Free Write 12

With Nano finally being over and December getting going, I feel both pretty drained and pretty happy with my writing, which is why I want to take a quick break from thinking about writing and just put some words down about whatever comes to mind. You may also notice that this is something I probably should have said yesterday - funny story. I could have sworn I did. Apparently I thought about it so thoroughly that I just assumed I had actually done it. So, you know. Fuck me.

Just to get it off my mind a little bit, I wanna talk about how Nano went for a second. I finished, which I'm super happy about. I love the idea of the story that I wrote, and I think it has a ton of potential to be a fascinating story. As it currently is, it is horrendous. I'm not talking first draft bad. I'm talking this clearly has not had enough thought put into it and needs to be completely rewritten bad. But you know what? I'm fine with that. This was an idea I had about three days before October. I did not have the time to really think it through and establish what I wanted to do with the story. The fact that I got through fifty thousand words with it is more than enough. I will more than likely come back to this a few years down the line when I know a bit more of what I want from the story and write it again. And I look forward to doing it.

In the meantime, I'm gonna spend some time diving back into video games for a bit. I don't plan on that being literally the only thing that I do - though it's entirely possible some days will be that way - but I basically didn't play any games throughout November because I was so focused on writing. Which doesn't necessarily sound that bad, but when games are such a prominent part of my life, it feels weird to just push them aside. It's not like I stopped thinking about them, because they were always in the back of my head and I saw news about them all the time and such. I just didn't really play them.

I'd like to start with Final Fantasy 15, which just came out, but the mailman decided that I didn't deserve it. It was supposed to arrive yesterday, then didn't. Then they told me it would arrive by nightfall. And it didn't. There's absolutely no reason it shouldn't arrive today - which means it probably won't. And even if it did, with my work schedule, I'm not going to have any time to play it for two days. So that's great.

But above anything else, I need to keep writing on the blog. Even if the quality is shit, it's practice. It's the act of actually writing something down. That's the important part of it. So hopefully this is the last time for quite a while that I miss a day.