NaNoWriMo update: failure!

[tuftears]

I got about 8.5k words done on the proposed Genies: Rocking the Cradle story.

I kind of bogged down though... The real world is too depressing for writing about a bunch of psychopaths. I'm trying to think of a replacement writing project, something that will be just more silly fun.

What do you guys think of the idea of a Starfleet Cooking Academy?

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[tuftears]

I was actually pondering whether to use the 'battle with cooking' trope, and how to structure it if so. Since this would be an academy story, it's natural the protagonist(s) are going to be challenged on how well they can actually cook, within a set of constraints, and competing against one another would be one way to settle that issue.

I really enjoy the cooking-competition genre and the 'cooking in weird settings' genre -- for examples of both, see Food Wars (Shokugeki no Soma) for the former, and Delicious Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) for the latter.

[xyzzysqrl]

I have NOT in fact seen those and after some cursory research I can only ask WHY NOT. I'm going to have to see more of those later.

[tuftears]

Hope you enjoy them! Game-wise, I also recently finished playing Battle Chef Brigade, which is a fantasy take on cooking battles. :)

[jordangreywolf]

Oh! I remember seeing that on a Steam preview! I had to show that one to Gwendel. She thought it was cute, but she's got quite a backlog of "cute" games she's gotten in Steam sales that she's not even PLAYED yet. (And I'm not so much into side-scroller-hopper games, though the concept looks adorable.)

[tuftears]

Yeah, I'd love there to be a Battle Chef Brigade anime. ^_^

[xyzzysqrl]

I'm intrigued by it myself!

It may end up somewhere in the Eternal Backlog Engine at some point.