Carbonated soft drink or Scandinavian black metal band? Only you can decide!
Friday, January 26, 2024
The Principle of Cola Made Flesh
While I'm getting back up to fighting fitness, here's the original Pepsi logo:
Carbonated soft drink or Scandinavian black metal band? Only you can decide!
Carbonated soft drink or Scandinavian black metal band? Only you can decide!
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Best Laid
Well that didn't go according to plan, did it?
I was supposed to be finishing up [REDACTED] by now, but instead I've been bed-ridden for a month, with either one really weird ever-changing illness, or a sequence of ailments that have all run into each other like a Human Centipede.
I'm feeling mostly better now, and can actually get around under my own power, so maybe I'll be able to get back on schedule.
Ha.
I was supposed to be finishing up [REDACTED] by now, but instead I've been bed-ridden for a month, with either one really weird ever-changing illness, or a sequence of ailments that have all run into each other like a Human Centipede.
I'm feeling mostly better now, and can actually get around under my own power, so maybe I'll be able to get back on schedule.
Ha.
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Checklist 2024
Right then, with that said, what creative projects am I planning to get done in 2024? This list exists as much to keep me honest as anything.
- Maps for [REDACTED]. This is my January job. Once this is out of the way, I can work on the other stuff.
- The Gargantuan Ovum of Sir William Hatcher, an egg-cellent adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. I'm hoping for a March publication for this one.
- Untitled Adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. As long as this is published by the end of the year, I'll be happy.
- WAR 16XX, which won't be the final title, unless we go mad. For Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
- Griffin Hill, a horror campaign/setting/campaign setting. I'm not sure of the system yet.
Monday, January 01, 2024
Masterplan 2024
I would have posted this earlier but I noticed that I had 69 posts in 2023, and I am a child.
Well, 2023 was a bit of a crapper. Indulge me as I moan about why, or just click here to skip to the optimistic bit.
I have had a day job since February in which I don't know how to do anything, and there's no one to train me in how to do those things, which ends up being massively demoralising every day. So that's great for my mental health.
My creative work has also suffered this year. I did get some books out, and got noticed by wargamer.com and The New Bloody Yorker, but I felt my creative energies fail and flounder in 2023. I struggled to get anything written after Winnie-the-Shit; it has felt difficult to write anything and what I did write felt bad and shonky.
At the same time, while I've never held any illusions that I am a great artist, I've always felt at least competent, but in 2023 I became more dissatisfied with my art than ever before. I feel like I've got as far as I can with my current style and I don't know what to do about that. Is it too late for me to develop a new style? Is that something I can even do, or is the way I draw just the way I draw, no backsies?
I haven't done much gaming this year and I have missed it. I've played a few games with Stuart over the year but I haven't met with the rest of my so-called-regular group since around October 2022 (!). Again I seem to have lost confidence, which is a bit weird considering it's a hobby and doesn't require much effort, but there it is.
A loss of confidence is an apt description in general. I feel like a bit of a failure in all walks of life. Incapable or incompetent, surviving rather than thriving. A pointless existence. Heavy, man.
So, 2024 then. How do I turn this around?
Well, the intent is there, so that's something.
I have some long-delayed projects that I am going to try to finish off in January, to start the new year off with a clean(ish) slate.
After that, I have two adventures for Lamentations of the Flame Princess that I want to get out this year, plus another non-adventure book.
That's probably enough to be getting on with and if I get those three out I will consider 2024 a success, but I've also got plans for a non-LotFP adventure book, and also branching out to work with some new people. There are also some tentative discussions about a couple of comics projects, which should be a fun return to an area I've long missed.
I hope I'll get back to some more regular gaming too. I'd like to play more Stargrave, and I bought a copy of The Doomed -- or is it The DOOMED? -- and that looks like good fun. And of course I would love to get Legions Imperialis to the table at some point.
It would also be nice to get to play some of those unplayed games too.
So let's see what 2024 brings! I'm going into it in a more positive frame of mind than I ended 2023, which is a good start. Let's go!
Well, 2023 was a bit of a crapper. Indulge me as I moan about why, or just click here to skip to the optimistic bit.
I have had a day job since February in which I don't know how to do anything, and there's no one to train me in how to do those things, which ends up being massively demoralising every day. So that's great for my mental health.
My creative work has also suffered this year. I did get some books out, and got noticed by wargamer.com and The New Bloody Yorker, but I felt my creative energies fail and flounder in 2023. I struggled to get anything written after Winnie-the-Shit; it has felt difficult to write anything and what I did write felt bad and shonky.
At the same time, while I've never held any illusions that I am a great artist, I've always felt at least competent, but in 2023 I became more dissatisfied with my art than ever before. I feel like I've got as far as I can with my current style and I don't know what to do about that. Is it too late for me to develop a new style? Is that something I can even do, or is the way I draw just the way I draw, no backsies?
I haven't done much gaming this year and I have missed it. I've played a few games with Stuart over the year but I haven't met with the rest of my so-called-regular group since around October 2022 (!). Again I seem to have lost confidence, which is a bit weird considering it's a hobby and doesn't require much effort, but there it is.
A loss of confidence is an apt description in general. I feel like a bit of a failure in all walks of life. Incapable or incompetent, surviving rather than thriving. A pointless existence. Heavy, man.
So, 2024 then. How do I turn this around?
Well, the intent is there, so that's something.
I have some long-delayed projects that I am going to try to finish off in January, to start the new year off with a clean(ish) slate.
After that, I have two adventures for Lamentations of the Flame Princess that I want to get out this year, plus another non-adventure book.
That's probably enough to be getting on with and if I get those three out I will consider 2024 a success, but I've also got plans for a non-LotFP adventure book, and also branching out to work with some new people. There are also some tentative discussions about a couple of comics projects, which should be a fun return to an area I've long missed.
I hope I'll get back to some more regular gaming too. I'd like to play more Stargrave, and I bought a copy of The Doomed -- or is it The DOOMED? -- and that looks like good fun. And of course I would love to get Legions Imperialis to the table at some point.
It would also be nice to get to play some of those unplayed games too.
So let's see what 2024 brings! I'm going into it in a more positive frame of mind than I ended 2023, which is a good start. Let's go!
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