One of the main reasons I love writing Shadowrun is the opportunity to draw pleasure out of everyday corporate life. Growing up in the steel and glass canyons of NYC I was exposed to a lot of the corporate life. Right designer, right school, right car, daily protocols. I suppose I’m channeling my inner Joseph Finder when I sit down and think about these things. I wonder how distribution networks really come together and stay together. I wonder about the middle men and how people manage to make a profit on the margins. That is the stuff I love writing about, because there is so much mystery there. Nobody knows what really goes on, which gives me plenty of space to make it up and to make it far more interesting than it probably could be otherwise.
Some Thoughts:
- Watching Zero Dark Thirty, written by fellow Bronx Science alum and Writing Club member Mark Boal, I found myself thinking really hard about torture and what defines torture and what would be ‘enough’ for me to want to condone that. I think it is easier to have done than to be intimately involved in the process. That physical separation makes the psychological separation much simpler.
- Rough soccer day. I’m realizing my 8-9 team is going to be terrible without all of the lynchpin guys. We have 2 on defense, a rover, and 2 strikers that the team cannot function without. 1 defender messed up his foot and was ineffective after, one striker messed up his ankle and was on the bench, and the rover had a stomach flu. the 2 minutes that rover was in there you saw the energy level of the whole team pick up in response. He is the key. They need his energy to get them moving.