My dreams are getting more vivid, intense, and symbolic. I’ve re-opened my dream journal, something I have not done in years. It seemed more appropriate for lordstrange to recount this one, so he did. Friendly warning: I’ve been dreaming about you.

Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and other wonderful and semi-wonderful books, has put up 13 Writing Tips. Considering I just made a list of 10 things I would always do as a writer, I decided to check it out. (The egg timer rule is worth the price of admission alone.)

I have a confession to make. I’ve made it before, but it must be made again. I am helplessly, hopelessly and desperately in love… with ABBA. And here, Faithful Readers, is my all-time favorite ABBA song. Just for you.

I know what my documentary is about. It’s about the Game Design Seminar. I’ll be interviewing folks who attend, the speakers and the guy who thought of this crazy idea in the first place. Yeah, Jared. That’s you. I’ll also have one big question to ask. I’m very curious about the answer folks will give…

As usual, Robin (robin_d_laws) has a lot of smart things to say. This time, his subject is the Origins Awards.

Stephen Colbert, on his Colbert Report, made a rather interesting suggestion to his audience… albeit a suggestion that came right out of the side of his mouth. He suggested that Wikipedia allowed us to define reality “by concensus.” If you watch The Colbert Report at all, you’ll know just how funny this is. Then, he…

In her own journal, learsfool listed a bunch of things she would never do in a fantasy novel. Inspired, I endeavored to come up with my own list. However, also inspired by Shel Silversteen’s Twenty Commandments (which were all things to do rather than things not to do) and inspired by Elmore Leonard’s Easy on…

I want to take a digital camcorder to Gen Con for the purposes of doing interviews, building a documentary about the history of the independant game movement in the RPG industry. Am I insane, or could this really work?

You don’t vote.That’s okay. We’re still friends. But you don’t vote. You don’t vote because you don’t feel connected to the process. Things like interstate commerce, the War in Iraq, the price of oil… these things seem out of your hands. That even if you did vote, you feel as if your representative in Congress…

I’m a drummer in a great rock band. I’m working on the second draft of my first screenplay. I own my own company. People buy my books. My first novel has gotten a great response. And I’m already pining to write my second. — “I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.” — Joe Walsh