Juggle + a couple mentions

It is no secret that I am quite disperse, and would like to know EVERYTHING! I am cursed with a faustian curiosity. At any one time in my life I can hold a total of 3 subjects in my mind, which I can juggle as I switch between them, though it does get exhausting after a while, but having less ends up being annoying when I get tired of reading the same thing. So it is that I open my reading app and under the "Currently reading" menu I have a number of books pertaining to two or three different subjects, sometimes tangentially related, so that they can at least reinforce each other. So it is that right now it is Mathematics and Occultism, while also keeping alive the focus on Chinese (wasn't I learning Russian too? I am already looking into Ancient Greek (again), all due to influence from occult writers!)

There is another thing I've been meaning to do but I have also neglected it in favour of my perpetually ongoing studies, it is the creative force. I still want to write Interactive Fiction, I have a head full of ideas but no idea how to start implementing them, I have never in my life written a work of IF. I've been reading Graham Nelson's works, but I need to get my hands dirty an get it down. taichara, if you are reading this, how do I begin to structure my world, how to find interesting puzzles and challenges, how do I fist set my character down in the world?

I also want to write actual science-fiction stories. My wife and I actually have quite a few good ideas; well, she is the one with the cool stories, I am the one who should be able to put them in words, as I have done in the past. Anyone interested in reading one of my old stories? They are not as good, and they are in spanish.

I also wanted to comment on eaplmx's inquiry, why do I write? The primary reason I do this is to appease a strong imperative to do so, a continuous drive that keeps me wanting to express all the thoughts that are taking shape inside my mind, to formulate them in an intelligible manner and see if they make sense, to weed out all the chaff that inevitable sticks to them and to distill the actual insights. I am very much used to writing anonymously and letting it drift away in the sea of faceless voices. Now I want to keep some sort of record, develop a persona, make myself known. Total anonymity is not conducive to continuity, to the development of a definite voice, so that each verb vomit that goes in the void is gone, no organic whole can develop this way, and so the futility of writing manifests itself that way. I write because there are many voices out there, shouting a lot of stupid shit, as well as many interesting opinions. I want to contribute to the latter, well, I hope I have something interesting to say, or that someone would want to read. I am still developing my "voice" so be patient. It is also a form of vanity on my part, it is a form of self-expression, a drive that's common to all living beings. On the topic of selling, I wouldn't want to go and sell snake-oil and spam people's inbox with a newsletter built on little else but filler. I accidentally subscribed to one such newsletter and I have seen just how empty and annoying it becomes when someone is just trying to sell their lack of insight.

That is all I have to say for today.... go away now! I really like this closing line by The Critical Drinker on youtube, I wish I had come up with it first.