Okay, an update on how far I have progressed on writing fan fiction of planescape. So after writing on regular filler paper for about a few pages by hand, I decided to type out my work on the microsoft word program single spaced in 10 point font. Wow! Something is lost in translation in space when you write the information on a piece of paper. This brings me back to my early high school days when I was writing research papers and then I was typing up the information on a computer. I am a reasonably skilled typist but my progress truly feels dismal after seeing this information on a computer screen hardly taking up any space at all. I was really glad I decided to take a break from typing for now. Just like what Confucious said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.". As long as I keep trying, I will triumph and I will get this written. I am sure that I will get chapter one finished within two weeks at this pace.
After reviewing this section, I would bet that you are wondering why am I even bothering writing this bit of fan fiction at all. One of my new year's resolutions was that I try to discover a creative outlet to express myself. After running several campaigns as a DM and then being a player, I always wanted to record our progress of our campaigns with some measure of posterity. I marginally accomplished that with my campaign notes, diagrams, architectual schmatics of dungeons, and character sheets. All that is left of my airship campaign is a Rob Carlos drawing (which looks awesome by the way, Thanks Rob Carlos, I want to hang up this picture somewhere in my apartment), a few of my notes, an architectual drawing of the airship, some character sheets, and some quickly sprawled out dungeon drawings. A PILE OF PAPERS in sheet protectors that is basically forgotten about by everyone but me. A tiny part of me wishes the group would revisit the campaign again but I know that the group became bored of the campaign relatively fast and that David's dragonlance campaign is what needs to be run for now. What matters is the fun to be had by the group, but I was thinking that I have some creative spark that should be expressed on paper. Maybe I have always had this creative spark and I haven't really thought about that until I realized that some of my campaign ideas need to be told in story mode. Will I be able to incorporate past campaigns into the fan fiction story that I am writing? I really don't know, but it will be fun to try to find out by writing out the story in my outlines and rough draft.
