I realise that I've been neglecting this blog for a while, but hey, I'm back and that's what counts.
I'm coming up on two major events this week. The first would be my first anniversary on Halloween. Can I begin by saying how pleased I am that my anniversary is on Halloween? This is a milestone I never thought I'd be able to reach because I never thought I'd find anyone to get there with, but I have and we're here and I'm happy and he's happy and we're happy together. We're having dinner and then we're watching the movie we went to see on our first date 1 year ago, Hotel Transylvania. His idea. I'm really excited.
The other major event is the kickoff of National Novel Writing Month 2013. I've been trying to figure out what I want to write this year and I had it narrowed down to two. I would either write a sequal to last year's entry, which seemed like an attractive idea because of how much I enjoy the character and how much I've been experimenting with other sequels up until now, even working on one for my creative writing class, or I would write a novelized version of a D&D campaign. I don't think I have enough planning in place to make the D&D one work out, and I always write my other character so naturally that I think I'm going to side with her on this one.
However, I really want to explore this D&D campaign idea. I want to write that story, I want to see how far I can get it to go. I am taking part in a D&D 3.5 campaign that has exploded to epic proportions, each player has 2 characters, one older and of epic level and one younger, most of whom are children of the older characters. Our DM has everything so ornately planned out, I am dumbfounded because I can't come up with that much depth for a story, and that's supposed to be my job to do that. I feel like trying to make this project happen would be good for me as an exercise in story-telling and world-building, as well as a safe place to learn about DMing games. If I could make this project take shape and play out, I might be able to make a real game happen after this, which I think would make Alex (my boyfriend, yes we have the same name) happy, since he got me really deep into this RPG community.
So that's where I'm at right now, I hope any readers who find this again or for the first time are doing well, and I think I might pick this up more seriously again here in the coming months.
-Alexandra
