{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-18T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/repeat-after-me-i-brought-this-all-on-myself-1\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:16:56","slug":"repeat-after-me-i-brought-this-all-on-myself-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/repeat-after-me-i-brought-this-all-on-myself-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat after me: I brought this all on myself! [1]"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kids are going to be with me this weekend, and I don’t often get a whole weekend to play with both of them. They wanna game. I made up this diceless game based on the Discworld many months ago. I’d call it more interactive storytelling than “gaming” per se, but the kids really enjoy it. I’m just glad I have had the experience of being a GM before so that I knew to take notes. I suppose there are advantages to have a Mama who is a writer.<\/p>\n

Speaking of being a writer, this is the weekend that the Universe has decide to gift me with a lot of work. I guess I can scratch the goal of writing an effective proposal off my to-do list. This is my opportunity to make sure I can use effective time management skills, right? Unlike the clich\u00e9, I don’t<\/strong> miss deadlines!<\/p>\n

However, I am<\/em> going to be spending a lot of the weekend doing fun stuff with the children, ’cause, well… I have my damn priorities straight! Hello coffee, my old friend…<\/p>\n

It’s funny. I’ve sat at the very desk at which I am now sitting2<\/sup> writing queries to magazines that were (I now know) way the hell out of my league before I graduated from High School<\/em>, for God’s sake, because this is what I wanted to do. At the time, I’d read science fiction stories that portrayed technology that had… well, more or less the Internet as we know it3<\/sup>. I remember thinking, “God, that world seems neat<\/em>! Too bad I’ll never live in it.”<\/p>\n

Well, I do live in it now, and ya know what? It is<\/em> neat!<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> RE: the title. One of the attendees of PolyFamilies CampCon 2004 had a habit of saying this. I found it both funny and oddly comforting.
\n2<\/sup>I have a laptop. I don’t always work in the same place. These are my two other common workspaces:
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\n3<\/sup>Friday<\/em>, by Robert A. Heinlein leaps to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My kids are going to be with me this weekend, and I don’t often get a whole weekend to play with both of them. They wanna game. I made up this diceless game based on the Discworld many months ago. I’d call it more interactive storytelling than “gaming” per se, but the kids really enjoy … <\/p>\n

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