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A lovely time!
Sep. 22nd, 2024 07:19 pmI went on the writing retreat, and it was just lovely. I had a great time with friends and did a lot of work on a short story that I'll read at a scary Christmas story reading. It needs a bit more tweaking to be entirely comprehensible, but I'm pretty happy with it. It is so short that I was just able to copy and paste the whole thing into the chat window for my chosen AI and discuss what it thought the story was about and what I could do to make it more clear. I could make dozens of revisions, and the AI doesn't have any problem with reading each one of them and commenting. It is so nice! It doesn't always have the perfect suggestions, but it helps, especially with "which words did I repeat too often".
By the time I got home, I was so talked out, so I shoved the laundry in the washing machine and played like 4 hours of Green Hell, which is a kind of survival/tech tree game. I had been really struggling to get new tech tree branches to open up, but while I was looking for Brazil nuts (on Friday before the retreat), I spotted a location that I was supposed to visit. Then, while I was on the retreat, I realized what I needed to do to transport water more quickly. So, when I got home, I implemented my water plan, which worked great and enabled me to get so much more done (I had been carrying a single coconut half one at a time to the fire to boil water, but I replaced that with using a whole coconut, which had been for clean water, to carry dirty water to the fire to fill four coconut bowls at once). I also went and visited the village that I spotted on Friday, and that opened up a bunch of things I had been waiting on, like a map, meat dryer, and a fire pit. Plus, I found another coconut, so now I can carry twice as much water, and Brazil nuts. I can use their shells for mixing paint or making a bobber for a fishing pole, which I think will then let me create a fishing trap. Now that I'm doing a bit better in the game, I'm enjoying it a bit more.
By the time I got home, I was so talked out, so I shoved the laundry in the washing machine and played like 4 hours of Green Hell, which is a kind of survival/tech tree game. I had been really struggling to get new tech tree branches to open up, but while I was looking for Brazil nuts (on Friday before the retreat), I spotted a location that I was supposed to visit. Then, while I was on the retreat, I realized what I needed to do to transport water more quickly. So, when I got home, I implemented my water plan, which worked great and enabled me to get so much more done (I had been carrying a single coconut half one at a time to the fire to boil water, but I replaced that with using a whole coconut, which had been for clean water, to carry dirty water to the fire to fill four coconut bowls at once). I also went and visited the village that I spotted on Friday, and that opened up a bunch of things I had been waiting on, like a map, meat dryer, and a fire pit. Plus, I found another coconut, so now I can carry twice as much water, and Brazil nuts. I can use their shells for mixing paint or making a bobber for a fishing pole, which I think will then let me create a fishing trap. Now that I'm doing a bit better in the game, I'm enjoying it a bit more.
