Blue Moon Aurora

There are two common pieces of advice for success with writing: write what you know and just write. Michelle and I have finished our first draft of a 99,000 word novel and we did it in about a month and a half. We split the writing and worked together on the story and that helped motivate us to keep pushing through. We plan on revising and improving it for the rest of August and then send it off to a few friends and family for feedback. Who knows what will come of it, but it was a lot of fun and we?ll give it a year or so to try to get it published before we publish it ourselves or something. We?ve already started mapping out a sequel as we enjoyed writing the first novel so much. I?m not going to give specific information about the novel, but will blog here as things progress.  

On another front, this Monday my first in a monthly series of columns will be popping up on RPGNet. The columns will be about duet roleplaying, one player and one GM, and I?ve even got a discussion forum over on RPGNet to support the columns when they go live. I have the first three columns written so am covered for August, September, and October. I?m planning on in September working on the next three columns. The first three deal with the basics of duet campaigns, how to balance things for only having a single PC, and how to create duet side adventures for a group campaign. Good stuff, but if you have any suggestions for future articles you say so in the comments.  

I?ve also ended my D6 Star Wars PBP campaign on the WotC forums to focus on my campaigns on Blue Moon Aurora and Crazy Monkey?s Asylum and after the craziness of August will kick those campaigns into gear in September. Added to this will be the family Faery?s Tale campaign which will start in earnest this Sunday, once again look to this blog for updates on that experiment in roleplaying. I may also be returning to fantasy in September maybe with a Pathfinder RPG PBP on the Blue Moon Aurora forums.  

Life is good and I?ve been feeling really productive and focused of late, and I intend to write, write, write for the rest of the year to end 2009 on a high note.