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A week after finishing the second draft of Living Legend, I find myself being quite unproductive. Sure, I’ve done a little work on my website, and some bathroom renovation, but I was hoping to write some short stories before November and that just doesn’t seem to be happening.

All of the above has me wondering about the power of a deadline. I had one for Living Legend. I was the only person holding me to that deadline, but it still existed. I don’t really have a deadline for anything on all of October. It’s a ‘let it all hang out’ kind of month.

Time Management Ninja (http://timemanagementninja.com) claims that tight deadlines are the best way to get anything done. If you have a project that you think will take you 5 days, set your deadline for 4. The reason? If a project will realistically take a few months, but it’s given a deadline of 3, the project will somehow take 3 months. If the deadline is for 6 months, it’ll magically take 6 months.

According to the TM Ninja, tight deadlines ignite creativity, reduce wasted time, build confidence and make the impossible possible.

Maybe this is why I haven’t done anything this month. I’ve told myself they’re things I’m going to do in October. Perhaps when this October is winding down, and there are only a few days left, I’ll scramble and finish 3 or even 4 short projects.

Beyond work, taking care of my kids, and writing the only other thing I’ve really put any time into is a game called Infinity Blade III on the iPad. I’ve always been a big fan of this game series.

When the first one came out, it seemed expensive since most games were free or $0.99. $1.99 was considered expensive, but IB came out costing $6.99! To be fair, the graphics looked better than any other iOS game I had seen to date, it was a unique type of game, and the people who hadn’t been scared off by the price were raving about it. So I bought it.

I was blown away.

When the second game came out a while later, I didn’t hesitate. And when the third was released recently, I was waiting for release day.

What I’m really impressed with is the story this game brings. Not just the story during the course of the game, although it is fairly interesting. Author Brandon Sanderson wrote 2 novellas that bridge that gap between games. The first book, Awakening, picks up where the first game ends, giving readers and gamers some of the answers to lingering questions. The second game then picks up where the first book ends. And the second book picks up where the second game ends. And I’m sure you can guess where the story of the third game picks up.

What I’m getting at is that none of the story is retold. Nothing is recycled or rehashed in an effort to get more money out of fans. It’s all original story, and to get it all you’ll need to experience both the games and the books. That impressed me even more than the game. CHAIR had taken the two hobbies I love the most and combined them into one experience.

If this has convinced anyone to give the Infinity Blade series a try, do yourself a favour and start with the original game. By jumping ahead you’ll rob yourself of the whole experience. To be fair, though, anyone who would want to give this series a try, probably already has.

My site had begun, but it’s an unorganized, half-developed mess with no real value or content. Kind of reminds me of a teenager’s bedroom.

Yes! Much to mom’s aggravation, I was one of those teens with the eternally messy room. Though in my case I’m not sure the word messy did my disastrous room justice. I’ve seen pictures of houses after a natural disaster that still looked better than my room. My own wife, who knew me back in high school, told me long after our high school days that she was horrified to sit anywhere in my room. It’s shameful to think about now, but until I’ve completed a working time machine all I can do is push forward.

What does that mean? The continuing development of this site. What you’re going to see for a while is something that looks half done (because it is) with posts that are these for testing only. Eventually, however, the site will be fully functioning and will blossom with at least half-relevant content.

At that time if anyone were to look far enough back and see this post. It won’t make a bit of sense.

Hello user from the future! If you think my site is bad now you should have seen it when I made this post!