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How I (mis) Spent My Weekend
I did not do any writing. My creative energies were directed at D&D more directly, adapting the Dragon Age RPG stunt system for 4E, and then running combats to test it out. It actually works surprisingly well, and I think I'd try it for a real game, but I'm not sure how it would affect the balance. The test combats also helped me work out details ( Read more... ) -
DW062510
Yesterday I was too wiped out to do anything, but today I just did 1300 words on my jury duty experience. I don't think I'll publish it, though. I saw a lot about the case and while I have the right to do so, I'm not sure I should. It felt good to write it all down, though. I did it on the couch with the iPad, and though the 'i' issue is still ( Read more... ) -
DW062310
1370 words to close out this chapter of my character's journal, and provide some transition to the new character. I was hampered somewhat by the DM's announcement that my character, rather than retire to her home, would be once again taking command of the campaign's main city as its besieged by an army of dark elves as soon as the group teleports ( Read more... ) -
DW062110
1088 more words of character journal. Covered everything through the last session, but there's still more I want to write covering how she leaves the campaign and how her replacement comes in. -
DW062010
I have, at least, been better about performing my daily creative exercises than I have been about nothing them here. Earlier this week I wrote the stuff on the iPad that I finally posted here yesterday. Wednesday I played my current D&D character for the last time (for now, at least) and today I did a thousand words for her journal. I still have a ( Read more... ) -
Initial thoughts on the iPad
It all starts with D&D. There's a lot of D&D books, and I've found it handy to have electronic copies for easy reference. I obtain these copies, of course, by purchasing the books, scanning them in, then converting them to PDFs for my own personal use. But while this solution is useful when I am at my computer, it's less so in other cases. If I ( Read more... ) -
The Earth and I Are... Unsettled
I've lived in Southern California for nearly ten years now, and though the area is famous for its impending drop into the Pacific Ocean when the Big One happens, earthquakes have not been a big deal at all. It was a few years before I even felt my first one, a brief, gentle swaying at the workplace. There was a 5.5 in Baja on Easter that, while ( Read more... ) -
DW061410
287 words on an email to a cousin who contacted me out of nowhere today. He was making sure my mother is all right (he's really her cousin) but we've since been discussing how hockey is better than soccer (because THINGS HAPPEN).
Also, Canada is good at hockey.
I will admit that Shakira's new ditty is catchier than the Hockey Night in Canada -
DW061310
Well, when I started the writing-every-day thing, I didn't think I'd make it through two months, let alone four, but a renewed interest in video games was its undoing. Grand Theft Auto 4 wounded it, Red Dead Redemption murdered it, and Assassin's Creed 2 jumped up and down on the corpse. But not unlike a video game character, it's come back to life ( Read more... ) -
DW050910
361 words on comic books. More to go.