My previously voiced frustration from Monday continues. It feels like an onion, with layer after layer of baggage being peeled away and revealing more. There was some weirdness Monday night when we went out shopping also that I’m pretty sure contributed to the dark malaise hanging over me, but that’s another story. My spiritual posts seem to chase away more readers than they attract anyway.
So, with that said, let’s focus on the issue of writing specifically:
Analysis Paralysis
This has been my biggest roadblock with multiple projects lately. I have several ideas (stories) that I’ve been mulling over but I can’t decide which path I want them all to take. I feel as stuck as Cicero in Skyrim if the player meets him early… and nearly as crazed anymore, LOL.
Coincidentally one of them was an adult themed recounting of Skyrim. There’s a few other erotica ideas as well, and the whole “Jedi Leia” story, which got a whole 14 views for it’s last chapter. 🫤 Maybe I need to make it adult to get any attention. 😯
Yes, I’m frustrated. Everybody wants their stuff read, but nobody wants to read anybody else’s material.
Regardless, I doubt I’m going to get another chapter out today. I went hunting for inspiration on YouTube and got multiple similar stories told there. Many of them revolve around the next scene with Leia and Vader in the detention block and what happens there. Does Vader recognize Leia as his daughter? He should have, based on the expanded understanding of the Force. Does Vader turn at that point? Does Vader instead try to turn Leia to the Dark Side like he did Luke?
The story could go 100 different directions from there based on that one pivotal interaction.
Since I don’t want to turn the story into something that is completely unrecognizable as the original trilogy, I don’t want to veer too far off course… Or do I? There are still many twists I could add while still keeping close to the original trilogy.
Witchfire’s Someday Return
This is a project I’ve been planning a reboot of forever. I’m starting to feel like Bethesda Software with delivering Elder Scrolls 6. The original intent was to do a series of superheroine peril themed erotica and do it classier than the website I was using as inspiration.
Everything went wrong there, including my falling into the traps that I had been complaining about other writers falling victim to. Hence a long delayed reboot.
One good thing has come out of the wait; I finally found something closer to an ideal costume:
Those taken from Baldur’s Gate 3 (heavily modded). It’s much closer to what I originally envisioned than the other software produced, but still only 90% of the way there. I do particularly like the staff though.
Well, long story short, I’m still debating myself silly over the details of how I want the reboot to go. Being as that is adult content, it’ll only be on my NSFW blog when I do start writing it again.
Blog Drama…
Last but not least, I have the issue of ongoing blog frustrations. I’ve complained about the one-sided relationships most bloggers think are normal and proper anymore. A growing portion of bloggers don’t even put in the effort of the whole transactional likes nonsense. “I followed you, now give me likes and comments while I ignore you”.
Yeah, yeah… Nobody’s obligated to follow and comment, etc… THIS is taking things to the whole other toxic end of the stream though.
Aside from dealing with the above nonsense, what really opened this sore again was the fact that I started dropping claps (Likes) and comments at Medium.com and without publishing anything of my own, I’ve already gotten likes and about a dozen followers. People there seem to want genuine interaction.
So yes, it’s left me frustrated again with the quality of the overall community here at WordPress. Every time I think I’ve let it go and gotten used to the low standards here, they go and lower the bar again, LOL. I have it rough enough as it is. I’m part Scot, Part Irish, Part German AND a redhead. The only thing keeping me remotely sane is the Welsh quarter of my ancestry. 🤣🤣🤣
It’s the handful of awesome people here that keep me staying around at all.
The EVIL That Is A.I.
I could go on quite a rant here… Make it my longest “Tuesday Trash” yet. Truth is nobody seems to care that they’re training computers to take over everything. Half of them admit they know that’s what’s taking place too.
I understand why Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are doing it. They think they’re going to be able to control what they unleash and become masters of humanity. Everybody else helping them do it though… WHY?
What’s that got to do with writing and blogging? Just look at all the A.I. generated content here. Most of it is pictures / artwork as opposed to writing. Is it really “democratizing” art when artists who have taken years to learn their craft are being put out of work by everyone typing a few sentences into an A.I.?
There’s the Grand Admiral Thrawn angle to consider with the art creation also. Timothy Zahn did a great job in his books of showing how Thrawn was able to profile entire civilizations based simply on the nature of their artwork. I don’t think it’s too far fetched to imagine that A.I. is learning the same processes as part of it’s ever increasing development. The tech elites operate and have grown obscenely wealthy on one key premise: knowledge is power.
And yet… Here I sit wondering if I have to give in and resort to A.I. generated pretty pictures to get anyone to pay attention to what I write. It’s depressing.
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