Carrier Woes and the Civil War Breaks Out
McClellan's Army of the Potomac, thrust on the horns of a distressing dilemma. Well, the original plan was to have an AAR for a Carrier ...
McClellan's Army of the Potomac, thrust on the horns of a distressing dilemma. Well, the original plan was to have an AAR for a Carrier ...
Opening setup for Learning Scenario 5. Last week I generally introduced Carrier as a game, and went over some of the basics of the game....
Nice box. Carrier is a Victory Games production designed by Jon Southard. It's a solitaire game covering real and hypothetical aircraft...
Opening setup for EotS (technically January 1942). All right, let's get the writing update out of the way: the current WIP, Nothing...
“Black Cat” is a story about a guy named Marcus, who is deathly afraid of cats. I have no particular desire to write about or think about...
“Dreamland” is a story about insomnia, a marriage falling apart, the Internet, and desire. More than anything it's a story about the...
“The Serpent Atop the Mountain” is a dialogue between two Victorian gentlemen, at least one of whom is something of an explorer. It...
“Nowhere” is a longish, meandering story that's sort of about one thing and sort of about another. There are some ideas that work well,...
“Half a Life” is a pretty good story. Way more worth reading than this lousy blog post, lemme tell you. In fact, you should skip this...
“Inside and Outside” is mostly a story about how I don't like cockroaches. At the time I was writing it I thought it was a clever little...
“Potion” came to me in a dream. The dream involved some corporate bureaucrat telling me I needed to drink some liquid in a glass in front...
“The New Arrivals” is, quite frankly, a bit of a mess. I like the basic idea of the thing, but if I had it to do over again I'd make the...
“Creation” is one story I've written that regularly puts tears in my eyes when I return to it. I'm not sure what that means, but it's not...
Last week, with sections 6 and 7 of “The Use and Abuse of History,” we went over some of Nietzsche's major criticisms of historical...
Well, here we are another month closer to the day when I can quit my job and write full time. And the plan for this week's blog post says...