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Passive Voice, Active Voice
Jun. 18th, 2016 06:30 amOne of the major issues I'm experiencing lately is that I have -- as it is put in some circles -- become accustomed to a certain kind of lifestyle and am experiencing some difficulties moving away from it. Usually people who say that are talking about money, though. I'm talking about a different, slightly compulsive behavior.
I haven't been doing a lot of gameblogging here because I haven't been playing very narrative-driven games lately. A couple weeks ago, though, I absently took a book off the bookshelf and read for a while, but I kept feeling weird and twitchy while I was doing it. I couldn't get wrapped up in the story at all. Tried watching some TV on Netflix, same thing. I kept wanting to just stop.
I think I figured it out though. I opened an eBook on the PC and let myself read, and found I was typing comments in a file next to the window.
I want to ANNOTATE it. I want to write my opinions in a column down the side of the page or something. I want to overlay a subtitle track of riffing on the movie I'm watching. I've tied "Experience Creative Media" so tightly to "Blog About It" I don't know if I -can- passively read a book anymore.
I guess the only thing for it is to download some eBook software that lets me write virtual footnotes/margin notes and just let myself hypertext the absolute high holy shit out of a novel or something. This is not really a problem I foresaw myself having.
I haven't been doing a lot of gameblogging here because I haven't been playing very narrative-driven games lately. A couple weeks ago, though, I absently took a book off the bookshelf and read for a while, but I kept feeling weird and twitchy while I was doing it. I couldn't get wrapped up in the story at all. Tried watching some TV on Netflix, same thing. I kept wanting to just stop.
I think I figured it out though. I opened an eBook on the PC and let myself read, and found I was typing comments in a file next to the window.
I want to ANNOTATE it. I want to write my opinions in a column down the side of the page or something. I want to overlay a subtitle track of riffing on the movie I'm watching. I've tied "Experience Creative Media" so tightly to "Blog About It" I don't know if I -can- passively read a book anymore.
I guess the only thing for it is to download some eBook software that lets me write virtual footnotes/margin notes and just let myself hypertext the absolute high holy shit out of a novel or something. This is not really a problem I foresaw myself having.
