We’re into the penultimate week of the Blaugust Reborn blogging event already! This week has the theme of ‘staying motivated’, i.e. sharing tips on how to keep writing after such an intensive few weeks. It feels like a particularly apt topic as the weather turns colder and the summer draws towards its end, this year has been a wonderfully long and warm summer replete with gaming.

For me, the event itself is increasingly being dominated by World of Warcraft and the Battle for Azeroth expansion, as the event and expansion launch have overlapped. That is a rather mixed blessing as the launch has seen most of my game time for the last week and a half vanish in the face of the swathe of new content to play. Thoughts automatically turn to exploration, crafting, main and alt leveling, new dungeons and all the other potential activities a new expansion brings…