On Trying Writing Again

[grayestofghosts]

I'm trying to write again, after... so much starting and stopping over the pandemic. I suppose I should not feel like I haven't done anything as I managed to write a whole 18,000 word piece of fanfiction back in like, March, and I've been writing tons of snippets off and on for the last two years including multiple Frankenstein projects. It's... uncomfortable. I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. I got the fancy leuchtturm and fountain pen and everything to see if I can feel it and I'm not, but maybe it's just a muscle I do not have right now. I don't know.

However what I thought was funny was the published news on "necrobiotics", or the repurposing of dead tissue for robotics, with the proof-of-concept being using a pump pierced into a dead spider as a gripping tool. This normally wouldn't be funny except that about last week I was coming up with one of the concepts I was working on now, which was a mech suit made for a human that could run for about a month or so after the wearer had died, or could perhaps be rigged up to run with a corpse to begin with. The original idea was about insuring the investment of the mech suit but this paper kind of makes it sound a little more believable why this would work, if not still disturbing.



Anyway, if you're curious on the fanfiction it's a Critical Role/Legend of Vox Machina piece called Trust Exercises. Mostly Percy and Pike, though not as a ship.

Comments

[alaterdate]

I saw a video of them using the dead spiders to grab things. It's incredibly creepy, but also genius. It would make for amazing horror to describe something similar being done to a human corpse.

I'm also struggling getting back into writing. A new notebook and a fountain pen sounds like a great first step, I hope you can get back into the swing of things! It's hard!

[grayestofghosts]

Yes. I was using a cheap notebook that I had bought a ton of during back-to-school sales a couple years ago and was realizing… my fountain pen? Dragging. It wasn’t tactilely pleasant. So. Try something widely considered “good” (Leucttrum). I almost feel like at this point I’m used to glide on the level of Tomoe River paper, but there’s no way I can really afford that.

Necrobiotics is so interesting because like. It seems like a lot of surface-level science fiction misses how much stuff is just repurposing other stuff. And this is the natural conclusion…