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Had lunch with Greg today. It wasn't business. He gave me a book from RQ-Con 2 which Eric had abandoned when he moved to New Zealand, but that was mainly an excuse to get together. It's nice to have Greg back from Mexico, and living in Berkeley. Despite the trials and tribulations I enjoyed the two years I worked at Chaosium and it's good to have a window back to that time and a remaining friend from it.
He had many funny stories of his trip down to Guatemala this January and things overall seem to be going well for him.
Not related, except thematically, I've finally been getting into my Aldryami article for the upcoming World of Glorantha book. After a month of writer's block on just about everything I started putting down the words about a week and a half ago. I now have about 2500 words out of a 3000-5000 total. (I'll go up to that 5000 limit, possibly plus "no more than 10% over".)
The article is an overview of the Elf Woods in Glorantha. In some ways it's a pretty uncomfortable fit because I'm trying to talk about a dozen forests and at least three major racial points of view (green, brown, and yellow) in a single unified piece. I'm coming up with some compromises on how to do so, but I'm guessing they're not going to be the same compromises made in the Troll and Dwarf pieces.
I just hope they have a good editor who makes everything match up so that the book looks like a good coherent whole. (Though I'm concerned that didn't happen for these racial PoVs beforehand.)
In any case, my article is due on the 31st. I'm currently hoping to have it done by the end of this coming weekend, but we'll see.
I do have other writing projects floating around, as usual.
I'm something like five weeks ahead on Gone Gaming. I've got two more Carcassonne articles written, though I need to do another hour or work on a chart for the last. I've got a two-part article on my Essen picks finished, minus a bit on Siena (which I hope to play this Thursday, though we'll see if I have enough players). I have an article which I just knocked out this weekend on the Italian design scene, which I'm been wanting to write for a while before this week's game of Il Principe finally push me over.
It looks like I'll finally be able to publish those two TT&T reputation articles that I wrote in January soon, but in the meantime I'm probably going to write about the DMCA for this Thursday, as part of my series on games & the law.
After I finish the World of Glorantha article, my next priority will be my first Knucklebones article, which is on Bruno Faidutti. And I should get back to my new outline of the full elf book as well.
He had many funny stories of his trip down to Guatemala this January and things overall seem to be going well for him.
Not related, except thematically, I've finally been getting into my Aldryami article for the upcoming World of Glorantha book. After a month of writer's block on just about everything I started putting down the words about a week and a half ago. I now have about 2500 words out of a 3000-5000 total. (I'll go up to that 5000 limit, possibly plus "no more than 10% over".)
The article is an overview of the Elf Woods in Glorantha. In some ways it's a pretty uncomfortable fit because I'm trying to talk about a dozen forests and at least three major racial points of view (green, brown, and yellow) in a single unified piece. I'm coming up with some compromises on how to do so, but I'm guessing they're not going to be the same compromises made in the Troll and Dwarf pieces.
I just hope they have a good editor who makes everything match up so that the book looks like a good coherent whole. (Though I'm concerned that didn't happen for these racial PoVs beforehand.)
In any case, my article is due on the 31st. I'm currently hoping to have it done by the end of this coming weekend, but we'll see.
I do have other writing projects floating around, as usual.
I'm something like five weeks ahead on Gone Gaming. I've got two more Carcassonne articles written, though I need to do another hour or work on a chart for the last. I've got a two-part article on my Essen picks finished, minus a bit on Siena (which I hope to play this Thursday, though we'll see if I have enough players). I have an article which I just knocked out this weekend on the Italian design scene, which I'm been wanting to write for a while before this week's game of Il Principe finally push me over.
It looks like I'll finally be able to publish those two TT&T reputation articles that I wrote in January soon, but in the meantime I'm probably going to write about the DMCA for this Thursday, as part of my series on games & the law.
After I finish the World of Glorantha article, my next priority will be my first Knucklebones article, which is on Bruno Faidutti. And I should get back to my new outline of the full elf book as well.