Fellow Authors, what do you do in your downtime? (When you're not writing)

[CountVanBadger]

 

[MFontana]

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I'm in. When do we start?

 

[CountVanBadger]

I'm in. When do we start?

That depends. Do you have what it takes to join the Homestarmy? Will you bring a sack lunch and some orange slices for me and serve your country? Will you, STUPID?!

 

[Bald-san]

As the thread title suggests, I'd like to know what some of the rest of you do in your off-hours.
Basically, the time that you're not writing. How do some of you spend it?
Do you watch TV?
Movies?
Anime?
Play games?
etc etc?
Any other hobbies or interests that fill those hours that you'd like to share here.

Personally, I tend to spend more time writing than anything else these days, but in my free time / downtime, I tend to play a few games, primarily the MMORPG, Guild Wars (My main is Selene Tassius, but you might also see me online as one of my other characters, including those that I've created in the game based on some of the cast members of my writing projects, including Morrigan from The Elarian Chronicles), binge-watch anime, or just take it easy and watch whatever happens to be on TV to clear my head and unwind.
Otherwise, I'm designing game elements for my stories, creating characters, or entertaining different story ideas.

I read novels or whip up essays that makes Shakespeare cry because of how ass it is and pass it to my professor for submission

 

[Daeron]

As the thread title suggests, I'd like to know what some of the rest of you do in your off-hours.
Basically, the time that you're not writing. How do some of you spend it?
Do you watch TV?
Movies?
Anime?
Play games?
etc etc?
Any other hobbies or interests that fill those hours that you'd like to share here.

Personally, I tend to spend more time writing than anything else these days, but in my free time / downtime, I tend to play a few games, primarily the MMORPG, Guild Wars (My main is Selene Tassius, but you might also see me online as one of my other characters, including those that I've created in the game based on some of the cast members of my writing projects, including Morrigan from The Elarian Chronicles), binge-watch anime, or just take it easy and watch whatever happens to be on TV to clear my head and unwind.
Otherwise, I'm designing game elements for my stories, creating characters, or entertaining different story ideas.

I think most of us will playing game too, hahaha
but since gaming is my main daily routine for past 2 years (almost 8 hours a day), my off-hours will be playing guitar, getting drunk with my girl, sometimes i'm writing (this one is new actually, i found it refreshing to vent anything inside my head into writing), most of the time i just chill out in bar or cafe (usually at Monday and Tuesday).

 

[tantrayaan]

TV. Spend time with family. Read

 

[Avarice_Of_The_Seven]

I barely get any free time after writing on regular days.

On holidays, I do whatever that interests me. ( Currently either anime, web comics, LN, web novels, or I do gaming.)

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

Photography

 

[CinnaSloth]

what do you do in your downtime? (When you're not writing)​

writing
plotting
thinking about writing
reading
plap plap plap plap
wonder where I went wrong in life
get angry
hangout in SH forums
write more
play one of only two online multiplayer games I'm playing alone/ solo
pretend to sleep
write more
edit
plot more
do chores
do work

 

[AlexRiven201]

As the thread title suggests, I'd like to know what some of the rest of you do in your off-hours.
Basically, the time that you're not writing. How do some of you spend it?
Do you watch TV?
Movies?
Anime?
Play games?
etc etc?
Any other hobbies or interests that fill those hours that you'd like to share here.

Personally, I tend to spend more time writing than anything else these days, but in my free time / downtime, I tend to play a few games, primarily the MMORPG, Guild Wars (My main is Selene Tassius, but you might also see me online as one of my other characters, including those that I've created in the game based on some of the cast members of my writing projects, including Morrigan from The Elarian Chronicles), binge-watch anime, or just take it easy and watch whatever happens to be on TV to clear my head and unwind.
Otherwise, I'm designing game elements for my stories, creating characters, or entertaining different story ideas.

Civ V, playing Minecraft, Factorio, Schedule I, or some other multiplayer game I can run on a Linux potato with a friend of mine, hanging out with my girlfriend, playing with my cat, making edits to my Series Bible, and learning HTML so I can make a template and make a better .epub file than the auto-generated garbage Calibre creates when I throw in a .odt file.
In my off time. I also have to maintain the house and work two full-time jobs because the american economy was made great again. yay.

 

[HungrySheep]

I run tabletop campaigns.

 

[tantrayaan]

Civ V, playing Minecraft, Factorio, Schedule I, or some other multiplayer game I can run on a Linux potato with a friend of mine, hanging out with my girlfriend, playing with my cat, making edits to my Series Bible, and learning HTML so I can make a template and make a better .epub file than the auto-generated garbage Calibre creates when I throw in a .odt file.
In my off time. I also have to maintain the house and work two full-time jobs because the american economy was made great again. yay.

I love Civ 5 as well. Do you play with the latest mods (new civs, terrain etc) or just the vanilla?

 

[mythosandmagic]

I restore old cars and trucks. I am almost finished restoring a 1955 Ford F100 pickup truck. A 1966 Mustang is in work too.

 

[AlexRiven201]

what do you do in your downtime? (When you're not writing)​

writing
plotting
thinking about writing
reading
plap plap plap plap
wonder where I went wrong in life
get angry
hangout in SH forums
write more
play one of only two online multiplayer games I'm playing alone/ solo
pretend to sleep
write more
edit
plot more
do chores
do work

BIG mood.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Work, watch TV, game, play magic, love my wife, etc.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Work, watch TV, game, play magic, love my wife, etc.

Wow. what a way to brag that you're so much cooler, successful, loved, and probably more handsome/ beautiful, and way better socially adept. So annoyingly charming, and naturally gifted with motivational positivity. How dare you be so awesome, and better in every way through honestly probably a lot of effort, and by trying to do your best everyday for your family. shuddap, mr 'im so badass'.

(lol. I'm glad you're doing well Tromba. patpat I'm sure you'd say you're lucky to have your wife, but she's lucky to have you too. )

 

[Jalvin]

Playing video games and learning how to draw. Drawing has always been an on-and-off hobby for me (with long stretches of Off, lol) and I'm kinda glad that I'm doing it for long term again. I mostly draw girls, but right now I'm learning how to draw men (their eyes are so hard to draw. I'm used to drawing slightly bigger eyes because of all the anime girls I drew haha).

Other than that, I occasionally cook. Honestly, I should buy ingredients and cook more. It saves me a lot of money in the long run especially with all the inflated prices around us.

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

Between work and kids I don’t have a lot of free time at the moment but I do get to play D&D every few weeks and volunteer at the VFW regularly.

Aside from that though, and this may sound a bit obsessive, I like to dream up AUs for my characters and run through what they’d be like. It can be tough sometimes because almost every alternate universe involves my MC being more happy and fulfilled, but she’s got an important canon story to get through first. Maybe when I’m all done I’ll go back and write the AUs but who knows.

 

[DismaiNaim]

I write.

I think you mean to ask what I do in my up time?

I write while pretending to work.

 

[FRWriter]

Work, write, sleep.

Suprise off hours? More sleep and writing.