Didn’t get to 20 WPM. It is a work in progress. I think progress happens a lot faster when I type correctly (which I often fail to do–moreso later in the day), and when I am operating out of stream of consciousness. I think, therefore I write, but when I don’t think and simply write I write far faster with much better content. This is how my writing operates, as though I am a conduit between the story and the paper (digital or otherwise) it is printed on. I massage, edit, remove, add as the need entails, but these things are also post initial dump. This present project is less initial dump and more taking of this scatter-brained ideas and honing them down into what is useful to RPG players. That is taking a lot longer than I like. It makes me extremely nervous about returning to the Justice Engine, which I also feel will be a case of inching along towards doom.
I kinda wish I didn’t need to write that story. A part of me wants to dump it, call it a good idea spoiled, and move right on towards whatever is tugging at the corner of my attention now. That, or a project I actually have a knowledge base with. I feel like with this one, I am writing directly out of my butt. Write what you know, but what do I know about the criminal courts? About murder trials? Moving the location to one adjacent to where I’ve spent the past two decades is the closest I’ve come to writing what I know in this sense. It isn’t enough.
I know people. Part of the story is about identifying these individuals who will become jurors and the questions that shape the selection process and the questions that cut to the matter of who a person truly is and how they think. That part is the core of the engine and the part I know and the part I really wanted to write… and the part I have not managed to get to. I need to get there, because that is where the story should take off.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company” The real punchline is the why: It went to “extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal” and “found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation,” the company said. We are so cooked.