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Hey, everyone! It's been a while since I posted anything new here. As you know, I started a new blog on gaming almost two months ago, and since then I've been posting new stuff there twice a week. But I've been sorely neglecting my more general blog here.
So, this is actually related to my gaming blog, but it doesn't really belong over there and I thought my friends might find it amusing. It's sort of a "behind the scenes" post, if you will. When I was getting ready to launch Catalyst Games, I knew I had a lot of stuff I could write about gaming, but I was having a difficult time organizing my thoughts to write anything. I mentioned this to my sister and she suggested that I could try making an audio recording of me "talking out" my ideas, and then refer back to that while I'm writing. I tried this and it really helped! I didn't have a device that could make a strictly audio recording, so I ended up using my webcam to record myself. This had the unnecessary effect of making a video recording of my monolog as well. When I watched this later I was really amused by it - it's not too often that you get to watch yourself talk!
This might be a tad narcissistic, but it really had me cracking up when I watched it, so I'm posting the video here for you to enjoy. It is a tad lengthy (about 11 minutes). Also, the audio is a bit quiet, so you may have to turn up the volume on your computer. You can read the resulting article here.
Hey everyone, thanks for reading my blog and giving me feedback on the things that I post (as inane as some of them are). I really appreciate everyone's support!
Something new is on its way, and I'll be making an announcement about it tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about it, and I'll be looking forward to getting your participation in this new project.
Until then, have a nice evening!
-Nathan
I was recently reading Motor City Gamewerks, a blog by Jason Marker. Jason Marker is a freelance writer who writes for role-playing games. He published two articles on his blog recently about where he gets his ideas and inspirations. While he talks specifically about writing for games, the principles he discusses apply equally to writing fiction for any medium. I enjoyed them emmensely, and found them very insightful, so I thought I would share links to them here. (Disclaimer: These articles may contain a little bit of very mild profanity.)
Catching Fireflies: The Place Where Ideas Come From
The Place Where I Come From is a Small Town: or Everything is Interesting if You Look Hard Enough
Back in November, I said that my weekly time log posts would become monthly time log posts, and I haven't posted about my time log project since. Well, I've still been logging how I use my time, and I thought I'd post an update regarding the month of February.
Last month I spent 130 hours on theocratic activities. That includes 94 hours working with the RBC #10 in Oviedo. I'm really happy that my time spent on theocratic activities has moved to first place (after sleep that is).
Next I spent 76.5 hours on secular work. With the holiday season well behind us my work as dropped to part time hours, which I'm fine with for now. I had been hoping to gain full-time employment this year, but I've changed my attitude somewhat and am planning on putting off working full-time in favor of trying to regular pioneer.
I spent 34 hours reading. That isn't entirely accurate. Because a lot of my "work" with the RBC involves waiting around for materials to be delivered, I actually spent quite a few hours reading while I was there. These 34 hours represent time devoted solely to reading.
Creative pastimes, such as working on this blog and my wiki, creative writing, art, game design, and RPG prep, received 47 hours of my time. I'm pretty happy with that. I don't feel like that's an exorbitant amount of time, and I think I've accomplished a fair amount on my various projects.
Entertainment took up another 47 hours. This includes watching movies and shows, playing card games, board games, role-playing games, and sports.
Lastly, I spent 5.5 hours on housework, errands, and shopping.
Overall, I'm very happy with how I spent my time last month. I'm actually very happy with my life in general. Not that everything is going perfectly, but for the first time in a long time I feel like I'm right where I need to be in life, doing what I need to be doing. And that makes the bumps in the road a lot easier to put up with.
I was just reviewing my posts on this blog up to this point. I’m a bit disappointed that I haven’t written very many new articles lately. I wanted to try to post at least once a week, but it’s been a lot more hit-and-miss than that. I’d like to write about, and post some pictures of, the Kingdom Hall building site in Oviedo. I’d also like to write some more “Words to Live By” articles. I just haven’t taken the time to do either yet.
Well, in case anyone is wondering, I’ve been very busy with a lot of exciting stuff; I simply haven’t blogged about any of it. I’m doing good to keep up with writing my reviews! I’d like to share some recent experiences with people here, and there’s some other projects, etc. I’d like to write about. I’ll try to get back into regular blogging as soon as possible. ^_^
In the meantime, is there anything YOU would like to see me write about?