I’ve been really busy at work dealing with issues with backups and migrating data and the gaps I found in our software and with AWS.
I wanted to do a presentation and update our docs about it. I was promised that I’d have the time. All of a sudden I have no projects and new requirements and I’m always stressed out.
I like the concept of writing because it’s like a weekend to your work. Gives you a chance to put the full top at the end of a sentence and helps solidify what you’ve done in your mind.
Yes, I absolutely recommend this! Writing about what I learned was a course requirement at college last year, and I was… extremely thorough, but it worked so well. It solidified what I’d learned, helped me identify areas of improvement, and allowed me to make connections and ask questions that wouldn’t have occurred to me if I hadn’t been writing about what I’d learned during each week. I also found that writing about things I’d researched helped me analyse them much more effectively.
My teachers were less thrilled when, for the final module, I handed in a 240 page, handwritten, annotated book containing approximately 70k words for assessment. Got the highest possible grade (A+ equivalent) though, so I guess they didn’t mind that much. 😀
No, what happens is similar to when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and the quality rapidly degrades with each copy.
You are just learning a topic and write about it (some say you should “teach it”), and then others follow your writing while they’re learning, and so on, until the understanding of that topic has degraded tremendously because each layer understands it less than the last.
Talking or writing about your journey is one thing. Acting like you should “teach” it while you yourself are learning is ridiculous
I love the second more, just because I’m fed up with thinking about the first IRL. Pulling off the fight against this guy Uncle may be very rewarding for a reader, with high stakes and really tight mindgames\chases. If you feel like you have a well-reasoned villain to crown that, I’d go with #2.
Honestly, both sound really cliche. I feel like you described them that way on purpose, so we the readers would be able to easily get an idea of what each story will entail (which is one of the benefits of cliches), but descriptions like that mean that my brain says “oh, we’ve been there and done that A LOT”.
My brain is kind of a dick but it is right sometimes. I would be interested to see what makes these stories yours, what interesting spin you put into these cliches, before I make a choice.
However, since we are talking about them, I will say that while your second story sounds like a fantasy story, your first story sounds like it could be an intriguing SF story. “If people today were transported to a circa-1800’s society, what advances would they make 70 years later” is something that captures my interest. What would people who are accustomed to putting electricity into sand and making it show them cat pictures be able to accomplish if they were sent back to the 1800’s?
I know my previous paragraph kind of negates the paragraph before it, but humans are a cornucopia of contrast, and I am definitely a human and not a robot typing at a keyboard, hahaha
It honestly depends on how you are writing the web series. How this character dies should also bring about a whole plot line.
Nuclear radiation - Why? What accident happened? What changes in safety regulations?
Sci-fi disease - Why? Was it because of first contact? Does that hinder the relationship with that alien creature?
alien creature - Why? Are they just big baddies who don’t have any motivations of their own except to be a big bad or is this an alien creature mob boss and they had to kill this person to keep a secret safe?
Lots of places you can take this death but overall it should reflect what you are going to be writing.
What is the most dramatic way? Could another protagonist die from it when one of them chose to save the day instead? Can it be a daily ocurrance, and that guy was just the unlucky one?
Was it something just utterly mundane like having their feet stuck in something? Does that guy have actually to die to finalise their character arc in a satisfying way?
Be aware how slow and gruesome dying of radiation poisoning can be unless the dose is immideately fatal. including a day where they feel much better, the Walking-Ghost-Phase
This would be a massive burst from all directions, absorbed through a faulty radiation suit. In my rough plan, the protagonists find a secret research station underground, where experiments were run involving delta radiation (which is a real thing, look it up).
Of course! I can´t imagine anything more devastating and heart breaking than having put lots of effort into something, be it an artwork, a music piece or a story, and then nobody reads or comment on it.
I would probably not do a disease unless you are are trying to evoke feelings related to covid, or it’s very, very different in symptoms. (and maybe not even then) - only because I feel like that’s carrying a lot of baggage right now for some folks.
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