a girl we met on the internet (ooo-er!), Chris and I have rejuvenated our Monday night roleplaying by roping in the new blood. Jimbo, Chris, Ginge, Al and newcomer Emma are all playing in a light’n’easy D&D game that I’m more or less making up as I go along. I’ll do a web page up for it shortly, mainly so I can keep a track of the NPCs.
So far it’s been fun. Last night, the shoulda-been-slaughtered heroes of Ripplesand managed to kill a giant bug in all of twenty seconds without serious injury, and I managed to throw in a cliffhanger in the last few seconds…
Of course, I keep having to restrain the Frustrated Novelist and keep from writing dozens of pages of backstory and unnecessary details, when all anyone who’s playing really wants is to find some clues, banter wittily with villains, and bash some monsters (or pirates, to cite Emma’s character’s newfound obsession). I just need to keep repeating – Keep It Simple, Praise the (Elemental) Lords and Pass the Dinosaurs…
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