Thursday, August 6, 2009

Humorbot 1.0 down, pun ratio through the roof. Had to throw them all out, jokes to return shorlty.

I’ve been thinking of extending the story “Loop See Loop”. I've actually been thinking of lengthening it for awhile now. It was originally written for a magazine called “Eon”. It is a great magazine for the game “Eve Online”. I always wanted it to be a bit longer to build tension and add a bit more atmosphere but the magazine had a limit of about 4 pages for short stories. Still, I think at 4 pages it works pretty well. I might flesh it out a bit more and change some of the details (explain some of the tech that Eve players knew but a general audience would need info) and submit it to some sci-fi short story books or magazines. I've considered trying to stretch it out to a whole book but I just don't think there is that much there. I try to avoid overworking what I am doing. If it feels right as a short story then that is what it is. It just seems like cheating, adding a bunch of filler to stretch something out. So I doubt it will be lengthened much but it could be a richer story.

Humorbot has demanded I include something funny in my boring post. Since Humorbot is on the fritz I will have to do it myself. Without the aid of a humorous robot the jokes will be suspect at best. Read at your own risk, freshness not guaranteed.

Crunchberries NOT real berries. I am looking into his captains license as well but the boo berry ghost assures me that he and franken berry are on the up and up, and only include the realist of ingredients. Boo berries and franken berries do not naturally exist on this plane. They have been made real berries by an octocorn, that is an octopus with with a unicorn horn at the end of each tentacle. He wills each berry into existence, and that is why it is so damn hard to find boo berry even when people talk about it all the time.

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