I slept under the stars that night, the slap of water sending tremors from the bottom of the raft all the way up through my belly and head, the whole structure tugged by the weight of chains drifting down below into the unseen ( Read more... )

Not necessarily good, but a first step in a new direction ( Read more... )

Some of you saw this on Facebook, but some of you aren't on Facebook (or haven't been found by me yet) so I wanted to mention:

I'm entering this contest.No cash, just publication and nominal credit. But that's better than nothing, which is where I'm at, so I figure why not? Publication rights are non-exclusive, so I see no downside ( Read more... )

Oh, I know there are tons of things that are going on. Star Trek, yeah, commemoration of Mexican independence Corona Extra Day, and some serious life events for some people. And I, meanwhile, am looking forward to a job interview today and the conclusion of my work for the previous two semesters. I have had my fill of Adobe CS3 ( Read more... )

Don't have a lot of time. I've got to start getting sleep, because it's affecting my output and I need energy right now. I've vowed to drop at midnight.

I posted about this already. I don't know how many of you are A) amenable to fantasy. It's a troubled genre, with ample flaws. But I don't love anything that doesn't have them. And it's been ( Read more... )

And this one isn't a lecture. I have gotten to a good place with a blurb I was working on for a fantasy setting I merely have to set to paper, so detailed it is in my little pointy head.

So if you want to read it, it's on my role-playing community.It's not done, and I've spent long enough on it and need to get back to writing my game summary for ( Read more... )

"He who does battle with monsters should take care lest he become a monster. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche ( Read more... )

From the Gylfaginning, or "The Tricking of Gylfi," from the Prose Edda, ca. 1220:

Margir staðir eru þar göfugligir. Sá er einn staðr þar er kallaðr er Álfheimr. Þar byggir fólk þat er Ljósálfar heita, en Døkkálfar búa niðri í jörðu, ok eru þeir ólíkir þeim sýnum ok miklu ólíkari reyndum. Ljósálfar eru fegri en sól sýnum, en Døkkálfar eru svartari ( Read more... )

So whatever Meg had, I have. Perhaps I should be thankful this struck the very day after my long Wednesday. I'm nauseated, dizzy, sickened by the thought of eating, and I've actually experienced minor visual hallucinations. I thought it was just me flipping out, but then Meg said that she had seen them too. Little black bugs in the periphery of ( Read more... )

Good heavens! That took all day! (I warn you, however, if you haven't been following it, it probably won't make any sense, and even if you have, I make no guarantees ( Read more... )