As part of my efforts to be more comfortable writing, I began keeping a written to-do list book at work soon after taking up fountain pens. This worked really well for me -- I enjoyed the act of writing, so I had some motivation to keep the list up to date. It was a little haphazard, though, in terms of keeping up on things that didn't get done, ( Read more... )

My handwriting had become pretty attrocious. It was never really awesome, but after many years of very nearly all of my communication via written word being typed, it had gotten to the point where it was downright embarassing to have to write anything that another human had to read. And, I do that a lot when I run RPGs -- especially Fate, where ( Read more... )

I just stopped in for no particular reason, and saw that I haven't posted on LJ in two fucking years. Considering how much I'm starting to hate Facebook and how often I wish everyone had just stayed on LJ, I think it's long past time I started posting here in preference to posting there. Maybe put up links if I feel like it ( Read more... )

On the whole, I enjoyed it, so if you're a horror fan, you might consider picking it up from the library or if the Kindle version goes on sale for $3.99 again ( Read more... )

Yes, I just read it for the first time. There's a startling number of classic books that escaped me in my childhood, so I've been spending some time running them down. (I haven't finished _The Phantom Tollbooth_, either; that's on the list, too ( Read more... )

Book five, apparently, in Asprin's MythAdventures series. (Also apparently, Asprin died in 2008; I'm not sure I knew that ( Read more... )

Subtitled (or maybe supertitled) "Car Warriors #1", and based heavily on Steve Jackson Games' "Car Wars" game. The novel is set somewhere in the midwest, but more broadly the setting is Car Wars' "Autoduel America": A global and suspiciously simultaneous grain blight destroyed a huge part of the world's food supply in 2012 (note that the original ( Read more... )

Some months ago, I was working on the D&D campaign I run (sporadically; I need to work on that) for Elizabeth and Sarah while we were all watching "Ocean's Eleven" (the remake). This (inevitably, I suppose) made me begin wondering what "Ocean's Eleven" would look like in a fantasy setting, and I began reshooting scenes in my head. "Just out of ( Read more... )

In the moderately distant past, there was a trading card game called "Duel Masters." It had a bit of a following, and (based on some reviews I read), some appealing game mechanics. Sadly, after a two-year run from 2004 to 2006, Wizards of the Coast dropped it (though it continued to be popular in Japan). Maybe they were just grumpy that it had ( Read more... )

It's sort of one of his definitive works, and I've been meaning to read it for awhile. So, when it happened to be sitting on the shelf when I went to the library, I snagged it ( Read more... )