Gamelit 30 (Crossover)
The quest Boy Wonder and Mom had embarked on had been exactly the kind of thing Ray expected the new AI to generate for a lor...
2024-07-05 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Start of July News
After writing about 20,000 words in five days, the draft of Qora’s novel is done! First readers and continuity checkers, assemble (if you haven’t already!). Link at the end of this entry!
Bad News and Good News!
No serial today! I did not get to write it. That's the bad news.
The good news is that I've written 15,700 words of Qora in four days, and it looks like I'll finish the novel entirely this we...
2024-06-28 13:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostMusings About Paperbacks
I continue to work on my online shop… last week I finished uploading and hooking up all the paperbacks, making them available for purchase to US customers. (International frens, you are few but m...
2024-06-25 15:37:12 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 29 (connection)
Nick had been home two hours before he noticed Shellie’s text. It was hard to be angry at her for taking so long when he ha...
2024-06-21 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 28 (presence)
His father gave him a mock salute, and gratefully, Nick escaped.
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2024-06-14 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBack in Time Tuesday: Blue Willow
One of my favorite gouache paintings of a Le'enle (unicornish thing). From the early 2000s, I think. I just like the limited palette and the serenity of it, and I hope you do too!
2024-06-11 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 27 (intrusion)
Nick appreciated Mom changing the subject, though he knew that meant he hadn’t changed her mind and she didn’t want to ar...
2024-06-07 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostState of the Jaguar, June 2024
We have had the most beautiful year I can remember here in Florida… a mild spring leading into the least hu...
Gamelit 26 (verisimilitude)
“Mom, you’re finally awake!”
Amanda, shed...
2024-05-31 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostKickstarter Update - and Business Rambling
Update!
First things first: the void cat/kitten stick...
2024-05-27 16:42:52 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 25 (owner of a lonely heart)
“What is my purpose?” she asked.
&nb...
2024-05-24 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 24 (raison d'etre)
Ray stared at the email, Thai iced tea forgotten.
It had ne...
2024-05-16 22:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostWriting the Mouths of Prophecy
Rex had an interesting observation on an earlier post on Locals:
Earthrise feels like an interesting starting point to talk about prophecies. It was my first encounter with Li...
2024-05-15 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in Time Tuesday: I'm Gonna Lick Your Nose
For this month's back-in-time Tuesday, and because May has Mother's Day, here's a watercolor of a couple of Faulfenza, indulgent mom and mischievous child. This one's from 2005--I was seriously int...
2024-05-14 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnline Shop is live!
With special offers and discount codes! (I will say this is the only place you can get PDFs of my coloring books and pick up expired Kickstarter extras.)
Check out the details here: 2024-05-11 12:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Gamelit 23 (fun for the whole family)
Downstairs, Mom was setting the table. “Could you get the broccoli out of the freezer? It’s rotisserie chicken night.”
“I t...
2024-05-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWriting Guest Posts
I booked myself a virtual book tour for the 15th and the organizer asked me for at least 3 guest posts for the various blogs. I thought you all would be entertained by my first, though it's aimed (...
2024-05-07 14:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 22 (fish chowder)
The village hadn’t gotten less depressing over night, but seeing it under virtual sunlight filled Amanda with the same desi...
2024-05-03 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAncient Art: the Aera, from 1994
Why yes, thirty years ago...
2024-04-30 20:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit Novel 21 (at the crossroads)
Killz’s first PVP battle was a cinematographer’s dream, especially the way it happened. Everyone expected the leet MOBA p...
2024-04-26 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit 20 (a lament for missing persons)
Nick glanced at the bobbing light. “What?”
...
2024-04-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostKitty Kimono Kickstarter is Live!
Go pick up a sticker or magnet!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcahog...
2024-04-16 17:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tornado (4-15-24)
For a long time, I set my Balance Card deck aside, for reasons I can’t articulate… and that’s probably in keeping with the concept of decks, anyway. That they’re tools for dredging the subc...
2024-04-15 13:37:24 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit Novel, 19
Nick tore off the wireset and rubbed his face. He’d checked out early because he couldn’t see himself marching down to dinner withou...
2024-04-12 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBack in Time Tuesday: Ke Anadi
This color pencil piece is probably from around 2000 or so, and it's Dlane and Thenet from The Worth of a Shell, in the house in het Narel...! I worked hard on that warm brown gradient in the back,...
2024-04-09 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit Novel 18
By the time Mom logged in, Nick had found and looted six more bodies, including a [Petrified Harrier Heart]. He’d also picked up...
2024-04-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAIs as Creative Assistants: the Continuing Adventures of Cyborg Jaguar
My AI experiment continues, frens! The first few days, where I fed Claude financial and marketing information and use...
2024-04-01 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit Novel, 17
The drama ensuing from the massacre at Donner’s Beck was so intense Ray made popcorn and gave up on sleeping. If someone had mas...
2024-03-29 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGamelit Novel, 16
Crafting in a game was not more satisfying than crafting in the real world, but this was only minorly reassuring to Amanda because the materials she had to work with were so literally otherworldly ...
2024-03-22 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post