Internets down! Mayday! Replacement hardware in… Five days?!?! I’m getting withdrawl shakes already. Shakes fist at Qwest.
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Pondering a new writing project; sort of serial mini-fiction. Just need to figure out how to hack mt-twitter to handle two twitter feeds.
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Cupping a mug of coffee so hot that contact with the container cannot be maintained, but that’s OK, because my office is FREEZING.
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DnD game geekery over the weekend. 3 crits (of 5) on Dragon, with scalebane hammer: good. Totally dysfunctional player group: less good.
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At a publishing industry gathering. Not unlike a small rancher touring a packing plant. Unfair: it’s more like a livestock auction.
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Random Average: Dogs in the Vineyard: Watching the Watchmen: While digging through stuff in my ga.. Link
Friday, the coldest day of the week
(don’t worry: even if it snows, it’ll melt by tomorrow)
Reading: I’m done with The Book of Lies and haven’t picked up anything to replace it yet, so for now it’s just Wikipedia chain-browsing through articles on Tolkein lore… and some chicken-scratch notes written in pencil by DaveH about 3 months ago (pray for me).
Planning:
- Friday, investigating the online tool WotC provides for character creation in DnD 4.0, followed by maybe watching a zombie movie via On Demand in later afternoon.
- Saturday, the monthly DnD game, plus a trial visit from Scoopoodoo.
- Sunday, a morning of nothing, an afternoon Kaylee-playing, and an evening of wine
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Wearing: Jeans and my black tiki-god bowling shirt.
Writing: Notes for a Dogs in the Vineyard game (actually a premise for a game, which involves some fairly current-in-the-news themes, quite by accident) and scene ideas I’ll be adding to Hidden Things shortly.
How the Publishing Industry works (or… you know… doesn’t)
Kate’s been posting some interesting stuff about the way the publishing industry is, and how it’s possibly changing in the future. Today’s post is a chunk of Google Talk conversation that she and I had on the subject, about which I am more than a little opinionated — said opinions grown partly from my dealings with the industry, but mostly from simply watching what Kate and her peers have to go through simply to keep the whole bloody, broken mess working.
The post is here, and links to yesterday’s post as well. By all means, check it out, post your thoughts, and tell me if I’m a Big Stupidhead.