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Adventurer's Wanted #2

A tavern magician’s prestidigitation tricks suddenly erupted into a fireball that engulfed the interior of the tavern, killing him and injuring many others. He should not have been capable of such powerful magics. Investigate the situation and report back to the town watch. Anyone with information leading to the resolution of the case will receive a reward of 200 gp and a letter of recommendation from the mayor.

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Consume the Catalog

C O N S U M E

I wrote my January goals and that included a reading goal! And then I thought "why don't I tackle/prioritize my physical TBR?"

So I went through and tallied all my books up and my physical TBR has 28 books and 14 graphic novels. Most of which come from a Dark Horse giveaway that I won, books I got as gifts, and a bunch of books I got from a friend when she moved!

Then I was like hey, I just grabbed a bunch of games during the Fall Steam Sale why don't I make an effort to work through that catalog as well? And if I'm doing Steam I might as well note down my PS4 and Switch library.

And so Consume the Catalog was born. One of my 2024 goals is going to be working through these libraries and prioritize them over purchasing new books and games. If you'd like to follow along or give me recommendations you can view the list on Google Sheets here!

For the books, I marked books In Progress if I had started it in the past couple years but never finished it. I started The Way of Kings only a couple months ago, but then set it aside during Nanowrimo so I will probably be tackling that one first.

For the video games, I marked them complete if I finished them or if I had sufficiently progressed in the game to be satisfied. (You can never really be done with Stardew Valley or Hades, but I have other games to play).

I am excited to start checking pieces off the list! Please let me know if you have any recommendations from these books or games that I should prioritize first!

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Adventurer's Wanted #1

A green dragonborn mage found an automaton in the ruins of a wizard’s laboratory. They activated the automaton assistant who turned out to be much too cheery and friendly for the mage’s liking. The mage wishes the adventurers to return to the laboratory and delve deeper to look for the instructions on how to deactivate the automaton.

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Nanowrimo 2023 In Review

This year was the first year I completed Nanowrimo! After almost a decade of dabbling I finally completed the challenge to write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November!

During the last week of October I decided to cobble together an outline. By the time November 1st rolled around I had only roughly outlined Act 1 and about half of Act 2 and hoped that would be enough to get me through the first half of this 100,000 word fantasy novel I had planned.

This quickly turned out to not be true as I chewed through the beats I had plotted at an alarming rate in much fewer words than I anticipated. This lead to a terrible slump in the third week of the month where I did not write at all leaving me with a writing goal of 5,000 words a day for the last week if I wanted to see this through.

I discovered through the challenge that I could write a thousand words in roughly 30 mins and about 2500 words in an hour. (Don't ask me why that math doesn't add up). I also discovered that the folks talking about "shitty first drafts" are right. It was amazing to see how many solutions to my writing problems slotted into place simply by putting words on the page for me to fix.

On November 30th I cranked out an absurd 6435 words to hit my goal of 50,000. I am so proud of what I accomplished and invigorated to write again. I have taken December to rest and mull over my story, but in January I will be cracking open the draft and taking a jackhammer to it to finish putting it into a book shape. Then the joy of editing begins. I can't wait.

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Night Works Origin

With all the social media platforms out there it seems my attention and interests are always being pulled in all directions. I have a desire to create, but not necessarily the desire to make the video TikTok would ask of me, or the carefully crafted photo and caption that Instagram requires.

I have heard it recommended often that you should make a home online for your creations. For now, I've decided to circle up and make this that home. Expect to see a large variety. I already have planned posts talking about writing, ttrpgs, videogames, movies, TV, books. If that interests you, please pull up a chair and stay a while! I'm excited to see what library we create here.