Soon I’ll be writing for a website. One that isn’t my own, mind you. I will be writing about the gamer lifestyle… Whatever that entails. I’ve also been asked to write for an online magzine, doing game reviews for free to play massively multiplayer games.

Now neither of these gigs pay a whole heck of a lot, if anything at all, but I do think they will expose me to a previously unknown audience. I believe it is a start, a start to something… I Hope it is a start to something that’ll help me in my life. I can point to these things and say “Hey *other* people wanted to read what i wrote besides myself!”

Well myself and one or two people that read my blog. And the few people that read my comic website… And the ones that read my tweets. Then there are the facebook people… *ahem.*

Anyway I’m excited, but I’m afraid to be really excited. The phrase I’ve been using is “cautiously optimistic.” I am optimistic but in a reserved fashion. I’m not jumping up, running down the streets, and shouting at the top of my lungs. (That would kill me in the shape I am in, for one.) But…

I am excited. Examiner.com has it’s pros and cons, but I am pretty much free to write what i want. Writing about gamer lifestyle… That is a pretty broad umbrella topic. I already have a few different ideas from the general “Lifestyle” to those specific to the Phoenix area.

Game Theory is a new venture, a PDF magazine that has only published an issue or two. I feel like that getting in on it now could lead to good things. Especially if the magazine and website continues to get many of people reading it. And it is nice to be asked to write for a change. It really is and I am honored to be able to do it.

So yah. That all happened within the last week. Now if I can start making good money off my writing…

Hmmm.

Baby steps, right?

By the end of the day my brain felt much better, but thoughts and writing were still slow to come. My brain still seemed to be full of cotton when I tried to write. I knew I wasn’t better, so I just called off the piece I was working on and went back to bed. Since that is what I had been doing most of the day anyway…

Today I can still feel the effects, but it is much easier for words to pour forth. I postponed one article I was working on until today, because the words literally felt like they were being yanked from my head one at a time. I will have to finish it today…

My mind is still a big woolen today, so I am going to cut this post a tad short. I know that, as a writer, I will have to write sick at some point. Luckily there are people that have come before me and I can look up advice on the internet.

Maybe I’ll just forget yesterday ever happened…

I think exercising will help that. I’ve started; in a small way. I can’t believe how out of shape I am. It is really embarrassing, seeing as I used to be able to walk 3 miles with no problem and lift weights on a daily basis. Now I get winded and hurting just by weeding the yard… I can’t believe I let myself sink to this level, physically. Ah well, all I can do is start to *do* things again and get my body used to…you know…moving.

I am also going to keep to my daily writing schedule. Gotta keep my mind sharp…ish. Exercise, writing…that should help in the other areas of my life. Probably should stop drinking sodas again… I stopped for months and months, but I started again a little bit ago when things were going south in my just now in the past relationship.

So. Exercise. Writing. Stop drinking sodas. Maybe work in yellowstone for a couple of months… Give my life a jump start. There is so much I want to do, I need to start doing it and stop making excuses.

Yah…sounds like a plan.

The following picture is the Norris Geyser basin at night. It has a high concentration of geyers and is a very cool place to visit at 2 am. I went there in the middle of the night during a thunder and lightening storm… it was truly epic. To bad I don’t have a picture, but I will incorporate the experience in to written form at some point.