A place to collect thoughts.

I write sometimes. Not always, but sometimes. When I do, I feel a strong urge to share my work. I have done this since I was a teenager, and I appreciate watching the arc of my growth and introspection across my life so far. Though I sometimes begrudge the person I was, he kind of sucked. I can't argue it was a step along my journey.

I will collate and share some of these writings here on this blog. Some are personal, some are creative. Some are new, some are very old. I think some are halfway decent, and frankly, at worst they are a window into the mind of another time and person. Maybe these writings help someone in their own personal struggle. Or perhaps they can help the reader understand my path a little better. Whatever the outcome, welcome.

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Nonfiction: On planning your plot, a tabletop discussion.

On planning your plot! Starting a new campaign is super exciting as a GM, however, it can also be daunting. Using pre-written modules can be a great tool for lightening the load, but personally, I find more fulfillment out of building my own worlds and adventures for my players to galavant through. One of the strongest tools in my GM’s toolkit is a rather simple notion of how plots can develop. There are as many ways to tell a story as there are people telling them, but tabletop, being collaborative storytelling at its heart, takes an open minded and adaptive approach. My advice is this: let the player character’s motivations, and the non-player character’s motivations, dictate the plot. Not the other way around. I have heard the tale a hundred times: plans, intrigues, vignettes, and monologues, all laid out neatly beforehand. I have seen many a GM come with polished notions of what is going to happen in the session… followed by the players doing nothing a sane person cou...

Nonfiction: A night in the E.R., a personal experience.

I have worked in healthcare now for almost seventeen years. I started as a transporter, moving patients up and down for their exams. From there I went to the night shift, and covered the materials management department as well. So people moving, and digging for supplies the night shift nurses needed. After that, I went into the radiology department and worked as a CT technical assistant. More patient shuttling, but also paperwork and being around scanners. All this before I was eighteen. At eighteen I was old enough to take the EMT course at Mesa Community College. So I did. After completing my exams, and my clinical, I worked another five years as an Emergency Room Technician while I worked my way through college. The writing below was written after my clinical shadowing shift for my EMT. In the same ER I would eventually gain employ for half a decade. I was eighteen years old when I saw my first death, here is what I had to say about it... ---------------------------------...

Fiction: The Glitter: Pulse, a world-building piece.

While I have writings going back to childhood, I didn't start creating them for any purpose beyond my own entertainment until I was at least nineteen. I was introduced to tabletop role-playing games, and from there came a love of shared world building and group story-telling. I love crafting worlds to explore with friends, or characters to play in another person's fantasy. Many of my posts will be snippets of those worlds or the characters in them. One of my many settings was called "The Glitter". It was developed 2012-2013 after reading Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us". His book discusses the question of what happens to Earth if humans were gone. I elaborated from there into imagining what would happen if 99% were eradicated in a grey goo style scenario. From that came Johnstown. A bastion of survivors. How did they survive? What was their world like? What was the world past their borders like? I and some of my compatriots set out to tell tho...

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