Had a wonderful time at Origins.  It is possibly better than gen con.  I played in a bunch of LARPs with a bunch of awesome people.  I especially want to remember:

• dressing up to play Galaxandra the space princess, but then switching to New Artemis, the super-bride, when no one was there to play her. Also, the girl playing my future-daughter ( Read more... )

Today I am writing drafts of people using "magic" in the setting for my novel. I've refined how it works, but I want to see how it executes on the page. Our task list: fix a broken wall, be effectively invisible, become popular, and obtain a 2014 BMW i8.

I was looking at my list of Kindle purchases just now, and it struck me what a perfect characterization piece it is. (In no small part because I am reading a lot of books on showing not telling...) Very interesting:

• 6 fantasy books (3 Dresden Files, 2 Kingkiller, 1 Song of Ice/Fire)
• 9 books on writing
• 1 weight loss book
• 1 young adult novel (which will ( Read more... )

I have had the BEST time at Gen Con. Every time I think the next day can't possibly be as awesome as the last, it is. Got to see so many old friends, meet my favorite author and chat a little. Get a book signed. Attend writing panels including a critique where I got GREAT feedback. Played in two AWESOME 40K LARPS where I wore fun costumes-and so ( Read more... )

Our trip to New York city has been incredibly fun. One of the best vacations ever ( Read more... )

We got in late last night. Thanks to Ambien I got a decent amount of sleep ( Read more... )

I'm playing with my new birthday present right now. I dictated this using the text-to-speech software that my parents got me. It's pretty cool. I'm leaving any errors that it makes in the text, but so far so good. It was much more entertaining the first few hours that I got it. I really can see learning. Now it's time to see how it does with 40 K ( Read more... )

guhhg... The worst part of PRK (eye surgery) was not the weekend of incoherent pain or the fact my vision is still so blurry I can't even toddle around on the net effectively... No. The worst part of this is the new eye drops I started taking at the 4 day mark. They don't hurt- but after about 5 minutes they drip down my sinuses and into the back ( Read more... )

Nice words from my editor, NDA_violating parts removed:

Having read over all your [assignment], I just want to say: well done!

This is a set of [entries] that are fantastically cool, evocative of the setting, and creatively different than a lot of stuff we've seen before.

I don't really expect many of my friends and family will want to buy a $200 collector's edition of a book where I only wrote one chapter, but it is nice to look at. Check it out:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1567