Okay, lots of things are changing, some fast, some slow and deliberate. So let’s start the list off:
Website
I have plans for development. A new skins/style, maybe some personal coding, and general all around updates. I do intend to post more once this has occurred (mostly since I fear having to reset the blog… again). There’s a lot of things I want to do with the website, besides it just being a blog. I want it to be my virtual face, so to speak. I want people to be able to come here and know who and what I am as far as my virtual self. This includes my writing self, my developer self, my gamer self, and my business self. There’s a lot I can do with this place and so far I do feel like I’m wasting it.
That said, the website development is going slow. I need to have some more focus.
Writing
Slowed to a stop for the time being. That will be changing tomorrow. I say tomorrow because right now I’m writing this to help get some of my groove back. I also took the time to write a podcast review for 12 volt Theater. I owed Jack that much since I have completed failed to help him with the T-shirt thing I was looking at back in May and well, it being only 25-30 days left to Dragon Con… yeah… sorry about that Jack. I’ll make it up to you.
Non-fiction topic covered, my fiction will be returning this week with a passion. I’m determined to answer M. Stackpole’s challenge from Dragon Page: Cover to Cover. Not going to say which one though, not until I actually get it done. I hate saying I’m going to do something and not following through (READ: Previous paragraph). My mind has been racing with ship design and space physics lately. Need to really start studying that more. And South-American ancient architecture… Shh, secret story.
Second Life
I’ve flown in full swing into helping House of Rfyre. I’m really determined to keep focused this time around. I owe Raven that much. That said, my current topics of interest are RFyre Security, RFyre web design, RFyre future island developments, and RFyre advertisements.
One thing I’m thinking of is the fact I listen to so many podcasts (how many did I mention already in this post?) that I really need to think of what can these things do to help RFyre. There’s the possibility of getting our own, but I fear that will only hit up the current SL audience. That’s a good thing, but I want to really expand our market. A number of podcasters have mentioned their audience sizes before on their casts and many of them are very respectful. If spending money to advertise on a popular cast makes us money in return… well I’m very interested in embracing new media. After all, isn’t Second Life a growing new medium? It’s not just a game, it’s a growing world.
United Role Play
And here’s why I have more free time. I’ve left URP as a member and admin. I still hang out with the gang on weekends, but not during the weekdays anymore. I’ve got more time to focus on work now that I’m not spending all of my free time gaming on an RP server.
I still hope the best for Dave and the rest of the URP crew, but right now it’s not the right place for me. Best of luck you guys.
Alrighty, that’s really the mussings that are rolling around right now. There are other things swimming around right now, but nothing I’ve hammered out fully.
I’ll be around more often,
Justin