Posts belonging to Category Blogger Notes
Posted by Ravyn on July 11, 2011
I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be fuming or laughing, but neither is letting me write tonight’s intended post, so instead: here’s why. Consider this a cautionary tale, or a view of the true absurdity of the Internet. You can’t make this stuff up.
It began with an IM from Shinali, who had been looking [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on March 11, 2011
Yesterday’s riff on crowd-pleasers got me thinking about the purposes of this blog itself. When I started writing, back on the old network, I envisioned my site as a go-to place for writing and gaming advice of all sorts, particularly for characterization and world-building. Two things, though, got me to realize that there’s one point [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 18, 2010
Two years!
It’s been a long one, encompassing several long arguments, more series than I care to count (including one monthlong), three jobs (two of which have their own categories), one filler topic that turned into its own series, the beginning of a novel idea, and a site move. I still haven’t missed a day; by [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on February 17, 2010
“If you have to ask, you’re not having enough fun.” I hear that a lot in my line of work, but yesterday, as an explanation of why yesterday’s riff about character ownership is a bad thing to write, got my attention.
I see these kinds of responses a lot when running around the parts of the [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on October 8, 2009
As most of you are aware, comments were out for a while. They’re back now, thank goodness, but the absence got me to thinking about feedback and what it can mean—for a blogger, for a gamer, for much of anyone else.
I’ve always been rather attached to feedback in my various creation-related hobbies. Every game I [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 19, 2009
Best friend. Worst enemy. Implacable, mindless force. Motivation. Inevitability. Deadline.
People’s reaction to deadlines is often very mixed. For most people, the primary association is going to be with chores, homework, and other Things That Had To Get Done In A Specific Timeframe. Too them, the deadline is [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 18, 2009
I’ve often been asked how it is that I manage to keep going and going and going within the blog topic I have. It’s a pretty complicated answer, but useful to the average blogger, so I’ll take a stab at it.
One of the most important tricks I’ve used is setting [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 17, 2009
When I first started this blog, one of my friends wondered how long my material would last. I can’t say I blame him. Here I was, unable to get new topics with every game supplement like my more system-specific counterparts, determined to avoid the Edition Wars and its corresponding [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 16, 2009
When I wrote about campaign journal articles yesterday, Josh mentioned that part of a reason for his were that they were useful to the game group. It makes perfect sense to me; my players all are or have been regular readers of this blog, and I’ve been able to [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 15, 2009
This week will conclude my first year as a blogger; as a result, I’m focusing on blogging-related topics.
Rare is the RPG blogger who hasn’t at some point written about a campaign he or she is either running or playing in. Some, myself included, even use such things as a regular [...]
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