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I’m going to duck away again and hope nobody saw that downtime.  If you did, then please rest assured that our hosts have taken care of the issue and there should […]

From time to time I post something that someone somewhere finds controversial. Most of the time the comments that result are respectful and usually interesting.

Then there are the trolls.

They can be […]

By the time you read this, NaNoWriMo will be underway and I’ll be hidden away writing as hard and fast as I can on one of the three or four good ideas I have for this year. I hope I will have made up my […]

I am not the least bit organised. I wish I were but I am not.

Part of that is dyspraxia. Part is dyslexia. Some is the pain I live with. It is still my fault – or at least I am the only one that can do […]

Today marks the start of NaNoWriMo and 30 days of writing as hard as possible in order to say, “I wrote 50,000 words this year (in just 30 days)”.

Other than trying to get to a few write-ins, and writing a […]

Sometimes you just want to mess with your players. Perhaps because they have become complacent or maybe they have forgotten that you, the GM, are all powerful. Maybe you are just an evil maniacal GM. Either way, […]

Going through my drafts has made me realise just how many projects I have started but not finished. This post, as much as nag at myself as any real content, is my attempt to list some of them.

Plot-lines the […]

So you have decided that NaNoWriMo is the perfect time to write that novel you have been wanting to write. Now “all” you have to do is write it.

Here are ten tips to get a novel written in 30 days. (Yes it is […]

Every year millions of people challenge themselves to write a novel in a month and then actually do it – the even is called NaNoWriMo. 

What is NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is a charity that raises over a million […]

This is a summary of terms used in the S3 RPG system. 
Challenge Level (CL)
The overall challenge of a task. The higher the CL, the more skill that is needed to attempt the task. CL denotes the number of […]

I have been having fun imagining my setting as an affectionate parody of “Magic: The Gathering” realised as “Mad Science: The Get-together”.

As combat card games go it would have a large army of creatures that […]

I have such a bad habit of writing posts but then I do not publish my posts. It might have seemed like this blog went dark and I stopped writing. What actually happened was I sucked at feeling ready to […]

Back in September, I hit the grand old age of 42. So, of course, I had to have a Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy birthday party.

As a set piece for the table I decided to make Frankie and Benjy mouse in a  t […]

Self-published novelist Lee Russell is looking to set up a writer’s circle of no more than 6 of Thanet’s writers.

Lee recently posted in the Thanet Creative: Writers group on Facebook in the hopes of finding […]

One of the oft-repeated truisms that I heard growing up was that asking questions was a sign of intelligence. Usually, this was uttered by the same sort of teachers that would say “there is no such thing as a […]

I would like to blame writer’s block for my lack of productivity. It would be so easy. That is not the case though.

Mostly, I think I’ve just been distracted.

What am I distracted by?

Some of the things […]

Getting started as a writer can often be the most intimidating part of the whole writing process. However, getting started need not be too much of a big deal. In this post, I hope to show you that the most […]