Hey all, Sam here. Welcome back to Weekend Writer. I'm excited to have you here. This week I'm delving into the next section of The Writer's Guide to Beginnings: How to Craft Story Openings That Sell by Paula Munier, and while I definitely feel that you can jump into this chapter by chapter deep dive… Continue reading Weekend Writer: The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings by Paula Munier – Chapter Two: The End is Where We Start From – Scene One
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Tabletop Tuesday: Settlers of Catan
Hey all, Sam and David here today. Welcome back to Tabletop Tuesday, the series on this blog where we discuss something to do with tabletop gaming...whether that's a board game, a dice game, a card game, a TTRPG, or some sort of tabletop gaming accessory. Last week we talked about a really cool couples RPG,… Continue reading Tabletop Tuesday: Settlers of Catan
Weekend Writer: The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings by Paula Munier – Chapter One: In the Beginning Was the Word – The Anatomy of a First Page
Hey all, Sam here. Wow, okay. Back again on another lovely Friday. I hope you are all doing great, and I hope you have cool plans for the weekend. I'm hoping to do some writing...or at the very least plotting and world-building. Anyway, well here we are at another Weekend Writer post, and this is… Continue reading Weekend Writer: The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings by Paula Munier – Chapter One: In the Beginning Was the Word – The Anatomy of a First Page
Weekend Writer: Back To Basics (and Prompts)
Hey all, Sam here. Okay, let's try this again. I had ideas and plans for getting back into writing and getting back into blogging, and feeling like the old me again. But not even two weeks into the new year and my father-in-law was in the ICU and it wasn't looking good, and then a… Continue reading Weekend Writer: Back To Basics (and Prompts)
Welcome to the Free State of Geek!
Hey all, Sam here. Sorry for the silence the past couple weeks. Had some conversations that led to sort of a depressive funk. Coming out of that was a little bit of a process, but it led to the realization that it was time to formalize some changes that we had been planning on for… Continue reading Welcome to the Free State of Geek!
Goals for 2023
Hey all, Sam here. Okay, so I guess today is going to be sort of a shorter post compared to my last ones. But I think it's important to take some time to at least have a rough plan or idea for the year ahead, so I'm going to do that now. Reading For reading,… Continue reading Goals for 2023
Life Updates
Hey all....Sam here. Wow, it kind of feels weird to open with my actual name instead of the pen name I've used online for something like 18 years. But I've done a lot of thinking about it and I'm going to write as myself online from now on. So, I have updated my Twitter and… Continue reading Life Updates
Let’s Talk Wedding and Honeymoon
Hey all, Dani here. Look at this, four days in a row of having posts up. I think the only reason I'm being this consistent is because I'm catching up on the past few months of events. I think I'm going to start off with my blog schedule for 2022 being that I want to… Continue reading Let’s Talk Wedding and Honeymoon
Books I Want to Read This Summer
Hey all, Dani here. So...I disappeared again. I was feeling so good in the month of April. Well certainly at the beginning of April I felt great. I was like a week and a half ahead on my scheduled blogging. And while I wasn't reading a whole lot, something was better than nothing, and I… Continue reading Books I Want to Read This Summer
Goals for 2021
Hey all, Dani here. Wow, hello everyone. Look at this...two days into the new year and this is my second blog post. That feels pretty good since I wasn't blogging much at the end of last year. And if I manage to get my posts prepped up, I should have a post up every day… Continue reading Goals for 2021
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