Post 23

Hello there. Another two weeks are gone and I have been working towards making a campaign for my friends to play. Though this one is going to be different to The Slayers because I scrapped that one. The Slayers campaign got too heavily into lore and I saw that I was building a world from top down— meaning I was about to spend too much time making the world than playing in it. I found a new strategy. After I cried myself to sleep after realizing all the months work on the Slayer was going in the trash, I read a book called Return of The Lazy Dungeon Master, and learned a lot from it. One of the things I learned was Reskinning. Skinning the Re of worlds and maps and adventures into my own. I’m going to use most of the formulas and checklists that the book gives me into my own games. Hopefully, when I run the game, it will be a lot easier. But we will see. As long as I get to prepare it and not dance around with ideas and go nowhere. Or maybe I will do that too. We will see. I might record the game, but I am on the fence about it. There is already so much I can focus on, and recording seems like another pile onto my already overloaded brain. But it would be easy to just press a button and record the absurdity of my friend roleplaying. I am unsure. It would be funny. I have just been feeling like I have no time for things. Guess that’s what my parents have been telling me my whole life about adulting. Guess we don’t have time for anything but work and studying. Not a whole lot of play. I’m probably overthinking this. There is plenty of time. And none of that is wasted. Even on the worst days. We learn, we better ourselves, we move on, and especially we laugh and create. I want to bring laughter and create awesome things. That’s why I am writing. That’s why I still give my best effort. It might not land perfectly or not land at all, but I am still doing it. I may not share most of my stories due to my perfectionist, but I push myself everyday to share. To share the imperfect. Because life isn’t perfect. And that is okay. It is okay.

Anyways, I hope you have a good day today. Take care. :)

Peace,

-Toothpick Writer

Post 22

Hi :) Not a lot has been worked on during these two weeks. I had more energy working on The Slayers campaign than Waste of Time, so for now, I am just going to stick to focusing on that. Other than that, my weeks have been tiring from work, and today, I want to relax for a bit. There are some updates I made towards the site. Some website things I am shelving are tags and subpages (where the more info link takes you — which I am taking off, too). It took too much time to post stuff when I had to create a new page, and adding tags was kind of the same. I am trying to save time on posting so I can get back to the meat and potatoes of writing. But, yeah, that’s it. I hope you guys had a great two weeks, and I will write to you soon.

Bye bye,

-Toothpick Writer

Update 12

I'm going to start posting more stories on the website, but with the exception that they may not be finished. I know I rant a lot about not having time to write, and I don't, but I want to at least show what goes on in my brain. It's not that I don't care about the stories I write; I just want to see them be free without being restrained in my head. So, for these few weeks, I am going to spend a couple of hours over the weekend (If I have the time), write as much as I can for a certain story, and then post it on the website. It might seem rushed, and maybe it will be, but I still want to try it out. I don't really have an audience that depends on me to be dedicated to one writing method, so I am going to try it out. Really, my biggest goal is to share more and make more. I hope to do more in the future. Till then, I will write to yuh soon.

See yuh,

-TW