ROW80 Round 2 - 15th Update

Not much to report this week. It's been one of those weeks where every time I try to do something, it blows up in my face. I managed to get my conference paper done, but it is - to put it bluntly - rubbish. Well, it probably wasn't terrible, but it's not to the standard I would have liked. I wasn't well and I was running out of time and I'd had no sleep, so in the end it was a case of "just get the word count and hope for the best". Then again, even if the theoretical structure isn't brilliant, I can at least console myself that it was grammatically correct and coherent.

And then I had no internet from Tuesday morning to late Wednesday afternoon because of an ISP fail, which normally wouldn't upset me that much... But I need internet access to be able to do my final assignment for the semester (I need to be able to download models from the online database for Google SketchUp). On the bright side, I did manage to write a few hundred words of my novella, even though it was from a later chapter. I also got most of the planning work for my assignment sorted out. Still, now I'm back to working on my Narrative assignment, wondering how I can create a steampunk world out of relatively few steampunk-themed models (aside from the odd dirigible, SketchUp doesn't seem to have a great selection for the genre). Once I've constructed the world, I'll be taking still shots and animations from it, which will be imported into Flash. Then I'll be adding some text and navigation buttons, so the end product will be a steampunk choose-your-own-adventure interactive story thingy. Lots of work involved, but it will be fun.

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