For the first time in a while I am having real fun writing.
That is an odd thing to say considering how much work I’ve published over the past ten years. Yet, none of that has matched the pure energy and joy of trying to shape a new fantasy world–to create out of whole cloth a new something that I can write about. I started about as far back as I was able to go and reached the meeting of two separate cultures by the end of the second day of the work. I only wrote 2,000 words in those two days, but it felt like releasing an entire decade or more of collected concepts into the universe. This must be what it feels like for writers who’ve been working out a story their entire lives. It feels like this is that, but it also feels like this is the first in a long line of ideas I want to release. In other words, this is what I think writing is supposed to feel like. This is the catharsis that comes with the opportunity to create.
I feel blessed. I feel like the time off my job affords me and the work hours I put in on other projects created the ability to sit in space long enough to really get this stuff down and stay focused on getting this stuff down. Now I have it–at least the start of it. I have the bones and as I continue to write I know that other parts are going to come together, fall into place, make sense, and demand creation. I even started an entire language lexicon to be used. That makes me feel good about the work I am doing.
Some Thoughts:
- 4583. At least I am hitting a stride. There will be a momentary blip as I transition into the pure fiction vs. gameplay and essay style, but a brief blip. I think that I really like this type of work but would love to expand what I do in this sense to working for more video games and producing more video game material as opposed to the TTRPG stuff I am actually doing in this project. The lines between the two are practically invisible and only, for me, a bit away from the true desire of expanding the Star Wars universe in new directions that have nothing to do with the Jedi lore…
- I got it all out pretty fast today. Not much else to say, but it is nice to be thinking about the opportunities ahead for my kids. The footballer is going to be looking at a new school Monday. The school is in the Big Sky conference–one of two powerhouse conferences in a FCS that is dominated by two conferences and, more specifically, 4 schools. This is not one of those schools. It aims to be a lot better next season. They have to be. They were not competitive against the top teams. Maybe he can help with that on the defensive side.