While I want to be excited and say that I was offered a position as a system administrator, there has been an unexpected side effect. While I had a significant amount of time on my hands to update and improve the artwork for Savalon, now that I’m working a full time job this project has had to go under the floorboards, where it’s still-beating heart will drive me to madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That meme still makes me chuckle. But the reality is that working full time is a bit of a mental drain and it can take an hour or so for me to mentally reset enough to get into a creative mode. With the amount of work that remains for Savalon to be ready for sale, I feel that it might not be hitting the shelves as quickly as I had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main thing I struggle with is what most writers\/content creators struggle with: how to get feedback for a project or game prior to it hitting the shelves. I’ve been in a couple of situations where people have been quite receptive to reading my novel or playing my game, but when I actually meet with them, they start asking for hundreds of dollars for their time. I wish I was joking about the dollar amounts, but I’m not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It baffles me only because I’m not asking people to edit my novel for clarity or to write up new rules or come up with a huge list of suggestions for a project I did. I literally just want people to say “It’s good” or “It sucks” with a short list of what worked well and what didn’t. I get that a lot of people live by Rule #13: Anything worth doing is worth doing for money, but this just feels different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when the playtest group that I had for Savalon fell through, it just kind of made my heart sink. After the third group asked for a cash payment just to read the book, let alone actually play it, I realized that maybe I should let the project sit for a while and come back to it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This post may sound melancholy but I promise, I’m not. I’m happy about the new job and believe me, marketing yourself to the point where you can get hired takes a huge amount of effort. It’s taking a pretty big load off my mind, and I know in a few weeks or month I’ll be back to posting here non-stop with new artwork, updates, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have a great week, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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