- John and I spent all week building our puzzle from the Playing Grounded Kickstarter. In case we want to preserve that hard work, we can use the creators’ tutorial on puzzle framing.
- I review a lot of games for Forbes, but this is the first time somebody sent me something I already knew how to play. Does your friend group also have a version of this game?
- The pros and cons of having otaku parents. Reminds me of people I know from volunteering at anime cons who have named their kids after anime and game characters. (HT Zoe!)
- Fandom Loves Puerto Rico: a donation drive in which donors auction off fan services like commissioned fics and art, editing, tutorials, and more.
- Fic, interrupted. Caroline Crampton gets personal about the hidden stories behind all that unfinished fanfiction for which we’re still holding out hope for an update.
- Is Your D&D Character Rare? FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers. Here’s a hint: your human fighter and elf ranger aren’t exactly special.
- Completing NaNoWriMo (all 50,000 words of it!) is my most ambitious goal for the rest of 2017. I already put up the book cover, title and synopsis for the novel I’m planning now.
- Did you miss the USA vs. Japan giant robot duel? It’s now available on YouTube. I wasn’t expecting it to be so scripted, but I guess it would have been a safety hazard otherwise.
Lead image via Playing Grounded Puzzles.
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NaNo was a great way to kickstart my desire to write novel-length fiction, and the fruits of that first 2006 sprint are still a proud entry in my catalog of titles for sale (https://www.genjipress.com/writing/summerworld/). I haven’t done the sprint as of late, in big part because a) I almost always have some major project or other running concurrently when November rolls around and b) that time of year is almost always too crowded with personal obligations for me to devote to something this time intensive. But I might do something for Camp NaNo in June if they still hold it, as I have something in mind that would be just about perfect for such a sprint during that timeframe!