I've been working toward "doing less but doing it well" for some time. And yet new and shiny projects are always presenting themselves.

Must say no more often.

Must say no more often.

Must say no more often.

Must say no more often.

I blame John Scalzi, who posted a list of writerly goodies to come today over at the WhateverYou know, Monkey King see, Monkey King do, so I just started listing my own projects for the coming year to see what was already done. It's a much bigger list than I thought. Here's my projects for 2007, most already turned over to editors and freelancer ( Read more... )

Games guru and world traveler Allen Varney surveys the sad state of academic discussions of immersion in computer games for The Escapist in an article titled Immersion Unexplained. It comes with PDF references, which you may cheerfully investigate or ignore at your peril ( Read more... )

Put an arrow through it folks, the WotC Eberron project went over the wall last night, complete with shiny maps and a solid art/map order. What have I learned from that particular project? It's easier to draw maps in 90 degree heat than to write text; I wrote all the final bits in a library packed with people who, like me, were all there for the ( Read more... )

So, the new catalog is out, and I can reveal teh Impossibly Huge WotC Project at last:

Expedition to the Demonweb PitsWolfgang Baur and Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel ( Read more... )

I seem to have misplaced a demon lord somewhere.

I've spent more than 12 hours today writing in various venues. Hit the rewrite in the morning with the Fairwoods gang, did about 25 pages of novel updates. Wish someone had told me sooner than Chapter 1 still sucked, but was totally fixable. So much useless exposition. And the blocking! Needed some work.

Apparently my fiction skills are not 1337 ( Read more... )

It looks like the patron project I launched in April just might work out after all ( Read more... )

I got the author copy of the Five Fingers: Port of Deceit sourcebook that will be out at Origins: it's turned out very well indeed, with excellent flavor and history by Doug Seacat and rules by yours truly. I especially enjoy the narration of each section by a different citizen of the town; no one does useful, engaging fluff like Privateer Press ( Read more... )

One of my winter projects is quickly heading for the printer and the store shelves: Port of Deceit, my first project with the Privateer Press crowd. For those of you familiar with the setting, it's the Five Fingers city book. For those not familiar with the Iron Kingdoms, it's their equivalent to Waterdeep, but with more pirates, geartech, ( Read more... )