While I'm not entirely sure how much traffic this site gets, I do want to at least give an update within the site itself. No major news here, but I suppose I should briefly explain why I've been quiet for what feels like the longest stretch yet- at least if we discount the post about archiving a few documents.
The simple answer is that with a combination of a few video games I want to get done and just work I've been extremely short on time. Granted, one of these is a choice, but I feel it's a little time-sensitive. One game- ACVI- is a new release and nominally I'd have already made a lot more progress into it so I could be in the "completed my first run" gang already. Other- Signalis- is approaching a year old but I've felt an urgent need to finish it- not that I don't want to just that there's more incentive than my enjoyment- because it's extremely popular in my friend group so avoiding spoilers is hard, and also because I'm sort of anticipating it to be the Halloween episode of a few Youtubers I like. I'm not super harsh on avoiding spoilers but it's kind of exhausting to have already seen parts of how all these games end by now- but at least Signalis is also wrapped in an incomprehensible layer over its core what-will-make-me-probably-cry, granted, this also makes me not want to play it without a full night's rest and a high level of focus so I don't start bleeding from my ears, whereas I was happy ("happy") slamming my face into Balteus until 5:30AM- which probably explains the order of priorities there.
Last weekend also was stressful with some family drama, before that I had a trip to Georgia (it was fun but I got very much sick), plus I'm going to have to find time to yell at my doctor about how he stopped giving me estradiol again tomorrow, and all the while I've been asked to go on more and more errands, more and more unpredictably, and with more and more complaining when I say I'd rather not (hence the family drama). I really am living that Car Dependent Infrastructure life, huh? Love getting part-time pay for a full-time chunk of my week. Basically did not touch a video game that entire weekend. Wonderful.
This has allowed me to reassess my writing strategy, as an upside. It's becoming apparent I need to make more bottom-up writing. Expect more entries on members of a group before entries on the group, essentially- otherwise the article on the group would fast devolve into a list. I also will try harder with multiple drafts. Executive dysfunction bleeds my time, but also makes it hard for me to proofread- a weakness I always have subtly expected to cover by being able to edit documents after posting, but I shouldn't rely on that entirely.
That being said, I'm up later than I should be, and I'm worried about good ideas I want to put to page slipping through the cracks in all this lost time- even if they're just snippets of background stuff, I feel like I'm making headway. Classifications for subterranean vehicles based on the layer of ground they're optimized for, explanations for what exactly a soul is, and more appreciation and less handwaving for the gimmicky weaknesses mythical creatures tend to have. I want to get back to writing all that really bad, but I'm stuck with just enough time to throw this together.
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