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I am big into video games, and a couple of years ago I found a blog that really resonated with me. Same type of games that I want to play, and they were all fairly old. A couple of years ago I stopped playing modern video games and just kind of stuck in the past, and didn’t have anyone to talk about them with, so I’d comment on this blog I used to read about older games and made some good friends that way.

Eventually I want to talk about my own gaming experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts.

I’ll be honest, I really wish I had chosen a different name, but I bought the WordPress plan already so I settled on https://www.nostalgiatrigger.com. It doesn’t roll off the tongue nor would it be the average person’s cup of tea, but for the 5-6 people who comment and leave feedback, it’s a cool little community.

Anyway, this is just my experience and it doesn’t really answer the OPs original questions. If I go back and read my old material, it really comes off as pretentious and just overall atrocious, so to probably echo what everybody else is saying here, the trick is to just write as much as possible and don’t try to focus on things like length or flow on the first time through. In fact don’t even worry about editing anything, the editor will highlight any misspellings or grammatical errors, so let your mind go into stream of consciousness mode, just to get ideas down on paper.

Oh! And a recent tip for something that I’ve started doing a few months ago (typically while writing down initial thoughts while I’m playing a game for the first time), I leave Notes open on my phone so I can easily tap the microphone and speak sentences straight into a first draft. I realized that I spent the most time trying to figure out how to phrase certain things on the first draft, so by getting out actual well formed sentences as they came to me while I was playing a game, I was essentially removing the hardest part of writing from the equation.

I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing on https://www.thewellredmage.com a few years back, and getting started on a blank canvas is always the hardest part. So whatever works for you, try taking YOUR “hardest part” out of the equation.