 Time to crack open some simple meditations on writing as a whole as well as the various projects I'm using to drill (baby drill) your psyche for good, ol' fashioned dopamine. Writing is a sharpened pencil for many, many people. Think about how much the lean away from talking on the phone, or "live", has happened within your friend group. Ponder how nice it feels to be able to correct something before, or even after, you send it. Writing captures over time what we can't always think of off the cuff. Which is why more people should read my fan fiction - damn it!  I first wrote some fan fic back in high school based off of perpetual puberty-starter anime, Tenchi Muyo. My focus was more on the space opera aspects of Universe (the second season basically for non weebs) rather than the boy-drowning-in-tang main thrust. My semi-original story was jumbled, blocky, and didn't do much to scratch my creative itch. Since then, my writing has evolved n-times-n into whatever the hell I do now that some people like, and my project scope has followed a similar trajectory. That original piece was six chapters of around ten-thousand words, which would mean that any follow up would have to be....(quick math symbols in the air) roughly 400 times that, right? Well, how about over 500,000 words? Will that satiate you!?  I am but a middle-man in the long line of people that had some view or part of their lives change thanks to Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season two specifically was legitimately the first time I felt truly engrossed with a television show, and years later when I finally saw everything from beginning to end, it still felt like something fresh and new. Legend of Korra came along next, and I fell in love with those characters too (except for Mako and about half of Bo-Lin). Thus did my ego sing "I should write four seasons of a sequel show to both of these!" And so it was. I'm coming up to the climax of the end of the entire series, which is both a relief and an interesting level of disappointment. I absolutely love the bitter-sweet story and how it concludes. Makami, the main character, is one of my favorite characters I've ever written. The terrible valleys and high peaks she experiences felt so personal when I wrote them, and that always results in a closer emotional simulacrum than just running down Trope Alley. If you have the urge to read it, at least give the first chapter a go. It is in an odd format (meaning television script format) but it isn't too hard to follow, and you have an iron-clad guarantee that I love the story no matter what. You can't beat those savings.  Elsewhere on the writer spectrum, I've dug into a lot of lore and backstory for up-coming projects. I just wrote a bible for an off-kilter RPG that is, for lack of a better term, my dream game. That means it'll be a long damn project so using it as a distraction between other projects for lore dumps is a great way to keep everything fresh and moving. Like dirty laundry.
More actively, I'm working on new script conversions for Panoramic episodes, a new screenplay, and completing two television seasons. The new screenplay is going to be my take on suburban terror in the current day where cell phones exist and I overheard a porcupine talking politics yesterday. The television shows have been LONG overdue for a good, solid finishing. Or at least moving to rough draft stage instead of a red yarn mess in my head. Per my own timeline, I will be behind very soon as far as the lazy Susan in my brain swings around to more of a writing focus, but life will find a way. I'm actively looking for someone that can supplement some of my needs of a more artful variety to keep pushing on several low-hanging fruit art needs. Can't be everywhere at once, so I'd rather be on the projects that need the most love. Hot, sandy love.
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