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prunesquallormd+ Tiredtiredtired. I don't know. It doesn't matter how unhectic my week is, by the time it gets to Friday evening, all I want to do is crash out, watch DVDs (although right now, I have "Come Dine With Me" on in the background, which is just awful. Appalling, appalling people :/) and get an early night.
I'm so rock.
+ Apparently, I'm GMing for my Thursday night gaming group again. It's been over a year, so it seemed only fair to offer. It basically means I won't read a book that's not gaming related again for the next couple of months, though, which I hate, but it takes me sooooo long, and so much work, to get to a level where I'm comfortable running a game. Which I know is kind of silly, because it's perfectly possible to just wing it, and make more or less everything up on the spot, and it's fairly unlikely that anyone will know the difference (I don't GM all that much, but I've been doing it on and off for a good two-thirds of my life, so I have a reasonable idea of how it's done). I find that unbelievably stressful though, so I go with the second option, of putting a stupid amount of work into it. And that's the main reason why I don't GM very much, cos it takes up a basically all my reading time. Hey ho.
In a moment of complete and utter madness, I said I'd run Call of Cthulhu, specifically Masks of Nyarlathotep .
WHAT WAS I THINKING? WHAT?
Focus, we don't have it. I mean, not even a little. And as for taking anything even the slightest bit seriously, well forget that. The idea of running a horror game that's going to go on for at least 6 months, probably more (although I'll be taking breaks between chapters, otherwise I'll go mad), is more than a little daunting.
I think I may live to regret this.
Hey ho.
I'm starting off with a little haunted house style one-shot (although it'll probably take a couple of sessions to complete) just to see how it goes. It could be a complete disaster, but hell, if the worst comes to the worst, I guess I could just drive them all mad and get them sacrificed by cultists or something. Cos you know, these are the temptations you have to deal with on a regular basis as a Call of Cthulhu GM.
+ Motorhead played in Liverpool this week. I've never been a fan, but both Aidan and Lee (who are two of my gaming group) have been for ages, so they were still a little deaf last night. Mostly I was rather amused to find out that one of their amp stacks (the stage left Marshall stack, apparently) is called Murder One. Now I want to know what the other ones are called.
+ I'm not doing NaNoWrimo. In fact, given the speed that I write at, the only way that that would ever be possible would be if I was to have everything planned out beforehand, then take the entire month off, and write for about 8 or 9 hours a day every single day of the month. Which, let's face it, is never going to happen. However, I did manage a couple or three hours a day from Tuesday 1st to Sunday, and then a couple of hundred words in my lunch hours for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. So 4000 words, and a completed chapter (well the last four fifths (I did the first thousand words in October), in 8 days. Yay. Go me :)
Now I have 5000 words to type up. Oh god :(. So, sooo boring. It's at this stage in the process that I just wish that I wasn't so old fashioned and could actually feel comfortable doing my first draft straight onto a computer :/
But it's a good way of doing the first lot of editing, and it just feels right doing it that way. IDK.
So, I actually have two parts written that I haven't posted yet. I'm feeling kind of productive :). I don't know when I'll be able to post anything, but it's been so long that I don't think anyone's all that interested anyway. I'm just writing for myself now, really, and in large part to prove to myself that I can write a long, multi-chapter story over a period of months (more likely years, actually. It won't get finished less than 2 years after I started the thing, at this rate). I've never done it before, and I just want to see if I can.
+ Off to Leeds to see Death Cab for Cutie next week, with one of my most favouritest people. SO EXCITED :D
+ There'll probably be memeage soon, just cos. And, I don't know, maybe fiction. We'll see.
+ This has been a very dull post, I'm afraid. Sorry :(
+ This is the first Death Cab song I ever heard (I guess only a few of you will know the reason for that), and it's still one of my favourites. It makes my heart go all twisty, for reasons that are only partly to do with the song itself.
G'night, y'all.
Have fun :)
♥
I'm so rock.
+ Apparently, I'm GMing for my Thursday night gaming group again. It's been over a year, so it seemed only fair to offer. It basically means I won't read a book that's not gaming related again for the next couple of months, though, which I hate, but it takes me sooooo long, and so much work, to get to a level where I'm comfortable running a game. Which I know is kind of silly, because it's perfectly possible to just wing it, and make more or less everything up on the spot, and it's fairly unlikely that anyone will know the difference (I don't GM all that much, but I've been doing it on and off for a good two-thirds of my life, so I have a reasonable idea of how it's done). I find that unbelievably stressful though, so I go with the second option, of putting a stupid amount of work into it. And that's the main reason why I don't GM very much, cos it takes up a basically all my reading time. Hey ho.
In a moment of complete and utter madness, I said I'd run Call of Cthulhu, specifically Masks of Nyarlathotep .
WHAT WAS I THINKING? WHAT?
Focus, we don't have it. I mean, not even a little. And as for taking anything even the slightest bit seriously, well forget that. The idea of running a horror game that's going to go on for at least 6 months, probably more (although I'll be taking breaks between chapters, otherwise I'll go mad), is more than a little daunting.
I think I may live to regret this.
Hey ho.
I'm starting off with a little haunted house style one-shot (although it'll probably take a couple of sessions to complete) just to see how it goes. It could be a complete disaster, but hell, if the worst comes to the worst, I guess I could just drive them all mad and get them sacrificed by cultists or something. Cos you know, these are the temptations you have to deal with on a regular basis as a Call of Cthulhu GM.
+ Motorhead played in Liverpool this week. I've never been a fan, but both Aidan and Lee (who are two of my gaming group) have been for ages, so they were still a little deaf last night. Mostly I was rather amused to find out that one of their amp stacks (the stage left Marshall stack, apparently) is called Murder One. Now I want to know what the other ones are called.
+ I'm not doing NaNoWrimo. In fact, given the speed that I write at, the only way that that would ever be possible would be if I was to have everything planned out beforehand, then take the entire month off, and write for about 8 or 9 hours a day every single day of the month. Which, let's face it, is never going to happen. However, I did manage a couple or three hours a day from Tuesday 1st to Sunday, and then a couple of hundred words in my lunch hours for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. So 4000 words, and a completed chapter (well the last four fifths (I did the first thousand words in October), in 8 days. Yay. Go me :)
Now I have 5000 words to type up. Oh god :(. So, sooo boring. It's at this stage in the process that I just wish that I wasn't so old fashioned and could actually feel comfortable doing my first draft straight onto a computer :/
But it's a good way of doing the first lot of editing, and it just feels right doing it that way. IDK.
So, I actually have two parts written that I haven't posted yet. I'm feeling kind of productive :). I don't know when I'll be able to post anything, but it's been so long that I don't think anyone's all that interested anyway. I'm just writing for myself now, really, and in large part to prove to myself that I can write a long, multi-chapter story over a period of months (more likely years, actually. It won't get finished less than 2 years after I started the thing, at this rate). I've never done it before, and I just want to see if I can.
+ Off to Leeds to see Death Cab for Cutie next week, with one of my most favouritest people. SO EXCITED :D
+ There'll probably be memeage soon, just cos. And, I don't know, maybe fiction. We'll see.
+ This has been a very dull post, I'm afraid. Sorry :(
+ This is the first Death Cab song I ever heard (I guess only a few of you will know the reason for that), and it's still one of my favourites. It makes my heart go all twisty, for reasons that are only partly to do with the song itself.
G'night, y'all.
Have fun :)
♥
