It is funny that there is only a set amount of time in a
day. People only have a limited amount
of time to do things and that means you can only do so much; you must
prioritize what you do. For example, I
love to read, and I used to read a lot. I like to write too, so I used to write a
lot. I listened to podcasts too. And I worked at my jobs what ever those jobs
were. When I worked hard at a job I read
less and wrote less and listened to podcasts less. When I was laid off in the Winter, I read
more, wrote more and listened to all the podcasts that I had not listened to
and got behind in. Fine and dandy. Oh yeah, I forgot I added a fair amount of
roleplaying too. Then, tragedy strikes,
someone notices me and reads my blog and boom I start getting laid regularly,
but that is fine because I also find a job where I have to work less and so I
have time to have sex and do all of the above too, except I can’t read as much,
I am down to twenty-five books a year. Then
I move in with her and her family. Guess
what? My free time disappears, I still
have some, but it means I don’t have as much time to do a lot of things. I buy books but they sit unread, I don’t write
as often or for as long, and I don’t listen to my podcasts. I don’t have the time. I am okay with this because I am in a great
relationship and my life is the fullest it has ever been. AND I am having more sex than I have ever had
before.
It is nearly the end of the second month of Winter, and I
have started two books, but I have not finished any. I am playing in one Roleplaying game and
running two others, I might be running four soon. I am writing, more, I am working a little
less as it is Winter, but I have told management I am interested in getting
promoted to supervisor and that will mean working a lot more. Maybe just at different, less convenient
times, but probably more too. So, it
looks like I might have to limit a few other things. Like I might have to get a car, so that I spend
less time commuting. I will have to
spend less time reading or writing, I will have to choose, and I think the
choice has already been made: less reading.
I have discovered that I can write a lot and people like reading what I
write. I post a summation of the last
session for my adventures in a literary form, not what happened precisely, but
how it should have happened: less dialogue, better descriptions.
I am thinking about writing a book too. I googled something a little while ago and
the response surprised me. Books are not
as big as I thought they were. I
imagined huge manuscripts that weighed a ton, but the response I got on Google was
a lot lighter than I thought. A novel
can be 50,000 words and that is a 200-page book. And that did it. I realized that my adventure summaries were two
to three thousand words. Wait I’ll go
check . . .. The word count on the
Chapters was light, but 26 chapters each averaged 1,250-1,500 words apiece, so
about 32,500 words plus the larger catchup chapters I just wrote, so about
40,000 words. The Adventure that I just
started is more detailed. There are
three chapters and the word count is about 11,000 words at that rate, I might
be writing a much bigger adventure. The
difference between the adventures is that one is mine that I wrote for the
adventurers and the first was an adventure I was modifying. And I was trying to write a lot. 10,000 words is 40-pages. It means if I devote myself to writing that
story that I have been wanting to write for years and years, that plot that is
in my head, I can do it. If I can find
the things that are missing like the reason why they are going out. The reason why people will want to read my
book.
So, I am running into the problem of limited hours in my day
and too much I want to do. I am halfway
through a book that is in my backpack, it has been there since Jan 15th. I need to do what I want most . . . and keep the
things I have now, like the family that I feel almost part of and the
girlfriend who give massages to and who regularly attacks me and wants to be
attacked by me for sex . . . more sex than I thought was possible if I just
take the time to have it.
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