Writing in 2010
Much like last year, I'm going back over what I did and didn't get written this year.
Dust to Dust: The Compleat Core Rules are almost finished. We are on track to meet our deadline.
Dust to Dust: Setting Foo did get written. Naturally, there is more to write, but all that remains for the setting parts of the website is polish and small stuff.
Miscellaneous materials for DtD have been written in impressive quantities. I am particularly impressed with how much text other members of the committee have generated for game usage.
Tova and Silent, parts Nine through Sixteen, got posted this year. This is substantial; I just need to write a lot more of it. There are a little over 20,000 words so far, and the story still has a long way to go.
Shieldhaven Wiki is more behind in its campaign log than it has ever been before, but I have brief notes of the campaign's many adventures in the past year. We played 21 sessions over the course of 2010, and we had a lot of player turnover.
I gained weight in 2010, almost all of it in the last three months. I am very unhappy about this. In the scope of things that have made me unhappy in the last three months, though, it's relatively trivial.
I made pretty much zero progress on the Goodman projects, but they're badly backlogged anyway, so the company doesn't seem to care.
I started two new short stories, neither of which have been completed. One of them will eventually be a late Christmas present. The other is an experiment in writing non-fantasy.
For the coming year:
1. Finish writing DtD rules. colinmcl is spearheading this.
2. Continue writing DtD setting material (full culture packets, lots of miscellaneous stuff). I have a whole committee to help with this!
3. Tova and Silent - I will be focusing my attention on this more frequently, assuming things don't work out with my day job as a game designer. If I can finish this, I'll work on editing it and submitting it to a publisher. I don't have any illusions about how difficult this is, but if I don't have a day job, I have nothing but time on my hands.
4. In case you don't already know, I'm posting regularly in Harbinger of Doom, a gaming blog. I write about all kinds of gaming-related stuff - design ideas, reviews and commentary, and occasional session logs.
5. I write less regularly in Finder's Blog. This is about my Eclipse PC.
6. Complete both of those short stories. Start new ones as well.
7. Lose weight so that I can write about how much weight I lost.
8. Continue updating Shieldhaven wiki in the time that is left over.
Dust to Dust: The Compleat Core Rules are almost finished. We are on track to meet our deadline.
Dust to Dust: Setting Foo did get written. Naturally, there is more to write, but all that remains for the setting parts of the website is polish and small stuff.
Miscellaneous materials for DtD have been written in impressive quantities. I am particularly impressed with how much text other members of the committee have generated for game usage.
Tova and Silent, parts Nine through Sixteen, got posted this year. This is substantial; I just need to write a lot more of it. There are a little over 20,000 words so far, and the story still has a long way to go.
Shieldhaven Wiki is more behind in its campaign log than it has ever been before, but I have brief notes of the campaign's many adventures in the past year. We played 21 sessions over the course of 2010, and we had a lot of player turnover.
I gained weight in 2010, almost all of it in the last three months. I am very unhappy about this. In the scope of things that have made me unhappy in the last three months, though, it's relatively trivial.
I made pretty much zero progress on the Goodman projects, but they're badly backlogged anyway, so the company doesn't seem to care.
I started two new short stories, neither of which have been completed. One of them will eventually be a late Christmas present. The other is an experiment in writing non-fantasy.
For the coming year:
1. Finish writing DtD rules. colinmcl is spearheading this.
2. Continue writing DtD setting material (full culture packets, lots of miscellaneous stuff). I have a whole committee to help with this!
3. Tova and Silent - I will be focusing my attention on this more frequently, assuming things don't work out with my day job as a game designer. If I can finish this, I'll work on editing it and submitting it to a publisher. I don't have any illusions about how difficult this is, but if I don't have a day job, I have nothing but time on my hands.
4. In case you don't already know, I'm posting regularly in Harbinger of Doom, a gaming blog. I write about all kinds of gaming-related stuff - design ideas, reviews and commentary, and occasional session logs.
5. I write less regularly in Finder's Blog. This is about my Eclipse PC.
6. Complete both of those short stories. Start new ones as well.
7. Lose weight so that I can write about how much weight I lost.
8. Continue updating Shieldhaven wiki in the time that is left over.