That would be Not My Sandbox Syndrome, a label I'll ascribe here to a psychological reluctance to mess with things not of one's own creation. It came up recently in some conversations that I don't "run" much on FurryFaire. A couple scenes in sequence with very little plotline and involving only a PC or two? Sure, I do that maybe a couple times a week. Any longer continuity, any wider influence on the setting, and I pretty much skip it. Why? A lot of reasons, actually, some of which I may discuss in most depth later. Inspiration is fleeting and fickle - I can't just conjure up applicable ideas at will, but its easier to manage in this area if there are other things going on to play off of. Time can be tricky - I have had numerous scenes fall by the wayside because when I was interested in pursuing them people weren't around or something else required my attention. My GMing skills, especially online, have waned - I have enough trouble wrangling two or ...
*hugs* I hope it gets better! Try to sneak out for as long a lunch as they'll allow.. =) (that's the only way I survived a couple of days this week- it's amazing how much it helped!)
ReplyDeleteHang in there... I survived my week, and it started with being partly responsible for breaking every box (600+) in our production server farm. You can do it! :-)
ReplyDelete*hugs* I hope things pick up. Enjoy the movie, okay? Relax, let things go, and hopefully the evening will be much better.
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