CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Another very quiet week this week. I had to study. Overview New words produced: 2,950 Old words revised: 2,287 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Publishing Tasks Created 3 blog posts for this blog; Created 0 blog posts for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog; New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Chapterbook19D: About a boy, a girl, some dogs and a train. Chapterbook19E: About a boy, a girl, and a dog with wings. Chapterbook19F: about a boy, a girl, some dogs and another train. Chapterbook19G: about a boy, a girl, a dog, and yet another train. Older work rediscovered, edited and/or recorded: ShortStory63— Mayleigh’s Promise : about the sacrifice one woman makes for another (completed) Poem62— The Wreck’s Mixed Blessing (completed); Poem63— You Decide (completed); Poem64— A Distant Marria...

You can find the Introduction to the Babes in London adventure sequence HERE , the background to Act One HERE , and the Overview for Act One HERE . To play or run this game you will need the following: PLAYERS: Fireborn Player's Handbook ; GAME MASTERS: Fireborn Gamemaster's Handbook ; Fireborn Player's Handbook ; This is a piece of fan fiction. It is NOT endorsed or acknowledged by Fantasy Flight Game s; it is IN NO WAY official; it DOES NOT indicate any form of relationship between myself and Fantasy Flight Games; and I DO NOT CLAIM any of the setting specific material or setting specific concepts as my own. PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT             A CT O NE: C HILDREN I N T HE P ARK Preparation: For Scene 1: Familiarize yourself with the playground and its surrounds. For Scene 2: For new players it is helpful if the players have nominated something of their dragon’s background by this stage...

This was part of the ‘computer-broken’ time. I still got some stuff done, but not as much as I needed to. I have also embarked on the somewhat ambitious goal of writing a poem a day, as of Monday, July 15, 2013. Anyone know anything about poetry? Overview New words produced: 11,708 Old words revised: 3,364 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0   Tier 1 Tasks Revised SciFiNovel1A Chapters 11-15 Extra Tasks   These aren't really 'extras'; they're just tasks I know I have coming, but haven't really scheduled for. Here's what I completed 'ad hoc' this week: Added 3,108 words to Novella21A for PenName1; Began format and compilation of new material for Anthology6— An Anthology of Gods and Older Magic ; Began format and compilation of new material for Anthology10— An Anthology of Ancient Egypt ; Bega...

After a week with a broken computer,I forgot to let people know I was guest blogging over at Dark Side Down Under . A group of Australian writers of romance and other paranormal genres, they kindly hosted me on their regular A Bite Of… blog spot on Wednesday, July 17. I talked about the inspiration behind the stories and poems in An Anthology of Battle (which may also be found in my collection of Short Stories and Poems of 2012 collection), and gave an excerpt from one of my favorite stories, Jalaya . Feel free to go over and check it out.