jagash

I have just finished writing the crude first draft of my RPG system. This is only the portion of the rules used to play the game (including character creation) and does not include the storyteller section. Still, it means that I have enough of the skeleton assembled for a playtest next month or so.

The word count thus far is approximately 32K, though this is missing at least another couple thousand words worth of examples. That is also only half of the final product. Still, I think that is about the correct length for the game at this stage of development. I think the final product will be about 80k or so at this current guesstimate.

I will try to use this period of time to do some basic editing of the last paragraph, preparing quick reference sheets and perhaps even work on the website content for some more respectable web presence. In either case, I will be hardly resting on my laurels though I might permit myself a little more sleeping time and a little less ceaseless toil.

My life has been generally pleasant it seems. I have had nothing terribly noteworthy going on, simply my usual multi-tasking insanity. I have been slowly working on my book and with luck I will be able to resolve a particular thorny issue in the game design process. It's one of those Gordian knots I am in the midst of untangling the slow way, as the fast way would involve cutting my work to pieces. I hope to finish the first half of the book in very crude form by mid-october and run my next playtest sometime this fall. At least that is the plan.

In other events, work is somehow continuing to go wonderfully. I will be off to the east coast at the end of the month for a national conference with my coordinators for work. This will officially by my first instance of travel for work and it should be fun. I will finally be able to get some decent seafood and perhaps even cheap lobster. :)

I just recently got my backpay for about a year's worth of work, which certainly helps with my minuscule long-term savings. My finances are finally becoming less stupid, though it will still take me a long while before I have any significant amount of savings. Heck, I plan on gambling with some of those savings on my business venture as well so there are moderate chances that I will have even less. Oh well, it's not like I am retiring next week; I think I have time to save up.

I am very close to the end of my piece of fiction, any much longer and my generous editors will be most unhappy with me. I will try to get done within the next two days, then i will send it to both torrain and waterspyder if they don't mind.

Oh, and i suppose i should also do my 15 page paper aswell...

Base Document: Version 1
Editing Type: Structual
Progress: 8713 words out of 9851 total words processed.
Notes: Finally working on it again and i managed to finish off the 2nd last section. There is only the finale remaining and that shouldn't take me more then a month to finish. :P Only the single hardest section remaining, but it should be the most rewarding one.

Then i pass it off to my two beautiful editors whom i expect to rend it apart into mere filaments of muscle and bone.

Base Document: Version 1
Editing Type: Structual
Progress: 7287 words out of 9555 total words processed.
Notes: The fifth and sixth sections were dealt with. I made a major structural change in that i merged those two sections into one. Thanks to my noble editors whom inspired this because it was certainly needed.
I found a continuity error of doom in there. I said that "A few days" had passed between Sagun and Michael's pronouncement in section 5. In section 6, immediatly after that pronouncement, Narmiel had a flashback of a scene that happened a "while back" yet that scene could have only taken place post-Sagun. *shakes head* So glad i caught that one.

Base Document: Version 1
Editing Type: Structual
Progress: 3773 words out of 9051 total words processed.
Notes: Third section done. Chief changes are that the layer-nature & intangibility of the celestials was elaborated upon and more flavour text about the personalities of some of the characters was added.