It's the end!

For a year and a half I've been working on a novella, and it's almost finished.  I've managed to put in a couple of things than will all tie together at the end, and I'm even a little satisfied with how it's gone so far.  I don't like my own work, so I'm always nitpicking it to pieces, but this time I'm not doing it as much.  This story sort of mixes a lot of things together, and I resolves it nicely. Even a couple of years ago I would've had trouble trying to finish a story and I'm nearing the end of this one, which is gratifying for a whole host of reasons.  I'm down to consulting my two "props" again.  One is a professional nameplate, I had made up for the main baddie, so I could sort of focus things on, and another is sort of this weird crossword puzzle looking thing I made up.  I took the villain name's name and wrote it in bold letters across a piece of paper, then I used the names of people I know that I didn't really like and used a letter of the villain's name and matched with a corresponding letter in someone else's name.  It's sort of gives my villian real traits, because now I see real people, emotions, and characteristics I can associate with my villain. The paper looks like I crossword puzzle now, as some name are sticking out of the villian's name at different directions, but I really found this to be a useful exercise.  I'm really trying to show my bad guy more deeply in these final chapters, and to resolve everything nicely in a way that makes sense. It's a shorter book, I wasn't sure I could just draw things out forever, and it's a story that should need hundreds of pages to finish anyway.  Plus, I wasn't sure people's attention spans can handle long books anymore, and I want to accommodate readers as well as write something I'm comfortable with, so I'm happy on all counts.  The finish line is fast approaching!

Motives

I'm a writer apparently.  It's really sort of a nothing job description because you're either not making much if anything, or you could be a colossal success, and the difference between success and not making is kind of a big one.  At any rate, at times it can be a title that tries to make a person seem more important than they really are.  Projection is everything.  People care what others think about them, it's science.  My point here isn't about titles, so much as it is about reality.  A writer is nothing.  With the exception of a select few telling about their exploits of things they did before writing, most writers seem to be people who don't do dangerous things, or things of real significance.  Most of them are people who fantasizing, at least fiction writers are.  Fiction writers are people who write heroes.  What they're really writing about are people are what they wish they could be.  I think that's really what writers are doing.  They write for themselves to see themselves as something stronger, smarter, better than what they really are.  At least, that's what I'm doing in my stories.  There's enough of some aspects of life that I'm trying to slip into my stories, and resolve things in a way real life never got the chance to.  There's some gratifying in that it motivates you to finish whatever it is you're working, but there's always a reminder life didn't turn out the way it could have, or should have.                                            

Millennials

This generation is probably the worse generation.  While 18 kids could be counted on to be sent off to Europe to fight Hitler in the 1940s, these days Millennials can be counted to whiny little nervous wrecks if they don't get their pumpkin spice lattes, or frappuccinos, just the way they want them.  Kids were going off to die fighting the Nazis, and these days kids are playing video games acting like they're in Special Forces.  This is a generation that think having a YouTube channel means you're famous.  These are the same idiot emo generation that wears pants so tight you'd think they were all wearing tights or something.  This participation trophy bunch can barely stay off their phones long enough to do five minutes of work in an eight hour work day.  I have to deal with this kind of pussy shit on a regular basis. My boss often gets people to help with the work we do, which is mostly manual labor.  These little assholes can't go a few minutes without checking their phones every five minutes to see if they got a text from their boyfriends or something.  These entitled little douchebags think their degree in art history will give them some kind of special knowledge about the world, while the rest of us are trying to figure out how to get something done besides wiping our ass in the course of a day.

Has anybody told them to stop cracking their knuckle, tapping the glass on their iPhones every five seconds, or to close their mouths when they're eating?  Do they have any concept of productivity, or usefulness?  It's like we went from the greatest generation to the gayest generation.  The entirety of the world is trying to produce, live, or better themselves, and these little fools find work to be an inconvenience interrupting their Snapchat sessions.  I'm not sure who's to blame, society, lazy parenting, or these little pukes themselves, maybe it's a combination, but tend to think these people need to trying to wear fedoras ironically and figure how to do something that actually matters in life.  This is without question the worst generation ever.

Walking Dead Season 6 Finale

I wish I was writing a review of the Walking Dead finale, but instead I'm writing about reviews about reviews.  People are so upset about this because the finale did not show who died, only that someone from the viewer's point of view was getting beaten to death.  Supposedly there's clues as to who died, and if I get motivated enough I'll try to figure it out, though most likely I'll just wait till the Season 7 premiere.  It's' funny because some of the stuff I was reading online said things like, "the show is broken" or "this was a half-measure at best" as though the show is somehow on its last legs.  The very fact that people are whiny about the finale because they don't who died is an accomplishment in itself.  Personally I'm not excited about not knowing, I think it sucks not to know, but from a storytelling standpoint and from a TV writing standpoint it makes perfect sense.  If you're trying to up the game and be original why not do something other shows won't do, or are unable to do.  This thing has people talking.  That's the whole point.  You do something big, you do something unexpected, you do something that other stories won't.  This finale was a huge success, even if you hate it.  It leaves so many possibilities open, and it continues to follow the same model, or ripping you apart emotionally, the same way the zombies rip up everything else.