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Return from November
7 years ago
Well November has rolled around and passed and that means I will now return from everything that happened to a hopefully more normal design. But first a breakdown of what occurred:
For those of you that read the previous Journal you were aware of a writing event known as NaNoWriMo I loosely explained. To reiterate it functions essentially like the writer's equivalent to Inktober. The ultimate goal is to finish a 50k word novel in the span of a month. Roughly 1,600 words and some change a day to hope to complete the submission by month's end but submission for the story on the official website can occur as early as Day 20. To all my fellow writers writing a story you enjoy can be heard making time for any amount of words, but forcing yourself to write almost 2,000 words a day can be incredibly exhausting. I will point out now i Failed to complete the NaNo. On Day 15 I had physically collapsed due to extreme levels of physical and mental exhaustion from balancing my work life, my writing life and other things together. End total was a story about 22,000 words in all. Far Cry what I aimed for but far better than I thought i could do leading up to the day I collapsed.
I want to break this down a bit more. If you are uninterested I invite you to skip over this section but this is an important realization I had to dwell on after that day. I've done the NaNo several times in the past. In fact on four occasions in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 I managed to complete the challenge well before the 30 day mark and while i felt tired i never hand the mind numbing collapse that occurred this time. Dwelling on that why I realized that a much younger me going through community College and lacking even a part time job or outside social life had an excess of free time to throw at whatever I wanted and it got me overconfident. Follow this up with 6 years of little to no writing effort due to personal reasons such as taking on a full time job and slowly developing a social life running D&D and other tabletop games and the hours of unending freedom I believed i would have forever have balanced out at a shaky pestle I only just have in check. Throwing the time demands of the NaNo into this mess was a terrible idea and self destructive. Due to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays being operated as event coordinators for three separate tabletop games i functionally went from an 8 hour work day into an additional 6 hour time sink that consumed any reasonable time i had to write. Pushing my time from 1600 words a day to 3200 words every other day. On top of that even if i felt an idea was slow or i needed time to think on how to approach the writing with my gap days only being Tuesday, Thursday and weekends I had to put further time into writing a steady pace and remove precious sleep hours that keep me balanced. I think you can all see where this is going. After my collapse I swore off writing for the remainder of November to collect myself.
Outside of writing Drama i was also caught off guard by a family planned vacation on the last week of November. I got to take some time off go someplace rather relaxing and enjoy myself, to an extent though the combination of family attention and weather prevented any real work on some of the stories i brought along to work at. Though I will say Chapter 5 of Tabletop Troubles is nearing the end of the Written Rough Draft cycle and soon will be typed in for all the edits i need to do thus far. All other stories int he previous journal are ongoing and I will create journals for them as time goes on.
Outside of my direct stories I have one very exciting piece of information but I would like to make a lot of it a surprise for the big reveal. What i will share is a few friends on FA have approached me about working on a Mod for a certain Sci-Fi game and they would like me to write the story and choice excerpts for the work that is being done. As the project looks to be fully underway with no complications or issues I will be a bit more comfortable to share who is working on the project with me and what the project is about but I will say to look forward to a surprise next year.
This weekend I promise to release Boetian's Character Sheet from Tabletop Troubles, which had fallen to the way side due to NaNoWriMo and the vacation at the end of last month.
Also, I have a special question for this journal. For everyone who has read Tabletop Troubles so far: What is Neinja's D&D Character's race? And Who was the mysterious women seen back at town? Please leave a single comment with your guess and if someone can guess correctly I have a special event for you in one of my upcoming stories. Thank you for your time reading my journal and for those of you that skipped it, thanks for the view for however far you got.
For those of you that read the previous Journal you were aware of a writing event known as NaNoWriMo I loosely explained. To reiterate it functions essentially like the writer's equivalent to Inktober. The ultimate goal is to finish a 50k word novel in the span of a month. Roughly 1,600 words and some change a day to hope to complete the submission by month's end but submission for the story on the official website can occur as early as Day 20. To all my fellow writers writing a story you enjoy can be heard making time for any amount of words, but forcing yourself to write almost 2,000 words a day can be incredibly exhausting. I will point out now i Failed to complete the NaNo. On Day 15 I had physically collapsed due to extreme levels of physical and mental exhaustion from balancing my work life, my writing life and other things together. End total was a story about 22,000 words in all. Far Cry what I aimed for but far better than I thought i could do leading up to the day I collapsed.
I want to break this down a bit more. If you are uninterested I invite you to skip over this section but this is an important realization I had to dwell on after that day. I've done the NaNo several times in the past. In fact on four occasions in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 I managed to complete the challenge well before the 30 day mark and while i felt tired i never hand the mind numbing collapse that occurred this time. Dwelling on that why I realized that a much younger me going through community College and lacking even a part time job or outside social life had an excess of free time to throw at whatever I wanted and it got me overconfident. Follow this up with 6 years of little to no writing effort due to personal reasons such as taking on a full time job and slowly developing a social life running D&D and other tabletop games and the hours of unending freedom I believed i would have forever have balanced out at a shaky pestle I only just have in check. Throwing the time demands of the NaNo into this mess was a terrible idea and self destructive. Due to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays being operated as event coordinators for three separate tabletop games i functionally went from an 8 hour work day into an additional 6 hour time sink that consumed any reasonable time i had to write. Pushing my time from 1600 words a day to 3200 words every other day. On top of that even if i felt an idea was slow or i needed time to think on how to approach the writing with my gap days only being Tuesday, Thursday and weekends I had to put further time into writing a steady pace and remove precious sleep hours that keep me balanced. I think you can all see where this is going. After my collapse I swore off writing for the remainder of November to collect myself.
Outside of writing Drama i was also caught off guard by a family planned vacation on the last week of November. I got to take some time off go someplace rather relaxing and enjoy myself, to an extent though the combination of family attention and weather prevented any real work on some of the stories i brought along to work at. Though I will say Chapter 5 of Tabletop Troubles is nearing the end of the Written Rough Draft cycle and soon will be typed in for all the edits i need to do thus far. All other stories int he previous journal are ongoing and I will create journals for them as time goes on.
Outside of my direct stories I have one very exciting piece of information but I would like to make a lot of it a surprise for the big reveal. What i will share is a few friends on FA have approached me about working on a Mod for a certain Sci-Fi game and they would like me to write the story and choice excerpts for the work that is being done. As the project looks to be fully underway with no complications or issues I will be a bit more comfortable to share who is working on the project with me and what the project is about but I will say to look forward to a surprise next year.
This weekend I promise to release Boetian's Character Sheet from Tabletop Troubles, which had fallen to the way side due to NaNoWriMo and the vacation at the end of last month.
Also, I have a special question for this journal. For everyone who has read Tabletop Troubles so far: What is Neinja's D&D Character's race? And Who was the mysterious women seen back at town? Please leave a single comment with your guess and if someone can guess correctly I have a special event for you in one of my upcoming stories. Thank you for your time reading my journal and for those of you that skipped it, thanks for the view for however far you got.
