Blogs tagged "writing"

Welcome to the 288th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Welcome to the 287th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 286th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Your browser does not support the audio element. After a brief wait, I have finally released the first of TNT. This w...

Information is pretty overrated, isn't it? In so many ways, it feels like we're really just going around in circles, ...

I think I need to start doing less shit. Even less than what I've already been doing—can you believe that? I had to s...

It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not f...

Laura Cameron at The Well-Apportioned Desk is wrote a post titled Journal Prompt July. She decided to tackle July jou...

In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Pa...

Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if t...

Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to

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A poem seldom arrive clean.It comes in through the windowwith dust on its knees,carrying one cracked cup,one unpaid b...

June 29, 2026, 05:45 AMThe trip was cancelled. The tickets vanished into the digital void, but the manager approved t...

June 20, 2026, 11:55 PM - June 21, 2026, 03:50 AMThe ether is heavy tonight. Mortals call it twilight, but to me, it ...

Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Comme pour les stades ou les équipes cyclistes, il est important de nommer les vagues d...

Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ? J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un esprit incroyable aux...

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de pe...

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock char...

Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.

Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.

Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...

“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”

Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...

Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have infl...

You know I love simple practices. This is one of the simplest, coursing down the centuries since, at least, these dis...

It’s been a busy two weeks on the site :)

An index of heroic cultures, patrons, landmarks, and magical items from across the published books.

Calling it like it is!

D&D outside of combat is way too fiddly.

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already ...

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

As I’ve repeatedly said over the course of this series, Sylvester McCoy really had the least to prove out of any of t...

The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – were a game of two halv...

As an onboard medic with a major French merchant shipping company, Doctor Bataille had the opportunity to see the wor...

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

America celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 4, 1826. Just three signatories to The Declaration of Independence, A...

The summer 2026 theme for The New Leaf Journal: America at 250.

After reading that pumpernickel bagels are becoming endangered, I set out to buy, photograph, eat, and write about on...

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...