What's happening behind the scenes to bring new GHAWG content? The GHAWG Diaries is my recap of what I've been doing.
Base image came in another form from PublicDomainPictures.Net. Edits made using MS Paint.
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 Act 5 while Act 6 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 7, there are 7 days' worth of diary entries. The first entry starts on 2023-November-13.
Before anyone scratches their heads at a few terms, here are 3 I began using since the previous post:
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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, 2023-November-13 |
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📓 It turns out I had a couple of duplicate zapfic entries with different dates in the queue, so I needed to delete them and then resequence the queue. It wasn't fun, but I shouldn't have been surprised to have that situation since I had the story queued into January 2024. 📓 On my way home I was rethinking both David Guardia's "blackout" sequence and Rhonda Bella's dream right after. The original idea for these two events is to show how David Guardia made a mistake which would cost him dearly (and then we see the aftermath of that mistake). Once I decided to turn the daily zapfic serial#GHAWG into The GHAWG Universe, I decided the David Guardia was going to follow a trajectory similar to Job: a man who had it all in life only to lose it all as a test of his faith in The Lord. This was still going to happen, but I set up David Guardia to reap the consequences of hasty decision-making. Upon further review, I decided to remove the mistake element but keep the Job element. As a result, I rewrote both the "blackout" sequence and the dream; these two set up Blue Lion and The Bronze. It also gives me the benefit of simplifying things a bit for me when it's time to publish these threads to blockchain in the future.
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| Tuesday, 2023-November-14 |
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| 📓 With the time it's been taking me to work on Fun with Maps posts, it hasn't left me much time to further develop The GHAWG Universe. For the first time in many months, I've had weeks with multiple 0-post days not due to technology (or billing) woes. On the bright side, I'm refining my process for working on Fun with Maps posts. Another element is timing: queue up a few between Friday and Tuesday since Saturday and Monday are devoted to regularly scheduled posts which almost write themselves. |
| Wednesday, 2023-November-15 |
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📓 One thing David Guardia will do in Blue Lion is public speaking. He will be relating his experiences from his ride to STURGIS back in Rat Bike. One thing I need to do is come up with a portion of his speech which shows how his life had changed as a result of that ride. The speech also covers events which will have taken place over the course of a few years after the ride.If I attach visuals to the speech, they will show how he goes from a one-man business before the ride to a large "small business" enterprise. Some of these visuals include media coverage, and others show him and his people in action. Although he would be more sophisticated and refined, he would still live a relatively reserved life given his newfound status. Now that I wrote about this idea, I'll let the subconscious mind work on it and get the mental gears churning. |
| Thursday, 2023-November-16 |
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📓 Years ago, I forget where, I read an article about how George Lucas has backstories for every character he created. Even characters which never made it into his movies had their own stories. One thing I could do for GHAWG is provide dossiers or character sketches. So far I can make dossiers/sketches for these characters:
Others who need dossiers/sketches include these people:
That's at least 27 dossiers/sketches I need to make up. I didn't even get into the charatcers introduced in the post-STURGIS portion of #GHAWG, but I wouldn't be surprised if that puts me at 54 dossiers/sketches. If anything, I'll begin working on these in early 2024. As a reference, [GHAWG](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/ghawgnav-navigating-the-ghawg-universe) has nothing on [LeoGlossary](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-main-menu), but it's already become a beast in its own right. |
| Friday, 2023-November-17 |
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📓 I have the graphics made for Fun With Maps 12. This map is focused on Sandusky, Ohio. {I had my reasons}() for making this a stop on the way to STURGIS, so it ranks first on the list of 6 interesting places. The other 5 places on this section of digital map have an international flavor: Berlin {Heights}, Ceylon, Havana, Milan, and Peru. This isn't the first time I encounter this situation, but it's the first time I get to write about it. I'll get another chance to write about a similar situation as the map review covers the area between the cities of Bozeman and Butte in Montana. |
| Saturday, 2023-November-18 |
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| 📓 Not much was done on the GHAWG side of things, but I managed to get the Weekly Summary post published. 2 extra entries were posted during the 7 days covered (2023Oct05-11). One entry is out of sequence, and it's to backfill a gap in David Guardia's story. The other entry is in sequence and running parallel to the main story. This parallel entry shore more after effects from the prophecy he gave to City of Seattle officials at the block party. Ultimately the city residents will vote for their new leaders, but they will end up with interim leaders at many positions (elective and appointed). |
| Sunday, 2023-November-19 |
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📓 Timing is out of whack for me today, but I managed to post not only theday's zapfic entry but also another Fun with Maps post for GBTS. All that remains is the cover image for this post, and thanks to Excel all I have to do is crop the screen capture in MS Paint before I upload the image to Ecency for inclusion in the post to be published. 📓 It's been a while since I reviewed the digital map for California between San Bernardino and Arizona. It turns out that much of that area is sparsely populated since that is where the Mojave Desert is located. Where sufficient population exists, multiple zapfic entries will cover one stop; otherwise, several places will be skipped over in one entry. Think of those scenes in an Indiana Jones movie where he's flying over land and the globe is shown with place names. |
Navigation to Other GHAWG Diaries
As more posts become available, this section will be updated with links to them.
When (and Where) To Catch #GHAWG
When
This is the normal schedule for the posting of content for #GHAWG:
● Daily -- Each zapfic entry is posted shortly after midnight, from New York
● Weekends -- Weekly Summaries (with modified screen capture from LeoThreads as cover image) are usually on Saturday, sometimes Sunday
● Monday -- Either GHAWG, Uninterrupted if present, or The GHAWG Diaries
● Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday -- GHAWG Behind the Scenes -- The goal is to publish these posts on all days not dedicated to the Weekly Sumamry, GHAWH-U, or The GHAWG Diaries (TGD). There may be days with no post, so I'll minimize those occasions as best as I can.
Where
● Daily zapfic entries drop at LeoThreads, usually posted shortly after midnight from New York (sometimes around noon)
● All long form posts-- Weekly Summaries, GHAWG-U, and TGD-- can be accessed using the #GHAWGnav sticky post or from my LeoFinance profile page
This week I hope to have more content published and recorded to Hive blockchain.
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