NaNoWriMo Thus Far: 43,000+ Words
I’ve had a really productive weekend and tonight I’ve been cranking out the word count like nobody’s business so that my NaNo is just shy of 43,500. Who knew sticking my two favorite characters in a...
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Unearthing Pasts to Give Them a Proper Burial
This post is about some of what made 2011 so goddamned terrible and the things that have happened just today, out of nowhere, to heal over some of that. In a lot of ways, 2011 was a big bag of suck....
View ArticleNew Year, New Game, New System, New Worries
On Sunday I wrapped up the last chapter of a short, four session chronicle of Vampire: the Masquerade using the new 20th Anniversary “V20” edition. It feels so good to run a game and have it finish....
View ArticleIt’s Getting Better; It Mostly Always Does
I spent a holiday party, last December, yelling myself hoarse when someone said they weren’t going to vote because there was “effectively no difference between Obama and Romney”. That kind of...
View ArticleFour Thoughts on One Amendment
Having given myself a couple of days to digest Tuesday’s results and my own feelings regarding them, I have a few thoughts on the passage of Amendment One. First, it was not at all a surprise. I gave...
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O’Keefed
The night of the election, May 8th, I went out to a local pub called the bar and met some friends and did some convivial mourning of the outcome of the vote on Amendment One. When we were done I stayed...
View ArticleWaffles: They’re What’s For Dinner
The short version is simply that I changed my mind. I spent the days between my last post and the subsequent meeting of the Board of Elections discussing this with friends and with election colleagues....
View ArticleWhat A Complicated Year
Heavens. I can’t believe I let this sit for 10 months. A quick run-down of the things that have happened since my last update: I won the 2012 Laine Cunningham Novel Award from The Blotter with my novel...
View ArticleQuarters & Ages & Silly Wistful Thoughts
It’s my birthday next week. I’ve been trying to think of what I want to do. I have an offer to go see a live performance in Raleigh and it would be fun but it isn’t something I thought of myself. I...
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