New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available over at DriveThru RPG.
My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.
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I suppose that depends on why you’re blogging.
Yes, true. I’m moving away from posting essay-length discussions of things here, and towards saving my energy either for writing them for real (for submission somewhere, or inclusion in a longer work of nonfiction), or saving my energy for fiction-writing.
I get the vague feeling that blogging is a bit like TV for writers: you can write about anything, and topic-surf, without necessarily getting too deep into anything. I’m not sure it’s a habit I want to cultivate. So, anyway… yeah.
Certainly my blog isn’t where I should be publishing things I want read by many people, in any case…
I don’t think a really thoughtful blogger and writer goes without addressing this question at least once. What DOES blogging contribute, or take away, from the art of writing?
Or perhaps more to the point, your art of writing.
If I ever decided to use a domain named after me, I don’t know if I’d blog. I like the Tom Perrotta model (in which there is no blogging whatsoever), but I’ve also enjoyed the John August model (all blogging, with some extra stuff thrown in). I’m not a fan of the David James Duncan model, in which there is nothing at all.
For now, I like my model. I have different reasons for blogging, depending on where I’m doing it. It’s easy for me to pick it up or drop it. Sometimes I need it, and sometimes I don’t.
Your pre-Clarion and post-Clarion blogging differs. I miss the pre-Clarion blogging, but you’ve clearly already diverted your energies elsewhere, and that appears to have been a good thing.
And I shall have to keep thinking, as I am not yet sure what I have to say in response to that question.