Commentary, Secret of the Dutchman’s Cross, No. 70
I scheduled this one to run a little later than usual, for reasons which ought to be clear if you look at the timestamp.
I scheduled this one to run a little later than usual, for reasons which ought to be clear if you look at the timestamp.
This was an enormously fun action sequence to write, and one of the first I finished with the fountain pen I got for Christmas.
I’m going on vacation next week. Updates are scheduled to run as usual. I’m not normally this far ahead on the typing. It feels very liberating.
64 is an auspicious number, since I’m reading the Niven/Pournelle collaboration Footfall right now1. It’s a good thing this alternate history has 1936-ish airplane engines in 1929, or else a truck which can do 85 miles per hour might seem … Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Preview Week. I’m hoping to get started on that story in the coming days, as I wrap up this Nathaniel Cannon tale.
Arnarsson is a föraningsmagiker, or a diviner. There were some website troubles yesterday, but they appear to have been resolved.
60 updates in! A few updates ago, this story passed 20,000 words in length, which makes it the second-longest thing I’ve ever written. I was talking with a friend of mine about eventual hard-copy publication, and we decided that it … Continue reading
One of the reasons why these updates are so short: I end up typing them late the night before they’re supposed to go up, and I get lazy and want to do something else. Dedication to the craft.
Sorry again for missing the Tuesday update. In return, I give you two things you might find interesting. First, some : a new tomb, mummy, and pharaoh (as in, they didn’t know he existed) were discovered in… Abydos. That’s the … Continue reading
This weekend, I’ll have a DCS Ka-50 guide on Steam. I’m also probably going to start on a little article series for Soapbox about the building of my most recent StarMade ship. It’s mildly interesting from a fake naval engineering … Continue reading