Made it past 10k

Made it to 10,621 words yesterday, and also ended the first story. I also remembered to make a backup copy of it in RPoL Detroit.

There's already an obvious sequel setup with Adrian and Johan going to the wetlands where the Dahan are about to get pushed by Keeper into the jungle of C1, sweeping them along for the ride, and then there'll be a massive ravage. I'm going to need some Dahan characters for that though, starting with how to name them. I guess pick from various Polynesian.

After that, the third story is on the opposite side of the map, so I'll probably have to come up with alternate characters that end up going that way.

The next game with Sharp Fangs is off to a nice start. Sharp Fangs is already responsible for helping clear three lands, so that should make for some interesting stories involving jungle monsters. It'll be a while before I get to it though.

Bottom of the 13th

8388 words.

1933 words just now, which is sadly my highest word count day so far.

The words flow pretty well when I write, I just haven't had very many writing sessions. Lots going on in the rest of life. The ex-flatmate became an ex-flatmate, and he still hasn't paid up on his share of bills and probably never will, which means I have to prepare to take him to Tribunal. They're preparing the house for selling, and I'm looking for somewhere else to live. I also have to prepare to move out, including packing up my own stuff and also cleaning out all of everyone else's stuff that they left here.

Meanwhile, the PhD project is going pretty well. The first draft of the MRIO table is getting constructed over the next month, and meanwhile I've turned my attention to the various risk weights.

I've reached the part of the timeline in the story where I'm about to destroy the second town - but not in the same way as the first town. The first town was destroyed with Sacrosanct Wilderness. This one is getting destroyed by Punish Those Who Trespass. I haven't worked out yet what that looks like. That'll be the main course of the next writing session.

Bottom of the 9th

5183 words.

I'm not doing great at racking up tons of words, but I do manage to get words written quickly when I'm writing. It's a very different process to just write thoughts about what I'm writing into the story as I go along. It definitely adds more words that way, and I don't end up stopping to worldbuild and etc instead.

I'm still in Round 1 of 4 for the story of Keeper wiping out all the invaders in its home jungle. I think part of what's keeping me slowed down is that it's not a very exciting story. I might skip to a story about a different spirit when I'm done with this one.

The game that I'm writing from is going to end soon. We are one fear card away from Terror Level 3, and there are only 3 cities on the map. We probably won't have too much trouble taking them out, once everyone figures out what they're doing.

Bottom of Day 6

2611 words so far.

I came up with a couple characters that can talk to each other, and now I'm rewriting my way through the same narrative as I wrote up in the overview. It's a lot more words when there are characters talking.

The game that I took the story from has continued on, and there are now two other big turns that Keeper has been involved in that I could write about next. It'll be a while before I'm done with the current story though. So far I'm still in Round 1, and the whole thing is four rounds long.

The next story (a sequel maybe) will be about Keeper wiping out another jungle on the edge of the island, by pushing around a whole bunch of Dahan. Thunderspeaker is also present, but doesn't do anything in that particular land, just removes some of the Dahan later to go wipe out somewhere else.

Then the one after that (we're currently playing through it), is about wiping out a mountain. That'll take two turns to finish, which means 20 years.

I guess the biggest challenge is just in getting the timeframe to stretch. I'm pretty good at writing minute-by-minute things via conversations and etc. between characters. Not so much with "time passes."

I'm not sure Keeper is the most exciting possible spirit to write stories about. Either that or I don't have enough imagination to make "wilds" more exciting than a bunch of trees. I'll have to think on it some more I guess, especially when I get to the mountain which won't have as many trees.

Welp, Day One

767 words.

I basically have no particular attachment to anything I've ever written before at this point. So I'm doing fanfic of Spirit Island instead. I figure, aim for a whole bunch of short stories based on things going on in various play-by-forum games, or if anything exciting happens in an in-person game.

So far I've written a fairly vague, overview-like narrative of the current story for Keeper, in PBF 035 at the Spirit Island forum on  Board Game Geek.

I guess we'll see how the rest of the month goes. I'll need to come up with more to write about if I'm going to get anywhere near 50k.