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I use a fair amount of music in my writing, most prominently with the character of Erich Zann in Yggdrasilium. I'm not sure if what I did worked a hundred percent or not, I just tried my best to capture the atmosphere and the effects it has on its player—this is special, darkly magical spooky...

Met some beautiful new people to party with, and reckon at least one of them is a new friend I've made. It's a bit of an altered state this evening, just very fine vibes. Shame to be wasting them! But at the very moment I felt that it's just perfect. God, I wish I could tell you all about it :)

Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, passed away at 54.

That really depends. My character creation process is very organic, it's only in a few rare cases that I develop them before they pop into the story. On first appearance they tend to be relatively flat and generic, but get more defined over consecutive drafts. I don't keep character sheets or...

It's great, yeah, and I'll be sure to find a home for it in my writing. Thanks for sharing that. The other day I looked up the definition of a word I've been hearing around lately: Galumph: to move clumsily or heavily. I'm already a fan. My characters will be doing a fair bit of galumphing...

"Don't prolong the past. Don't invite the future. Just be here now." - Bhagavan Das (paraphrased?)

And cats. We don't deserve them either. The difference is cats know that, and use it to justify their criminal conduct.

This evening I was feeling somewhat sullen when walking back from the store (weeks of being sick, months of gloomy and unpleasant weather, and various stuff, all adding up to a kind of ambient distemper). Then I see this big, beautiful puppy coming towards me with a loooooooong stick in his...

For me, the short answer would be a resounding everything. Lots of different stuff, anyways. Just life, taken as a whole. There was no sudden flip of a switch, in my case. I was pretty young when the process got started. As a kid I would be constantly doodling during class (which got me into...

I'm just about to get started on that! Really looking forward to it. Been needing some more Westeros in my life. I recently watched How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, which I've been waiting for for ages. Very fun and pretty weird show. Hope they make more of it.

I don't think it's weird. That's been the case for me throughout much of my life, especially the early bits. I'm a pretty damn social person, when in the right mood. I love the occasional party, cherish deep conversation, enjoy quality time, all of that. I adore meeting new and interesting...

This is an interesting topic. I'm wildly inconsistent in my ability to visually imagine stuff. When doing the apple test I hovered around 5, managed to bring myself up to a 4 for short periods of time if I strained a bit. I suspect that's because an apple isn't something I find remotely...

Both excellent, wonderful games, a couple of the best gaming experiences I've had in years. Split Fiction is worth playing just for the wackadoodle storytelling gymnastics it pulls off. It's a game very much about story, about writing, and I think it can be a great bit of inspiration for anyone...

I get an immediate impression of a face, but usually not an actual image. The latter can happen if the description is detailed and distinctive enough to be interesting, and the character compelling enough to want to render in high resolution. Mostly I have a roster of internal "actors" that I...

What makes me happy is the huge amount of loving people I have in my life, for no apparent reason. I could do a much better job of receiving that love, on the whole, but I really do appreciate that it's there.