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Oct/2008
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Historical Fiction, the grind
I have been writing a short story about the Vandals in northern Africa circa 477 A.D. and one of the benefits for trying this obscure and somewhat overwhelming task gets at the point of trying anything creative to an audience that actually reads what you are writing.Let's look at the various parties having a part of the process. The editor, when he sent me messages about "Mass Exodus, ..err exodi," I thought he wanted "Historical" fiction, not remakes of When Worlds Collide PLUS (insert genre he... Read More
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23
Jul/2008
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The "Mentor" role... what'd I ever do?
For all my years of living with the self-inflicted curse of a love of writing, I have always liked the term "hack" when it came to myself. Don't ask me why, but I have gone out of my way to avoid "going literary" or become a "Man of Words." This is probably because of a serious lack of talent, but hey that never stopped me from doing anything. Infact, I spent many years studying the more accomplished critically-acclaimed "hacks" of history. Hey I was into Clark Ashton Smith before I knew who H.P... Read More
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13
Jun/2008
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Discovering 'Sandal Punk'
You know, you can never have too many punk sub-genres in the world. I mean for me, it just never gets old. And thanks to Cathal here at the Bomb, I have discovered a new genre to play in. You see my game system's fantasy settin, TAG's RuinCrawl, was always supposed to have an edge, and delve into the dark fantasy themes of say Clark Ashton Smith and Brian McNaughton, while deconstructing what has become FRPG. But beyond ample use of the word "grave-robber" in the play-test sessions, where I alwa... Read More
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09
Jun/2008
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I wish I could just take the summer off
It's been a heck of week. Finally got some time off of all the mandatory overtime that seems to roll about every summer. But I have been busy with my "CEU's," which basically stands for "Classes you have to take or we will make you mop floors. " Which sometimes would be as satisfying a job as my own, at times, though I really want to drive one of the electric trains popping up in metroplex's public transportations systems before then. But I have been able to work on some RPG bits, at the same ti... Read More
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