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A few new Gloranthan articles that I wrote late last year have already been published.

Hearts in Glorantha #2 contains my "ElfPak Designer Notes", which is my look back at how my elf writings came to be, as well as a listing of those elf articles, which was comprehensive at the time it was written, but already doesn't include my article in ...

Signs & Portents #63, which contains "Plunder of the Elfs", the first of several very crunchy articles articles that I've written for Mongoose's RQ4. I'd guess the next will be in S&P #65; it's "RuneQuest Elf Monsters" and is a very comprehensive bestiary of what you might meet in elf lands.

(I think I'm going to be doing some duck & dwarf plunder articles next, and plan to read those Mongoose books while on airplanes over the next couple of weeks.)

I saw that the new issue of Tradetalk magazine (#16) has been printed. This makes me happy, as I wrote the article for it so long ago that I no longer really remember it. It was while I was working on the elf books--February, 2007 according to my Gmail. When the mag arrives in my mailbox, it'll thus be all new to me.

This has got me off my butt about working on my next article, on The Vale of Flowers, which is either for #17 or #18. I'd been working on it earlier in October, but then I hit a roadblock when I discovered a source (The Book of Drastic Resolutions: Darkness) that contradicted some of what I'd written. Always a problem when you're writing for a game with scores of references available.

Anyway, I got back on the horse tonight and started revising my work per this last source. Once I can get all that done, including some additions, I should be in the home stretch.

This is going to be the longest Gloranthan thing I've written for a magazine. It's about 8000 words now, and will surely be 10000 by the time I'm done.

I sent off a new gaming article tonight, the first such "extra" thing I've had the energy to write since I got sick*. It's a set of "ElfPak Designer Notes" for the second issue of a new Glorantha fanzine called Hearts in Glorantha**.

This one took a bit more revision than usual. I had to stop a few times to take out some of my personal reminiscences and replace them with a more factual description of the concepts that went into the two elf books. But, I'm pleased with the results. It's also got a bibliography of all the elf stuff I've written; in the process of writing it, I found a few things that had never been published!

Next up I need to figure out something to write for Board Game News on Thursday and then I can get back to the "Vale of Flowers" article for Tradetalk that I was writing before I got sick.

* Still sick. Whether I relapsed from exercising too much yesterday or whether it was just a bad day in this on-again, off-again sickness, I dunno, but I was mussy-headed again today and a little headachy. This drives me crazy.

** Ironically, I still haven't seen the first issue. I'm waiting to have the free cash to order an actual hard copy from Lulu.

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