What's happening behind the scenes to bring new GHAWG content? The GHAWG Diaries is my recap of what I've been doing.
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Introduction
There's more to #ghawg than just daily zapfic entries and the spreadsheet I use to track them. There's research. There's review. There's also thought and inspiration. Then there are the tools involved in doing any of those tasks.
Just to keep things from getting scrambled in my head, and also to document for myself what I've been considering, I began keeping a diary of my activities as they concern #ghawg. With posts in the GHAWG, Uninterrupted series on hold at Interlude 3 while Act 7 remains in progress, I decided to share these diary entries with everyone on Hive blockchain.
On Mondays which don't feature a GHAWG, Uninterrupted post-- GHAWG-U-- I'll post diary entries from the previous 7 days or between GHAWG-U posts if the time between them is short. For Part 17, there are 7 days' worth of diary entries. The first entry starts on 2024-February-19.
Before anyone scratches their heads at a few terms, here are 3 I began using many posts ago:
| Term | Meaning |
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Rat Bike | Code name for #ghawg (the first and current zapfic serial) |
Blue Lion | Code name for the middle zapfic serial in the GHAWG Universe |
The Bronze | Code name for the final zapfic serial in the GHAWG Universe |
| Monday, 2024-February-19 |
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📓 Sometimes I listen to music from my collection to get in a frame of mind for something related to GHAWG. Usually it's a song on repeat, but on occasion it could be songs which fit a theme. In fact, GHAWG began with a piece of music: "A Watchful Guardian" by music composer Hans Zimmer. This was the ending theme for not only The Dark Knight (2008) but also The Dark Knight Rises (2012). It's a theme topic which appears periodically in the zapfic serial (currently the 1st serial, which I sometimes refer to as Rat Bike), and as it moves into the Old Route 66 phase it will appear again featuring different people. I'm just looking for a location where this makes sense. Over the next few days I'll write about other songs or music which have inspired me to build The GHAWG Universe.
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| Tuesday, 2024-February-20 |
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| 📓 Another song I've used in building The GHAWG Universe-- at the time, simply GHAWG-- was "Allentown" from the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel. Allentown is a steel town in Pennsylvania which had its heyday in the decades after World War II. By the 1970s hard times came to Allentown to stay, and the song is about what had been the promise of Allentown as well as what had become disappointment. The song was important enough for Billy Joel to include it as part of his history-making tour of the USSR in 1987. While Allentown isn't a tourist hotspot like New York, Berlin, Tokyo-- or even Roswell, New Mexico, US-- it was important enough for me to include in GHAWG as one of the first places where David Guardia would spend time or at least pass through. Having zero personal experience with Allentown myself, I have to believe that Allentown had bounced back a bit since its nadie in the 1970s and 1980s. Even if it's still experiencing hard times, it has to be better now than at the time Billy Joel composed the lyrics to the song. |
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📓 With the Weekly Summary post due tomorrow as per the accelerated posting schedule, I began work on it today. Once the clock strikes past midnight, I'll publish that post. 📓 Some time after Our Heroes reach Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, a low-level conflict will ensue. It will be centered around Sanjay Rampersad and Lindsay Etxeberria. Just as she's beginning to take more of an interest in him, Lindsay discovers that he is engaged to be married when he returns home to India. Although Sanjay had never deceived anyone regarding these plans, they had never come up in conversations during the ride to
When (and Where) To Catch #ghawgWhenThis is the normal schedule for the posting of content for #ghawg: (Plese note that the Weekly Summary posts will be posted on an accelerated schedule-- every 6 days rather than every Saturday-- in order to bring those posts in synch with the daily zapfic entries. Synchronization should be finished by Spring 2024.) Where● Daily zapfic entries drop at LeoThreads, usually posted shortly after midnight from New York (sometimes around noon)
This week I hope to have more content published and recorded to Hive blockchain. That's it for this edition of [!!] -- Graphic signature was designed by @ahmadmanga Posted Using InLeo Alpha |
