Archive

2020

Jun 28Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll, Part 2 (The Lost Draft)
Jun 06Migration from Wordpress to Jekyll, Part X
Apr 26Migration from Wordpress to Jekyll, Part 1
Feb 23Migrating My Website from Wordpress to Jekyll
Feb 21Misconceptions about Plate Armor
Jan 17Why English has Both C and K
Jan 11Remembering Neil Peart

2018

Sep 17Primalcraft: A Breakup
Jul 07Pure Copper d20 from Norse Foundry
Jul 02Primalcraft: New Survival Foods
Apr 03Realistic World Gen Mods for Minecraft
Feb 04Primalcraft: A Time for Every Season
Jan 14Primalcraft: Switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA
Jan 13Primalcraft: Stone Age Spears

2017

Oct 11Primalcraft: Hardcore Darkness
Oct 10Primalcraft: Throwing Rocks
Oct 09Primalcraft: Movement Speed
Oct 07Primalcraft: Moving Through Leaves
Sep 14Primalcraft: Basic Knapping Is Done
Aug 29What I'm Listening To: Nightwish (Again)
Aug 29Primalcraft: Making Knapping Interesting
Aug 25Primalcraft: Flint Knapping
Aug 21Primalcraft: Thirst, Twigs, Branches, and Stone Scrapers
Aug 15Primalcraft: Updating the mod to a new version of Minecraft
Aug 12Primalcraft: Making wolves terrifying - ironing out the bugs
Aug 11Primalcraft: Current Features
Aug 09My Minecraft Mod: Primalcraft
Aug 03Personal update

2014

Jan 11What I'm Listening To: Nightwish, Kamelot, We Are the Fallen

2013

Aug 19What I'm Listening To: To-Mera, TesseracT, and Means End
Aug 08Images that Tell a Story
May 15Why *Show, Don't Tell* Is Impossible in Fiction
Apr 26In Defense of Adverbs
Mar 25Roleplaying Games (RPGs) for Kids
Mar 02Traditional versus Modern Steel Katanas
Feb 28Wheel of Time Cover Art for the US Hardback Editions
Feb 28Wheel of Time Book Covers in Dutch
Feb 26RPG Combat: Damage
Feb 21Speed Archery Techniques, Part 4
Feb 02Mobility in Medieval Plate Armor
Feb 01RPG Combat Ideas
Jan 11Roleplaying for Kids: The Example of Dan Wells

2012

Nov 20Fast Archery Techniques, Part 3: The Crossbow
Nov 12A Political Post on the Trustworthiness of White House Petitions
Oct 30Can Robots Write Poetry? Or Fiction?
Oct 11People of the Bookshelf
Aug 29Can Arrows Penetrate Medieval Armor?
Aug 15Automatic Voicemail Transcription Madness
Jul 27War of the Arrows
Jul 18Studying the German Longsword Techniques at True Edge Academy
Jul 06A Red Thing by Joe Zieja
Jul 02Cover for Witch Born by Amber Argyle
Jun 19Archery: Speed Shooting Techniques, Part 2
Jun 06Fixing WordPress's Automatic Updates
May 30Welcome to Your Future Digital Life
May 23The Inevitable Metablogging Post
May 16Michael Komarck: My Favorite Fantasy Artist
May 11The Epic Fantasy Avengers Lineup
May 08The Business Rusch and Shady Publishers
May 06_Another Thing Coming_ vs. _Another Think Coming_
May 03Working on the Novel Outline
Apr 25Brandon Sanderson's College Writing Course
Apr 17What Do Rush and Kevin J. Anderson Have in Common?
Mar 20I Just Hate You So Much
Mar 08Kevin J. Anderson's Terra Incognita, an Experiment in Cross-Promotion
Feb 25LTUE Notes: How Roleplaying (RPGs) Can Help Your Writing
Feb 24LTUE Notes: Plots, Subplots, and Foreshadowing
Feb 23LTUE Notes: How Does Geography Affect Your Story?
Feb 23Dragon Age II Screen Shots (Not for the Faint of Heart)
Feb 22LTUE Notes: Building Different Economies
Feb 21LTUE Notes: From Idea to Story
Feb 20LTUE Notes: Creating Effective Villains
Feb 17LTUE Notes: Putting Technology Ramifications in Your Worldbuilding
Feb 16LTUE Notes: Dialog Tags and Speech Patterns
Feb 15LTUE Notes: The Principles of Suspense
Feb 14LTUE Notes: Evil in Fiction
Feb 13Leslie Phillipsen DOES Want to Date You!
Feb 13LTUE Notes: Writing Action by Larry Correia
Feb 12LTUE Notes: A Character-Driven Approach to Plot Development by Eric Patten

2011

Nov 28Dragon Age: Redemption by Felicia Day
Nov 17Off the NaNo Rails
Nov 10NaNo Becomes Challenging
Nov 02NaNoWriMo Begins
Oct 28The NaNo Post
Oct 20MOG versus Spotify: Review of Streaming Music Services
Sep 29Need Something to Read? Just Answer the Questions and Follow the Arrows
Sep 16Review of Dream Theater's New Album: A Dramatic Turn of Events
Sep 01Cool Geek Stuff that Makes Me Want to Stab My Eyes Out
Aug 17I Dig Gothic-Symphonic Metal
Jul 21Creative Death
Jun 30The One Writing Tool I Never Use
Jun 25The Redemption of iTunes
Jun 23Who Am I? Or, Ripping Your Story to Shreds for Money
Jun 15Losing Excitement
Jun 08Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing, Moses Siregar, Free Giveaway
May 26Speed Archery: Fast and Deadly
May 24World Building, Part II: The Cure
May 17World Building: Disease or Cure?
May 11Leslie Phillipsen Does Not Want to Date You
May 06Roll a d6 - Music Video with Hot RPG Chick and Her Nerdy RPG Pals
Apr 27The Smell of Fantasy
Apr 20Wheel of Time E-book Covers Update
Apr 19More Majestic Maps
Apr 12The Joy of Fantastic Maps
Apr 06How to Deconstruct Fantasy Tropes for Your Own Benefit
Mar 29Magali Luyten
Mar 27What You Can Learn From Your Site's Statistics
Mar 24How to Grow Your Author Blog
Mar 22d20pro
Mar 16Pathfinder and d20pro
Feb 20Witch Song by Amber Argyle
Feb 15LTUE 2011 Schedule
Feb 09Creating Art is Hard
Feb 03Interview with Literary Agent Evan Marshall
Feb 01New Story Idea
Jan 30The Ultimate DnD Gaming Room
Jan 26LTUE 2011
Jan 21Getting Things Done

2010

Dec 15Early Musical Influences
Dec 14Pandora Experiment
Nov 30One Reason Why I Buy Macs
Nov 06Another Rudession
Oct 08News from Zero Hour
Sep 02Warbreaker
Aug 15The Wheel of Time E-Book Covers (image-heavy post)
Aug 14My Characters Are Not Alive
Aug 10Knife of Dreams E-book Cover
Aug 05Ouch
Jun 21Weapons That Made Britain
Apr 05Novel Aid for Word Users
Mar 10How to Write a Story that Rocks, part 3
Mar 07Sirenia
Mar 03How to Write a Story that Rocks, part 2
Mar 02Do You Need a Magic System
Mar 01LTUE Report: How to Write a Story that Rocks
Feb 28Working on the New Novel
Feb 25Freelancing Again
Feb 16LTUE Report
Jan 30LTUE Writing Conference
Jan 24Respectful Professionalism
Jan 23Example of WoT's Iconicity
Jan 17Distributed role playing
Jan 09My name is on the spine of a book
Jan 05Avatar

2009

Dec 15I'm Freelancing
Oct 15Deadliest Backyard Warrior
Oct 01Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb
Sep 08A Game of Thrones Fever
Aug 15The Best News In Music . . . Ever
Jul 29David Farland's Daily Kick in the Pants
Jul 27Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing
Jul 26Casting for A Song of Ice and Fire
Jul 02Fantastic Criminals
Jul 01The First Law Trilogy
Jun 10Debunking some myths about swords and shields
May 10Rush who?

2008

Nov 25Babies and Houses
Nov 01Brandon Sanderson Book Signing
Oct 24Mistborn 3: The Hero of Ages
Sep 02The Well of Ascension
Aug 18Mistborn
Jul 30Working on the 21 Days
Jul 21A Question about Writing Dialogue
Jul 10Viking Society
Jul 0621 Days To A Novel
Jul 04I'm Going to Write a Novel
Jun 26First Chapters
Jun 26Podcasts on Writing
Jun 16Old Norse Magic
Jun 14Some General Floggings
May 24True Names Again
May 22Neil Peart, 2nd Worst Lyricist of All Time
May 20Keeping on Top of the Floggings
May 13My Favorite Fantasy Fiction
May 07Fantasy languages
May 02Holly Lisle's _How to Create a Character_
May 01How long does it take to write 100 words?
Apr 21Writing Plan
Apr 16Flogging the Union
Mar 31Just write
Mar 28Outlining
Mar 26True Names
Mar 25Word Count Challenge: Phase Two
Mar 21Word Count Report
Mar 19Day Two
Mar 18Word Count Challenge
Mar 17The Balrog's Slippers
Mar 13An Austistic Fiction Voice
Mar 11Imitating Tolkien
Feb 18Get Down with the Sickness
Feb 10Social Combat
Jan 17Nightwish
Jan 12Dramatizing the Fellowship on the Big Screen

2007

Nov 19Pandora Podcasts
Nov 15Shaman's Crossing
Nov 10Leaves' Eyes
Oct 20Excuse Report
Sep 30Plumb and Flyleaf
Sep 21Shoot the Mime
Sep 17Robert Jordan is Dead
Sep 16The Fellowship of the Ring
Sep 08Sword of the New World
Sep 02Civil War, Brigade
Aug 25Edenbridge
Aug 18Latro in the Mist
Aug 11Cooperative character creation
Jul 29Evanescence-esque
Jul 24The Seven Potter Sins
Jul 19Check out my blogroll! It rocks!
Jul 16I'm scared
Jul 14Blogging is publishing
Jul 12Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake's Hall
Jul 09Short fantasy stories
Apr 29Polaris
Apr 20Universalis
Apr 02Who should I write about next?
Apr 02Fantasy names for children
Mar 08Dragon Luck
Feb 17On "On Dragons"
Feb 14On dragons
Feb 03What was that snippet?

2006

Dec 31Time to leave
Dec 30The beginning