The last course where I did make an effort was that seriously scary Python course. Even so I dropped out after the Memory game as I had completely lost the plot at that stage and Nanowrimo was just one week away. There was also "Learning how to learn" where I got 95% with a reasonable amount of effort. But those days are over since Christmas. The old brain cells seem totally fried.
I have signed up for a rerun of crazy Rice Python in mid May. They have split it into two sections this time. Izzie did have the best of intentions and has the code academy tab open but not done anything with it since returning from Europe. All that punctuation and stuff is not exactly tablet friendly. Scratch does have a version of pong and a guess the number game. I've downloaded those videos for later viewing. 31st April seems a most likely date the way I am going these days. I loved gamification and had such a sense of deja vu when watching that video that you posted ages ago - the one where the guy has made a game of cutting up cucumbers and then he goes on a date which ends in disaster. Still not quite work out what a wingman is.
I did get 63% which is not too bad considering I did absolutely none of the writing assignments which were worth 35% of the marks.
Camp Nano is going well. I wimped out and set a goal of only 33,333 words for the month since I knew I would be at the Dursleys for Easter and a couple of other evenings. With 50,000 words catching up is next to impossible. I caught up by day 11 and I've now just crossed the 20,000 mark. Most other folks in the cabin have a big fat zero word count and the next highest to mine is 6,300! Enthusiasm alone does not get you very far in Nanoland
So far I have invented 2 cults to use in world building for November. A nihilistic death cult dedicated to the resurrection of the flesh devouring creatures of the deep and an erotic esoteric cult dedicated to worshipping the life force in its many incarnations
I first got the idea when I visited a book shop last December and the whole back wall was covered with a giant tentacled sea monster promoting China Mieville's "Kraken" and the prime real estate was devoted to gorgeous hard cover collected works of one H P Lovecraft. Not just one big fat black book with tentacles on the cover but 3 versions from different publishers. I had visions of boutique book shops and writers groups as being a recruiting ground for strange obscure and eldritch cults. The maritime museum recently had an exhibition about sea monsters including the cool and creepy Umibozu Along with the leviathan and hydra, it provided some excellent inspiration for KULTU (Kraken Umibozu Leviathan Tiamat Uprising) Of course this little logo is most tempting indeed With the colours reversed it would bear a reasonable resemblance to the ISIS/ Daesh flag.
There's all sorts of rivalry in store but I still haven't got a plot line. With deviant Christian serpentine sects and malevolent Muslim maritime cults, there's just got to be an apocalypse of some sort.
The Bohemian gothic deck does provide lots of useful inspiration. It is so much easier to write with a specific card and a general theme in mind rather than just a blank page for inspiration.
Will check out your Cthulhu collection but I still find it less distracting to read old fashioned dead trees than a glowing screen.
Looking forward to hearing all the latest Cat gossip. You've been so quiet of late in blogland :(
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Date: 2015-04-16 05:22 pm (UTC)There was also "Learning how to learn" where I got 95% with a reasonable amount of effort. But those days are over since Christmas. The old brain cells seem totally fried.
I have signed up for a rerun of crazy Rice Python in mid May. They have split it into two sections this time. Izzie did have the best of intentions and has the code academy tab open but not done anything with it since returning from Europe. All that punctuation and stuff is not exactly tablet friendly.
Scratch does have a version of pong and a guess the number game. I've downloaded those videos for later viewing. 31st April seems a most likely date the way I am going these days.
I loved gamification and had such a sense of deja vu when watching that video that you posted ages ago - the one where the guy has made a game of cutting up cucumbers and then he goes on a date which ends in disaster. Still not quite work out what a wingman is.
I did get 63% which is not too bad considering I did absolutely none of the writing assignments which were worth 35% of the marks.
Camp Nano is going well. I wimped out and set a goal of only 33,333 words for the month since I knew I would be at the Dursleys for Easter and a couple of other evenings. With 50,000 words catching up is next to impossible.
I caught up by day 11 and I've now just crossed the 20,000 mark. Most other folks in the cabin have a big fat zero word count and the next highest to mine is 6,300! Enthusiasm alone does not get you very far in Nanoland
So far I have invented 2 cults to use in world building for November.
A nihilistic death cult dedicated to the resurrection of the flesh devouring creatures of the deep and an erotic esoteric cult dedicated to worshipping the life force in its many incarnations
I first got the idea when I visited a book shop last December and the whole back wall was covered with a giant tentacled sea monster promoting China Mieville's "Kraken" and the prime real estate was devoted to gorgeous hard cover collected works of one H P Lovecraft. Not just one big fat black book with tentacles on the cover but 3 versions from different publishers.
I had visions of boutique book shops and writers groups as being a recruiting ground for strange obscure and eldritch cults.
The maritime museum recently had an exhibition about sea monsters including the cool and creepy Umibozu
Along with the leviathan and hydra, it provided some excellent inspiration for KULTU
(Kraken Umibozu Leviathan Tiamat Uprising)
Of course this little logo is most tempting indeed
With the colours reversed it would bear a reasonable resemblance to the ISIS/ Daesh flag.
There's all sorts of rivalry in store but I still haven't got a plot line. With deviant Christian serpentine sects and malevolent Muslim maritime cults, there's just got to be an apocalypse of some sort.
The Bohemian gothic deck does provide lots of useful inspiration. It is so much easier to write with a specific card and a general theme in mind rather than just a blank page for inspiration.
Will check out your Cthulhu collection but I still find it less distracting to read old fashioned dead trees than a glowing screen.
Looking forward to hearing all the latest Cat gossip. You've been so quiet of late in blogland :(