Hey there!

Some games that we played:

• Overcooked 1 & 2, save the world by cooking in absurd environments. Shouting inclusive. (It’s really fun, I promise!)
• Ibb & Obb - a fun little puzzle game
• Guacamelee was fun too, but we never finished it.
• Battleblock Theater is nice too! But I’m not sure if it’s possible to play on one machine. So if you both have computers this is definitely possible.
• Unravel Two - it’s fun! We haven’t finished it yet, but it’s a cute (and a bit sad sometimes) jump & run / puzzle platformer
• A Way Out was great too, really great story, but it’s not cozy.
• … and I noticed a lot of people gave you already some good games, while I was searching my library. xD

What I haven’t tried yet but want to in the future:

• Moving Out - it looks similar to Overcooked, so I hope it will be fun
• Spiritfarer

I played the Final Fantasy 16 demo yesterday and I’m hooked. Can’t wait for thursday, when the game releases!

While I’m waiting, I’m playing Horizon Forbidden West (the world is so big!), Diablo 4 and as always Final Fantasy 14. ^^

I’m biased, because I love FF14! If you are in the mood, go play it :) ARR got reworked a lot, and the story gets so much better starting in Heavensward! (I really liked ARR, but many people say they felt it was slow.)

Correct!

Damn, but I figured it was a bit far fetched. Curious what the solution will be!

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Correct!

Yay! Such a great game!

Ok first guess, there are multiple games I could think of:

Ahhh, beat me to it!

Ohhh “Gone Home” is so nice! But not what I had in mind. ^^

Ok my first one is a bit easy. Next one:

Eagerly trying to visit relatives.

Look, a three headed monkey!

Don’t beat yourself up! You just haven’t found the best way for you. You will find it, I’m sure!

That’s a big novel, congrats to your brother! Finishing a first draft is always something special! I’ll try to give some advice! :) (And as always I couldn’t make it short, fantasy writers, am I right …?)

I’m not a poet, so I’m not too familiar with your process, but I bet we share some common trends. But I will try to give some insight in my work.

Disclaimer: Since two years I’m in the lucky position to work only part-time (25h per week and home office) and I’m really free in when to put my hours in. There are only some mandatory times I have to be online; for meetings for example. The only “negative” thing is: I’m a technical writer so I write at work and in my free time, albeit the topics are *very * different.

But I still can share some of my process, since I used to work full time for a while and I also did write back then. I agree with your brother that it is quiet draining, working 8 hours (+ commute if no home-office), doing chores and so on, especially when he is just starting out. That was difficult for me, too!

What I used to do: I tried to write every day, even if it was just a few minutes/a few words. Music helped me to get into the headspace I wanted to get into. My work always allowed flextime, so it was easier to write before work and I didn’t have to get up crazy early. I tried to get up an hour early and write then, because usually I don’t have the energy after work. The downside was that I was home at 8pm or something like that.

(Some days I had enough energy to also write after work, so I seized the opportunity whenever it arose.)

On the weekends I used to write more than in the work week. I put aside some hours that were sacred to me and where only moved in an emergency. Also, I regularly took some “writecations”, a few days off, to focus on my writing or editing. Depending on where you and your brother live this might be a bit harder. Here in Germany I have 30 days PTO per year.

But of course writing is slower when working full-time. I had to remember myself often that writing is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. So slow and steady, conserving energy and doing it one page, one passage or even one sentence at a time is what I would recommend.

It helped me a lot to structure my day around writing, noticing when I had half an hour of free time to write (e.g. when I still was commuting, I would write on the train; or at my lunchbreak for days where I couldn’t write before work etc.)

Also, taking a lot of self-care moments/hours/days, to not burn out. He shouldn’t beat himself up, if he cannot write everyday, sometimes life gets in the way.

The important thing is to keep going and not giving up. :)

Hope that helps!

On Beehaw

I’m new here, so I don’t know much about this community, but I’m really grateful for how welcoming everybody is! The “no down votes” is such a nice thing, I really love it and am more conscious about what I upvote. I’m surprised and grateful for this thread. It’s such a nice thing to do, practicing gratitude and encouraging others to do so. Also, it seems to be so easy to comment or post here in comparison to other platforms. It feels like one belongs to the community.

In real life

I’m grateful for being able to write. I was editing my last novel(s) for so long that I feared that I would’ve completely forgotten how to actually write something new. Of course that is not true, but feelings are feelings. I recently started another story and it flows well, I like the characters and I’m feeling like writing all the time. (Of course, I am still procrastinating here, but a little bit procrastinating is healthy!) Also, I’m grateful for my partner who always has my back and supports me in my creative endeavors. And of course I’m grateful for being healthy, having a roof above my head and enough to eat.

Thanks for making me thing about all that! :)

Hi! :)

Like so many others, I came from Reddit and I’m gonna stay here. It’s nice.

I’m somewhere between 30 and 40, a writer and full time nerd from Germany, I stream and game, I paint and draw and I have two wonderful cats. I like pen & paper rpgs, games in general (except horror), reading, knitting, crocheting, animals, manga, comics, music and listening to the same song on repeat. Also, I probably forgot something.

Thanks for having me here!

The term “Yolkswagen” made my day. :D

Absolutely adorable! <3

A little late to the party, maybe you’ve found your game already and I’m not sure if this is what you search for, but what I did, while writing my master’s thesis, was playing Stardew Valley.

It’s cozy for the most part. The game auto saves after you finish an ingame day (it saves when you wake up the next morning if I remember correctly). Days were for me roughly 15-25 minutes, depending on how far I was in the game.

So what I did was play a day in Stardew Valley, then write my thesis for a while, play another day, write my thesis, play two days, write my thesis and so on. (I admit, there were days where I played more, but hey, I finished my thesis!)

Good luck with your studies!