Free Write 13

Still feeling kinda drained after Nano. I actually don't have much work for the next couple of weeks, so that should give me plenty of time to rest and relax and really let my brain get moving again. Though at the same time I need to do some work on figuring out Christmas presents before, you know, Christmas. Never been too good at all of that stuff - even for looking for presents for myself. Though that's gotten even worse lately. If I see something I really want, I either get it or ignore it until I don't want it any more. Putting something off to tell someone to get me for the holiday season isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

Honestly, I don't have all that much that I want to say here. The whole point of a free write for me is to just get some words down about just about anything I have on my mind, but there really isn't much there today. I've been playing Final Fantasy 15 now that I finally received it, and I'm loving it. It's definitely not the kind of Final Fantasy that I grew up with and fell in love with, but I'm also very not far into it. I like what I've seen so far, but I also see how some things could become a pain in the ass. While I was waiting for that, I also bought a game called Steep, which is an open world snow ports exploration game. It's kind of weird to describe. I super dig it, though. I've always been a fan of snowboarding games thanks to playing SSX as a kid, so it's right up my alley. It can be both very challenging and skill based and very relaxing and fun. It's good.

I know it's only been a few days since Nano ended, and while Nano was highly stressful for me, it feels like I've fallen into a kind of rut almost from not having it in my life. Not having a constant story to work on. I suppose what I should really do is some editing work on my novel from last year. I feel much more confident about getting something workable out of that than I do with the crap I wrote this year. I mean, there's a lot of problems with it, but I feel like last year's story had a bit more... stability to it, I suppose. I'm not sure how to explain it. It's certainly not substance. But the story had more space to be a story, I suppose. However you want to phrase it.

Speaking of snowboarding, I'd like to do some. It's been years since I went snowboarding, and while I was never very good at it, I still enjoyed it. It was a kind of a thing to do I guess. I dunno, it was pretty exhilarating to rush through the snow and only have a board and my skill and reflexes to keep me afloat. I clearly didn't have much cause I feel a lot. And it hurt. And I lost my glasses once because of it. But I still enjoyed it. I'd like to go again, but I have no idea when would be a good time. And it's been so long, I have no idea if I even still can. But I want to.