RyeFields

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Showing incredible restraint by not going to the bookstore. I fear I'd pick out a bunch of history books I do not have shelf space for and probably won't need for a very long time.

Sometimes my writing desires really boil down to "I want to make the readers feel something." Anything. The literary version of going on a quiet walk for the sake of being elsewhere. Not world-shaking events. Just a journey.

I need to knock out a side project before diving into the next big novel. Which has meant giving myself a goal of writing 20 chapters in four weeks. 8 out of 20 done, and right on schedule >83

I definitely want to have a few very straightforward beginner EDH decks in my collection just for teaching friends how to play. Nabbing the Giada pre-con because it seems to have that vibe. Also might put together Denzilore and Ingris budget decks for the same reason.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Bouncing between playing Engineer in GW2 and Machinist in FFXIV is comically jarring. I'm used to blasting my rifle nonstop as the engy, but I'm mainly dipping into Machinist in PvP, where the rate of fire is much, much slower. Also I keep trying to dodge roll out of AOEs.

"Craftwork Crusher" for the new Magic: the Gathering set, Reality Fracture! Painted in acrylics on Canson Acrylic paper, roughly 11x15" (30x40cm).

Acrylic illustration featuring a gigantic puppet boar made of metal and wood, held together by red strings and fueled by green fire. Next to the giant puppet we can see two magic casters who are controlling the boar together. The boar is trampling insectoid monsters that are advancing on the mages.

My research for a pirate novel started with books on historical eras of piracy and privateering. It's now shifted to books on trade companies, the spice trade, and specific commodities historically important to the Caribbean.

I adore the whole writing process. So much of a story can come form just in the outlining process. Character motivations are shifting, events are getting switched around, whole new characters are popping up. Watching it to come together like that is so rewarding.