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Gypsybard


A casual gamer that studies basic principals of game design and writing. Has been spotted playing Honkai Star Rail recently

Apr
18th
2022

Tis been a minute · 11:59pm Apr 18th, 2022

Like before I've been learning to write more consistently. Frankly put I found one strange piece of advice that I have taken to heart and that is to write poorly. Writers block can come in a ton of different forms and sometimes the block is just nervousness. One second you could be blocked from writing because you don't actually understand your own characters, they're an idea not a person and so trying to figure out what they'd say or do becomes difficult because that's like asking how would a

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Feb
15th
2022

My Writing · 1:34pm Feb 15th, 2022

Since I mentioned I've been writing more often lately in the last blog post I thought maybe I should share some of what I've written as just...something to show for what I have said. Saying something is one thing, doing is another. I will need to give some context to certain prompts I wrote, but it'll be better than nothing to say the least. Course I'll have those at the bottom of this, in more recent news I'm still playing League now surprisingly. Been like two months running now which is a

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Jan
6th
2022

Mostly Confused · 5:23am Jan 6th, 2022

So back after another hiatus and thought I'd do a little writing again in the ol online diary. Both a lot has happened and nothing at all which I found is a common trend in life where progress is almost stagnant for reasons outside of our control, but for a week I was able to rein that in. Did the modeling thing again and I learned how to do humans now. Blender has never been something I took too seriously since I always went with half measures. I'm glad for once I managed to get far enough to

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Oct
28th
2021

Scheduled Program Returns · 1:02am Oct 28th, 2021

So last blog I posted wasn't a real update. It was generally a way to showcase how I throw ideas at a wall until something sticks. Allow everything to spiderweb. Now that's all well and good, but it was a giant wall of text with a story in its own right trying to detail the plot and setting of an RP while also giving an inside look on some characters. It was a condensed mess and even condensed it was long as all hell. With this in mind allow to give some reading recommendations,

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Oct
18th
2021

Roleplaying my Lazy way to write · 5:28am Oct 18th, 2021

So I decided I should talk about one of the ways I've kept up writing. I've mostly done Discord RP's where the entire thing is text based with no stats or anything like that even during combat and the like. Now I have also done a game or two of D&D where the RP is more verbal with a stat sheet and its more a game than a co-op writing garbage dump sort of deal. It's one way of constantly polishing little skills such as dialogue between characters by interacting with people with different morals,

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Sep
4th
2021

continuous updates · 6:18am Sep 4th, 2021

Once again a month has flown on past. I'm proud to say both a lot and nothing at all have happened since. Read a few fics that were really good as per my usual suggestion box I'll supply a few links right here: Sundowner, Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl, and The Witch

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Aug
11th
2021

Midnight Oil · 6:52am Aug 11th, 2021

I'm writing this up at about 3 in the mornin. Seems as good a time as any to reminisce about older stuff that I used to know. Stuff I used to do really, flipped back through old blogs again and my eyes drift down to the views that make them up. Then I look at the latest ones, man the numbers. Part of me cares, cause I looked to begin with, so I want to go out and advertise myself to build something up. Build something so I won't be forgotten to be another statistic. Another part of me doesn't

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Jul
31st
2021

Some recommendations and a writing tip on the side · 6:11pm Jul 31st, 2021

I have once again returned to do my usual rant to myself. Blogs are a good thing to look back on, honestly I've treated them more as a diary if anything else. Part of me feels as if I should do more of these, more self reflection in written form spurs on more action, but at the same time I don't think about this place most of the time. Out of sight out of mind ya know? Course as per the title I decided I'd do some reading, that friend of mine that was writing sort of dumped his idea and started

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May
1st
2021

Kickin' the ol' bucket · 9:48am May 1st, 2021

Didn't really do any blogs for bout a good 5 months or so. Honestly didn't even look at the site here for a good 4 of those short months. Definitely a hop, skip, and a jump away eh. I ain't been up to much in the meantime, memories been a tad fuzzy as of late, been wanting to relive some older days to patch that right up. Started playing Terraria again after who knows how long, mostly been doing it with a buddy that had never played the game before, yet despite me having killed Golem as the

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Dec
31st
2020

Experiment · 1:16am Dec 31st, 2020

So some time ago in the past 2 weeks, I've read a couple of Displaced fics where the mc becomes a villain. Idea's interesting and could have credence but most of the time the only interesting aspect was the character of the villain and their intrinsic abilities end up not lending themselves at all to actual conflict. It's almost as if the only reason the character was a villain had nothing to do with their powers or body and more on the mental side which no longer exists because of the body's

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