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The Poison Eater: Double Fisting Your Writing
I can’t remember if I told you this already, but in addition to The Poison Eater, I’ve been working on the sourcebook for the upcoming Torment: Tides of Numenera computer game. (As well as thinking...
View ArticleThe Poison Eater: Singing Cities and Angry Robots
Enthait is a city that sings. No. Singing isn’t the right word. The city’s sound isn’t one of mouth or lungs, throat or tongue. It is stormvoice–thunder crack and cloud breath and rain pattering on a...
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Predation 01: An Overview
I’m working on a new game setting for the Cypher System, called Predation. It’s in what I call the “shower idea” stage of creation, that weird brainplace where you just suddenly have the most...
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Predation 02: We are all the butterfly
[If you haven’t already read the Predation Overview, you might start here.] #weareallthebutterfly GROUPS IN PREDATION There are a number of groups and organizations in Predation. Some work together....
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Predation 03: Play the Dinosaur (and other Foci)
[If you haven’t already read the Predation Overview, you might start here. There’s also a bit about the groups in Predation here.] Sketch of the Plays God focus by John Petersen I’ve been playing...
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The Poison Eater: Picking Your Novel Back Up After You Put it Down
Even those of us who write full-time sometimes have to put projects aside for long periods of time. Recently, I had to put my novel, The Poison Eater aside in order to finish up another book I was...
View ArticleThe Poison Eater: the Final Push Toward the First Draft
This is my writing process. Do not try this at home kids. It sucks. Sit down. Forgot coffee. Oh, a cookie. Sit down. No, not here. Other room. Move everything. Decide it’s cold. Get sweatshirt. Sit...
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Excerpt from Wrecked (Working Title)
The draft of The Poison Eater is complete, and is currently in the hands of my editor and publisher, who will come back to me and tell me all the things that I need to do to make it great. In the...
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Bullet Journaling for Writers
I’ve been planning to do a blog post on bullet journaling for almost a year now…and it just keeps slipping out of my grasp. Which means that my task labeled BJ post (yes, I laugh every time I see it...
View ArticleTaking My Heart Back
At the end of 2017, I essentially decided to say goodbye to social media. It was a sad moment, for so many reasons. The largest of which is you — yes, if you’re reading this, you’re likely one of the...
View ArticleWhat Now? When You “Fail” Your Goals.
Did you make a resolution for 2018? Set a goal? Plan a dream? Maybe all of those things? Me too. And I’ve already botched them. And you know what? That’s okay. Because I know I’ll reach them anyway....
View Article15. Callooh! Callay! I am the wilderness
As I was writing this week’s Callooh! Callay! someone in my writer’s group said, “It’s a very Monday Monday,” and I thought, “Yes, yes it is.” So on this very Monday Monday, here are some of my...
View Article16. Callooh! Callay! Saving What We Love
Yesterday I noticed that the bulbs I planted in the fall are starting to push their tiny green heads up through the mud, and if there is a better analogy for the future me’s reward for past me doing...
View ArticleMark My Words: (Belated) January Edition
For at least five years now, I’ve tried to keep track of my yearly word count, and I’ve always failed. Partly because I work on so many different projects that it’s a monster of a job just to try and...
View ArticleAnd What of Your Heart?
Last year, in all of 2018, I finished one short story. One. (Granted, I wrote a lot of words on other things. Game design, mostly, because that’s my day job, and because deadlines (especially...
View ArticleGen Con 2019 Schedule
Are you going to Gen Con this year? If so, please come by and see me and say hello! I’m one of the gaming guests of honor this year (along with Monte Cook) and am also participating in the Writer’s...
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