Quite a different one this year as well because it happened in the midst of the rest of life. I don’t care what anyone says writing and real life need the accompaniment of light time wasting or else you might just go bonkers.

It’s been my favourite Nano of the three mostly because it proved I could live life and get 50,000 words done in a month. If I don’t have to live life it can take me five days but that’s not a practical situation.

Over the course of November it has come to my thoughts that although I am a writer, and I love to take on a novel project, and will continue to write novels, I am foremost another type of writer. It’s just that the type of writer I am is quite a new, specialised and rare kind.

The fact is in the past year I have roughed out the plans for at least five role playing systems, I have finished one novel and started one more. I am also writing an online comic. But I think the role playing point is the relevant one. I am never happier than when reading a role playing manual, GMing a game or playing a game, or thinking of new games. I also think the role playing community could well benefit from the imagination of someone with my background in the hobby.

It does also help to tie together why I am a computer programmer. Systems + Imagination = Games. So, if you detect a drift in the content of the site as time goes on you’ll now know why. I believe way back when blogging was new this kind of thing was assumed to be expected. A blog is a float not a velocity.