"Why don't all of these other blogs post more often? Surely it can't be that hard."
Life is a strange thing.
This has been a year of moving, working a new job, travelling long-distances and dealing with continual changes. I have not kept exactly to my original goal of once a week posting, but neither have I abandoned the blog wholesale. Call it a draw.
Keeping track of what I have built and painted going forwards is an interesting idea. I realized today that I have only rough estimates of how many figures I managed since starting the site. Low estimates would put the number around 70, with the high over 100. I choose to believe the triple digit figure for no other reason than bragging rights. I know that as of now 75 Afghans have been fully painted, but their timeline remains unclear. The majority were finished after the blog began, for what that is worth. The British, meanwhile, are over halfway through by the time of writing. After they are done all that remains is terrain.
Other projects include:
-Kill team forces, who have remained untouched since their last post.
-Mordheim dwarves, who I am tinkering with slowly.
-Pirates, who I have been fussing with on and off as well.
-One-off weirdo figures like the Jester, which I do when I please.
-The 40K army, which is entirely on the backburner for the foreseeable future.
Until this very post I had never written out how many projects I actually had going. This was rather more than I expected, especially factoring in the need for terrain. Hobby projects do tend to creep up on a person. Fortunately, most of these are smaller-scale skirmish systems, I definitely will need a break after the 100+ figure minimum required for The Sword and the Flame.
Beyond Wargaming, there is the RPG side of matters too. Though I have not posted about it, I have been playing a Pathfinder 2e game bi-weekly for over a year now. I coincidentally started with that group right before beginning work on the blog. It is a fun system, and I would recommend trying it out. There were a few one-shots too, so not a bad year all in all on that front.
As for Veruzia, research and writing continue apace.
Blogging has been an enjoyable experience for the first year. Feeling obligated to post once a week, and later once a month when life got busy, does produce a little stress. But things have begun to calm down a little in my life, so perhaps a renaissance can begin without the need for space-filling Simpsons images. My eventual hope is for a posting rhythm to ingrain itself, but just as with a hobby streak or an exercise regimen it can prove deceptively difficult to keep to a schedule. I muddle through irregardless.
"Now our Veruzian skies dim with the colours of twilight, and the warmth of the evening shrouds a weary land. Embrace your phantasies, know there was never such a thing as tomorrow."