Something in the Woods is a Solo Journaling RPG by SteelWhale. In this post, read the results and my thoughts after my initial playthrough of this game!
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Ypsilon-14, Part 2
Welcome to Part Two of my Off the Ice campaign’s rendition of Tuesday Knight Games’ “The Haunting of Ypsilon-14” for Mothership RPG.
Ypsilon-14 After Action Report
A collection of resources and a session rundown for Mothership RPG’s Ypsilon-14. This post details the start of the Off the Ice campaign and half of Y14.
One-roll SF writing prompt
Need some inspiration for starting a science fiction story? This table provides character details, conflict, location and SF subgenres, all in one roll!
Loop Garou 6: Special Pandemic Issue
Loop Garou is a SF (science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, horror and comic books) zine containing fiction and nonfiction, art and other media. Edited by Chris Airiau and Raja Thiagarajan.
The End Game
It’s Sci-Fi Friday! This week, I bring you a flash fiction piece inspired by a reader-generated prompt. “The End Game” by Chris Airiau. CW: mild sexual content, satire
“Front Row Seats”
“Once the Atmospheric Exoplanetary-Observation Narrowband telescope was announced, Lyn Coldfield began writing observation code as her undergrad project. She knew the work was purely academic, speculative, and she’d have to change—well, probably everything…”
Science Writing Commentary: Techniques of Plot
Science Writing Commentaries are the second of two-part Method & Commentary posts. I choose an excellent example of published science writing in which I identify and explain one of the techniques that makes the piece successful. The first post examines the Method, wherein I select and analyze the techniques I will focus on in theContinue reading “Science Writing Commentary: Techniques of Plot”
Technological Gap: Alien Invasion
Sci-Fi Fridays: Speculative SF musings… “This subject dovetails off from last week’s flash fiction post (with new art by Benjamin Specklin). The mysterious antagonists I had in mind for this story were aliens who…”
Science Writing Method: Techniques of Plot
Science Writing Commentaries are two-part posts. I choose a superb example of published science writing, and identify one technique used by its writer that makes the piece so successful. The first post examines the Method, that is to say the techniques which I will focus on. The second post is the Commentary, and demonstrates howContinue reading “Science Writing Method: Techniques of Plot”
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