Argh, motherland!

*stabs orig-fic story*

Been working on this sucker all weekend. +6K words should not have taken me this long. It's possible I've not worked on original fic in so long that I got out of practice a bit. I don't think my handle on the main character's character was really solid until the end, so I feel as if I need to go back and retool things. I'm really running into the problem of telling instead of showing, mostly because it's faster and I want to get to the action quicker. The problem is that there are some sections that I kept wanting to write in first person PoV, because it really needed the snarky-deft description. (One of these days, I will write a character who is not a snarky bastard. This day is not today.) But the whole thing is in third person, so that's a little frustrating.

Irritating thing is that the first draft is due tomorrow. What it really needs is about a week to be ignored and then me coming back to it and doing massive retooling. I'm too close to it right now. I can see the weak spots/problem areas but can't figure out how to FIX it.

Also, I really hate writing fiction in Word. If I could get away with it, I'd do it in Notepad++. The only thing stopping me from using LyX is that I don't know how to deal with the stupid headers the instructor is demanding. *grumblemutter*

Dare I believe my eyes?

I occasionally read Joystiq. Not nearly as often as I check out Engadget or RPGamer, but I do. Anyway, in my obsessive drive to avoid schoolwork watch P3P trailers endlessly find out if an English release date for P3P has been announced, I stumbled upon the following:

New 'Gaymer' Survey Explores Sexual Identity, Interest in Games

I haven't looked at the survey yet, but, holy shit you guys, it could be the exact opposite of SurveyFail! The guy who wrote the survey is himself a member of the community he's surveying! And his goal here is to make things better because he's a baby game designer!

Anyway, I'll probably take a look at the survey at some point, and I really, really hope it isn't full of Fail. But these excerpts from the Joystiq article are promising:
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(And yeah, he totally has a point about the pain female gamers have gone through with the industry trying to "reach" us. Oh, the stories I could tell...)