Week Ending Update - 23rd May 2016

A week of editing and review, with a number of pieces of work almost ready to go -

• Completed a one-sheet adventure for my Sundered Skies blog - you can grab Prize Fighter here.
• Incident at Redview, the Dark Conspiracy adventure I've been chatting on this blog since it began, has a completed draft. Just waiting the last bit of art from Domi, and a good edit. I hope to have it posted on my DCtRPG.info site in June (I've posted a mock-up of the cover on that site's forum, if you're interested). 
• Finally I'm about half way through the edit of my Advanced Fighting Fantasy adventure - The Oldest Tower. It's taken longer than expected due to the change of plot I made mid-adventure, and now I'm having to tie it all back together. 

Week Ending Update - 16th May 2016

Another quiet week; I blame my wife, who has been home for the last couple of weeks. Jokes...

• I drafted my next Sundered Skies article for one of my blogs.
• I reviewed a couple of adventures I've drafted and need to push over into completed stage. These are for both Dark Conspiracy and Advanced Fighting Fantasy.

[Update] Week Ending 18/04/2016

Another one of those weeks when things I've previously started begin to be delivered. This week it was:

• An article on the Shattered City and Gateway for my Sundered Skies blog.
• More work on various Dark Conspiracy ideas, including 'Incident at Redview' as well as my April update for the DCtRPG.info site - In the Referee's Toolkit.
• Finally I worked further on 'The Oldest Tower', which has become more complex than I'd originally hoped*.  I normally refrain from predicting what I'll work on in the upcoming week, but I suspect this draft will be done this week.

* I was looking at another 'The Well' type of adventure, but my poor brain hates random dungeons that have no real reason to exist - I mean who has a tavern in a room you've got to fight your way too?

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.

[Update] 22/02/2016

Another week down and I surprise myself by actually updating my blog. As per usual I can barely seem to focus on one particular thing at any one time, but at least I'm doing something!

Highlights for the week include:

• More work on my Advanced Fighting Fantasy Adventure - The Loneliest Tower
• Completed my January article for my Dark Conspiracy fan site - a review of A Gathering Evil novel (yes I know, I'm running late okay :P). I also started on my Feb article as well...
• Completed some Dark Heresy Cheat Sheets for my Thursday Skype game. These worked well, even if they were underused (yes the mechanics are dense at first glance, but the basics are pretty straight forward).
• I also updated my live journal blog with a personal observations on my game mechanics perspective. To be honest this was more to keep the blog from being deleted than anything else, and covers a bugbear I have with RPG mechanics.
• Finally, I created a whole new blog to become a repository for the various articles, adventures, etc. I've written over the years for one of my favourite game settings - Sundered Skies.

So yeah lots and yet...