Journal

I've spent five days so far writing the first chapter. It's a slow process but I'm trying something new. I read out aloud as I write. This effort will hopefully allow me to write in a more natural way. The sentences in the brain is different than the sentences we speak out loud. While doing so, the process is rather slow. What makes it slower is when you have introduce a new concept that you're bringing to the story. That's the brick wall I've run into at Chapter One. Since Nora Katahari is a lecturer in moral philosophy, it's a challenge to try and fit existing philosophical terms into a modern fantasy setting in a parallel universe. It is the struggle to pick a concept like Occam's Razor and revise it to fit the world. I won't delve too much into it. Rather, I won't delve into it at all. This exchange may not even appear in the final book. That in mind, I will spend the next few days writing about the important characters the novel r

I've been streaming Arkham Knight on Twitch. It's the final installment, supposedly, in Rocksteady's Batman. It's the current thing I'm going for in streaming single player video games, I take a look at the writing behind it and the way the developers set up the plot from start to end. Being a video game and not a book, trying to analyse the plot is an interesting thing to do. The main quest is primary conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist. At the same time, just like there are side characters to help Batman, there are also side characters who serve as mini-antagonists. Dabbling into the side quest is the same reading a redundancy chapter in a light novel or watching a filler episode on a TV series. In most cases, it is to add depth in the design of the characters. The people that they are, what drives them, and how they might think of the big picture of the world around them. Batman is Gotham's sentinel. A highly competent character who