Halceon

Making games, rarely finishing


I've been trying to do various creative things my whole life. Tried to do drawing, guitar, writing poetry, writing prose, fire breathing and fire spinning, streaming and youtubing etc. etc. etc.

I think only recently I put it together that what I really like and want is to tell stories. Importantly, not to make stories, not to will them into existence, but to tell them. The audience is important. I can't write 60 poems and only THEN try to get them published and in front of people. That audience doesn't exist yet!

And like, getting good at guitar requires a) an intuition for or a desire to learn the systems of music and b) practice. I didn't have much a), but I could probably get around it. However, b) is done on your own time, with only yourself as an audience. And I can't. I already know my ideas, musical or otherwise, I don't need them performed out loud or put into writing for me to appreciate them.

But when there's an audience, when you see your words land, when someone puts together the implications, when people groan at your pun, that's where the magic happens. And that's why my main creative outlet is playing RPGs with friends. There is no version of "playing with friends" that doesn't include an audience.

Unfortunately, that's not an artform that in isolation can make you rich and famous.


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