ze book, comics and manga

[deralte]

20,700 / 80,000 (25.9%)

That counter makes me feel a little better about my book. I love using actual publishing word counts (it gives me an extra 5000 words *L*). Being 25% finished is much better than I expected.

I've been writing like mad recently. It has something to do with being forced to stay at home and the ridiculous amount of free time I have atm. I'm not really sure what type of book I'm writing, but it is interesting, I'll give it that. It'll also be longer than 80,000 words at the rate I'm going.

I've mostly been reading comics recently. I read through the Zelda Ocarina of Time manga, and I honestly wish I'd read it before I played the game since things would have made a lot more sense (It probably isn't helped by the fact that I have ADD when it comes to video games and my usual urge is to wander off in random directions to see what I can see - completely forgetting the bad guy ravaging the land.) I read a short manga called Adult Problems about a boy growing up after his parents divorced because his father is gay. Other than the decidedly weird idea of adopting your lover so they can share your name (since they can't get married) it was a nice story. Am currently reading Hellblazer while catching up on various other Western comics.

Comments

[dsky.livejournal.com]

"It probably isn't helped by the fact that I have ADD when it comes to video games and my usual urge is to wander off in random directions to see what I can see - completely forgetting the bad guy ravaging the land."

This is precisely my problem - I get a lot more hung up on exploring the world than the story, and get rather frustrated when I am forced to play through story point X to get to more characters/map/etc. I loved Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for example, but I got to a point where I had to have a particularly annoying encounter in order to be allowed to progress any further and never played it again.

Some Western RPGs like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and most MMORPGs are a lot more free-roaming and I enjoy them a lot more.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's me exactly. If I get to a point where I have to do something tedious in order to continue and I don't feel like bothering. That's why I never finished Monkey Island 4 come to think of it.

Elder Scrolls sounds interesting. Pity I have no access to it here.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

> my usual urge is to wander off in random directions to see what I can see - completely forgetting the bad guy ravaging the land.

But Zelda games are all about this sort of nonsense; cf. the whole "trading sequence" thing, which I'm sure isn't a productive way for Link to be spending his time. Not to mention fishing.   8^)

Far worse than Zelda for this, though, are the Elder Scrolls games, which I for one cannot help but explore in.

(Oops! dsky already brought this up — I'll just second what he said, then.)

> Other than the decidedly weird idea of adopting your lover so they can share your name (since they can't get married)

IIRC, this has actually been done in reality. (In somewhere like Finland, last decade, if I remember a newspaper article correctly. And most likely assorted other places, too.)

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

http://www.queerty.com/queer/news/ibm-heiress-learns-big-lesson-dont-adopt-your-lover-20070115.php
http://money.cnn.com/1999/10/11/life/q_gay/ (See section "A business relationship")

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. Unfortunately for me, Zelda (like 99% of the games I play) belonged/belongs to my little brother and the price I paid to play it was to have him walking me through the whole thing. I wasn't allowed to make side trips because they'd take too long and weren't necessary. He'd get annoyed if I wandered off as I wanted to, which is why I had such a vague idea of the plot cause he'd skip over unnecessary things like dialogue... I remember really enjoying the first part of the game and then having my bro get all impatient for the second, adult Link half (I guess cause I was taking too long.) since I can barely remember that part other than my complete hatred of having to memorize tunes to play. F*cking Epona's song...

Elder Scrolls looks like fun. Someday I'll have to play it methinks.

Re: gay adoption. I figure it's not that unusual, it just comes off as very strange.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

That's a real shame. Ocarina of Time is a great game, and having somebody tell you what to do completely destroys the point of it!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Writing WOO!

[deralte.livejournal.com]

lol:D