Work in progress
It’s a wonderful grey and rainy day. Perfect reason to stay in doors and carry on my love affair with my laptop. Did something rather off-range for me the other night; drank coffee late, stayed up late and started writing a new novel (no working title yet) based on the idea of a political crime investigation taking place within the mega-settlement of London [post-Yellow Dawn].
It’s an interesting concept because in the world of Yellow Dawn, London is the headquarters of, and dominated by, the outlawed business cult Power of Eight Group. Anyhow, I’ve no idea what’s going to happen with this new piece of work because I don’t have any characters or plot mapped out. I’m just going with a gut feeling. Very unlike me. Rather exciting though.
Meanwhile, other things on the cook: {Proteus Syndrome} fleshed out notes I made during meeting with scientist and mapped them onto the plot structure for this small part of the novel. Sent ideas back to scientist for sense-checking and they came back with solid thumbs-up. So I’ve got something horrible and yet plausible to drop onto my characters. I’m also continuing the process of shaping the plot ideas into a step-by-step sequence and writing this down.
{Yellow Dawn } the synthetic biology bolt-on rule system will be next on the to-do list, to compliment the nanomech system. Also playing the game a LOT more now that I have a new secondary group in the ancient Roman city of Bath. This has led to a podcast which is generating further interest. I’m hoping to use the podcast’s to target folks who’ve always wondered what role-playing games were about but never got round to playing them. A way in, to a new world of entertainment – hopefully.
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