Category: The Digital Feed

Creativity and my brain have always had a very terse relationship. I find myself looking for specific points of influence and for some reason my mind decides to laugh at me and go in a whole different direction. Lately I have been toying with the idea of a prequel story for one of my most popular and well established characters. It would be a fair departure from my normal writing in that story would be set in the “far future” without housing any major science fiction staples, but also due to the total lack of any supernatural elements.

In other words, no Runick Legends involvement.

Well as I have been laying the idea out, I had also been asked to design some villains for a story that a group of friends have been working on. Also relatively low key on the fantasy aspect, and responsible for the post I made the other day regarding consecutive drawings. And this is where my brain laughs at me.

In the midst of all the realistic story concept work I get an image burned into my mind about exactly how Grant Rünheist looks, behaves, how his skill with Elemental Wind works, the environment he ends up in looks, even the woman that he eventually loves and loses. All entirely awesome because he was always the black sheep of the Rünheist Lineage when it came to substance, but the total opposite of what I was trying to work on. Way to go, brain. This is why I may never make it as a contract based writer.

Still, I’m very much enjoying the Telekinetic-meets-Jedi-Knight aspects that Wind Mythics are taking on. I had always been a bit guarded about making the Star Wars comparison, but I’m realizing now that the multitude of fictional powers out there are really all just different names for the same functions anyhow. The Force did a lot for Star Wars because it was a vehicle for dynamic characters to do incredible things against amazing odds. That does not make it a unique concept, it makes it a brand. And I am going to give it my own take. If The Force is BAND-AID™, then Mythicism is a Vid’Avehn brand adhesive bandage.

Also, mine are blue.

Because blue is cooler, and scars are proof of experience.

— Vid

Because aesthetics are important to me, I’m putting this line in here. Even though really I’d prefer to start with the relevant quote, you get this because it looks silly up next to the avatar image.

So, there you have it. Could be a lot better, but could be a lot worse too.  Guess we’ll see how it looks after I finish posting, neh?

For the record? Bloody awful. I’ll fix it all later [this one too], but it failed to add italics, didn’t align the image properly, and put the whole post in block quotes. Twice.

— Vid

++ EDIT ++ Screw it. Changing the Avatar Image [expletives] it anyway. ++ EDIT ++

So in the spirit of always trying new things, I am attempting to make a post while on the go.  This is in fact being written from the WordPress application for Android.  You’ll have to pardon the mini-rant.

So far it isn’t too bad, but there are a few features I wouldn’t mind seeing.

A) Templates.  With the desktop version through the website I am actually able to set up post templates for myself or the other bastards to easily post articles to the Digital Feed. With the app I don’t seem able. Or it isn’t obvious as how to do so.

Which would be just as annoying.

If I have to go digging through options and menus, it kind of defeats the purpose of a quick and easy-to-use phone application.

2) Summaries. I know that seems like a small issue, but the summary iss also what gets added to the old posts section. If that is empty, then all it gets is a link with the title. Considering my titles are all relatively obscure puns that don’t fully make sense until you read the article, it makes them difficult to give quick reference material without the summary field.

III) Keyboards.

…yeah.

Formatting with Swype is a pain in the ass. The lack of mouse is no picnic either.

So, there you have it. Could be a lot better, but could be a lot worse too.  Guess we’ll see how it looks after I finish posting, neh?

–Vid