Hiddennode

My personal productivity has taken a nose dive in the past week. The novel currently hasn’t been started yet (since I scrapped those 10,000 words), mostly because the time I normal would be writing has actually been taken up by the day job. This means I need to stop depending on the free time at work and start making time at home. Not going to be easy but it will be done.

As I’ve said, the Novel is at a standstill. I still have plans for completion by the end of summer for the first draft, so each day I delay means I’m just making it harder on myself. I’m still excited about the direction the story is aimed at so that’s not the issue. It’s just a matter of realizing I need to sacrifice free time for writing time if I’m ever going to become something more than a wanna-be writer. I’m not a novelist yet. Not until I actually finish a novel.
In other but related news, I’ve found some new Crack. Inside of the game City of Heroes, there exists the ability to customize the base of your super group. In terms of most MMO’s, think of super groups as the guild or clan. As your members fight as representatives of your SG, they will earn prestige that can be used to purchase useful items like storage racks and teleporters, to less useful but prettier items like technical looking toys or magical artifacts. In the game, various players have discovered you can “stack” certain items to allow an SG to build up an area in a normally impossible way. This has lead to a portion of SG’s into the habit of creating extravagant structures and designs. Within my Super Group, I am this designer. Namely because I’m the only active leader, but anyway… I’ve come to really enjoy making custom looking areas and chambers in rooms for the base. The only major problem is that I may be making too many items and such as I’m really starting to eat into the prestige. Most likely I will actually curtail this development until the base is at a more complete level. Besides… I need to start inviting more members to gather more prestige.

Looks like this is going to be a brief one. Odd that I both don’t feel like writing fiction or blogging. Gotta get myself out of this artificial funk and start writing again full time.

jdiehl

Here’s  my new current theme. This is nice and will do until I develope my own. Simple, plain, nice.

As I posted last night, I went ahead and locked all the old topics before my quick update in christmas. I also deleted all the twitter posts. Today I’m going to be trying to smooth out what I have on the site and on the site’s arms (Facebook, Twitter, and Livejournal as well). Interesting note about the LJ side, with closing all those old posts here, they suddenly vanished on the LJ side. Pretty interesting actually.

Of to work.

jdiehl

Hey All,

So I’ve been behind on posting here. Gonna change that in the coming weeks with the new year (I’m sure everyone is saying that now). In addition to posting more here, I’m going to be posting over at Cylys as a reviewer and other associated posts. Quick update here though, I’ve updated some tools on the site, updated the copy of wordpress, and I’m about to start editing the categories.

In the future, I’m going to be working on the new site theme. I’m also probably going to start posting tweets here as a weekly digest as opposed to a daily digest. We’ll see if that works better.

Anyway, later folks, talk to you soon.

jdiehl