Box 14 – Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
This box is another chosen to expand my reading horizons. This is the first Terry Pratchett novel that I’ve read. I knew going in that I would like his style. The worry now is how I’m going to offer a...
View ArticleBox 15 – Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana
Today our box is Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana. Kay is hailed for possessing a beautiful literary style and creating worlds that charm with the specificity of the culture and period which inspired them. If...
View ArticleBox 16: A Special Post on Writing Critiques
My writer’s group recently moved to the “critique” phase, so to speak, and when we did I started talking about ground rules for writing critiques. My dear writerly friends suggested I write a post...
View ArticleBox 17 – Blake Charlton’s Spellwright
So, today we dive into the lovely and fantastical box which is Blake Charlton’s Spellwright. The novel sports an innovative magic system, beautiful writing and puns for those who don’t normally pun....
View ArticleBox 18: Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora
Rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch was a pleasure. This is a book I’ve been recommending whole-heartedly, but I’d forgotten exactly how good it was until I sat down for a reread. So, I’m...
View ArticleMini Box 01: Villainous Purpose
Yay! A new feature! I’m going to pull from previous posts and turn some of the lessons into writing exercises. Sounds like fun, yes? Oh good. This first one is inspired by King Haggard of The Last...
View ArticleBox 19 – David Anthony Durham’s The Other Lands
Today we return to the War with the Mein in The Other Lands, and the beautiful writing of David Anthony Durham. The royal Akaran children have grown into the leaders of the Known World and face the...
View ArticleOutside the Boxes
I’m a bit snowed in at the moment (thanks to the Northeast Ohio weather gods for that) and I’ve been pondering what this blog should be. And I have no idea. Yeah, really, no idea. But I did have a few...
View ArticleA Woman Sat, Singing
Currently travelling – first stop was Bali. I’m trying to do little writing exercises as I go. Also, blogging about the travelling parts here. Enjoy! As I walked down an unfamiliar beach, I came to...
View ArticleI Live In the Sky Today
Another story fragment thingy. Popped into my head in Singapore. Thanks Marina Bay Sands. We are on to Malaysia now, working on a new draft of Smarasmarya. Yay editting. As we rose into the sky, I...
View ArticleSpilling Your Guts or NaNoWriMo 2014
We’re almost a week into NaNo, and every year I cajole and threaten and bribe new people into trying this mad dash of insane writing with me. Each year I pick up new companions on the road to 50,000...
View ArticleQGCon 2014
I got to go to the Queerness and Games Conference again this year. The conference ran from Oct. 25 to 26 and it was a damn fine experience. It’s hard to talk about a conference — it’s an amorphous...
View ArticleWord Binging
Oh process. Dear writing process. You illusive monster. I’m working on finding my process. It’s complicated by the other claims on my time. And by my trying to learn lots of different types of writing...
View ArticleGame Box 01: Dead of Winter
Board games, board games, board games! When I say I play board games I get asked what I play, and since it isn’t Monopoly, the explanations can take up some time. One of the games getting heavy...
View ArticleGame Box 02: Castle Panic
Castle Panic (by Fireside Games) is probably the game I end up recommending the most, because it’s a good game for just about everyone. The mechanics are simple enough for a seven year old and the game...
View ArticleGame Box 03: Tabletop Day 2015
Last weekend was International Tabletop Day! Huzzah! We went out and about and found our way to the Malted Meeple — a board game pub — and Underhill Games — our friendly neighborhood game store — for a...
View ArticleProject Box 01: Crossed Roads, First Draft
A modular story is one that can be experienced in any order. Generally you’ll have a beginning point and an ending point (maybe several ending points), with a series of ‘adventures’ that can happen in...
View ArticleRandom Box 01: Silicon Valley and Cinderella
sort of… My sister and I binged the first season of Silicon Valley over 4th of July weekend. I’m a fan, even if Erlich drives me nuts. Last night I had a dream that Jared (the one who knows what a...
View ArticleMovie Box 01: Ant-Man
Saw Ant-Man last night. Here are some loosely organized thoughts. The Short Version: More solid Marvel fun. The great cast saves the moments that touch on cliche, and the absurdism creates fabulous...
View ArticleProject Box 02: The Amiable Critique
So I joined Gumroad‘s Small Product Lab on a lark. It sounded like a cool challenge: make and launch a product in 10 days. Of course, I didn’t notice that most of those 10 days I would be on vacation...
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