What i came up with over the past two days

doner0

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July 08 2013 04:41 GMT

Over the past two days as suggested from the last blog I have been working on some important ideas in my head. Most of these have revolved around game development and writing, of which both have been moving along quite well (besides a few missing semi-colons :/ ). Anyways my unity work has been moving along well and I learned its version of JavaScript in a day which was a nice little confidence boost if I do say so myself. It’s easy, but now I’m moving on to where I have to learn about their classes and how they relate to game objects. This is the part which I really disliked about developing with XCode (for those that don’t know this is how you develop applications directly with apple); it proved to be extremely frustrating to search for the right class to get the job done. In the end of learning objective-C and XCode I decided it wasn’t worth it and that C++ is easily my favorite language up to this point, but JavaScript is giving it a run for its money at this point. I’m hopeful for unity though because JavaScript has made a lot more sense than objective-C despite my overall knowledge of C based programming.
Moving onto the writing aspect of my last two days I have been reading On Writing by Stephen King and I finished it maybe 5 minutes prior to writing this blog. Overall it was an incredible read and even if you aren’t an aspiring writer I would recommend it. Hearing his stories and take on things was simply fascinating. He has a refreshing take on things and is not afraid to tell the truth, which was invigorating. Now I won’t go over the whole book but rest assured your money could be spent on a lot worse.
Anyways I’m going to begin writing a thousand words a day as per the advice in the book and while my efforts won’t be initially seen on this blog, they will eventually. I say this because I plan to start creating two to four thousand word stories rather than the small, small stories that I have been putting on the blog up to this point. What this means also is that there will be some down time because the editing process will be a lot more strenuous. Furthermore, this will also mean that there will be downtime between each story so that I can properly edit it (with the help of others as well). Every single story I produce over the summer, and am happy with, I will put up on this blog so that I can get your feedback and improve. After the summer the future isn’t really clear just because I will have a full course load again and that can be time consuming. I will, however, do my best to keep putting up stories and improving. While I know at this point I may not be the best writer that has ever graced teamliquid hopefully, eventually I will have some people that look forward to reading the stories that I post.
As for my current reading now that I have finished On Writing, I have began to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I have chosen this mainly because I saw that Day[9] posted a “Why We Like It” about it so I of course have to read the book before I hear them talk about it, and of course spoil it. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to reading any suggestions or notifications of my horrible grammar in this thing (I apologize).