trevorstephanson.bsky.social
Canadian author wannabe, is actually 3 imposter syndromes in a trenchcoat. I mostly write low fantasy with occasional steampunk and horror sprinkles
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I'm a simply man. I see Ryan George, I like/upvote/digg/whatever.
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Kids: this is the best dinner ever! I love it so much I'll eat 3 plates of it!
Kids the next time you make it: I don't like this 😞
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I've had a lot of fun introducing people to TTRPGs over the years. The hardest part these days is trying to introduce people to systems that aren't D&D 5e
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I went through a Dwarf Fortress phase. I remember reading Boatmurdered, downloading the installer afterwards, then I blink and 4 months have passed
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Maybe it's some sort of literary Benjamin Button thing going on
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I'm currently trying a "talk about writing in vague terms on social media and hope a completed book spontaneously appears on my hard drive" approach, I'll let everyone know how it turns out
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I did tech support and I needed a guy to send me a code generated by the program in question. I sent him a screenshot to show where it would be found and what the code would look like. He just sent me my own screenshot image back to me
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I find it very difficult to get invested in a series that's not finished unless each book is satisfyingly resolved by their end and any additional books will just be bonus stories. I don't want to get invested and then wait for the next book to release for 13+ years for closure
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Are you sure I can't just imagine writing and talk about writing on social media and hope a completed book just kinda appears on my computer somehow?
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Finish plotting and actually start writing
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"Ignore the denizens of social media and go for a run instead" could effectively replace about 80% of the wellbeing tips on social media
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I've written digitally exclusively for the last two decades, I still get excited at the prospect of a nice notebook and pen to write in
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I don't think some people understand that it's impossible to only write every waking second and that resting and taking breaks from any activity is vital to doing it well.
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I wish I had reliable players like that lol I've had a group of murder hobos unexpectedly turn thoughtful and restrained for a single session, and my serious group decide "hey, let's just rampage for a bit, as a little treat" out of the blue. At least they keep me on my toes!
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My favourite kind of session prep is the 5% of the time my players actually do something I prepped for and my work doesn't go to waste without having to Quantum Ogre it in
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I hand wrote everything for years and years. I've switched to typing only these days but I still randomly get the urge to buy a nice notebook and good pen
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Even my plotter-est works end up nowhere near what I expected their length to be and if I try to set word count goals I either end up with a bunch of rambling filler or rushing through things.
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One of my greatest joys as a husband and father is when something new is both delicious and too spicy for the rest of my family. I gladly accept my role as food disposal unit
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I'm just reading Lovecraft and I am envious how much he managed to get away with what you said and "I blacked out and when I came to I was conveniently where the story needed me to be." 'It could be the will of an elder god, I dunno' is a convenient literary tool I wish I had the guts to use more
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I'm lucky I'm not smart enough to come up with too-clever traps for my characters to get stuck in
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My expectations for success on my works is "nobody is using the comment section to cast a spell bringing harm to me and my bloodline"
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Favourite thing I wrote was a ~10k word short story that was basically "Whiskey in the Jar" as told by someone really into steampunk bands. It was the first thing I wrote after a ~10 year break and the last thing I managed to actually finish
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Elden Ring is probably my favourite game where every half hour I'm texting my buddy who was playing at the same time with new profanity-riddled rants about what new BS it was putting me through. My texts would imply I hated it rather than played it exclusively for a month to get the Platinum
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I hate those good ideas because they really should pick a more talented writer to bother
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My favourite characters, both as a reader and a writer, tend to be ones I can't really relate to but are interesting to read about or have a new perspective
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If you had asked me ~10 years ago what I wanted in a TTRPG system I'd probably have said "I dunno, crunchier D&D 5e?" I probably wouldn't have known how much I actually wanted something like Delta Green if I hadn't read glowing reviews about it on Reddit