Lawful Great: 2023

31 December 2023

Blogging Year in Review: 2023

In the year 2023, I faced many challenges to my blogging goals (some of which I brought on myself, such as adding another blog to the roster), but I nevertheless exceeded last year's grand total by 26 articles for a grander total of 152 articles. Compared to the previous year, Applied Phantasticality increased by 27, Theoretical Swashbuckling decreased by six, Decidedly Six-Sided increased by three, Savage Arts & Sciences decreased by five, Creative Reckoning decreased by two, and Omnia Pro Omnibus began its first year with nine. I produced no RPG zines for the third year in a row despite my misguided intentions, and so I add another graffito to the Great Stone of Challenge:

In 2024, I, Gordon A. Cooper, will post a minimum of one article per gaming blog per month for a minimum total of six articles per month. In addition, it is not beyond the realm of possibility I might create and publish one or more RPG zines. (Maybe?)

And now... My total gaming blog output for 2023:

Applied Phantasticality: 82 articles
Theoretical Swashbuckling: 19 articles
Decidedly 6-Sided: 16 articles
Savage Arts & Sciences: 14 articles
Creative Reckoning: 12 articles
Omnia Pro Omnibus: 9 articles

Grand Total: 152 articles

See you in 2024!

Blogging Month in Review: December 2023

December was a blogging disgrace, but I'll spare the details. The articles I had planned will be posted in January.

Grand Total: 1 article

01 December 2023

Blogging Month in Review: November 2023

November's blogging was a respectable if unexciting recovery from October's deficit: one article per blog. If I can regain some consistency in my schedule and income, my blogging productivity will improve. Fingers crossed.

Grand Total: 6 articles

03 November 2023

Blogging Month in Review: October 2023

And October's tally is even more disappointing than September's. The one article I posted for Savage Arts & Sciences is little more than a link to someone else's article. Maybe I'll do better before the end of the year, but it will be a challenge. I would like to increase my blogging output, and I would love to resume gaming (of the role-playing variety in particular), but I cannot accurately predict when either will be possible. Meanwhile, if anyone has any leads on writing, editing, or proofreading jobs that involve remuneration, please keep me in mind.

Peace.

Grand Total: 1 article

05 October 2023

Blogging Month in Review: September 2023

September's tally was certainly a far cry from August's. Time is scarcer owing to the exigencies of survival at these space time coordinates, and my blogging has consequently lapsed. This is the lowest blog output of 2023, and I delayed posting the Blogging Month in Review because I've been working long hours and have had no energy to spare until now.

Technically speaking, I've reached my yearly goal for all of my gaming blogs except Creative Reckoning (which is one article away from the magic number of 12) and Omnia Pro Omnibus (which I didn't start until April, but it's keeping the monthly pace). I am disappointed, but not deterred. October is another month... in progress... because I'm posting this Blogging Month in Review late.

Better late than never?

Grand Total: 5 articles

31 August 2023

Blogging Month in Review: August 2023

Thanks to another RPGaDay challenge and my decision to post my answers daily instead of combining them into a single post at the end of the month (a decision made easier by the self-destruction of a social media platform that shall remain nameless), August was a stupendously productive month. I regret abandoning the daily answer format after 2017, and part of me wants to retroactively restore that format for the other years I participated in RPGaDay. It's something to consider if I get bored.

The tally for August:

Grand Total: 40 articles

31 July 2023

Blogging Month in Review: July 2023

July's tally:

Grand Total: 9 articles

30 June 2023

Blogging Month in Review: June 2023

June's tally:

Grand Total: 8 articles

31 May 2023

Blogging Month in Review: May 2023

May was a sufficiently productive blogging month. This is largely due to an improvement in my employment situation, which enables me to use my free time more constructively (as I define it). Here's to an even better June.

Grand Total: 13 articles

30 April 2023

Blogging Month in Review: April 2023

All things considered, it was not a bad blogging month.

I intended to leave it at that, but I suppose I ought to mention I started a sixth gaming blog, and I probably ought to include it here in the monthly blogging roundup. Omnia Pro Omnibus is the official blog for my new role-playing game, Omnia. I still need to publish the rules, so the blog will likely remain sparse until then. Please bear with me.

I hope you enjoyed Random Generator Month in Applied Phantasticality.

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism is acceptable every month of the year. It is never too late to learn something new. Some good places to start are Paul Micallef's YouTube channel, Autism from the Inside, and Barry M. Prizant's book, Uniquely Human (as well as Uniquely Human: The Podcast).

Peace.

Grand Total: 36 articles

31 March 2023

Blogging Month in Review: March 2023

March surpassed February by one article, and I forgot to post anything about GM Appreciation Day. I guess I wasn't feeling up to it. Regretfully, I've had other things on my mind. Although I don't have the liberty to put those things out of my mind, at least April will be another productive month bloggingwise, thanks to Random Generator Month (a holiday created and solely observed by me).

Be seeing you...

Grand Total: 11 articles

28 February 2023

Blogging Month in Review: February 2023

The second month of the year (in the span of four days) has yielded two articles per blog, although half of that output was admittedly a single article I posted to each of them promoting the Year 4 Kickstarter project for Accessible Gaming Quarterly. The campaign concludes on 9 March 2023, and I urge you to consider joining me in becoming a backer.

And now I shall think about what to do for GM Appreciation Day (or Dungeon Day as some are now calling it).