Too Many Ideas - Archive for October, 2006
Running Before the Storm
Thursday, October 5th, 2006After a day spent assembling a rather long questionnaire for a client’s new site I needed a break from typing. I thought I’d have a play with Vue. After half an hour of playing and 12 minutes of rendering I’d knocked the picture out of a ship running into a sheltered bay ahead of a […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 13)
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 12). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Explorer Archetype "Don’t fence me in." Explorers seek freedom and fulfilment. They seek to boldly go, aimlessly wandering with the autonomy to be true to their soul. They are iconoclasts who […]
How (Not) to Get Links and Influence People
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006I’m not going to claim to be some sort of expert on blog promotion. I knowingly break several of the rules on how to have a really popular blog. If you’ve not guessed yet there is a but coming sometime so without any thought for the rules of English grammar here it is: BUT one […]
SOCA Leg Work
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Went back to an old project today. Started trying to put Serious and Organised to bed. Tidying up the text, adding descriptions of Characteristics to reduce the wiggle factor for rules lawyers while trying to avoid the game creeping into needing lots more Characteristics if I define the ones I’ve included too tightly. Dull but […]
More Noir Challenges.
Sunday, October 1st, 2006I’d been stuck on how to move the Noir on. I’d written a scene that just didn’t seem to gell. Kim suggested I have the characters making tea (Thanks Kim). So I rewrote the scene, got the hero into a fight and into the next scene where he could pick up the next clue he […]