Less than five minutes ago, I was working on finishing up this blog post when I miss-clicked, selected all, typed the word "when," and erased the entire thing. The page autosaved, and then wouldn't let me undo. Crap. And, again, crap. I'd started on…
In this episode of "Words, Words.... Words," we return to the topic of gaming and the crafting of fiction, and this post looks like it's going to be pretty epic, in length as well as topic. Allow me to warn you right off the bat, part…
Daily writing challenge. I'll post mine after my first shift at work today. I'd like to see some of my other writer friends take a stab at some of these. Yes, Penny and Krista, I'm looking at you. "Choose two characters worthy of…
Honesty is the best policy. We've all heard this, over and over again from the very beginning of our communication with other human beings. Our parents and teachers keep telling us to be truthful and honest. On the other hand, we're told that we should also…
I've had a few people ask me about which writing reference books I've read and found useful, so I thought I'd make a post containing the books I've collected and kept over the years. This is actually the perfect time to do…
Been a bit of time since I've dedicated some time to this blog, and I realize I left off with a bit of a cliff hanger. I'd mentioned going into setting, and the how differences between setting in gaming and writing engaging fiction. First and foremost,…
I've been absent from this blog for a while. Sorry. Had a lot of things going on in my head that I needed to get sorted out. Well, I'm still sorting, but I'm past the point where the sorting is so loud it drowns…
As I said in a recent post, I've been working on rewriting my buddy Steve's story "Knight of the Living dead." We've had a couple of conversations about the piece before going into it, both in person and via IM and email.…
I've been in a bit of a funk the last few days. Don't know why, but I made some progress getting out of it. A while back, my good friend Steve of Myth and Magic ask me to help him rework his story, "Knight of…
Let's go back to starting a story in a tavern, that dreaded opener that editors dread, and how that relates to one of the two greatest lessons I learned in pursuit of my BA. (Yeah, I'm going to mention that from time to time. I'…
