2015
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What if I gave a PNI course?
Now that NarraFirma is out there and usable, there’s an idea for a next step that I’ve been playing with in my mind. I don’t know whether it would work. I don’t know if I should put any more time into it. So I’m asking you. What if I gave a course in doing PNI? Read more
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Back to Narratopia
Yesterday was Thanksgiving, and I’m thankful today that I can announce the initial public release of Narratopia, the conversational story game. You can buy a copy at thegamecrafter.com. Now I’ll tell those who are interested what has been happening with Narratopia over the past several months. As you might remember, I introduced an early version Read more
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We have made NarraFirma
We went now away with a fair wind for Brazil; and in about twelve days’ time we made land…. We kept on S. by E., in sight of the shore . . . and in three days came to an anchor off the bay of All Saints, the old place of my deliverance, from whence Read more
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250 and thanks
Hey everybody. I wanted to tell you that I’ve sold 250 copies of Working with Stories. Hooray! I’ve been thinking of 250 as a significant number for years, mostly because my husband told me he’d read somewhere that the average non-fiction book sells 250 copies in its lifetime. When I told him about this the Read more
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Into the archives again
Somebody once told me that somebody else said something interesting about me. “Keep your eye on her,” they said, “She’s a crackerjack.” I’ve always wondered what that meant. Am I a confection or a conflagration? Can I be both? Is there a prize? Here’s a joke my dad used to tell. On the wedding day, Read more
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Let’s talk
Over at the PNI Institute, we are holding our very first “Hangout” this Friday, July 5, at: Our hangouts will be: To avoid the inevitable problems using Skype with more than a few people, we will be using our new Mumble server. For details on how to connect, and to read more about what we Read more
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The Holy Roman Empire was a complex adaptive system
So a few weeks ago my son and I were watching the Crash Course World History series. In it John Green mentioned Voltaire’s famous statement that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. A few days later, I found that the phrase “Holy Roman Empire” was still bouncing around in Read more
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The snail rushes in
Imagine you’re at a party. You went there because somebody said you just had to be there. But when you got there, you found out that everyone was talking in a strange way. Say they were all clapping when they talked, or affecting an obscure accent, or hopping on one foot. Confused, you tucked yourself Read more
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Welcome to Narratopia
I hinted a few months ago that I had a few secret projects in the works. This is one of them, and I’m excited to tell you about it. [Note: If you’re just discovering this blog post, you might also want to look at the follow-up posts in November 2015 (“Back to Narratopia“) and May Read more
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My left ear
As you know if you read this blog regularly (or as regularly as I write it, anyway), I have strong opinions about some things. For example: I have spent fifteen years working toward these goals, and I am passionate about them. But I’ve also thought a lot about whether being passionate about a goal is Read more