Free Write

This is gonna be something a little different. I've been struggling a lot lately with coming up with topics that I wanted to write (save for a few ones that quite clearly came to me, but those are pretty rare exceptions), and so I thought for today I would try something a little less focused than what I normally do. This is effectively going to be jotting down whatever thoughts come to my head, so they're likely going to be jumbled, disconnected, and trail off from one to another without ever fully exploring any one topic in particular. On the other hand, it could end up being that I write some very in depth discussion on a particular topic that I just happen-stancely end up on. All that being said, I expect this won't be of much interest to a reader unless that's a kind of thing you're super interested in, so feel free to skip over this one.

On  separate note, I am amazed that happen-stancely evidently registers as a word. I was sure I was making that up.

After recently getting what I would describe as my first real job, I've surprisingly found that I have a good amount of time for playing video games. The fact that I can come home and not have to prepare something for the next day is remarkably freeing for time - one of several reasons why I prefer it over going to school - and so I've been having a good deal of time to bounce around and try some different stuff that I might have otherwise passed up on. Particularly, I've been going back to some games I had previously finished and working on their bonus content. I've actually had a few ideas of things I want to write because of that, but I'm not sure how to go about it without just completely ripping off the games I got the ideas from. That's something I'm going to have to spend some time thinking about.

A couple days ago I wrote a horror post, which I'm pretty sure is the first scary thing I've ever so much as attempted to write. Suffice to say it came from a dream and didn't want to leave my head until I put it down on paper. It made me legitimately uncomfortable writing it, and I really shouldn't have put it off as long as I did, seeing as I had trouble going to sleep after writing it because I couldn't get the scenes I had written out of my head. I don't know if anyone else would find it as disturbing or creepy as I did while I was writing it, and if they did, I don't know if I'd be happy about it. On the one hand, that was the purpose of it. On the other hand, that's not really what I want to do with my writing. But it's hard to argue with results.

I'm not sure why, but I was recently struck with the thought of weapon practicality in writing. It's not a thing that bothers me, seeing as how about ninety percent of stories have entirely impractical weapons or fighting styles, but with the amount of training I've had in those areas, it's something I'm pretty aware of. Dual wielding swords in particular came to mind. I considered writing a blog post about it, but I'm not really sure I have enough to say on the subject, nor that I really want to write about it. Is it a thing worth saying? Possibly. But I imagine it will come off more as me ranting than anything else.

Although, criticizing that while writing this is a bit hypocritical, I suppose.

I'm not entirely sure how, but I recently started receiving emails from some writing newsletter or something? At first I thought it was cool, I was getting stuff about writing! But every single day I got two emails, both saying the same thing - you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars by writing! Here's how!

And it would then go on to detail about how companies need people to write basic, conversational letters for them to send out for whatever reason.

And I'm sure that's a perfectly legitimate thing, and it's probably highly necessary in the business world.

But really? It doesn't take that long to write a letter. In fact, I'm pretty sure most places have that kind of thing automated by now. And more than anything, I feel like that would be boring. Does it give you a lot of freedom to do other things you enjoy? Yeah, sure. But I was under the impression that boring, monotonous, easy to do jobs that you're just doing to be able to do the other things you actually want to do weren't the way to go. Though nowadays, that seems to be more and more what people are telling me, so maybe I'm just under the wrong impressions. I think I'd rather stick with my ideas, impractical as they might be.