A Little Every Day - Week 14
This week has been slower on results than last week, but I have still made progress. I began the week focussing again on job applications and got a couple of interviews lined up. I am happy to say that I have now secured a brilliant role as part of the NHS and indeed began working today! The feeling of dread about finances has lifted and for the first time in my life I am working in a position where I could see myself for the long term. Before now my jobs have been positions I have worked in for the sole purpose of paying my bills.
Towards the beginning of the week, I began to focus on the next Dungeons and Dragons recap for my Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. Having recorded the sessions during online play to keep the session moving more smoothly, I unknowingly set myself up for a mountain more work basically transcribing the sessions before convirting them to prose. At the same time due to some technical malfunction I have all of the audio for everyone who was in the call and the music but not my own voice capture. As the dungeon master I am the one who speaks the most and shapes the experience of the players. Having to go back and try to fill in the gaps for the missing time and decipher what is happening based only on the replies from the other party members has made my task much harder and much more tedious than I had originally intended. At least now we are able to play in person again and I can take paper notes effectively again. I promise I will get these recaps done and out to you all but they’re going to take much more time than I originally intended them to.
This week, I also turned my focus to working on chapter 12 of the first Lonely World novel. Where this chapter is focussed in a specific location and contains a lot of character interaction it is seeming easier to write than the previous couple of chapters were. I am able to explore the character’s pasts a bit more and flesh out their personalities. I am able to combine world building and lore with the present experiences of those who live in it and I am enjoying the process a lot more than I have been for the last couple of chapters. This is a relief and the signal I have been looking for that I am almost past that roadblock that has thwarted me so many times before. All in all things are looking good!
Thank you for joining my on this journey doing A Little Every Day. I appreciate the support people have been giving me through this rough patch the last few weeks it means a lot.