Roleplaying games from historical research
When you decide to solo a really large book, you are giving a huge portion of your life to something. The only reason it isn’t daunting is because you carefully conspire with yourself not to notice what you are doing. I’ve just finished The Gladstone Colony, other than a couple of hours of edits. In…
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So, a new theme, a new look, and a new year. What’s happening this year on Games From Folktales? I over committed myself last year: I think I wrote pieces for seven books, which is a few too many with a new baby. That left me little time for the blog. This year I’m probably taking things…
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This is the third, and likely last, post which compares the Librviox database of free audiobooks with the lists provided by Arnold Bennett, a Nineteenth Century literary critic. So far Librivox has been sparse on the Seventeenth Century, and solid on the Eighteenth Century. How will it do in this, final*, list? As before, items in…
Read MoreA second post analysing Librivox’s completeness, from the perspective of Arnold Bennett’s Literary Taste: How to Form It. Librivox doesn’t have a lot of Seventeenth Century coverage, but I think it may do somewhat better in the Eighteenth. Let’s see, shall we? As before, black is for unrecorded works, orange for partially completed works, and green…
Read MoreThis month the Librivox book club is listening to Literary Taste: How to form it, by Arnold Bennett. In that book, among other things, he lists 339 works which he believes are essential to having a sound library. The obvious question was asked: how many of these books has Librivox recorded? Can you grab your MP3 player…
Read MoreSorry that there’s been no new material for a while. I’m up against a deadline for a paid book contract, and so my free writing on the web needs to pause for a little while to allow me to get that finished. In other news, I’ve just finished a small role in Librivox’s Henry V,…
Read MoreSo, an eventful weekend, from a writing perspective. I was kind of blocked on a project I’m working on, and my wife, listening to my complaints, said “Can you do X?” and, why yes, yes I can, so I hammered out 2 000 words today. My deadline’s late January, and I need another 15 000…
Read MoreThomas Cochrane was, basically, the real life Horatio Hornblower or John Aubrey. He’s the captain who stands as the foundation of the whole naval warfare genre. I’ll be reading his autobiography, and possibly his son’s biography of him as well, into audiobook format. My hope is to do one chapter a week after I attend my brother’s…
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