MMORPGamer - Free Politics for All

Here's the new MMORPGamer for this week. In it, I've got info on the Ron Paul invasion of Azeroth, NCSoft's time travel, Stargate Worlds's trailer's premiere, and notes from Gamasutra's interview with David Perry. It's a long sentence, but it's grammatically correct. Go team.

Happy New Year to All.

The Office of Letters and Light, the creators of NaNoWriMo, also run a Big, Fun, Scary Adventure challenge year-long. It's basically a way of celebrating and being accountable for New Year's Resolutions. Having a community of people with you from around the globe is a great thing.

So far, my list is as follows:

Write more reviews (perhaps in a one-a-week quota on my blog)

Work out more (30 minutes a day, working with one day per week for the first month, and moving forward with each month)

Complete The Artist's Way (including Morning Pages and Artist Dates)

Revise my first novel at least once to determine whether to send it out or not

Participate in my sixth NaNoWriMo and complete it for the second time

Meditate more (perhaps in a similar model as the work out project)

I may edit this list a few times, but I'm sure about the above six for this year. I've already started the Artist's Way, and I'm thinking Tuesday might be my review day. I've already got Wednesday-Thursday as my column writing and proofing dates.

MMORPGamer - End of the Year Slump

I've been away for a long time, and I didn't even post last year's column. Oops! This week column should be up in a few hours, and it features a bunch of fun info that goes along with the end of the year and the look forward into the future.

I've been peering at The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, thinking that I might be doing it as my own resolution for the first three months of the new year. The idea of Morning Pages and Artist Dates really excite me. I simply can't not do it!

Meanwhile, my WoW characters have been flourishing as Pete and I have put together a guild on Greymane called Rayne of Epick Faeyre. The name's just a goofy epic fumbling of the warlock spell from the game, meant to display our hope for a large group of like-minded players that help each other out and enjoy each other's company in guild chat. For information on joining, send a /tell to Murael (me) or Knara (Pete).

Edit: Here's the column, safe and sound and not too late.

MMORPGamer - Holiday Treats

Though it's technically Friday, I'm posting this to add the new MMORPGamer here. It's MMORPGamer - Holiday Treats. The links to the others are in the sidebar, but today's news includes info on Fury, EVE, L5, Blizzard, Lunia, and Guild Wars.  

There was a ton of news this week and only one letter.  The column is going wonderfully well, and the only thing I'm in want of is more reader response.

On Writing for Happiness

I haven't written much save the last MMORPGamer since NaNoWriMo.  The break was needed after such an intense writing journey, but the post-NaNo blues have hit hard.

I've already planned my projects for the rest of the year and for this blog, but I missed actually writing things.  This hit me on the side of the head as I felt actually happy to be writing my final paper for my critiquing class this afternoon.

If you need to write, write.  If you aren't sure if you need to write, write a ton and then go cold turkey.  If you experience withdrawal symptoms like me, come back to the light.  Write.

New MMORPGamer and Hopes.

Today I've posted a new column discussing the latest MMORPG news served alongside my opinions and letters submitted by readers. It can be found here.

I'm still trying to put together my list of tasks for this year's Big Fun Scary Things list. I know that I'd like to review books or read them in the least. Perhaps I should review video games and movies. That would be more polishing to my writing skills. I also need to get onto my web design and game design skills. I'd like to go through a book course on web design, which should be simple enough to do.

To review, here's my to-do for the year: Write reviews for games and movies, take a web design book course, read more books. This is shaping up to be a great list.

What's Next?

Now that this blog has fully chronicled the creation of the rough draft of my first novel, which still doesn't have a title, the original purpose has been fulfilled. I intend to use this to continue to chronicle my progress and serve as a spot for my musings. I'm going to be participating in the second Year of Big, Fun, Scary Things. It's an unofficial event held by the Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo's nonprofit) that is basically encouragement to do extraordinary things.

At this point, I have not resolved everything I'm going to do for my Year. I know I want to start writing reviews of books (to foster writing and reading more) and to get my book ready and out to agents. There will be a few more things on the list, of course, but I haven't yet come to any other conclusions.