Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2006

Characters on the Couch (Part 14)

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 13). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Sage Archetype "The truth will set you free." Sages seek the discovery of truth, knowledge and wisdom. They prize research and intelligence. Their aim is to understand the world. They also […]

Too Busy to Have Too Many Ideas

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

… too busy to blog too. Tight deadlines has lead to some late working the last few days. All I want to do is come in, veg in front of a DVD and go to sleep at night. Normal service should be restored shortly.

Fairy Tale Physics

Monday, October 9th, 2006

I’ve been making sure the physics of my fairy tale world work today. Not as much fun as writing but since little dragon needs to exploit them in order to solve the case I need to make sure the rules make sense. So I’ve spent a lot of today mulling on entropy, brane theory, multiverses […]

A Quick Note to the Makers of the Next Robin Hood

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I’m going to reserve commenting in detail on the new Robin Hood for a few episodes to see how it comes on. I’m also going to ignore that Robin seems capable of using a 2kg long sword as though it were a throwing dagger. I am going to however make one small suggestion to the […]

The Outsiders: Liverpool doubles for… Everywhere

Friday, October 6th, 2006

One of the fun things with living in Liverpool is playing spot the Liverpool location in TV and films doubling for other places. I watched ITV’s The Outsiders that I recorded on Tuesday earlier. Lots of Liverpool to spot including some interior shots that I’m pretty certain were done in the building at the University […]

Running Before the Storm

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

After 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, 2006

This 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, 2006

I’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, 2006

Went 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, 2006

I’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 […]

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