Site & Project Update
Still getting in the habit of blogging. As I said in the last post, I want to try and publish at least one post a week. That feels like a good goal, but then today came around and I really didn’t have anything that felt “blog worthy” to share. But the whole point of this is to exercise my writing muscles and just get in the habit of putting down words again. So how about some random updates?
Website Updates
I have collected much of my poetry and posted it online. I always have mixed feelings about my poetry, to be honest. I know that most of it is not, objectively, what one would call good. But several of these I like. And the ones that I don’t like very much? The ones that make me cringe? I still learned by writing these. The main purpose of this website is to be a place to collect the various stories and creations that I have made over the years. So they stay. For now.
The other big change is that comments should be enabled now. This will be the first post with them turned on, so maybe they won’t work at all. We’ll see. Right now I am keeping the comments text only and I am manually approving all the comments myself before they get posted. This will work while we are in a soft launch phase with a readership consisting of myself and my partners. If things every ramp up beyond that, I will have to investigate other moderation tools.
Other Updates
I am starting to get excited for NaNoWriMo. I have a few ideas of projects that I want to do, and I am feeling pretty good about that. I need to sit down and figure out exactly how to work 50k words into my days, but that is the same problem that anyone trying this will face. I’m hoping to do some outlining and character sketches this weekend and really home in on a project.
Other creative project I have in my mind are to write up and publish the D&D campaign that my players and I finished at the end of last year. The only caveat I have here is where to publish it. The DM Guild has the best exposure, but also limits the world your stuff can be set on to a handful of official D&D worlds or generic enough to be on any world. None of that fits well for me. There’s DriveThru RPG, which does not have those limitations, but I have no idea how to stand out in such a crowded marketplace.
I’ve also decided that I want to write more Sylvan’tor short stories. I still want to finish the novels and have them published, but I’m hoping I can get some short stories on here as a way to both drive some traffic to the site and to fill in the some character and world details in between the novels.
So, many ideas and projects that I want to get to work on. Next step is to just carve out some time to start making it happen. Sounds easy, but with two partners I love very much and a teenage son it can be hard to find time for my own personal projects. Plus, the whole *gestures at overall state of life in the US right now* isn’t really good for my mental health. So we will see how things go.