The GHAWG Diaries, Part 13

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 Act 6 while Interlude 3 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 13, there are 7 days' worth of diary entries. The first entry starts on 2024-January-1.

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Before anyone scratches their heads at a few terms, here are 3 I began using since the previous post:

Term	Meaning
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-January-01

📓 HAPPY NEW YEAR!! HAPPY 2024!! If 2023 was a good year for you, may 2024 be an even better year for you. If 2023 sucked, then may 2024 be promising and rewarding. 📓 Is __GHAWG__ following _me_?? While having a meal at a local pizzeria the television is showing the computer animated movie _Cars_. When it was first released, _Cars_ received rave reviews from both critics and moviegoers. At the time, it wasn't my kind of movie, so I didn't see it; my interests then were more along the lines of American series such as _Family Guy_ and Japanese anime such as _Bleach_ and _Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex_. So why am I mentioning _Cars_? An integral part of the movie's story is Old Route 66. What I know about Old Route 66 is based on two things: the lyrics to the iconic song redone numerous times since its debut in 1946, and research I've been doing on it in service to GHAWG. I recognized Kingman, Arizona and Barstow, California on bumper stickers. I recognized certain landmarks even though they were renamed. The movie even had a story explaining the stretch of Old Route 66 near Radiator Springs, the movie's main setting which was bypassed when Interstate 40 was built to supercede Route 66. Before having my meal, I had no idea that _Cars_ had any of those details. Now I will find time in 2024 to see _Cars_ to get a better understanding of the story. Whatever this movie is like, I can say with certainty that it would never have been made in the environment under the current Disney (and Pixar) umbrella.

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Tuesday, 2024-January-02

📓 Today I added more details to the character dossier for David Guardia, and I began the character dossier for Rhonda Bella. These (among others) are very much under construction, the way many web sites were during the early days of the graphical Worldwide Web. Besides sidebars containing details, these dossiers also need summaries or backstories. Once I have enough of those done, I will publish them to blockchain. 📓 When I began publishing Weekly Summary posts for the zapfic entries posted during the previous 7 days, they were 2 months behind schedule. Now that 2024 is here, I decided to get the Weekly Summary posts caught up with the day-to-day zapfic entries posted at LeoThreads. Instead of publishing the Weekly Summary posts on Saturdays, 7 days apart, I will publish the Weekly Summary posts every 6 days. The next Weekly Summary Post will be published on Friday 2024-January-05. Because some zapfic entries were meant to be treated as a set, the number of zapfic entries in each post will vary. The Weekly Summary posts should be in synch with the daily zapfic serial shortly after 2024-February-10.

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Wednesday, 2024-January-03
📓 In order to begin the temporary switch to a 6-day schedule for the Weekly Summary posts, I prepared the raw data for the post to be published on Friday 2024-January-05. All that's left is to insert the raw data into a text file I use before I publish the post.

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Thursday, 2024-January-04

📓 Besides getting the Weekly Summary post queued up for publishing on Thusday, I was looking for a place along Old Route 66 where something could happen. Whether it's David Guardia going biblical on local government officials or getting slugged in the face by a Frank Sinatra hater in Defiance, Ohio, something needs to happen to advance the story or get characters involved (or both). Although it may happen before then, I'm expecting to have some incident take place in Texas. Even though Old Route 66 has 186 miles in Texas-- the 2nd fewest miles with Kansas at 13 miles-- it may have more populated areas than New Mexico. It's easier for things to happen when people happen to be around.

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Friday, 2024-January-05

📓 The Christmas Season ends tomorrow. As far as GHAWG is concerned, neither Christmas Day nor The Epiphany (the 12th Day, when the 3 Wise Men arrive to offer gifts to the newborn King of Kings) will arrive during the course of Rat Bike. As of the time this post is published, Our Heroes have 3 milestones left to reach before I can conclude GHAWG: 1) They ride Old Route 66 in reverse to Chicago, Illinois, US; 2) Our Heroes arrive at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Kids start their final year in college; and 3) Our Heroes (by this time, numbering 5) swing back to Iowa. The sequel zapfic series, currently code-named Blue Lion, begins with a quick transition into the first few years of life after the end of David Guardia's Epic Ride before going into the later years where most of the focus of the story will be. While I had much of the framework defined for Blue Lion already, recently I decided to add an element or two from Rhonda Bella's past. These will be brief touches, but they will add flavor to the story.

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Saturday, 2024-January-06

📓 Today is the final day of the 12 Days of Christmas, made famous in the song of the same name. As I noted yesterday, it's also the day (according to tradition) the Three Wise Men (also known as the Three Kings) arrived at Bethlehem to render honors and gifts to the newborn King of Kings. Knowing this detail, it makes sense to exchange gifts on this day rather than on Christmas Day. It will also be much more economical for everyone involved (which would be all of us). 📓 Usually the Weekly Summary post is published on Saturdays. Since this weekend was the final weekend of 2023, I decided to postpone the Weekly Summary to Sunday, 2023-December-31 (New Year's Eve). The GHAWG Diaries is still going to be publihsed today, 2024-January-01 (New Year's Day). 📓 Now that I determined on Friday the birthdate for Rhonda Bella, I need to see where in Rat Bike I can make use of that detail. It would be odd for David Guardia to marry her if he doesn't even know her birthdate. If I recall correctly (not a given here), the motorcycle rally at STURGIS began on 2028-August-2; this puts Rhonda's birthday during the 10 days of this rally. I will need to review my spreadsheet to see where I can insert a zapfic entry to fill this gap in the story.

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Sunday, 2024-January-07

📓 I hate to say this, but not much got done today. I was preoccupied with other matters. We all have days like that, but that still doesn't give me an excuse to do nearly nothing. Maybe it's the crazy schedule usually associated with the holiday season starting in December and ending in early January. Maybe it's other things I need to tease out of my mind for other things before I can return to GHAWG business as usual. Maybe I just ran out of gas. Perhaps the start of the first week after the 2023 Holiday Season concludes can help me reset my focus. Let's see about that starting tomorrow.

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.

That's it for this edition of The GHAWG Diaries. I'm ^[!!]
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