Habitual Value

There's a definite value in habits of writing and labelling. Often, when I think of something in work that I want to work on at home, I'll send myself a mail with "Topic: Something" in the subject line, where "Topic" is something like "Starbound", "D&D", "Plan", or whatever. I've set up filters in gmail so that this stuff gets caught and labelled so I can find it easily later on. I just sent myself one such, and went to set up the filter - only to discover that that filter already exists, even though I have no memory of ever setting it up. This pleases me.

Habitual Value

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

There's a definite value in habits of writing and labelling. Often, when I think of something in work that I want to work on at home, I'll send myself a mail with “Topic: Something” in the subject line, where “Topic” is something like “Starbound”, “D&D”, “Plan”, or whatever. I've set up filters in gmail so that this stuff gets caught and labelled so I can find it easily later on. I just sent myself one such, and went to set up the filter - only to discover that that filter already exists, even though I have no memory of ever setting it up. This pleases me.

Starbound: What Do You Want To Do In The Future?

So I'm working on this science fiction setting, Starbound. There's a post coming up on duekstreet.org wherein I'll tell you some of what I want to do in it. Meantime, though, I want to do some market research. What do you want to see and do in a scifi setting? Some bits are preset - it's going to be epic-scale, stretching across many solar systems, and high tech. It'll be used for short stories, maybe even novels, possibly comics, and certainly RPGs. Give me a wishlist.

(I'd really like to see a lot of responses to this, by the way - even if they're just "Die Shatner Die", or "I want lots of dakka", it's all grist to the mill.)

Starbound: What Do You Want To Do In The Future?

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

So I'm working on this science fiction setting, Starbound. There's a post coming up on duekstreet.org wherein I'll tell you some of what I want to do in it. Meantime, though, I want to do some market research. What do you want to see and do in a scifi setting? Some bits are preset - it's going to be epic-scale, stretching across many solar systems, and high tech. It'll be used for short stories, maybe even novels, possibly comics, and certainly RPGs. Give me a wishlist.

(I'd really like to see a lot of responses to this, by the way - even if they're just “Die Shatner Die”, or “I want lots of dakka”, it's all grist to the mill.)