Just a heads up, I won't be posting a blog next week, since it's nearing the end of the quarter. In the first draft of last week's post, I originally deviated from discussing the pros and cons of writing so soon after a session vs waiting to talking about Ernest Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory," otherwise referred to as the theory of omission. The iceberg illustrates that the elements the reader sees on the page such as character dialogue or action, the tip of the iceberg, are al

I want the world to know ♫ (I'm starting to notice a trend with these recent posts....) Embers Hot, Embers Cool Rereading transcripts so I can catch up on (re)writing Cael's journal entries months after playing the relevant session(s) has its perks. It's not the same as writing them while my creative synapses are in full tilt, which also has its uses, but maybe that's because both modes are two sides to the same coin, like the constant flip between the faces of discipline and

(This has absolutely nothing to do with the post; it's just a masterful performance. Elaine Paige's singing and acting are top notch.) One of my favorite pastimes while working on a story is imagining how that story will end and what the "after" story entails. Running with the assumption that everyone will survive, what will the characters go off and do once they've handled the story's main threat? For the longest time, I struggled to imagine the kind of life Cael would want