On Fairy Tale Stories

 It’s been a weird week, but I got a surprise ice cream sandwich at one point and that’s a nice little how-do-you do. I’m currently re-reading The Dragons of Winter and I have to do a Book Diary post for Bone Shard Daughter soon.

Anyhow I’ve been randomly thinking about fairy tales since the last Note and also reading School for Good & Evil. There should, in theory, be a way to tie in the Fae from The Invisible Library in here somewhere, but I don’t know what it is so just know from here on out that I have them in mind.

On Worldbuilding

It has been… a week. I haven’t been feeling that well, and there was a night I didn’t sleep well. But it ended well, weirdly enough, and there was a surprising amount of food throughout? It’s weird. I am expecting that I’ll be much better going forward though. And I’m almost done with the main story of Ghost of Tsushima! Maybe I’ll finish that soon.

Anyhow, let’s talk about worldbuilding.

The Inheritance Cycle and Tactics

 It’s been a weird week, and I imagine that this weekend is probably not going to be the healing salve I really need. But at least Mondaybor Day is Labor Day, so that means a short week next week.

I am thrilled to see what we’re going to get with Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, although right now I’m still slowly going through Ghost of Tsushima. Man, I go through video games a lot slower when I have a day job, huh? Wonder why that is…

Anyhow I mentioned this before, and I’m not sure what else to write about, so here we are.

High vs. Low Speech

 I am really, really tired of reading stupid conspiracy theories on Tumblr about how Amazon is bribing critics for good reviews for Rings of Power or something, so I’m not much on Tumblr Friday night other than answering Fun Fact Friday asks while listening to Tyler Bates. 

I had this idea for a Note, and I was between this and talking about tactics in Brisingr (and the Inheritance Cycle as a whole). That’s not off the table entirely, but I feel like I’ve been reading/watching too many things on military history so to help take a break from that I’m going to expand a bit on the idea I mentioned in the last Note on fantasy and tone. Specifically, when it comes to dialogue.

I expect this to come out as a horrible mess, I’m sorry, but probably typing all of my notes into a coherent essay is maybe too much to ask.

On Fantasy Made Mundane

 So last weekend I patted myself on the back for finishing The Sandman on Netflix only for Netflix to release a couple of BONUS stories. Which is just awesome but changes my schedule a bit. Also last weekend, Netflix watched an episode and some change of Locke & Key without me?  I turned on the TV to find it paused in the second episode of a season I had seen none of. That was… unnerving.

I had written this down as the topic of last week’s essay, but changed my mind. We’re doing it now!

Random Writing Advice

 I think I might pop onto Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla for the seasonal festival and get a cool new sword, but otherwise I am still enjoying Ghost of Tsushima, I’m having a LOT of fun watching The Sandman, and re-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. And! I’m reading a Redwall book too.

I was thinking about someone’s blog post about The Last Jedi and dialogue, and Whedon’s influence on genre fiction, so I have an idea about how so much fantasy nowadays is trying to make the fantastical… less fantastical? And how weird that is? And disappointing when you think about it.

But that would take an awful lot of time to write and I’m already behind. Because my computer has a complete breakdown every time it wants to do updates, which are ANNOYINGLY common. Also I had this other idea which I thought might be fun. So here we are!

On Dropping Plot Elements

 I am considering retiring the Book Diary after this year, as it seems as if it’s a large chunk of my posting on Facebook. I could very easily move it to Tumblr or something? I don’t know, I’m just getting more and more the impression that it is… not really getting anywhere.

But the bright side is that The Sandman is now on Netflix and so I have that to get through. 

There is a comment that should be here somewhere about the Everything-Killing Gun from Supernatural, but I couldn’t find a place, so here. That shouldn’t have been forgotten about.