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"Experiment In Rebellion"
I've been reading "Experiment In Rebellion", a 1946 book by Clifford Dowdey which is a biography of Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate government. Interesting stuff ( Read more... ) -
National Novel Writing Month
I'm gearing up to try writing a novel called "Striking Chains" for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). http://nanowrimo.org/participants/kris-schnee is my official entry on the site. I have... not a great deal of confidence about actually getting to 50K words in a ( Read more... ) -
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month is coming up in November and I'm considering trying it. I don't know what to write, though. Some people have said things to the effect of "write about necromancer foxes!", but that's not how I operate. I need a theme I care about. In the first novel (SF) it was "freedom", and centered around characters trying to build a ( Read more... ) -
Fate and Other Simple Games
It's been a long time.
One thing I've been paying attention to lately is simple RPG systems. Mini Six is a free system using only d6, described in a pamphlet of 38 pages of which most are optional rules like magic, plus sample settings, vehicles, and common characters. There's also Mythic (about $5-10), which runs on answering yes/no questions ( Read more... ) -
A Word From Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without ( Read more... )
