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Where Mystery Dwells

Where Mystery Dwells is a procedurally generated catacomb crawl through a flickering, candle-lit world of stone and skulls beneath a very slightly fantastical industrial city, where...

Urban/Modern/Fantasy

Urban/Modern/Fantasy is a toolkit for running modern adventures using the rules laid out in Dungeon World. It’s a framework for running many different modern stories without...

Calypso

Calypso is a narrative solo ttrpg system, powered by the apocalypse, built on the original version and blended with new techniques developed over several years of...

How I Write a Lot

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filed under writing on 24 Dec 2024
tagged writing and craft

So… up front, this may not work for you. I am as prolific as I am for a lot of reasons, some of them very personal. Years of practice at producing passable text on demand (play by post), for example. And I find it more enjoyable to write forward (and the other phases of writing) than do almost anything else.

I’d been compiling notes on my working process and what motivates me for a month...

Obsidian Workflow for Writing

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filed under writing on 23 Dec 2024
tagged writing and obsidian

I’ve been writing on my iPad for several months, using a cheap bluetooth keyboard (Arteck, $15). I use the folding case that sticks out in front as a sort of lap table, and write wherever I am, or in the car. I work out of an Obsidian vault I store locally on my iPad.

I have a low profile mechanical keyboard (a havok reddragon) I love, works great, but it’s easier on my wrists to...

Nov Novel Month Recap

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filed under writing on 22 Dec 2024
tagged writing, tasto, nanowrimo, and alpha & omega

I wasn’t going to do a November novel writing challenge after NaNoWriMo imploded, but after joining the lovely Tavern At the Edge of the World writing discord and finding the Tasto challenge, I just had to participate, even though I had two projects going already.

I spent October writing on those existing projects, and preparing for my Nov project. My prep was more extensive than the first two projects, with some fun community character and...