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Congrats! I look forward to reading it!
Commented Feb 11, 2011 on HUNTER is here. at WWdN: In Exile
HUNTER is here.
Hunter is a short Sci-Fi story set in a dark and desperate world. It is just about 2500 words, which is about the length of a story you'd read in a magazine. I'm not really sure what the appropriate cost is, so I'm experimenting with the Pay What You Want model that seems to be working really we...
This is the kind of weird dialog that is great to work into a fiction story. So many fiction stories are dry and about the plot with few details of esoteric character development.
And now I'm pondering how to adapt this conversation to be contextually relevant to the story I'm writing... heh heh.
Commented Feb 9, 2011 on in which Highlights for Children is discussed at great length at WWdN: In Exile
in which Highlights for Children is discussed at great length
Last night, on the way home from dinner, I asked Anne, "Do you remember Highlights for Children?" "Of course I do," she said, "I remember how I hated going to the doctor when I was a kid, until I started reading Highlights in the waiting room." "Turn right at this intersection," I said, "and Tra...
Idea Morgue. Nice. So when something is used out of the morgue does it become a Creative Autopsy?
Commented Feb 3, 2011 on "Storage of corpses is important." at WWdN: In Exile
"Storage of corpses is important."
Warren wrote about having to kill a story: The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much weight you put behind it and how much you tart it up,sometimes a story just doesn’t bloody work, and you have to take it behind the stables and shoot it through the head. No...
Nice. The concept sounds pretty neat. I know I'll be looking for the full version!
Commented Feb 2, 2011 on Did I dream you dreamed about me? at WWdN: In Exile
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Earlier this week, I was talking with my friend Amy Berg, who is one hell of a writer (she's an Executive Producer on Eureka, and created Cha0s when she wrote for Leverage). Amy's been encouraging me to write fiction for years, even when I regularly responded with statements like "I can't" or "I...
I'm in pain. This is hysterical. Every group of pnp gamers eventually needs to have a free-form game like this.
I once played a Narcoleptic Cynical Sleeping bag as I was dozing off while gaming ensued. I was told later I woke up just in time to affect an Epic Smother after being worn as a loin-cloth by the group's Meatshield Giant Ape (think Grape Ape...).
Go Team Cannon Fodder!!!
Commented Jan 31, 2011 on In which we play Cal & D. at WWdN: In Exile
In which we play Cal & D.
Saturday morning, I drove over to my friend Cal's house for D&D. Our friend Steve was already there, and our friend Martin was on his way to meet us. While we waited for Martin to show up, we caught up on our lives, told stupid (and not-so-stupid) jokes, and got ready for the game. "Hey, I broug...
I remember feeling like a dream had ended. The books that I had read with creative artwork showing our lives among the stars -- living in space stations, moon colonies, mars colonies, and beyond. It hurt then because I had no realization of how the world worked as I watched from the understanding of a pre-adolescent.
It still upsets me today to see the image and footage reused. But, even knowing more about how the world works, I keep hoping the dream isn't gone.
Commented Jan 29, 2011 on from the vault: some of us are looking at stars at WWdN: In Exile
from the vault: some of us are looking at stars
This was originally written in May of last year, just after I watched the space shuttle Atlantis blast off into orbit. On the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, I thought it was worth reprinting: On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I di...
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