Dragons in WoW are lore appropriate, and dragons hiding out and observing the populace are also lore appropriate. That doesn't mean creating a player character who is secretly a dragon isn't intensely problematic and probably very mockable. As with anything, I suppose it comes down to execution ( Read more... )

So, this is what I spend all my time doing on WoW. It's called 'RP', and it can be a strange beast...

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About a decade ago now, the Fox ran a tabletop Changeling game for a small group of us. This was before Tale of Winter, though some of the threads from that early game ran through the larp ( Read more... )

I don't know how the other writers on my list get warmed up before a session, but here's an example from yesterday of what I tend to do ( Read more... )

I know a few people who have a book like this, the book that they buy and give to others. It's the book that is so amazing, that you think has so much to recommend it to *anyone* who reads it, that you'll put your money on the table, betting for the book's cross-audience appeal ( Read more... )

I'm going to vote this morning (early voting, in both senses of the term), but first I'm signing up for NaNoWriMo. I pulled some oracle cards on this to help me narrow down what would be the best project for me to work on, and here's what I came up with:

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So, I was waiting to post anything til it was all signed sealed and delivered, but I have some awesome news. I just got hired as an assistant acquisitions editor for an academic press in Washington DC! I'll be acquiring for their anthropology list, about 30-40 titles a year to start. I'm moving to DC at the end of the month, and I start on ( Read more... )

So, I just broke novel length (60,000 words) on a piece that was never intended to be a novel. The piece as it was envisioned is done, but it's not novel-shaped. Now I'm left with quandary of whether I spend some time on it turning it into something novel-shaped, or whether I put it aside and let it be what it is ( Read more... )

There's a discussion happening at Smart Bitches right now about the writer-as-god, with the corrollary that it is tantamount to sacrilege to question or critique the way a writer decides to take a story, or the arc of particular characters. This is in response to writers like Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Robin Hobb, and other authors (most ( Read more... )

I'm trying Novel in 90, and since my target wordcount for writing fiction is 1500 words a day, I've signed myself up to try two novels (Novel in 90 has a wordcount exhortation of 750 words a day). I have the Teleidoplex outline and am starting to working on filling in the spaces, so that's my first project. The second one is a regency romance, ( Read more... )