For years now, I've felt the need to create something.
I think I can safely say that this has been with me for a loooong time.
At first I tried my hand at music. I used to play in a rock band (I play the guitar), which I was happy to do until artistic differences (mostly concerning the style of music) forced me to retire from that. I've thought of doing some solo singer / songwriter stuff, but without a band, the will to do so has been kind of lacking.
Then I thought of writing fiction - my first real venue for that was writing stories based on roleplaying done in World of Warcraft. I enjoyed doing that for maybe a year or so- and the fact that I've lost all the texts I wrote due to different issues (Such as my computer at the time having died) kind of pisses me off. Because - with the fact that they were based not only on stuff I thought up, but also that it was "only" WoW fanfiction, in its essence- they were also good stories.
I don't want to brag, but when I posted stories from RP events in-game, I mostly garnered positive feedback. Issues relating to server drama (about the guild I was a part of, though not due to events which I'd personally participated in), the guild fell apart. After that, I lost the will to do serious roleplaying (and consequently writing) because the greatest community, with some of my best online friends completely fell apart.
Since then, I've kind of had my creative urges tuned down. I've written on my own website - www.gamers-inc.dk <-- (Go there! :D) about video games. Recently I've also taken up reviewing games for www.eurogamer.dk (under my real name) in Danish, as well as translating articles and reviews from www.eurogamer.net (The english / international version of Eurogamer).
Lately, I've taken up painting miniatures in connection with a great little board game I play with my friends-" Zombies!!!!"
As a way of relaxing, I bought a newbie's paint kit and a little group of Warhammer 40k Spaez Marinez...Painting them was more enjoyable than I'd thought it would be. Since then I've also painted a few of the Zombies from the board game, to spice up the gameplay a little bit (It's boring to just kill grey painted miniatures...Pimping 'em up with paint makes the little immersion that game offers that much more effective ).
Though I'm enjoying the gig reviewing games, I've kinda thought about taking up either music or writing (fiction) again. I can't decide on which it should be, however, since I have some ideas for both that might work - but not all that much spare time away from my work & studies to spare for it.
-B
