The post about Call of Cthulhu got me looking through all my old gaming material and I decided to run a contest. I have a lot of books packed away that seldom see the light of day, and thought giving them away was easier than putting them for sale on E-Bay for a couple of [...]
Call it the Game that Wouldn’t die. Like most young geeks I was playing D&D at a relatively young age. We had a blast getting about six or seven of us together and throwing us up against huge monsters for even huge hoards. But even then I was left wanting more. We played the typical [...]
I’ve had a couple of articles touting Open Office. I’m just convinced that this free program is every bit as good, if not better than Office. However, know it’s gotten even better. Check out the Writer’s Tools extension pack. This new toolbar option allows the writer to check Google and translate passages on the fly, [...]
I thought I posted this in July when I started this blog, but I can’t find it now. This video was the direct inspiration for Byzantine Roads. I had just discovered Scalzi’s Whatever and was really impressed with both his wit and insight into modern business of writing. During his write-in campaign for SFWA president, [...]
Every year about this time I begin to think of two things: NaNowriMo and Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, and the website and community serve to be a swift kick in the pants to all aspiring novelists. I participate as part of a lark, but don’t really agree with their basic [...]
