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Q2 of 2021: I Did What

Hello there and welcome back to the blog! Things got away from me this week - by which I mean, I spent all of last week churning out pages of my most recent play, and finished the first draft on Monday, and have needed til now to get my writing feet back under me.  Plus the short week was full of absolutely stupid issues at the dayjob so that didn’t bloody well help.  But here we are, on either a Saturday, when I’m starting this, or a Sunday, if I don’t finish this tonight.  Since it’s an off-day, maybe I’ll just do another checkin about…

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… damn.  I just checked, and it’s been almost three months since my Q1 checkin.  And you know what’s wild? I did in fact hit 10 Out of Mana posts, and weirdly enough, with my two TTRPG Tuesday focuses, I have actually begun prototyping again.  And hey, I finished one of the two first drafts of plays that I mentioned not having completed in that update.  Wild! Well then - let’s talk a plan for the rest of the quarter.  I have at least one other non-Out of Mana Mechanic Monday ready to go, and prompts for two more Out of Mana ones.  Maybe I’ll get those out, another post on design lessons learned from MTG Arena, and any TTRPG Tuesdays that I need to write a draft of Envy of Ajax and Riders by the end of June.  Then once June wraps up, I’ve got two more small completed TTRPG projects, and things will perhaps open up enough again that I can schedule some playtests and use those as prototyping deadlines.  There’s also a very slim chance that I get into one (or both HAHAHAHA?HA) playwright incubators I’m signing up for, which would put a crimp on my design time - but maybe in that case, working with my hands and not writing, using that space inbetween my right and left brain, will feel like a nice break.  Anyway, we’ll see.

So that’s manageable enough.  Alright, well - I was going to do some prototyping tonight, but honestly - I don’t think I processed until just now how much I accomplished in the last quarter.  I can take the night off.  Maybe finish that Space Sweepers movie I was watching.  I’ll go do that! We’ll be back in a couple of days, with either a Mechanic Monday and/or another TTRPG Tuesday.  So long!

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