I haven't forgotten about you, really! I'm still here...
I'm still coughing, too. Damn it. But it's fading. Slowly. Maybe I'll OD on expectorants this weekend in an attempt to clear the last of the crap out.
Now that I've advanced into Brown sash, sifu has changed the requirements to get into brown... making it much easier! And everyone ELSE will have easier requirements to first brown, too, but not us existing browns.
Not that it actually matters. We all learn the same stuff by the end, just shifted around a bit.
I've worked up some tests for an effect for Alain yesterday. I'll hopefully make a nicer version and put video up by Saturday AM. THIS is a cheap one -- not like the $1,500 worth of effort the other two had. I'll charge a pittance.
Work has been madness this week, which is why the journal has been stagnent.
At the beginning of the week, I had a decently working chunk of code... but it wouldn't do a particular thing.
So I restructured stuff to make it nicer than the hacky version I had, and tried to get the certain thing to work.
Everything broke.
I just now got the nicely structured code so it works again! Yay me!
I'm afraid to test the certain thing, though, because I'm sure it won't work.
I can't actually do stuff yet, since I upgraded a stack of calls to match a protocol that hasn't been checked in yet... I'm waiting for it.
So now I type in the journal.
Hmmm...
I recently read a REALLY good book on screenwriting called, ummm, I don't recall. But it was really good!
With the new information, I feel better prepared to attack my fiction writing again... and I know better the terrible mistakes I was making in my story.
Of course, movies and TV aren't novels, but many of the concepts apply... and I've never found a decent book about writing novels. Screenplays, however... that's a well-analyzed craft.