How I write

I'm trying to get back into writing again, as I said I would after I finished my Open Uni assignment. I remember a friend telling me that if I wanted to write, and in this instance we were talking about writing fiction, just to WRITE. It doesn't matter if it's rubbish, at least you can then look at it and see how to improve. If you never write anything, then you have nothing to work from. I've not spoken properly to this friend in a few years now, but I hope that I can sometime soon and that I can show him what I have written. It may not be fiction, I found that I really couldn't get to grips with it, but it's hugely liberated to vent ideas onto a page, which won't judge you unless you give it to someone else to read.

Today I sat down with the intention of starting to write my own rules for a fantasy dungeon crawler and what I actually ended up writing were rules for a futuristic table top wargame?! The reason being that, for no apparent reason, an idea came into my head a few days ago about the basic mechanics of a table top game and over these last few days they've over taken my thoughts about how I was going to get my dungeon crawler to work, so I had to get it down.

The rules I am writing at the moment could well be rubbish, infact I'm not really sure where I'm going with them, but the core mechanics seemed to make sense in my head so I thought I'd explore it. If it ends up being rubbish then at least I won't have to worry about them clouding my mind; if they end up sort of working then I can explore them further.

My aim is to get back into writing Wastelands v2 and I will. Soon. I promise!