Category: GENERAL

Digimon Live Concert (Encore Performance)

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My son is a huge fan of the Japanese anime series Digimon—like, big enough of a fan that when I said, “It’s kind of like Pokémon, right?”I got an earful about how no, it’s not at all like Pokémon. This is unusual for a kid his age: none of his friends are into Digimon at all, and, as I discovered for myself last weekend, most of Korea’s Digimon fandom is much older than him.  The event that established this fact for me was a concert I took our son to: As you can guess from the poster, it was a performance …

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Isle of Joy Nominated for an Ennie

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So, a few days ago Ahimsa Kerp (of Knight Owl Publishing) let me know that my RPG book Isle of Joy has been nominated for an Ennie Award in the Best Adventure—Long Form category. (Ahimsa and Wind Lothamer were the book’s wonderful publishers.) It’s very flattering and exciting, and our book is in good company with a lot of really spectacular stuff on the awards nomination list!  Anyway, if you’re interested in voting, this is the place to do it!  Oh, and Knight Owl is in the running for Best Publisher, by the way. They deserve a vote too! 

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Versifying, Reading, Editing, Reviewing, and More

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So, I’m not going to say much about this project—I’m trying to keep it under wraps until it’s done—but I for the purposes of accountability I wanted to mention that I’ve kept up with my commitment to draft one new poem every day. “Draft” is the operative word: often, I warm up by editing the work of the day before, tightening up the rhythms and polishing the wording, before drafting a new poem. I’m quite sure the manuscript will need some overall editing once I have drafted the full cycle of poems that will be in this collection, but for …

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Getting Back on Track, I Hope

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It’s no secret that for the past few years, I’ve been in a fallow period when it comes to my fiction writing. Hell, reading too, though I feel like I’m finally turning a corner with that. But the writing, well… I haven’t really turned that corner, and it’s pretty frustrating to me. In the past, I found that when I struggled to write something new, I could always remain productive by revising older work, but I’ve found that isn’t working for me at the moment.  It’s not that I’ve written nothing:

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