On becoming a hermit

I don't seem to be making it to the Society Game at the moment - by Tues teatime I seem to feel to exhausted to face treking into town, and also I find it causes me stress, mostly in terms of preparing my downtimes. Since my stress levels are high at the moment, to say the least, it's seeming to be better not to go currently. I'm hoping to make the RPGsoc pub crawl on Friday though.

Potential lead on a flat has, sadly, fallen through. Still many other leads to pursue, and I will try to do some of that tomorrow.

I'm not really becoming a hermit. But it makes me sad when I have to cut my social life for reasons of emotional wellbeing. Especially as, by the sounds of things, Legacy has been very cool this term,

Was there weather?

Thank goodness we have LJ so we don't have to look out of the window to find out what the weather's like any more.

Game writing

Well, the sad news is that this year there's no UK freeforms weekend game, in that it's been moved to February and as a result, there's an 18 month gap between games this time round.

The very very good news is that instead we have Consequences, a weekend-long convention for LARPS and freeforms.

Now I'm tempted to put in a bid for a game, since, Goddess knows why, I enjoy writing and running these things. Certainly I've had very positive feedback on the games I've run in the past, the most recent being the Babylon 5 freeform I ran at iCon. However, the main criticism of that game was very justified. The game was just too big for me to run on my own, and to be honest, I work better when I have someone to bounce ideas off. So I'm looking for a partner.

Here's your chance. If you fancy writing a game with me, get in touch.

It's odd that freeforms are really the only art form I've ever known that works better by default when written by more than one person. I suppose it's because of an idea I think of as the golden rule of freeform writing. Every character has to be the star of their own story. In freeform writing, you just can't write filler characters, because the game will suck for those who have to play them. The problem with this, is that it makes them too big an idea to fit inside the head of one person. I suppose that in a way, the best freeforms are written like they're played - by the meeting of multiple minds to produce a hole that is bigger than the sum of the parts.