There comes a time in every Guild Wars 2 adventurer's life when her progression begins to go through certain, well, changes. These changes begin when an adventurer reaches level 5, and they get even more pronounced when she hits level 11. It might feel confusing and embarrassing; suddenly, you've got red exclamation marks on your hero panel and ( Read more... )

... as in, a new take on the old 6-axis Descent game. There's a kickstarter for Retrovirus, which already has a playable demo, and is looking really good... but it's not getting nearly the love (aka funding) it needs. So... if you loved Descent 1 & 2, take a look at the vids on the Retrovirus kickstarter page, and check the updates page, where ( Read more... )

Shamelessy stolen from the delightful marthawells.

The rules:
1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines - sentences or paragraphs - and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

This is from my most recent WiP - The Black. Page 77 is the start of a new chapter, and 7 lines down exactly cuts out the first ( Read more... )

So... here's a bit of Skyrim fanfic... though hopefully it works well for people who haven't played it, or just plain don't play games at all.

Critiques welcome.

( Kirrsan at the Inn )

Argh, I say!

But first... Happy happy to mongo42! Many happy returns of the day, my friend ( Read more... )

I've got an editing/rewrite technique question for you.

I'm about 2/3 through After, a fairly straightforward post apocalyptic 'girl and her wolf' survival story ( Read more... )

Yeah, most of my NaNoWriMo stuff lives over on stoda-writes, but... I finally had one of those 'things are crystalizing' moments, where all came together really well, plus I got about 3k words tonight. It just felt really good ( Read more... )

Ugh. Been so crazy busy lately... and here's one of the things I've been busy on. In addition to SCARE for a CURE, which has really picked up the pace, only two weekends of build left! Aieeee! bfly and I built a 30' scaffold to support the fireball shooting guys, last weekend. We'll probably build a smaller guard tower scaffold tomorrow after work ( Read more... )

Submariners, I'm lookin' at you in particular... but I suspect anybody who deals with big ships might have it. Or somebody with more brane than me ( Read more... )

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