Almost two years ago I was on winter break from my teaching gig in Saudi and I saw the #Dungeon23 challenge and I thought 'Yeah, why not?' and spent the entire next year cranking out dungeon rooms and location summaries every day for an as-yet unpublished megadungeon campaign for Advance Fighting Fantasy 2E. While the goal is to eventually publish that material, the process of actually doing #Dungeon23 - essentially a daily creative journal - was illuminating in both creating gaming content for AFF2E and expanding on themes and ideas that interested me.
Realising the power in simply writing something every day, in addition to whatever else I was working on, I resolved to continue for the following year, but called it #Everything24, and used it to plow through content for four main outstanding projects - Out of the Pit IV, The Titan Herbal Addendum, Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 2, and People of Titan.
Of these projects, the Herbal sequel is closest to being finished, with around 100 plants and fungi detailed and probably another 50 to go; followed by OOTP IV, POT, and EA:V2. Also during this time I finished Heroes of Titan, completed four chapters for the Magic Companion, and wrote and illustrated plenty of articles for The Warlock Returns, Casket of Fays, and now Accessible Gaming Quarterly, and have not one but two other secret AFF books nearly ready for publication. Completing my contract in Saudi and returning to Bangkok to write full-time has certainly helped with this schedule!
So, as I look upon continuing this exercise for 2025, I'm just going to keep running the same program. When the Herbal is done, probably around April or May, I'll either focus on the remaining three projects or else substitute a new project in from the To Do List. While it is definitely hard work, it is also galvanizing seeing big projects, previously just an intimidating one-line entry on the To Do List, now take on real shape and form as they approach completion. I have no idea where this will all lead (although hopefully with the publication of new AFF2E books!), but remain excited to find out, and committed to simply writing something everyday, one word at a time, to see what happens. Cheers! Andy :-)
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