Version 10.0 underway!...(plus some whining)

PROJECT UPDATES:

• Started to rewrite the already excisting text with the updated lore. No need for complete abandoning of the old text, but there's definitely heavy editing ahead. But now the lurking plotholes are killed for good.
• Some charaters are creating relationships on their own without asking me. Sneaky bastards!
• Preliminary maps of the characters' home world drawn with the help of our old friend Microsoft Paint! XD

REAL LIFE UPDATES:

• Studying Japanese at open university.
• Rest in Peace Granny...
• Has temperature rising again without any obvious reason.

OBSESSING WITH:

• GACKT
• Inception-soundtrack
• Japanese language

WORRYING OVER:

• Current situation of China picking a fight with Japan...NOOOOO, don't you dare destroy Japan before I get to see the place myself! Bad China!
• Health of many people, including yours truly.

Gargantuan update

PROJECT UPDATE:

• The updated and improved lore is almost finished. This will bring major changes to the already existing text, but now the biggest plotholes looming in the horizon are defeated. Yay! :)
• The story will become even more character-oriented than I thought.

Quantum-level Project-updates

PROJECT UPDATES:

• Has realized that in order to avoid some issues and plotholes, the Project's lore needs a much stronger foundation as a framework to build on. Therefore there will be gigantic changes coming to the structure of the script. Oh boy...
• Wonders how mature the story should become. Gore? Partial nudity? To whom is this story meant for?

RL-UPDATES:

• Japanese, GACKT...yada yada yada...(the same shit)

The Kingdom of Doubt and Uncertanity

I finished "Remembering the Kanji 1" (RTK1 among friends) about a week ago. I've now familiarized myself with 2200 Jouyo-kanji. I know it's a wonderful achievement, and something only the ones who are dead-serious about learning Japanese do, but somehow this feels...useless. I know RTK gives a very solid base for my Japanese, but the fact is I'm still not functional in the language, far from it. Again, this is something I knew would be the case before I even started, because RTK is just a foreplay, it's not the real Japanese. I know I'm not even supposed to be functional after just 8 months of intensive studies, but... I guess the biggest disturbances are, am I doing enough and is all of this even worth doing?

Especially since about a year from now on I'll be in serious financial troubles, since the bank makes me start paying back my huge student-loan then. If I had a job, it would be no problem. But about 70€/month is a big money for an unemployed. I'd want to have a real career by then, a career I love and want to advance in. But...can one become fluent in just 20 months (someone else than Khatzumoto-sensei)? Could I finish The Project by then? Even if I did, would I get a living through it? There are too many questions, and not enough answers. The only thing I know, is that I can't waste my life in a job I hate. I can't and I won't. But where should I start fixing this? I hate being poor.

Miniscule Updates...

THE PROJECT-UPDATES

• Got feedback for chapters 1-7 from Reader #1. Oh God, my typos and brainfarts in the text!...Asked for dozens of more opinions about the characters and structure from the Reader #1. Poor thing...
• Mulling over what to do with the lore of the Project. Wonders if certain details should be changed now before they become plotholes, or rather wait and see whether they actually become ones.
• Still filling up the gap in the plot in chapter 9.

REAL-LIFE UPDATES

• The gym is under annual maintenance, so I have quite the withdrawal symptoms since my nice little routine is now broken...Luckily it will open again within few weeks so I can continue. Yayyy!
• Didn't get to study game design at Outokumpu. Well, it's their loss...
• Became part of an interesting translation project with an Indian acquintance. 
• Japanese, Japanese, Japanese!
• Still attracting the not-attractive-in-my-eyes-type of guys...grrrrr.
• New apartment is freakin' awesome!

CURRENTLY OBSESSING OVER:

• GACKT
• Japanese language
• Battlestar Galactica
• Getting into shape

Small steps...

PROJECT UPDATES:

• The gap between the pre-planned sections is narrowing down slowly but surely.
• Few adjustments in details on Part 8.

PERSONAL UPDATES:

• Still ill.
• Japanese is still the coolest thing ever.
• Matenrou Opera is a wonderful band.
• Has applied for game desing at Outokumpu.

Language Immersion & The Project -troubles...

THE PROJECT-UPDATES:

I've been trying to cross the only gap in the plot which hasn't been pre-planned. I have serious trouble in coming up with something that would fit the story, but not be useless for the whole package. I have a big no-no for all useless padding in stories. But maybe this problem solves itself if I let it marinate in my subconciousness on it's own. It has happened before with The Project. One morning I'll just wake up, and know exactly how to continue the story. Hopefully.

REAL-LIFE UPDATES:

However, I am a little woried about what my Japanese-immersion does to The Project. I'm not sure if my brain can concentrate on two gargatuan projects at once. But then again, there's no going back now. I won't quit Japanese. I can already recognize and remember about half of the kanji I've gone through (maybe about 100 out of 200) and my understanding of the spoken language improves daily. I can't really speak Japanese (yet) or understand full sentences (yet) but I will. If I just keep on going, I will. If I quit now, all I've done so far would be in vain.

And most of all, I have tons of fun with Japanese! I get to listen to as much cool Japanese music as I want to (GACKT, Girugamesh and Alice Nine <3) and watch shitload of anime and tv-series. All this is so much fun and feels so good I don't want to quit! Even the kanji are fun. I guess you could say that I currently live and breathe Japanese language. I let the language seduce me, I let it take me fully. In return, I absorb everything it gives me. How else could I achieve a real fluency? To be able to talk with real Japanese people in Japanese, read magazines or manga, watch movies without subs and understand the lyrics of wonderful songs...yes. YES. That is what I want. And today I have all the tools I need for it. The Project will take care of itself, Japanese is the one that requires my affection at the moment.

*End of obsessed, arrogant and strangely sexual rant*

Small Updates...

PROJECT UPDATES:

• Small adjustments here and there (mostly on the sentence structures an such).
  
  
• Fixing typos.
  
  
• Now entities like the characters aren't allowed to go among mortals without permission. You may guess the likely reason.