The Dice Pool At Thirty (Posts)

Daily RPG

Way back in the mists of time, on July 14th 2024 I posted on this blog for the first time. In fact, I hit that “Publish” button three times that first day. Since then, it’s been one a day, like clockwork, whether I wanted to or not.
At the time I was determined to keep up that relentless pace, I guess, forever. I had (and still have) a bottomless pit of blog ideas that I have only scratched the surface of.

NaNoWriMo

But here’s the thing, I have finished NaNoWriMo five times. For those of you who don’t know, that’s the National Novel Writing Month. Despite the name, it’s an international event that takes place in November every year. It involves thousands of loons all over the world committing to penning a 50,000 word novel during the calendar month.

Some succeed, some fail, but it’s the effort that counts. If you only manage to write 1,000 words of a novel, that’s 1,000 more words than you had on October 31st. And it’s not about quality, that’s for sure.

The real appeal of NaNoWriMo is the element of motivation that comes with it. Everybody involved wants you to write. Hit your daily targets and you spend the month feeling good about yourself. You also improve, not just at typing but at writing, plotting, characterisation, pacing, everything. Although sometimes that only happens afterwards when you read what you’ve written!

What I’m getting at here is that, writing a blog post every single day, it started to feel like I was treating this like NaNoWriMo. But I can’t do that anymore! I want to give a little more care and consideration to each and every post. I want to be able to take my time, develop ideas, garner feedback, and level up. I’d like to be able to distill my own feelings about RPGs and my thoughts about this brilliant hobby and write something special, sometimes at least. I’ll probably still spit out the odd list to fill a void every once in a while but I promise to try to make it entertaining, at least!

New schedule

So, what that boils down to is that I need to slow the pace a bit. Right now, what I am thinking about is a post every two or three days. I’ll try both and see which is the most do-able. In the event that neither one is, I’ll probably drop down to weekly. With this schedule I would hope to be able to spend much more time planning, thinking about the topics I want to write about, researching them more thoroughly, writing, re-writing and editing before publishing.

My suspicion is that most of my dear readers do not have the sort of time available to them to be able to read a post every day, anyway. So, with any luck this will become more manageable for all of us.

Let me know what you think in the comments. Do you want more or less of my deranged ramblings?