{"id":908,"date":"2009-12-02T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2009-12-02T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:18:22","slug":"what-im-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/908","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the last time I hit a low point like this, just vegetating on video games was what pulled me out of it, and actually inspired a lot of writing ( some of which still isn&#8217;t published because I&#8217;m not releasing any brand new stories until they&#8217;re complete )<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than fighting it, I&#8217;m just jumping straight into the games.\u00a0 Games, comics and the like were what originally inspired my PnP role-playing game, and that&#8217;s the inspiration for the world\/characters in my fantasy stories as Dark.\u00a0 It&#8217;s sort of a full circle thing.\u00a0 I have to go back to the beginning and begin the circle again before I can get back to a place where I feel motivated again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already had a few flashes of feeling good, but not enough just yet.\u00a0 It will eventually reach a point where I can&#8217;t contain all the ideas and such floating around in my head, and that&#8217;s when I should go on another writing binge.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to hoping that nothing comes along as bad as this time to beat me down again.<\/p>\n<p>Beat Castlevania Symphony of the Night again in a single day &#8212; even with grinding for the Crissagrim.\u00a0 Beat Final Fantasy I on Dawn of Souls, and I&#8217;m working on II now.\u00a0 Even though they&#8217;re much easier than the original NES versions, I consider them excellent, and a great deal of fun to play.\u00a0 The\u00a0experience is very much from what I consider the epitome of Final Fantasy, which is IV and VI &#8212; yet still has all the nostalgia of the original games as well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;m trying to get my groove back.\u00a0 Hey, at least this easy to use blog lets me update without hassle, so I won&#8217;t be completely silent because I can&#8217;t be bothered to do minimal html work to add a news item to the website \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Off to bed.\u00a0 Long days at work hasn&#8217;t been helping my forward momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the last time I hit a low point like this, just vegetating on video games was what pulled me out of it, and actually inspired a lot of writing ( some of which still isn&#8217;t published because I&#8217;m not releasing any brand new stories until they&#8217;re complete ) So, rather than fighting it, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}