Game Mode On–Costume Quest 2

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Word Count (What I’m Writing); Updated every 2-3 Days (mostly)

Project Ship of Shadows (Graphic Novel) Page Count: 12
Whale Song Revision (Fantasy Short Story) (2nd Draft)

Goal = 3 Pages a week.  Working on Rough Drafting a Graphic Novel Page on one day and then writing the page on an alternate day.

Actual = Finished page 13 on Ship of Shadows.   I didn’t really feel like working on the rough draft for page 14.  I just added in page 13 from the rough draft–expanding and clarifying the dialogue and description before calling it a night (sorry, but I was tired).  Still, so far I completed 2 of the 3 pages I had as a goal for this week.  

Currently Reading (What I’m Reading); Updated Weekly (mostly)

For Fun:

Transhuman edited by Mark L. Van Name and T. F. K. Weisskopf

Just started this anthology – it was given to me at a LibertyCon some years ago, but I’ve just now gotten around to reading it. I may not finish it/read all the stories, but so far, I’ve read the first story and liked it.

Traveller RPG: I started this a while ago as a book that I was reading just before bedtime, but I didn’t really make much headway.  I restarted it and I’ve just finished the introductory character generation section and I’m now moving on to the skills section and will be soon moving into the “lore” section.  This is a revamp (rules 2.0) of an old school British RPG from the 1980s.  Updated for modern times, this fairly short book still gives a great set of rules, game system, and lore that I hope will serve as inspiration for new sci-fi works in my own writing life.
For School:

Ancient Rhetorics, Digital Networks : A book that combines New Media (digital rhetorics) and combines them with ideas and theories of the Ancient Rhetorics.
For Research/Personal Development:

Great Aircraft of WWII by Alfred Price and Mike Spick (for Project Skye)

Great Aircraft of WWII is a book that I’ve had in my collection for sometime–I’ve glanced at it periodically, but never read it cover-to-cover.  Now, with Project Skye, I intend to do just that.

Do You Like Candy?

So this post was originally going to be something far different (a bit of a rant about oligopolies), but I decided that it would be more far more fun to talk about games–I can always do a mini-rant another day