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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Like Boards in a Picket Fence

Somehow, I've survived another breakneck lap around the Sun.  If these laps get any faster, I'm going to get dizzy.

The second (third? second-and-a-bit?) draft of the next 'What Was Lost' book is still in an early form, but I've got some great feedback so far and I think it's going to be in good shape.  There are a thousand and one little corrections to make, as usual:  wrong words, or wrong paragraphs, or places where I edited a sentence and then somehow left both versions in the text, or places where a left out a detail and as a result a bit of dialogue made no sense.  It's all obvious, once someone takes the time to patiently point it out to me.  And then it's easily fixed.

While the super-early version of that book is being looked at, I'm already thinking ahead to the next one.  I've got two outlines I'm working on, apparently because I like to torment myself:  one is the next book in this series, and the other is a jump over to my lone fantasy book Summoned, which feels like it's crying out for a sequel.  I might do both at the same time, because there's no way that would be confusing at all.

In other news, I've gone from very little D&D to a whole lot.  As mentioned before, a friend of mine is getting set up on startplaying.games as a DM for hire, which is a new thing I've learned about.  I think it's a great idea.  He's got a couple games ready to go, I think, and there may be more in the works.  If a little D&D with a lunatic fun guy sounds like it's in your wheelhouse, check him out here:  clicky.

While poking around on that same site, I found a game to play as well, and we're now two sessions into a D&D 5th Edition adventure with us playing pirates morally-problematic seafarers.  In our first adventure, we were tasked to go sneak up on a rival ship full of pirates legitimate maritime capitalists and learn what they were up to.  That may have ended with us stealing their ship; I'm sure nothing bad will come of that.

This fun, in turn, led to me poking around with D&D Beyond, the browser-based virtual tabletop and game management system that is super neato.  And of course one thing leads to another and I'm going to run an adventure for some friends I've known for many many many years.  More on that later.

Also also, I think I'm getting involved in one or more actual-play podcasts, which should be fun.  More on that later, too.

But my first objective is to keep putting more words on paper.  Always more words!