The writing of disparate styles
There’s a major difference these days in what I’m actively writing (fantasy set in tilesets for the game NWN - for a group producing the tilesets outside the game dev group) and my own “stuff”. Of course, my stuff has no deadlines, and the tileset fiction does. The tileset fiction is just a fun diversion really - not that my own novels-in-progress are any more “professional”. But the tileset story has one really great thing going for it: it actually feeds my imagination, sending it off onto other tracks - like back into one of my own WIPs.
Which is a very very good thing - since I have been sitting all winter writing mostly nothing because I couldn’t get “jump-started”. Even the online workshop I did in February didn’t help much, because the woman who “moderated” was so unenthusiastic about fantasy (even though of the 12 of us, 9 are writing fantasy!)
I’ll of course have my laptop along when we go off for a few weeks later this month, and I’ll be sure to put several in-process works on it. No point in letting the engine die for lack of fuel!
