Saturday 17th April 2021

I was feeling a little bored today.  I started the day still feeling a bit negative about The Accursed.  There’s work that needs to be done and so far it seems to fall short of what’s in my head.  I’m also conscious that I’ve not fleshed out the arcs of a lot of secondary characters.

However, as the day progressed, I’ve found myself darting around the manuscript.  I started two new scenes.  They’re mostly dialogue at the moment so need fleshing out.  But they started fleshing out the story and the characters and I’ve got to the end of the day and I’m liking where this is going.

I don’t have everything nailed down and the plan always changes in the execution but I like where it’s going.

I’ll need to do a bunch of tweaking but I have enough words for the pre-writing, and so now need to edit that and send it off.

Ordinarily, I’d balance all this work with leveling in World of Warcraft but I’ve got a small problem.  I seem to have run out of rested XP.  Up until now there’s been enough space between leveling all my characters for their rested XP bonus to recharge.  But I’ve got just 5 characters left to level, one who is level 59 but has no rested XP.  A few of the ones I only brought into Shadowlands over the last couple of weeks have blown through their rested XP before reaching mid-low level 50s.  And so I’m a bit stuck on what to level.  Ordinarily, I’d move onto something else and wait for them to recharge, but I no longer have the choice.

So instead I’ve started gathering their renown.  Some covenants need a bit of work before you get access to the weekly renown quests but I’ve started doing that.  I’m not in any rush to do their renown, although I would like to see each of the covenant’s campaigns on one of my characters in the respective covenants.  What I need to focus on next is professions, but if I can do that while I gather renown in the background, that wouldn’t be bad.

However, I’m noticing that a lot of people are now burnt out with Warcraft.  They’re playing other games, and I confess I feel the lure.  However, now’s a perfect time to get things in place ready for the next patch.  Even with the lack of rested XP, it looks like getting every alt leveled before it hits isn’t going to be a problem.

That means that I’m going to need to start doing other things in game.  I’m just not decided on what just yet.

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