Tuesday 25 March 2014

The Lull Beyond The Boundary

Hi there. It's been a while. I figured I should post for the sake of explaining why the blog has been quiet. It's a bit of a selfish reason. Oops. Remember that Dark Souls thing I posted a while back? Well, my friends wouldn't stop talking about the thing. It made me buckle down and give it another shot. What happened was just over two weeks of repeated and battered ego-death. A regeneration which lasted days, that saw me delve into the very depths of despair and pain. I screamed. I yelled. I engaged in severe bouts of self-deprecation as my friends and Dark Souls mentors urged me on. You can do it, they said. Calm yourself and you can do it. I didn't believe them. I refused to admit that I was any good at the game, lest I find myself on the other end of its ire. The dread beast Dark Souls, the ultimate hard game. A reincarnation simulator unlike any other... but I cleared it. The cost was my sanity and free time. I had no motivation TO write, because my entire mind was hardwired to Dark Souls.

Now here I am, free of that game... and with the second one looming over me atop my stack of Xbox games. I do not wish to delve myself fully into it. I wish to focus on my writing. However, I still find myself hesitant to restart the Nintendo Project. Another beast looms over the horizon, a shade beyond the boundaries of sanity. Camp Nanowrimo. I started this blog within the throes of a Camp Nanowrimo book, and the time has returned. When Nanowrimo proper came to us in November, I shelved things for a while. It was the best decision because it tempered my words. I came back, and I was inspired by things I had written and Doctor Who I had experienced. Inspired enough to create opposing gods of light and dark. The Goddess Valya, and the Nightmare. Anyone who's read a blog entry I've done between December and now knows what influence that's had here. This place has become some sort of pantheon of my own invention.

Camp Nanowrimo drops in a week, and I intend to treat it like Dark Souls and pour myself into it. I could, in theory, fire off a bunch of posts and finish off the L games... but I'm not feeling it. See, I and some family members were involved in a car accident yesterday. We are all okay and alive, thank goodness, but I don't wish to over-extert myself. So. This is what we will do. I have plans for the Mega Man games. Namely, guest posts. We are going to do what we did for Kirby's Adventure, and skip ahead to another time and place. I don't like to skip ahead in time and space and cherry-pick the significant classics, but I also don't want to delay these posts that I've asked people to do for a month. Over time, you will hopefully see those posts pop up here. Once they are done, the blog will go dark until such time as my novel is completed.

I hope you will bear with me, and I apologize to anyone who eagerly awaits my words on old Nintendo. The words will come, friends and constant readers. The lull is but temporary. Destiny awaits us, beyond the boundaries of common sense.

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