The night before I left for VA, a friend came over and was freaked out by the idea (he doesn't read) that our stories are about bad things such as vampires and werewoofs. I tried to get across to him that conflict is what the vast majority of fiction is about. No dice. So to speak.*

To people who claim "I could write as well as Jess/Hemingway/Sartre/Sade," the kind reply is "Please do" (they never do); the unkind reply is "But you don't."

I love dealing with fans, few of them as I've ever had ("the hero of canton"). Philippe absolutely did not get it, when he joked about me holding court. The point of talking to fans is to get them to buy more WW products.
Being nice is a big motive also.
Off to see Civil War battlefields.








*This is not to be taken as an endorsement of diceless roleplaying. However, I do enjoy such.