New Year's Resolutions 2026
Make each one better than the last.
"And now for something completely different."
Talvorn
Fear not skysailors! I have not disappeared, I simply took WorldEmber as an opportunity to work on the setting for my next tabletop role-playing game. Talvorn is - as far as I know - the first Post-Ice-Age Paleolithic Settlement Builder Survival Tabletop Role-Playing Game or PIAPSBSTTRPG for short(?).WorldEmber 2025 In Revue
I filled out the entire bingo chart for the WorldEmber prep but found some of it to be more useful than others, so now I know where my time can be best spent doing prep in the future! In particular I found that music is not conducive to my writing, I simply studied it for too many years to just have it happen in the background; music tends to attract my attention and distract me. The other thing I found I didn't rely on was my accountability buddy, I am able to get writing done without the need for others to help me reach the finish line. Homework elements that really worked for me were stub creation - as long as I remembered to reset the creation date when I started writing - and the creation of the meta as I was writing in a completely new setting. Taking some time to read and get some exercise was also incredibly helpful; I know that I am not in the greatest shape I have ever been in and it is affecting my creativity too. As for the actual articles created during WorldEmber, I am happy with all of the ones that I wrote though I think that The Birth of Talvorn turned out particularly well. I would say I faced many of the same challenges as I did with Summer Camp 2025 but that the output was of a higher quality.Reading and Learning
The following five articles are all very interesting articles. They may vary in length, CSS use, and style but they all have one thing in common, there is a bit of whimsy in all of them.The Barn is an article about a horrifying liminal space, so how is it whimsical? It could have appeared as anything, a house, a tower, a mansion, a slaughterhouse, but it is a barn and that - to me - is a bit of whimsy. The Painted Fields are home to all manner of creatures that fill it with whimsy. Everything about Houseshrooms. The Goblet of Endless Tastes is the article that got me started on this whimsy quest. Gloamtouched also falls on the darker side of whimsy but I think still qualifies.
With those articles as inspiration I have written the two following articles.
Stub Article
This article is just a stub for now and will be expanded upon later.Old Article
This article was written in the past and does not meet my current standards for any number of article quality, layout, or content.In-Progress Article
This article is being worked on, perhaps not at this very moment, but it is being worked on.Goals for 2026
So here are my writing goals for this year.Create at least two articles each month.
Participate in Summer Camp.
Participate in WorldEmber.
Write a short story in Linebound.
Write a short story in Talvorn.
And here are my 2026 goals unrelated to writing.
Bike more.
Do yoga twice a week.
Finish my long-running D&D campaign.
Finish Galactic Treasure.
Release one custom Magic set.
Start drawing.
Vacation in Chile.
Goals from 2025
Well, two out of three of my writing goals for the year isn't bad.Continue the interactive adventure I started in 2024 for Adventure April.
Participate in Summer Camp.
Participate in WorldEmber.
Well, this isn't a terrible outcome. At least in 2026 it will be much easier to bike more than 2025! Decided not the make the video because of all of that stuff being used to train large-language models.
Bike more.
Build a new PC for my brother.
Build a new PC for myself.
Create my first video.
Release four custom Magic sets this year for my friends and I to play.
Survive my move and thrive in my new community.
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