What Comes Next?

[der meister 3,188]

We're winding down yet another VHL season. I think I may have been here with an active player for close to half of them at this point, which is kind of mind-blowing to think about. My first player certainly didn't age well, for legal reasons, and while I've had a lot of fun roleplaying other characters, ranging from Casey Jones of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame to "The Phantom Tollbooth" villain The Terrible Trivium, I wonder just how many players I have left in me. I do love the excuse to write, to freestyle these little pieces here and there, but I'm at a point where I'm wondering if more of my energy should be focused on writing novels instead of silly little anecdotes about fictitious hockey players. I'm not retiring Shevchenko or anything like that, but part of me is thinking my next player might be my last. Incidentally, my next player was intended to be a VHLE journeyman, but that's not an option any longer. Maybe it's just a straight, almost cliche VHLM journeyman. I have a long way to go before that point, but it's already something I'm giving thought to, because the art is in the story, not the statistics.