Jeremiah Tolbert

On Gaming and Writing

The sim­ple rea­son as to why I have not been post­ing much is that I have devel­oped an active social life that keeps me out of the house. It’s a very geeky social life, though. I am spend­ing three to four nights a week gam­ing with new meat­space friends.

On Tuesdays, I’m run­ning a D&D cam­paign. I’m not a huge fan of D&D, but it’s like oat­meal. It may not taste very good, but it can be filling.

On Wednesdays, I spend the evening at Gryphon Gaming & Comics. I pick up the new comics for the week and then play board games and card games with who­ever shows up. I’ve met some really inter­est­ing peo­ple this way, and tried a lot of new games that I have never heard of before attending.

On Thursdays, I’ve picked up a lit­tle war gam­ing sys­tem called Warmachine/​Hordes. I play the Hordes side of things, because I find the idea of run­ning an army of gigan­tic, unstop­pable trolls just irre­sistible. I find the paint­ing part of things very relax­ing as well. It’s not as hard on my right brain as the day job is, but it’s bet­ter than just turn­ing into a full-​​fledged couch potato too.

In addi­tion the the above, I’m in talks to run a monthly one-​​shot game at the store, and I’m talk­ing with some­one about play­ing a cam­paign of Shadowrun. I think I will draw the line at 4 days of gam­ing com­mit­ment. I need to get some writ­ing done at some point.

Speaking of writ­ing, I recently sold a story, “Groob’s Stupid Grubs” to Black Gate. I don’t remem­ber if I’ve posted that yet. Anyway, with that sale and a rejec­tion from Asimov’s this week (mov­ing, but didn’t work. I need to learn how to write sto­ries that work. At least I’m get­ting pathos now, which is an improve­ment on the old me), I only have one story out, the Yeti thing with Shawna.

Right now, I’m just enjoy­ing life, and enjoy­ing not spend­ing 60 hours a week alone behind a key­board. I’m tak­ing notes and read­ing, and I am not giv­ing up on my writ­ing. But I am def­i­nitely sidelin­ing it for a while so I can enjoy hav­ing friends and being around peo­ple again. It’s been a long time coming.

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Tags: gaming, My Writing, SF