17 August 2007

Argyle

First off, it bothers me that video game publishers don't provide advance copies of most games to places that review games. It really bothers me that I have to wait up to a week or longer for games I am interested in to be reviewed. Specifically, I want to read a review of Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. It seems like it would be a game that I would like, but it also seems like a game that I think that I would like but then would never play again after the first week that I had it. I think that a good review would help me figure out which it is before I buy it.

Second, I have decided that when I do NaNoWriMo this year, my main character will be named Argyle, because Argyle is my favorite color. I don't know what kind of person he will be, but I am leaning towards a silent, or at least not much spoken protagonist. This is mainly because I am terrible at writing dialog.

"Terrible at writing dialog! That's awful."

Yes, it is.

Anywho, I also think that I am better at a first person narrative than a third person one, so I might have the narrator be Argyle's friend or sidekick, or I might have the story be told through Argyle's journal. If I go with the journal, then I can avoid dialog pretty easily.

"Yeah, 'cause who writes dialog in their journal."

I don't know who you are supposed to be, but yes, that is why I could avoid the dialog with a journal.

"You do so know who I'm supposed to be."

Sorry, I really don't.

"I'm the other voice in your internal dialog."

Don't you mean monologue?

"No, because you don't have an internal monologue. Your thoughts occur to you as a conversation with yourself. That is why you mishear people so often."

That's very interesting. And thanks for explaining that. Don't worry though. No one reads this, so I don't think you creeped anyone out.

"What about that person whose comment said, 'I like meat'?"

I don't think people who say things like that get creeped out.

"Good point."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm a little creeped out. But, I like argyle too.