Writer, Dabbler In Things
As I’m having some sporadic issues uploading photos–and honestly it’s probably close to as fast for me to just type this up anyway–I’m trying a new approach with this list and writing it out here instead of posting a photo of my phone’s screen shot that takes a few steps to get onto here anyway. … Read more
I’ve written previously about the importance, as I’ve been reminding myself, of finishing creative projects I start. There are times that it’s easy. (Hello, handful of haiku about some inspiring or topical experiences.) And there are times when it just isn’t going to happen, at least not in that form not now. (Hello, first novel … Read more
I like coming across new words in the material I read. While it can get a bit tiring at times to have to look up, say, a few words a page (*clears throat loudly and looks pointedly at Lovecraft*), it’s always good to learn new things, and words are included. What I don’t like is … Read more
In Lord of the Fries, players are employees at a chain of zombie-operated fast food restaurants. One menu from a variety is selected for all players to play from, and players must use their dealt cards–a variety of simplified fast food components such as “Bun”, “Fries”, “Cow”, “Bird”, “Drink”, etc.–to piece together the food order … Read more
Rhino Hero is a fun, quick and unusual tabletop game, in that it stacks upward instead of spreading out on a table. Players are dealt cards that act as ceiling/roof dividers, and they take turns laying a card on top of upright “walls”, a communal stack of squares folded in the middle to allow you … Read more
The Adventurers Guild is one of those books where I’d expected one thing–not so much a judging a book by its cover, per se, but more like judging it by the genre (young reader’s fantasy… roger that)–but it turned out to be way more than I’d thought it would be. The story itself is solid.Everyone … Read more
I’ve written previously about the importance of finishing projects you start. It’s something I finally got around to committing to way too late in life, which led to decades of untold numbers of just-started or half-finished stories and scripts in my wake. But the flipside to that is the importance of knowing when a project … Read more
Ticket To Ride-First Journey is the junior variation of the popular Ticket To Ride game. As in the original, players must make various lengths of train route connections between cities across the U.S. and Canada in order to complete secretly drawn route goals. Coloured cards are collected from a communal draw pile, and when players … Read more
Based on the (excellent) Wild Kratts television show, Race Around The World pits players as some of the show’s characters racing each other through four types of environment. The show is based on real life animal enthusiast brothers Chris and Martin Kratt, and it spins from them somewhere around the world into a related but … Read more
I’ve done a number of contests through the NYC Midnight organization, including short stories and short scripts. Just over an hour ago (midnight NYC time, not coincidentally) we received the assignments for their latest contest: 100-word microfiction stories that are to be completed in twenty-four hours. What the NYC crew does is randomly places the … Read more