Books and words.
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thistlechaserBook 8 of 2012: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen king.
I loved this book so much. So very much. King is such a good storyteller, and a story is exactly what this book was...
So in the book, the main character of the Dark Tower series was telling a story.
In that story, the main character was telling a story.
That "innermost" story was the majority of this book.
It was such a "classic adventure" story -- a boy goes on a mission to save his mother, with all the expected elements of a fantasy adventure story (wizard, dragon), but it was all in neat, original ways. (I really loved the dragon. ...heck and the good wizard too.)
The story in a story in a story idea was really great too. Once I finished the innermost story, the sad feeling I get at the end of a good book was absent... because the book wasn't done! Then when the next story ended, again there was no sadness, because the outermost story wasn't done. And by the time the last story ended? I had had three good endings, so I really couldn't feel sad at all.
I feel like I'm behind in my reading, though I have no real schedule*. I had been hitting two books per month, which was a nice pace, but I'd need to finish two more in the next two weeks to maintain that. Cruise is coming up, but unfortunately I'll likely have even less time than usual to read (which seems backwards...).
On words, now there's even more reason to like merriam-webster.com. They have comments enabled on all of their definition pages. "What made you want to look up [word]? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)." It's so interesting to read!
Today the word "tupping" came up in RP. It's unusual for me to not know a word (happy day! New word!), I usually just look things up to find out the spelling. Look at the variety of comments on that word! So interesting. :)
* I started tracking the books I read because of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge comm. I knew I'd never get to 50 in a year, so I'm posting here instead of there. My goal was half that, 25 books in a year, which would mean basically two per month.
Edit: Oh hey, YAY! I just noticed my IC Twitter account crossed the 10,000 message (tweets/IC "pages") mark! Luckily the books are ICly magic, otherwise Thistle would get a backache lugging around a 10,000 page book. :D Here's to 10,000 more IC posts!
I loved this book so much. So very much. King is such a good storyteller, and a story is exactly what this book was...
So in the book, the main character of the Dark Tower series was telling a story.
In that story, the main character was telling a story.
That "innermost" story was the majority of this book.
It was such a "classic adventure" story -- a boy goes on a mission to save his mother, with all the expected elements of a fantasy adventure story (wizard, dragon), but it was all in neat, original ways. (I really loved the dragon. ...heck and the good wizard too.)
The story in a story in a story idea was really great too. Once I finished the innermost story, the sad feeling I get at the end of a good book was absent... because the book wasn't done! Then when the next story ended, again there was no sadness, because the outermost story wasn't done. And by the time the last story ended? I had had three good endings, so I really couldn't feel sad at all.
I feel like I'm behind in my reading, though I have no real schedule*. I had been hitting two books per month, which was a nice pace, but I'd need to finish two more in the next two weeks to maintain that. Cruise is coming up, but unfortunately I'll likely have even less time than usual to read (which seems backwards...).
On words, now there's even more reason to like merriam-webster.com. They have comments enabled on all of their definition pages. "What made you want to look up [word]? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)." It's so interesting to read!
Today the word "tupping" came up in RP. It's unusual for me to not know a word (happy day! New word!), I usually just look things up to find out the spelling. Look at the variety of comments on that word! So interesting. :)
* I started tracking the books I read because of the
50bookchallenge comm. I knew I'd never get to 50 in a year, so I'm posting here instead of there. My goal was half that, 25 books in a year, which would mean basically two per month.Edit: Oh hey, YAY! I just noticed my IC Twitter account crossed the 10,000 message (tweets/IC "pages") mark! Luckily the books are ICly magic, otherwise Thistle would get a backache lugging around a 10,000 page book. :D Here's to 10,000 more IC posts!
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Date: 2012-05-17 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-17 02:26 pm (UTC)Basically it doesn't matter what server you're from, so long as you want to RP. You just make a Twitter account for your character (if you use Twitter for RL stuff or want to write for multiple characters, there's a program called TweetDeck that makes it easy to handle multiple accounts without logging in/out).
Once you have your account, you just need folks to follow. There are pages of them listed in that thread, but the better way is to go to someone's active account (mine, for example, linked in the post), and just follow all the people that person interacts with. That way you know you're getting active accounts.
ICly, your character finds or is given a book/tome. If you want to find one, they're all over the place, stacks in every city, lost ones in the wild. (A few people use a "box" instead of a book, a goblin-made thing that they use to speak to everyone else in the project. Those folks can include things like noises and laughter, but a box instead of a book is NOT encouraged.)
The books are magic. What you write in them appears in everyone else's book. The "front pages" (main tweets) can be seen by anyone who has your name written into the back of their book (followed you). The "back pages" are private and can be seen only by one other person (PMs).
It's tons of fun. It allows you to RP from anywhere and meet lots of new folks.
Let me know if you have any questions I didn't cover!
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Date: 2012-05-17 02:29 pm (UTC)Basically it lets me RP from everywhere. Work, home, waiting in an office for an appointment. Anywhere you can run Twitter, you can RP!
It's good for small doses of RP, too. Often times people don't have the multiple hours for a long sit-down RP scene, but with Twitter you can use the time you have.
I'm on it endlessly, it's always running at both home and work. It really lets me feel connected to others.
The only thing I dislike about it is something that comes up in all games and RPs: My hours of sleeping are often very different than others'. So much happens overnight while I'm asleep, I wake up to hundreds of pages (tweets) in the morning. So much missed RP!
I would have thought the text limit would drive me insane, but I became fine with it very quickly. It's a challenge, saying what you want to say in such a small number of characters.
Edit: Typo.
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Date: 2012-05-17 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-17 04:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-17 05:03 pm (UTC)