Greetings from the edge,
Things are going well. According to my site analytics, people are actually finding me. Whether or not you’re having a good time once you get here is another question, but I’m choosing to believe in a marketing strategy I like to call blind, gerbil-faced optimism: things are going well.
I know I was supposed to take the day off and finish Misery, but I wanted to act on some advice I received about making the site less of a shelf and more of a web. So I’m making like Tim Berners-Lee and splashing hyperlinks everywhere.
Tonight was meant to be game night, but it was cancelled for various reasons, so I’m using the time to curate my D&D notes and distil them down into something usable. The plan is to start putting adventures on the site for you to play, completely free.
Purging the AI art is proving to be far more work than I expected. I’m also experimenting with adding text to header images. I tried it on my latest article, The Sound of the Table, and it seems to work. I’m still finding my feet with Photoshop, but I’m hoping it will elevate things.
A while ago, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. I’ve applied a lot of its ideas to my personal life, and now I’m trying to do the same with the site, making it just 1% better each time. Rambles & Whimsy is far from perfect, but I’m genuinely proud of what I’ve built so far.
I’m currently working on a quick-and-dirty set of charts to generate NPCs for those moments when you need a “throwaway” character on the fly. The idea is simple: roll a d8 a few times, and before you know it, you’ve got a fully fledged NPC who feels like they belong in the world.
Tomorrow’s a busy one, with a shift at the library and a computer repair call-out on the books, so I’m aiming to have the NPC generator article ready to post on Tuesday.
See you in the margins,
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