My Actifit Report Card: April 18 2022

Got more stuff done today. Not quite enough to totally compensate for two lighter days back to back, but enough to count as two normal days (just about 6000 words).

One of those things was Firebird Worlds, a small sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game that clocks in at about 16 pages. It’s light, but basically complete. I’d happily develop it further, but I’ve got so many different irons in the fire that it’s silly to do so.

The impetus for Firebird Worlds was some doodling and layout stuff I did while on hold with medical billing stuff, and I managed to get all the anxiety-producing stuff taken care of. Now it should be smooth sailing at least for the rest of the week.

One other thing I wanted to do is just practice the layout stuff. Practice, practice, practice, and practice is the name of the game. I want to be able to do good layout in my sleep. I want my designs to pop, I want to be fifteen minutes away from having any style and format ready to go.

I feel like I’ve had some breakthroughs as far as the whole endeavor goes. It’s not so much that I can do anything I couldn’t before, I just do it faster and a little better with fewer errors along the way. I’m also getting a better feel for what I like and dislike.

One of the tricks that I’m learning is just how to do things in fewer steps. That’s key to getting the time it takes to do stuff down, and sometimes that opens the door to things that I could do, but which were more likely to mess up future stuff or weren’t worth the time investment with the older methods.

One nice thing about working in the Affinity suite is that 95% of what I need to do can usually be done non-destructively (or only involves changes to geometric shapes or the like). That means that I don’t have to worry too much about messing with stuff (not that it’s ever really the biggest issue when you’re working in digital formats).

Still have some stuff to do for my layout client. Got the contract signed to do a character sheet at what is probably a lower rate than I’d normally do, but I’m doing so much other stuff for this guy that it’s not like I’m going to nit-pick the tiny parts. Will follow up and see what’s going on with the main project, but I think generally it’s on track and I’m just waiting for some other text and updates.

Didn’t get a lot of physical activity–I actually got quite a few steps in because when I’m working and inspired I tend to get up and pace, but I just wasn’t feeling great. I’m having basically all of the symptoms my stomach ever gets up to, but other than an outbreak of cramping I haven’t had much in the way of pain. Hopefully that doesn’t get worse in the near future, but I’m tentatively optimistic.

Doctor’s visit Wednesday to get to the next step. In some ways it’s almost nice to have the symptoms so close to the visit, though it would also be nice if I woke up tomorrow and they were gone since they’re already outstaying their welcome.

Feeling good about stuff. Hoping to get illustrations done for Kenoma maps and also do some of the stuff for Carrion Birds tomorrow.

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