[Update] Long weekending 29th March 2016

It was a long week this week, with 4 days off for Easter. I have achieved a huge amount of writing (near on 10 thousand words in my estimate) across a number of projects, including some that actually saw the light of day! I think that is the real benefit of this blog so far, the number of 'things' that I've started to actually complete. Sure I've still got years of half done writing still sitting on my Hard Drive, but at least now something is getting done with it.

So what did I do this past week?

• Completed an article for my darkconspiracytherpg.info fan site - this is an examination of The Pale, one of the major antagonist races in the game. 
• The biggie, I released A Night on the Town, a demonstration scenario for Pelgrane Press' The Esoterrorists. Designed as an introduction to the GUMSHOE system, is comes complete with sample characters and a bit of gaming advice.
• Talking The Esoterrorists, I also updated the page covering this game on my Unbound Publishing website. I've also popped up all the bits and pieces I've produced for the game, and am surprisingly impressed on just how much I've written for it over the years.
• As you can imagine, releasing a product really gives you a shot in the arm for similar ideas, and so I spent some time working on The Breeders, a longer Esoterrorist adventure (I've previously mentioned here).
• I also got the map from my friend Domagoj for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy adventure I started a while back. As a result, I ended up rewriting a whole swathe of changes to improve the background elements to the story (i.e. actually have one :P).
• Finally, inspired by an actual play podcast, I threw together a quick background for a Fantasy Age version of the old D&D setting Dark Sun. What started out as a simple conversion morphed into a similar but different setting. Unsure what, if anything, I'll do with it, but I'm definitely in the mood for some Fantasy Age gaming.

Update - Weekending 21st March 2016

I've found that websites take a lot of effort to update and change, and more than one evening this week has been taken up with editing just one section of my Stormbringer site.

That being said, this week I:

• Updated the Catalogue page of my Stormbringer site.
• Created a page here on this blog summarising the various websites and fan pages I support. I realised this is the first time I've attempted such a summary, and I'm sure I'm missing things (in fact I know I've not noted my Mini Six fan site!)
• I've picked up an old Stormbringer adventure (I've run a couple of times) and started editing it. 
• I completed the full draft of my The Esoterrorists Demo adventure - A Night on the Town. This should be up on my Unboundbook.org site later this week. 

Getting Things Done - Week Ending 14th March 2016

If you could sum up last week in a few words, they would be, 'review and reflection'. Looking back on my writing over the past 7 days, I have to say that I achieve a lot more than I had first thought, and, if nothing else, it demonstrated to me just how many projects I start without guiding them through to completion. Again, on of the purposes of this blog is to ensure that I focus on some of these 'products' and see them through to to some sort of result.

So this week I:

• Wrote a post over at unboundbook.org summarising the status of a number of Call of Cthulhu scenarios I've mentioned over the last decade. Suffice to say the related thread over at Yog-sothoth.com raise the idea of Patreon again... 
• Completed an article for my Sundered Skies blog, and posted that up on the site. Heir to the Throne, is a scenario idea that I've previously run for my Skype group, but this was my chance to put on paper.
• Finally move forward on an old The Esoterrorist adventure. For the longest time I've been inching my way through a demon scenario - much like the one for Ashen Stars - designed to introduce new players to this specific style/flavour of GUMSHOE. Over the weekend I settled on a completed draft, and have received some great feedback from my editor-in-grief - (i.e. Emma, my wife).

Week that Was Websites - 2nd to 7th March 2015

This week I didn’t do much in the way of writing, as I mostly focused on updating a couple of the websites I run supporting my favourite roleplaying games. Back in September 2015, almost all of my Wordpress (this is the name of the Content Management System I use) sites were hit with malware, which took quite a bit of effort to recover from. As part of this I noted a couple of my more venerable themes (think style templates) were starting to get outdated (both in look and feel, as well as their core code). Life, time and laziness delayed this until last week when I wanted to make a post on one of the pages, at which point my desire to update the site kicked in. For convenience (i.e. because I’m into simple), I decided to utilise the same theme for one of the other sites that needed updating, but as per usual I can never leave good enough alone, and was soon tweaking the code and settings in my vain attempts to create the ‘perfect’ design. Of course, with any new Wordpress theme, the size and type of images on the site needed review as well, and this probably took most of my effort over the past week. So as a summary:

• I updated both my www.stormbringerrpg.com website, as well as the www.unboundbook.org one. There’s no new content on these sites, but they look much nicer!
• I did get an evening one of my Sundered Skies adventures as well, and as such A Heir to the Throne is almost ready to pop up on my Sundered Skies blog.