Well, here I am, once again thinking that there will be people out there who find my blogging interesting. Who knows? Maybe that’s true, or maybe someone typed ‘Swift’ into their search bar and this actually pinged their results.
Either way, welcome to my little corner.
Of course, that’s a picture of the desk when it needs to be presentable. All of the crap that usually litters it is just behind me on the table, but you get the idea. This is where I am, most evenings. When the kids go to bed and my wife is readying to turn in for the night, but I need to wax creative or just have too much going on in my mind, I’m right here, plunking away at either the laptop (when it works) or the tablet. That, or I’m turned around at the table, with gaming books spread out everywhere and three different notepads in front of me, as I try to figure out the next Big Challenge for my gaming party.
Occasionally, there are times when I don’t have the gumption (good word, that one) to work on the novel, or I’ve plotted everything I could possibly have plotted in my upcoming game’s plot, but I’m still waxing creative. I had thought to actually write shorts based in the game universes I have running, which admittedly would be a lot of fun, but I keep putting that idea off. Let’s be honest: I’m not all that certain my current project will be published, and it’d take some serious effort from my fellow nerds to be so meta that they’d read a fictional short story based on a D&D game (or worse, the Star Wars or Shadowrun campaigns). Along with that, I keep getting writing prompts, sometimes from friends saying “Hey! This looks cool and you should try it!”, or sometimes from the Internet being the horrible temptress that it is and saying “Hey! You call yourself a writer! Look at these challenges and prove yourself to somebody, anybody, maybe even yourself!”
The Internet is evil. Not for the reasons that fundamentalists give it, but because it gives me so many ideas without increasing my life span to write them all.
Normally, I’d put these ideas and prompts onto the back-burner. After all, I’m writing a book, again. It’s kinda something I want to finish. I have campaigns to write. Hell, I have letters to write, grievances to write, recipes to write….you get the point, I’m good at only one thing in the creative area, and even that is debatable.
Funny thing is, I used to also have a blog site. I kind of forgot about it over the years, but I also forgot about the annual bill that keeps it up and running. It was low enough that according to my checkbook, it just looked like I had gotten my math wrong at some point. But no, it’s still here. Anyway, I used to write about the odd, inane things that interested me in my early- to mid-20’s, and I’m highly amused that people either took me seriously or had a real interest in those old writings. The difference between those writings and this: I know I’m not all that special, and I’m probably amusing enough to get your interest.
When I received an email that the old site had been visited, my first thought was “Why is that thing still functioning?!” I went to it, read through it, and switched it to private, because…*shudder*…that is some horrible and boring work. But I wanted to have a place to put up the other work I keep telling myself to write. I know it’d be good for my craft to do so.
Hence, my little Writing Corner here.
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