I was in Queens and then Long Island this past weekend for the wedding of my college friend Mike to his partner Josh. Mazel tov! Mostly it involved a lot of driving, playing Tales of the Arabian Nights with friends who live in the same complex as they do, and then a Sunday morning wedding where the power went off thanks to heavy winds. Wheeee ( Read more... )

I know, it's been a while since I posted. Many things have happened. I took a week vacation, cleaned my house, went to Ogunquit for my anniversary, and other fun stuff. But since my last post was kind of despairing, let me assure you I am doing pretty well ( Read more... )

So as all y'all know, I tend to gather a lot of half-baked ideas in text documents that never see the light of blog -- because they don't come to any sort of conclusive point, or I'm just not happy with them. Occasionally I put them all in a post and air them.

I was going to do that here, but fuck, there are a lot of them. So let's break it down ( Read more... )

WritingNow with Cracks we're getting into all the fuzzy stuff that isn't really writing, and goes through so many reiterations that I don't know when to say I've started or finished ( Read more... )

... that's quite a combination of topics. But they do intersect, I promise ( Read more... )

Urk. My transition to an entirely caffeine- and adrenaline-powered being is complete. I don't think I've had a good night's sleep since... last Thursday? I blame first 1) Matt being away at Tombstone, 2) having issues with reflux waking me up in the middle of the night, and 3) nerves from Cracks preparations ( Read more... )

If you've ever wondered why I love the work of Steven Brust so much--enough that I wrote a larp set in Dragaera--then I think this should tell you a lot:

He totally just wrote erotica as composed by Paarfi, the hyper-verbose narrator of the Khaavren Romances.

It's, uh. Not safe for work.

I think I should make this a bluesheet for Cracks ;)

Writing- [Cracks in the Orb] Finished a draft of Morvyn's sheet ( Read more... )

Writing
- [Cracks in the Orb] Finished a draft of Unnyara's sheet
- [Cracks in the Orb] Finished a draft of Thalela's sheet
- [Cracks in the Orb] Finished a draft of Erna's sheet

Work (I know, I know, I said I wouldn't include work, but I'm proud of this one ( Read more... )

Warning: half-baked post ahead. It was either post this in a somewhat unpolished state or let it sit on my hard drive forever.I've talked before--I'm sure--about how excellently gender-egalitarian Dragaera is. Moreover, after total immersion in it for the past few months in order to write Cracks, I've started to realize some delightful consequences ( Read more... )