{"id":5879,"date":"2024-12-28T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5879"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:11:37","slug":"attempts-at-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5879","title":{"rendered":"Attempts At Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m using this as a sort of launchpad for various things I\u2019m trying to write which aren\u2019t games, or at least form a narrative of some sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something to note is that these are, for the most part, first draft at best, written on my phone in caf\u00e9s or bars or hostels. Little to no editing has occurred. Formatting gets a little weird because different systems interpret an end of line differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There Is No Such Thing As A Rail Pirate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5778\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5778<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years ago this line, delivered in a clich\u00e9d pirate manner, came to mind; \u201c<em>Here we be, becalmed upon this desolate siding<\/em>\u201d. I have no memory of what spawned it, or why cartoonish pirates would be sailing on a rail network, though it may have had something to do with rail bikes, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the idea got kicked around a bit, and morphed into something in which such a ridiculous line could actually happen, though it also moved pretty far from that idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, this was years before I read Railsea by China Mi\u00e9ville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019ve been reading a bunch, and as my brain starts to relax after a fairly eventful and often unpleasant year, I\u2019ve been getting more interested in doing creative things that aren\u2019t the Former Job. Which is what led to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Halloween Isekai<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Isekai (Japanese: \u7570\u4e16\u754c transl.\u2009&#8217;different world&#8217;, &#8216;another world&#8217;, or &#8216;other world&#8217;) is a sub-genre of fiction. It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, anime, and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world such as a fantasy world, game world, or parallel universe<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5872\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=5872<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of months ago I had a weird dream that had enough narrative to it that I wrote it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of people running through a disjointed landscape to accomplish some important task, passing through sections of buildings &amp; parts of ships &amp; ending up at a huge temple in the rain. They\u2019re coworkers, and aren\u2019t in the the best shape for a lot of running, and one of them apparently has the task of carrying a door handle with the keys still attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole thing had a very Cartoon Horror sort of feel to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to some friends I\u2019ve read a lot of Isekai stuff recently, and it got me wondering about whether that dream would fit into the \u201creincarnated into another world\u201d genre, which then had me wondering what would cause a whole bunch of people to get Isekai\u2019d all at once, which then made me imagine the folks in that other world having to deal with a sudden flood of Isekai protagonists on no notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I wrote the start of it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">That Weird Dungeon Life Spinoff Idea<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=6744\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?page_id=6744<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is here because my friend Tom challenged\/asked me to write five chapters of something before Gen Con. I didn&#8217;t want to do this by adding five chapters to one of the existing things, for reasons that continue to escape me, so I started something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m using this as a sort of launchpad for various things I\u2019m trying to write which aren\u2019t games, or at least form a narrative of some sort. Something to note is that these are, for the most part, first draft at best, written on my phone in caf\u00e9s or bars or hostels. 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