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Freewrite Story

I provide this with minimal editing and no context. Enjoy. :P IT SQUEAKED FROM UNDER THE COUCH Charles Groves sat in the corner of his tiny studio, hunched over a thesis of which he had spent many months of his life composing. And then he heard it. A squeak. One of perhaps terror or surprise. [...]

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So to head off any misconceptions of WTF I meant in my post yesterday let me clarify a few things. I figure some of my points are pretty straightforward, so let me talk about the others. I hope we can legitimately play without map or minis. I said, “The last time this was actually legitimately [...]

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Back in late October I proposed the idea of using Magic: The Gathering as a conflict resolution system for a story game. I un-creatively called it Magic: the RPG. Consider it an alternative method of playing Magic. :) Anyway, all two of my readers both weighed in. Shadawyn asked me “So when are we going [...]

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Last night, Ann and I went down to the Moore Theater (our first time there) to enjoy An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. Seattle was the last stop on the tour for this variety show act, which mainly consisted of Gaiman reading and Palmer singing, but which occasionally combined or even reversed those [...]

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Note: This is just a thought experiment and not something I’ve actually tried. It’s basically just an excuse to tell a story and play a bunch of Magic at the same time. What could be better? ;) Adam Styborski’s Serious Fun column last Tuesday talked about several variant forms of Magic. All of them seem [...]

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Productive Weekend

Let’s see… on Saturday I only managed to write about 2,000 words. On Sunday, though… 7,000. I’d call that a fairly productive weekend, all things considered. :)

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My Kindle affords me the opportunity to read a great deal of Gothic horror now in the public domain. I’m currently reading Algernon Blackwood’s “The Damned,” which I suppose is more ghost story than Gothic horror, but anyway… I’d like to expand my reading: 1. Modern Gothic horror, ghost stories, haunted house stories, &c. I [...]

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