A New Post

At the encouragement of my wife, who is a good person, I'm posting another blog post. I don't know that I really have anything especially interesting to say. I suppose I will just sort of blather and hope that it works out.

I've been thinking quite a bit about hobbies lately. There's quite a lot of things I'm interested in doing. I enjoy writing music, writing video games, and writing stories. I suppose all of these things have "writing" in common. However, at the moment, I'm kind of between projects -- I have some old, half done things that I could pick up again, or I could try and start something new. I've though of trying to do some software work to help make next year's GEEX conference better, for example. I've also thought of trying to start my own online web game (a major obstacle there being that I would need to learn quite a lot, so it would have to be something really simple). I've also got a bunch of half-finished video games lying around, waiting for a little more attention to make them playable. The same goes for songs -- I've got a whole bunch of rhythm tracks, bass tracks, and interesting chord patterns sitting on my computer, waiting for a little more attention.

Arguably, the trick is to focus on just one thing, so that I can make a lot of satisfying progress with it. Right now, the most likely candidate for getting more attention is an old scripting language/game that I was working on a while back, and which has some really interesting stuff that I could expand on. I don't know. I guess I also feel like, even if I were to push this stuff through to completion, would anyone ever actually play with it, listen to it, or read it? Self-motivated projects are fragile things.

Anyway, that's what I was thinking about today.