Some days I yearn for big spaces full of people. For apparent anonymity of shopping centres. I could walk through their long halls lost in thought, or mindlessly browse through shop after shop without buying anything. There is something relaxing in allowing yourself to be flooded with constant barrage of scents, sounds or images but without focusing on any single of them. Like swimming in a sea without focusing on water.
Anyway I'm working on translating my second book. I'd say I'm a bit above 10% done. Damn, I wrote a big thing this time. Not as big as my in-D&D-game story though. That one was gargantuan.
Writing stories using game systems as a base feels amazing to me. I get to be both dungeon master that prepares the world and challenges within, and a player trying to optimise any chance of failure out of their character. With this writing becomes a bit of a puzzle game, as both author and characters are limited by the constraints of the world. D&D is amazing for this, as it has all the possible rules. You have information what characters can learn and how, you also have extensive bestiary showing what monsters can do.
I will probably try to create a fantasy world and RPG system for my next big writing project.
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