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Book Recommendation: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was the sort of writer and storyteller I appreciate the most. Many great storytellers are not particularly great writers. Many great writers are not particularly great storytellers. Writing is the skill of communication through the written word. One can be good at writing and lousy at storytelling. Most of what gets printed in …
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Book Recommendation: Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto
Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto provides some valuable insights and principles that agree with many ideas I've written about on this blog while challenging me to be more rigorous in their application. Who is it for? One of the reasons I've hesitated about recommending this book is that I'm not entirely sure who it's for. …
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Grumpy Wizard’s Reviews and Recommendations
I want to be clear about what I review, how I review, and why. I don't want to be known primarily as a reviewer of RPGs, books, and music. Even though reviews get more traffic than most other types of posts, I don't do many of them. If views and followers were my primary metric, …
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Book Review: Make to Know
Make to Know is a book about art and creativity. Ostensibly, it is for "creative people," but I think it has something for all of us to consider.
Review: The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity
The book begins with "What is the thing that we call a role-playing game?" Jon Peterson doesn't answer that question but he did document the first conversations of people attempting to.
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