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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2008-11-10 11:03 pm

American politics; faith and secularism, NaNaWriMo and Gaming

The new leader of the United States is wasting no time; with a number of the most troubling laws (restriction on stem cell research, oil drilling in the wilderness) being slated for veto when he actually takes office. Perhaps in time a federal intervention on same sex marriage will also occur given the results of Proposition 8 in California et al. [livejournal.com profile] lederhosen provides a list of the organisations sponsoring the constitutional revision (now longer available on google cache), which indicates a hefty number of conservative and fundamentalist Christian organisations - once again determined to inflict their notions of sacredness unto others in secular law. [livejournal.com profile] slit takes up the problems related to race baiting in the referedum in an intelligent and future-orientated manner.

Going back in posting history, I've found the post when I last did NaNaWriMo; which incidentally was the time when I'd been given the 'OK' to do a game based on Greg Costikyan's Barbarian Kings. Now, two years later, I find that I that I'm working on the game as NaNaWriMo (now at twenty five thousand words) and the novel (only a third completed after being abandoned in early 2007) is being double-checked by the good [livejournal.com profile] phoebe82 who seems to know something about the region. In other gaming-related news, I'm being interviewed by a NZ gaming 'blog, played Middle-Earth Role Playing on Friday, and continued the RuneQuest Prax story on Sunday.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2008-11-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I had a bit of a head start of several thousand words which I'd put together in 2007... Plus the experience of playtesting on at least three different occasions. So in terms of what I've done so far I'm probably up to 18K.

Which is actually more than what I did for The Outcast Girl... But that took a lot more research. I think I was spending only a couple of hours a day actually writing and the rest of the time reading!