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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9882437" data-attributes="member: 29398">I write poems, lyrics, song words, and so forth.  Thousands of 'em, maybe over ten thousand now, since not long after I was old enough to write.I design and write all sorts of stuff for my D&D games - homebrew settings, adventures, rules, maps, you name it.I play* music with some guys, some of it freeform-ish (we come up with a tune /melody on the fly then write words for it, flesh it out, and add the words in), some of it pre-written; about 98% of it original, the other 2% are either straight covers or Weird-Al-like rewordings of others' songs.  Up to about 40 hours worth of finished (if highly-variable quality!) songs now, if not more.I used to draw until I realized I just wasn't any good at it, and packed it in.  I'm also useless at painting, as some of my poor embarrassed minis can attest!With the poems-lyrics and the music, the implementation and creative pieces go pretty much hand in hand, but are IMO still separate things: the creativity is thinking of it and the implementation is actually playing it (or, sometimes, getting someone else to play it - I can come up with what I think are some pretty good guitar lines or riffs in my head but can't play guitar worth sheeite, so someone else has to play 'em).With the RPG stuff, it's often a variant on the old saw "15 minutes of creativity packed into 4 hours of implementation".* - well, not so much lately; covid kinda killed it for us.  We'll get back at it one day....</blockquote>

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