In Which poor Writing Tropes can sour one's soul

Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this post, and how happy I am to see you, on this Wednesday. How have you been? I always try my best to keep a semblance of writing rhythm when it comes to this journal-blog and so on, but at times it is hard to organize my thoughts. At times it is just sidetracking issues, my mind drift someplace else. So, as always, accept my gratitude for being here, I never take it for granted! Hope your day is okay. As for my own, the past few days were not a disaster! In fact, I think I am fine enogh, for the most part. I think the tropes of writing are very damaging when someone thinks they can be applied to real life, as well. Just picture this: at times, specially for the least for the less imaginative, a story to keep going, when things are alright for the protagonist, the writer, unknown invisible force on the story, throw things at this happiness to ruin it, so the point can get across. It is cheesy in a narrative to have such rhythm. But it gets even more absurd when someone, I unfortunately have this tendency, tries to apply it to real life. Like God is some kind of embittered entity with the desire to maim. When I lose a follower, for example, I always jump to the worst of conclusions: it was my best friend who forsake me. Worst: he blocked me, and even worse than that: he is calling the cops on me, for the reason that I was boring and annoying. "Can you please just take this abhorrent being to the dungeons? I am done with him". I know it sounds ridiculous, but for many years, I just pictured everything as if "what is good will be taken forever", and "what is bad will be here to stay, you deserve the worst". Years of therapy were needed to untangle this, and I still need meds, I think this comes with OCD, and also being forced to interact with other children in a school environment. Anyway, this all to say: I am relatively okay. It's fine, nothing really bad, and if some lamentation strikes, it is likely not because I forgot to wash the dishes. 

Anyway, Anno 117, as I mentioned, was released, and my first impression was quite positive, though after playing it for 12 hours or so since the 13th of November, I have a more nuanced view to it. Yes, it is a worthy title, but with some caveats, as I wrote on my steam review for this one. If I had to give it a score, it would be an 77-80. Anno 1800, in comparison, being a solid 80. Many are not being so forgiving, the metric is around 66% of approval the last time I checked. It is not that the game in itself is bad, but it is held hostage by Ubisoft and a bad glazing above a good foundation. The bricks and mortars are well positioned enough, the painting on top is filled with cracks however.  Y that I mean, the writing of the campaign, the character development, and even some art assets. That is of course secondary if you consider you need a Ubisoft Connect to access the game, when you already purchased it on Steam. It's the small things... it has been a game that has occupied me the past few ones, though.

Not the only thing in my mind, as I from day to day think of my bigger project, the book I did mentioned before. I have not progressed much on it, yet. I wonder when I will, if at all, because this is a bigger project for a reason. The creative endeavors are harder to accomplish, even when I have idle time (which I do have some, and I am grateful for it) , I can't accomplish much most of those. In fact, sometimes idle time is not the necessary friend of productivity on the creative side. Well, at least I could write today! Maybe a drawing is on the books as well? We'll see...  overall, just happy to be here. 

What else is there to be said? The weather grows hotter, as we approach the beautiful December, the height of Christmas! I really wish I could decorate around, but I have not much space in the bedroom... hopefully I will talk to a friend today at some point... one step at a time! Hope you have good plans for Wednesday as well. I hope I can write here again real soon! I should be back around the weekend, I think. Wish you the best, and hope to see you again soon! Happy midweek!