[MGW Misc] Time for Lessons

Hey, of course I'm going to share what I'm learning. Always. Dunno about mathematics.

Remind me not to C&P stuff that I don't completely read (like that D&D info). There's going to be either two or three entries for September 15th.

I had trouble sleeping, but should be able to. I mean, I've been up since Thursday morning. So now I gotta stay active somehow. But the last time I stayed up I felt sick. You know that "my blood sugar's dropping" kind of feeling, or maybe a nausea feeling in the chest? Like that. Boy, my research streak was fuuuuuuun though.

Maybe when my damned sis comes home I'll sleep.

Maybe I'll take a little nap in the chair NOT the bed. Bad idea!, and play Shining Force, and listen to music/drama, and watch speed runs.

ANYWAYS! This is what I wanted to talk about. I'll make it as concise as possible.

( Writer's Block )

Hope that helps. o-O; I think I confused myself xD

I probably should describe those tactics (ie: outline) a bit later? Say, how do you think this can help with creative writing? Say, to create a character? Especially for RPGing?

It's all about pulling in your audience's attention. You also need to consider what kind of audience you're trying to enthrall.

NOTE: Paragrapghs need to interconnect, with the events in order. The first one needs to have your main focused idea obviously.

( Formulating Ideas )

More later.

[MGW FANFICTION] Gargoyles of Ottawa-Detroit

Greg Wiseman is the MAN for making the "Gargoyles" series. I go to Section 8 once in a while just to check out new frappin' material. The more I read "Ask Greg", the more impressed I get. I didn't know that he spent so much time on that series, so much time on creating the chars. Plus he added both historic and mythical details that connect within the series.

King Arthur, MacBeth, World War II, Odin, Moray of Scotland. It's all homage, real or myth. It's all impressive.

So I'm inspired by the man..I'd like to make my own garg fic. Something with both the real and made-up elements.

On Thursday I spent a bunch of time looking up Canadian history. I-just-wouldn't-STOP! Along the way I looked up Michigan history Detroit to be specific, and I looked up a slight bit on Scandinavian history (a few clans and the first American Viking settlement in North America. Somewhere in NewFoundland/Vinland?).

( The Details )

QUESTIONS: Judging by Greg's "gargoyles bible" (on S8), there were gargs across every corner of the world. They evolved and breathed air much like dinos did, and humans now. The stone hibernation thing is natural, and a mage long before Magnus' time casted a spell upon the whole race so that the garg's clothes could turn to stone as well. Apparently after the Wyvern Massacre, many humans sought out gargs during the day (while stone) and destroyed them. They nearly became extinct.

Would my Canadian Gargs become nearly killed during the British/French war? How would people see them at the start? The Natives and the British/French? Hmm, I'm sure the British would know quite a bit about them. There's even descendents in the London Clan; France was apart of the Roman Empire, and one of the men of Caesar Augustus's court was the mage who did that spell I mentioned earlier.

The Natives? Probably as god-like.