24 May 2001
Last year: Really, sometimes, I'm not a very good person.
Hee hee! I seem have started a trend with my role-playing site. (Yes, I know I'm not the first person to have a website devoted to their role-playing characters. I'm not that much of an idiot. I meant that I seem to have started a recent trend among my fellow Hall players.)
Though to be fair, Jeff's webpage had character descriptions first. But then, Jeff hasn't updated his page in so long his link to me still points back to my 3GI account and refers to Matt's and my wedding as "this April". (Hint, hint, Jeff!)
I've been trying for years (off and on) to talk Karen into making herself a webpage. If anything could convince her to do it, this would be it! Come on, Karen! Join the crowd! Hop on the bandwagon! You know you want to!
I wrote the first part of a story yesterday, and it didn't suck. Whatever has been wrong with me lately seems to have faded. Maybe it was just distraction, I don't know. When I finish the story - which, hopefully, will be today - I'll probably format it and post it on my role-playing site.
(Is anyone else even remotely interested? Should I create a notify list for the RPG site, do you think? Or, since at the moment it only contains Hall characters, just use the Hall's notify list and stop boring the rest of my readers silly? What do you think?)
I was thinking about this journal the other day (duh) and I wondered, why do I bother aplogizing for boring entries? Why do I censor myself from talking about the things I find interesting? I mean, I'm not going to go into detail about my sex life, because that's private and I wouldn't want to talk about it to anyone (well, anyone who's not part of my sex life, anyway). And I try to avoid saying things in this journal that I'd be embarrassed to know got back to my mother, for example.
But why bother restricting the amount I talk about the Hall? Because it bores non-player readers? Dammit, I'm writing this for me. The fact that I have readers helps me remember to update regularly, but... At least half of my readers are people I know real-time. Fellow gamers, the lot of them. I know why they read. (It's that vicarious thrill you get when you see your name mentioned, isn't it?) I don't know why the rest of you read, but that's okay. What difference does it make? I should be able to talk about whatever I want.
The only thing I can think of that would provide a reasonable compromise between writing about what interests me and not boring all of you would be to compartmentalize my stories. To put a heading on each section so you'd know if I was going to be talking about gaming, or writing, or work, or the spider thing, or whatever. Not sure how I'd handle overlap (what if it was about me at work writing a story about my gaming characters encountering a spider?) but that's a secondary concern.
Do you care? Would you read it all anyway? Listen up: Who gets sick of reading certain kinds of things and would like to see those things labelled so you can skip over them? Hands up! If I don't hear from anyone, I'll... just keep going the way I have been, probably.
Word of the Day:
expatriate - one who lives in a foreign country; one who has renounced his/her native country
Currently Reading:
- nothing
Current Projects:
- Meade Hall stuff
- garden