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That Dungeony Feeling
This is a description of a game that doesn't exist, but which I've been playing in my head for a few years. It's not exactly D&D. More exactly it's an aesthetic that D&D in some some incarnations can provide, but which D&D does not guarantee, and which later editions have veered away from; an aesthetic that can be triggered by certain props (maps ( Read more... ) -
Poomf!
Gnu Poomf pics ( Read more... ) -
Figgymeme!
Gaked from: http://figgylicious.livejournal.com/457998.html
Under duress!
1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with the picture.
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Chessboard
Woo. I finished my summer project with Pagdad. Here are some pics:
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The Hero With A Thousand Faces
I just finished reading this book by Joseph Campbell. Overall it is sort of like going on an acid-fueled spirit journey. I guess now I'll never need to experiment with drugs. However it does contain intermittent fits of lucidity that represent interesting and useful structural analysis ( Read more... ) -
ARGH
Well, I guess this is my new writing blog, since the guys over at Greatest Journal are a wad of phracking IDIOT MORON SCUM. Time to make some changes. -
Gemma - II
The back half of the eating hall had been curtained off into a kind of command tent. Vencel and Arrio were there conversing in low tones; they did not notice Gemma as she slipped through the slit in the whispering linen with her carefully balanced tray. The two men were hunched over the table, closely examining the long parchment that Arrio had ( Read more... ) -
Gemma - I
Gemma looked curiously around the Scriptor's archive. It had been two years since she had last visited it, but she still remembered its sunlit dustiness and leathery smell with pleasure. The Scriptor was ensconced on his stool, busily scribbling away with ink-stained fingers, the tools of his craft spread out on the benches around him ( Read more... ) -
Writing Fiction
Introduction
They say that if you're a writer you shouldn't listen to tips from people who aren't out there making a living from their work. This is good advice. I mention this in the interest of fair warning, since I turned away from being a professional novelist a while back but still plan on saying a whole lot of stuff about how one writes ( Read more... ) -
Romantic Fiction
Romance in the sense of "romantic fiction" is a dramatic developing emotional relationship between two characters ( Read more... )