Writer Tamago

Some context: Bush wins again, under the specter of voter fraud (Carter said no, so I believed him later.) I write an open letter to my friends about the disappointment. In 4 short years, perhaps a conservative blogger might have written a similar letter to his or journal friends.

Plot. For me, this is the hardest part of writing. Yup, I can come up with plot points, but mostly what I do is design interesting characters and artfully drape them around the room, letting them spout elgiac stanzas. Or crack jokes. Whichever. Yet, when I run a role playing game, I am expected to [...]

Being a writer with a day job, I am currently at an English department retreat, learning how to do oral interviews for incoming English Language Learners. This post is coming to you through Internet magic! I thought that I would do a quick review of a writing book that I just finished, Writer with a [...]

Back after a minute, my eye. I had a couple of teachers in, and a student. Yup. My glamorous professorial life. *** Do you have a minute? I wanted to write this post separately from the post that contained my Nebula congratulations. I am sincerely happy for the nominees, and as I indicated at the [...]

It's been just about a week since I've been online, and what happens while I'm gone? Nebulas. That's what. Again, there are people I know, whose work I've read and respected. There are former VP'ers, and there are even some friends. You guys, as the saying goes, rock. I wish you all luck, although quite [...]

All this effort of growing out my hair for the last year is beginning to pay off. Margot Redlinger, my stylist at City Looks, has been helping me learn about sets and dos. Of course, I am still very much the amateur, but Aveda-trained Margot does amazing things with color, and really knows her vintage. [...]

Sean Craven, fellow VP XIII'er, decided to interview me to round out the VP XIII interviews. Now you can collect the whole set. Thank you, Sean, for taking the time. Catherine

Live Journal Disclaimer: That article turned out to be from 2009. My bad. My headache and the usual reliability of where I got the information from led to a lack of reliability on my part. God bless the Internet. Still, I should do this. I've been debating keeping the old awelkin journal open, and maybe [...]

Just fair warning. The fifty percent staff reduction at Live Journal I take as a bad sign. Of course, I write the majority of my work over here at Word Press, and it's mirrored at Live Journal, but that said, there was a time before the writing journal that Live Journal was my mainstay for [...]

For me, setting may be the most difficult aspect of writing from the gamerverse. Most role playing games come with their own broad strokes of genre. For example, we all know Dungeons and Dragons takes it cue from European high fantasy. Call of Cthullu is set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction (don't play [...]