I’ve just had a thought. An idea. I have an idea. This site has been langushing for some time. My own writings have been entirely uninspired over the past year, and I’ve often considered shutting this site down. The main reason I haven’t is because I really like the site’s design, the random header and footer images, and the custom gamercard and upcoming games list plugins I wrote. I’m proud of the design and of the code in the plugins.
But the most important thing about any site is the content. Sadly, this site’s content has been atrophying. And while my idea may do little to alleviate that condition, it can’t hurt.
So I guess I should get on with it and share the idea, eh? Well, here goes. I’d thought about starting up a blog at which I could write about tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, but given the number of blogs I have, I dismissed the idea. I seem to average one or two posts per month at most of my blogs. But what if I just expanded the scope of this site to include not only video games, but also roleplaying games and board games? I’ve recently found some amazing board games, and I’d love to write about how damned cool they are.
Okay, so this isn’t going to magically give me more time to write stuff for Lungfishopolis. But maybe expanding the scope of this site will be a good thing. It can’t hurt.
If PAX East can massively expand to include tabletop gaming, there’s no reason you can’t!
I’ve often found that expanding what you’re willing to write about can increase the frequency and desire to write. For example, I enjoy translating real-world historical events and personages into game-world statistics for various role-playing games, and I could probably do so for years before running out of ideas. But in reality, I only have a few hours a week to do so. Therefore, I limit myself to only translating those ideas which I think will be useful for the campaigns that I’m currently running… and being so limited, I often find myself with mild cases of writer’s block!
So, yeah, adding these new topics is probably going to make it easier for you to think of things to write, and that’s almost certainly going to lead to more frequent posts … if you want it to, of course!