Late Night Thoughts on Fiction

Well, I finally managed to complete Half Life. I also managed to get a bit of homework done – enough to tell me that I'm going to have a hard time doing the rest of it. Unfortunately, I've had a headache all day so... something something.

Tomorrow, I plan to finish off the Physics prelim that I started, figure out exactly what I need to do for my Computing project (probably making some headway there as well) and do the first few chapters of Half Life's first expansion pack, Opposing Force.

Though not necessarily in that order.


Actually, since I wrote that earlier, I've played a bit of Opposing Force. Haven't done any homework though.

Right. Another night where I need to hurry through this post all because of my time wasting.

I've been doing some thinking about The Grey Line. My current plan is to have the first few chapters written by... let's say the middle of February. Should give me something to distract myself with when I'm not studying.

It's obviously not apparent from the beginning sections I have up but the universe of The Grey Line contains a number of fantasy and sci-fi elements and my big problem so far has been trying to tie all these together. I wouldn't say that the concept now is “dark” but it certainly used to be a lot lighter and with less need for coherency. That means I have a number of characters and concepts that, while I don't want to let go of them, need to at least be reworked to fit with the story.

I've got a few basic ideas of how all this works in my head but I need to get it all down on paper. I'd like to do that in the next few days but that seems unlikely given the whole homework thing. After that it's back to school where I doubt I'll have the time and then on the weekend it's that blasted trip up to Glasgow and then probably finishing off the homework I didn't do in time for school...

This might take a while. Still, at least my mind is ticking over on it. I'd reveal more but that might ruin the story. And I'd hate to ruin the story before I'd even figured out what it was.


Huh. I was just fiddling with the settings in Adium and now I can't make it stop playing the Doctor Who theme tune. How annoying.

I think that's all I've got for tonight. It's getting quite late and these early morning starts aren't being kind to me. I'm guessing they were the cause of the headache I mentioned earlier and still have.

So I'm just going to go to bed now.

I'm not even going to sign off with my catch phrase.