{"id":360,"date":"2025-10-06T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikatine.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:33:03","slug":"plainview-farms-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikatine.com\/blog\/plainview-farms-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plainview Farms Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plainview notes are typed out on the same kind of typewriter used by Cormac McCarthy to write “Blood Meridian.” <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

For the vast amount of development I’ve done with games like Issliss and various roleplay-related games, I’ve used a computer. When I needed to sketch things out broadly, I’d use something like Scrivener. For lists, I’d tend toward Sublime. When I needed collaboration, I used to use Google Docs (before I de-googled myself this year). But all of these programs had one fatal flaw – distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A typewritten list of species, some of which may appear in Plainview Farms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trying to carve out a time to write was difficult because I’d start, I’d get into a flow, then I would need to research something and pull up a web browser. I’d do my little searches, and then immediately get distracted. Gotta post on social media. Oh, what’s that? Better repost that, make sure everyone knows. Better check the timeline, too, see what’s going on. After a little while, my writing time was over and I’d barely have scratched the surface until I was done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Animals, and their early descriptions for Plainview Farms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My (future Mrs.) lesbian girlfriend is an avid typewriter collector, who is very talented at restoring old typewriters. She’s also extremely knowledgeable about the operation and maintenance of these finicky machines. On a whim, I asked her if she had one I might be able to use, and if she could teach me how to use it for writing notes for Plainview. She obliged, adding that she had the perfect one. Apparently the same kind of typewriter that my favorite author Cormac McCarthy used for “Blood Meridian.” I was instantly sold.<\/p>\n\n\n

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