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Life has gotten comfortably routine.
I work 40 hours a week. I walk a beach looking for turtle nests one morning a week - I tried doing more mornings but man that just kills me. I'm looking forward to the second half of nesting season which involves staying up really late at night instead.
I have one yoga class a week, and one tabletop game a week - Savage Worlds system, BPRD setting. Plus random get-togethers with my tabletop group for movies and such.
For some reason I'm still playing too many Facebook games, even with major cutting down after the move. I'm seriously sucked into Battle Pirates right now, because it has such a large social component to it. I'm a reasonably well-liked member of my sector's biggest alliance, and a lot of times even when I have nothing in-game to do I'll just sit around reading the chat.
A few years back, that above paragraph would've been about how I was overcommitted on RPoL games. And before RPoL, it was Battlenet, playing Starcraft and Diablo 2 with Clan [Wolf] and "we're not a clan!" Brap. I guess some things just don't change, even when the details do. For the most part I've given up beating myself up on "pointless procrastination" activities like that, because if I didn't do them I'd just replace them with something else, so I might as well accept and enjoy.
All of which takes away time from fiction writing, alas. I did get a few hundred words in on the park scene for Vengeance, and finally found how to introduce Craig to Katrina in a way that makes sense and that I really like. Next up, introducing Craig to Robert, then Simon. Meanwhile, rumor has it that there will be a Nanowrimo in August, so I should probably figure out what I want to do for that. Followed by Labor Day Novel right after. o.o
As for non-fiction writing, I wrote half a series for Battle Pirates. There will eventually be four articles, and the first two are up:
Battle Pirates Resources Guide
Battle Pirates Map (which also includes social commentary about alliances and sector wars)
Then there's a Backyard Monsters article I forgot to mention earlier, from early May:
Backyard Monsters Outposts Guide
For the most part, I'm kind of "retired" from content site writing. Or at least trying to be. I imagine I'll continue to put out the occasional Facebook game article because those are relatively fast and easy and I'm playing the games anyway, but there probably won't be any new science articles in the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, one of my oldest writing-related friends is trying to move from Arkansas to San Francisco. He's selling off art to help pay for it (currently for sale), and also taking donations. If you've got some spare cash to give someone a hand up, or want some art, go have a look. :)
I work 40 hours a week. I walk a beach looking for turtle nests one morning a week - I tried doing more mornings but man that just kills me. I'm looking forward to the second half of nesting season which involves staying up really late at night instead.
I have one yoga class a week, and one tabletop game a week - Savage Worlds system, BPRD setting. Plus random get-togethers with my tabletop group for movies and such.
For some reason I'm still playing too many Facebook games, even with major cutting down after the move. I'm seriously sucked into Battle Pirates right now, because it has such a large social component to it. I'm a reasonably well-liked member of my sector's biggest alliance, and a lot of times even when I have nothing in-game to do I'll just sit around reading the chat.
A few years back, that above paragraph would've been about how I was overcommitted on RPoL games. And before RPoL, it was Battlenet, playing Starcraft and Diablo 2 with Clan [Wolf] and "we're not a clan!" Brap. I guess some things just don't change, even when the details do. For the most part I've given up beating myself up on "pointless procrastination" activities like that, because if I didn't do them I'd just replace them with something else, so I might as well accept and enjoy.
All of which takes away time from fiction writing, alas. I did get a few hundred words in on the park scene for Vengeance, and finally found how to introduce Craig to Katrina in a way that makes sense and that I really like. Next up, introducing Craig to Robert, then Simon. Meanwhile, rumor has it that there will be a Nanowrimo in August, so I should probably figure out what I want to do for that. Followed by Labor Day Novel right after. o.o
As for non-fiction writing, I wrote half a series for Battle Pirates. There will eventually be four articles, and the first two are up:
Battle Pirates Resources Guide
Battle Pirates Map (which also includes social commentary about alliances and sector wars)
Then there's a Backyard Monsters article I forgot to mention earlier, from early May:
Backyard Monsters Outposts Guide
For the most part, I'm kind of "retired" from content site writing. Or at least trying to be. I imagine I'll continue to put out the occasional Facebook game article because those are relatively fast and easy and I'm playing the games anyway, but there probably won't be any new science articles in the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, one of my oldest writing-related friends is trying to move from Arkansas to San Francisco. He's selling off art to help pay for it (currently for sale), and also taking donations. If you've got some spare cash to give someone a hand up, or want some art, go have a look. :)
