Post Festival of Excess and New Year Greetings!
I allowed myself a writing break up to Xmas, what with all the spinning plates and running about of the silly season, but did manage to write a scene over the Xmas holiday, continuing the story that I started for NaNoWriMo.
I realise now that this story will be much longer than I first anticipated, and I’ve only just got to the second day in my tale. My protagonist, Amy, has yet to meet the other subject of the story and the antagonist hasn’t shown his face yet either, but it’s progressing, albeit slowly. I really need to knuckle down and try to write something every day, but its hard fitting it in with normal life stuff. That is my “not New Year” resolution - I don’t make New Year resolutions, as I’m rubbish at keeping them, but this is something I want to do, and probably need to do if a story is spinning round in my head enough!
I’ll keep you posted of plot developments once I’ve got a bit more written, but I had an idea for another story as I was driving home on Friday. I followed a car with a number place ending “WDZ” and immediately thought of “Wizardz”, because that’s how my weird brain works! I then followed another car whose number plate ended “WDZ” as well, (although it quite possibly could have been the same one - I was too busy thinking up a character/plot to really notice, whilst driving at the same time!), and I saw it as a sign that a story needed to be told.
An idea was written down in my ideas book, and I’ll add to that as thoughts strike me and share when I have something a little more concrete, but I’m definitely trying to write one story at a time, or the big one will never get finished!
I also generated a RPG (Role Play Gaming) character sheet for my wizard to test out our Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition new Player’s Manual. He came out quite well, after we worked out “D&D speak” and with a bit of toing and froing through the book - I got quite excited when I found out he could throw an Chromatic Orb - where you can hurl a 4-inch-diameter sphere of energy at a creature that you can see within a certain range. You choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder for the type of orb you create and then make a ranged spell attack against the target. lf the attack hits, the creature takes 3d8 (3 x 8 sided dice) damage. Not too shabby at all for a first level character.
Sometimes it’s the little things that just make your day!
Talk soon
Shel
