So. I'm going to be running a game for the first time in fifteen years. I first said, "hey, I can do that." having brainstormed on a setting with my sister and having come up with a campaign model that seemed fairly simple and contained ( Read more... )

Read many interesting things this morning, rather than getting up and doing anything.

So I commend these links to you, so you too can waste large amounts of time reading interesting things on the internet.

( lengthy Mindful Link Propogation )

I've had the term "Secret History" in my inventory lately, first from reading Emma Bull's Territory and watching Gaiman's Beowulf* last year, and finally from my brother describing my post on Elder Races, and Younger as "forensic ecology as literary analysis technique, a sub-genre of secret history literary analysisI noticed that I really like ( Read more... )

Story #1: Passage

Excerpts from Sharing Knife: Passage went up on the HarperCollins site yesterday. At first, the excerpts were bizarrely the first 3 pages of each of the first 5 chapters (or so I hear). This seems like a reasonable way to preview a non-fiction book, but extraordinarily unhelpful for a novel.

( more story, a little review, and some thoughts on viewpoint technique )

fiona was complaining about the d&d setting, in particular she doesn't like alignment (a commonly recognized problem), or the treatment of goblins ( Read more... )

I got a cold on Wednesday or there abouts. Thursday, I tried to get my contract materials back to Powerset by fax, but no luck. Eventually, I took them to kinko's and scanned them all in and made an Automator script that could combine pdf's into a single document and e-mailed them back ( Read more... )

"You can compare copyright infringement to trespass but not to theft. You might as well compare it to other criminal offences as to theft: 'Fanfic is illegal. This is not an irrelevant concern. It is the keeping of an unlicensed slaughterhouse of intellectual property.'"
-legionseagle via Making Light, replying to Keith DeCandido

Also, read Game of the Gods ( Read more... )