Bout time I get back to the freewriting. I’m in need of a serious jumpstart in that respect. The last week of writing has dragged to say the least. I feel like if I am unproductive for a long stretch of time I start to ‘lose the thread’ of the work. This happens faster when I am working on multiple projects and I am presently working on three. I regret the third one. I needed it to stay in the flow of things and get a sense of where things are going with the game side of that shared world, but it is already messy and sad and really not at all reflective of where I wanted that writing to go. The problem with cyberpunk is how narrowly focused it is. The genre existed in a pocket 80’s that remains unreflective of the actual advance of tech and culture. On the other hand, Cyberpunk RED seems to be doing a good job of it. Thus the problem with Shadowrun is vision and ability to merge magic and technology in a way that doesn’t just wind up being about one or the other and avoids falling into the classic romance tropes and traps. I see us doing that. I see us falling into narrowly shaped storylines about how X feels about Y and how Z feels slighted. This is not reflective of a world dominated by Dragons, AI, and Corporations–who ought to represent the big three powerbrokers but never ever do.
There. Rant over. Back to the word mines… or maybe Madden 24 (I be play testing) and then a round or three of Apex, and THEN the word mines.