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

"Sail" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game" continue to lounge on their sofa cushion in a growing squirrel pile of items that migrated from the office out into the living room, which my partner and I really should address. I would say the games haven't moved far, and while true to a degree, we played a couple more chapters of the LotR game, losing more often than we won. And still it didn't bother me! Well, okay, one of the times we lost m