The start of something new…I hope.

I have really been thinking a lot lately, about being a writer. Presently, I am not, because I do not. I would like that to change, but it won’t change on its own. So, sometime last week, I told myself to write. Every day. At least something. Here is the start of that, tempered, of course, with the murky silhouette of Mayo’s Law, which still lingers like the late summer shadow of the oldest tree on the neighboring block.

So, I will outline my goals here, and disperse their ‘publication’ among different sites and outlets.

First, it is my stated ambition to write for at least 1 hour every day. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
This will be the most challenging part of the endeavor. Already today, I have put this intro off to the end of the day, after intentioning to pump it out in the early morning.

One of the things I’d like to do is wrap up some of my D&D writing. The 50 Years Later campaign was quite a mix of successes and failures. Still, there were some cool ideas that I’d like to get on paper for later usage. I would also like to provide the players with some kind of summary of what was going on there. I still find it unfortunate that I could not pull that one together. After that I’d like to complete the Keanin Reminders from the first two campaigns. That will wrap the story itself for those campaigns, which I may be able to user later as bases for stories. Actual stories. Thirdly, I’d like to find some wrap up for the Mr. Tenbrook sessions. Of all the lingering story lines I have out there, I’d still like to play some more with that one, if we could ever coordinate schedules. Finally, I’d like to write the story that I started some time ago, focusing on Sirakln the Beyonder (MY character, not Jim’s – thus the spelling change), which I think has the most potential as a character-driven fantasy yarn. Perhaps I'll even post the first stuttering chapters I completed some time ago.

I also want to finish my Star wars blog. I started that with great intentions, when Jason and I went to Indy in 2005. The old pda I had, on which I spent many minutes learning to write and actually writing about our trip, lost all the data I had so carefully kept when the single AAA battery died. (reminiscent of the handful of times when the C-64 got accidentally unplugged in the middle of my greatest work ever, lost for all eternity) Losing those notes was harsh, and it kept me away from that piece for quite some time. It will be difficult to recreate, and now it will be from a far different perspective, but I hate leaving it incomplete.

Another possibility is freelance work. I find it intriguing that I could get paid by magazines to write about things that I have experienced or have experience in. I’m not sure WHAT I would write about, but it’s an avenue to investigate and on which to earn my chops, to use a mixed metaphor.

Poetry is out there, too. I recently subscribed to a magazine for poets and writers – something cheap to help focus my attention and keep me constant. Though I haven’t written a poem in 10 years, it could be a valuable outlet for me. I look forward to sharing that with a particular pagan in my pool of pals.

Lastly…Jennifer and I want to buy a house. I think it would be a fascinating exercise to log the adventure, so I will be periodically posting here our attempts to sell our current house and acquire something new, with a yard, a basement, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, and a garage, in a nice neighborhood, with a pool, an acre, a fence, a 3 car garage…..