Four months into the #facility23 challenge and we’ve covered a LOT of ground. Some quick lessons, and a directory of every post so far. Now, the posts. The first four are the megathreads for the Ark. I’ve done a couple of non-Temenos Ark settings too. And here’s a couple of process posts. This is FUN, and …
Eleven days of Covid so far. Still testing positive, but faintly at least. I’m not back but I’m also able to do a bit more than I was, hence this post. I’m doing the #facility23 challenge every week day, and every month we’re on a different asteroid in The Temenos Ark, a vast, cobbled together spaceship that …
I’m doing the #facility23 challenge every week day, and every month we’re on a different asteroid in The Temenos Ark, a vast, cobbled together spaceship that fled the solar system when an alien piece of music swept through intent on taking over every sentient being. What happened next is the core of After the War, …
I’m now in Week 7 of #Facility23 and it’s become part of my daily creative process. The idea is to write a single room or location in a TTRPG environment every weekday and it’s going great! It’s teaching me a lot about process too and how to do very nearly everything I do better. Here …
I’ve been having great fun with Facility23 as a daily writing challenge and as we start to head to the end of the first month, now’s a good time to give you an idea of the setting. I’m writing it for After the War, the game my buddy Jason Pitre and co-created because it’s a …
It’s Monday, let’s talk stationary. First off isn’t the logo cool?! Lone Archivist put together a pack of logos for #Dungeon23 and #Facility23. Go check them out. Last time I talked about the #Facility23 challenge and what I’m getting from it. This time, I’m going to talk about what I’m using to capture the information …
I built a monastery the other day. Perched on the mile-wide weld ridge between two asteroids, St. Padddd’s is home to an Ursan (Think Fozzy Bear meets Chewbacca) monastic order who’ve dedicated their lives to helping others. St. Padddd’s is part of the Temenos Ark, an emergency evacuation vessel the size of a small moon …
So, after about 70 hours, I’d fallen through the world. Diving in radioactive waters on my 30th or so planet, I had found the near impossible; a procedural generated glitch. I was in nothing space, on the literal other side of the looking glass. I could see the landscape I had just been exploring but …
One of the many reasons Jason and I get on as well as we do is the attitude we share towards influences. Pop culture is a puzzle that we never stop solving and that never stops solving us and there are good chunks of After The War that only exist because something else expressed an …
I did NaNoWriMo for the first time in close to a decade this year. I won too! Yay! It’s been fun and weird and massively vindicating. Fun because the act of getting this story out of my head and onto the page is a deeply enjoyable one. Weird because I am BAD at outlining or, …