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The Constant Sea of Night… hates me.

No, really.

I have been fighting to break the back of this novel and get the first draft written for… oh heck, I can’t find the proof, but I’m pretty sure I started planning the initial ideas in 2014. That’s three years of batting the ball around and building up ( Read more... )

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I wrote this on Facebook a few minutes ago:

Can I coin the term PrePocalypse? I’m much more interested in understanding how things went wrong than I am with what happens as a society decays. That’s probably my biggest beef with Dystopian fiction; it presupposes we all know how these things go wrong, and ( Read more... )

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That’s a ha ha title for you. I’m not a celebrity in any sense. Probably best we keep it that way.

What I would like to say is, my download numbers on Smashwords have more than doubled this week. For the last year, my number has stalled at a paltry 23 downloads, and I joined in 2011.

Think about that for ( Read more... )

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Okay, I’m feeling pretty wide open this morning, so I’m just gonna say it, even though it pisses off my agent/manager/partner/wife, but I think my writing ‘career’ is failing. I’ve been reaching for the brass ring, writing some of the most potent, personal, powerful stuff I know how, and frankly, I think ( Read more... )

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Okay, so, I’ve been working with Rodney to get this game ready for intensive playtesting, and we’re still a little ways off from being able to do so, but we’ve divided up the tasks a little better, and Rodney gifted me with this yesterday:

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Sooo… I’ve been awake for a few hours, trying desperately to get in the mood to do some work. So far, no good. I have oodles of fiction writing to do. I also have hundreds of game board tiles to design and illustrate. And I have some homework to do for The Hamilton Anvil AND the StinZine.

So what have I ( Read more... )

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This should probably be listed as a LinkWorlds game update, but it doesn’t feel like one, so I won’t.

The problem is, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed and uninspired. The workload is finally getting me down. I was hoping to have a few people come in and get involved, if for no other reason than to provide ( Read more... )

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I posted this a few minutes ago:

Thinking vaguely about starting a culture review vlog site. Also thinking, I don’t believe I should be the star of it. I’m just not as pretty as I once was, or as flamboyant as I sound in writing. Also, I’ve written a fair number of reviews over the years, but not in a ( Read more... )

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Brief update, I think.

I have finalized the running order of the series of settings the game will take place in, separated into ‘seasons’. It’s taken this long because I keep dreaming up new scenarios. However, I’m capping it at this point, at least until the current running order is completed. It’s time ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
We live in a world that has suddenly revealed to us all its toxic underbelly.

We live in a world where it is now considered acceptable to say and do the most outrageously unjust things, all in the name of being a patriot.

We live in a world where race is a precondition for the way we treat people. Still. ( Read more... )