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Greetings from the edge, I’ve spent the weekend slowly melting into a puddle while wearing an offensively loud shirt. Friday’s post pulled in a lot of eyeballs and, on the strength of that, I return bearing Part 2 of my smash-and-grab raid into Austin Kleon’s masterclass in creative larceny: Steal Like an Artist. Here are…
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Greetings from the edge, Austin Kleon has made a pretty decent living out of encouraging not so much art theft as a kind of creative burglary spree, where we steal a little from Star Wars, a little from Battlestar Galactica and a pinch of Criminal Minds, throw them into a blender and make delicious cookies…
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Greetings from the edge, I’m a bibliophile. A die-hard, hardback, leatherbound devotee of the written word. I like books of all shapes and sizes and read across a wide range of genres, although I am yet to venture into family sagas. One day perhaps. When the Kindle first appeared, I carried that sleek little slab…
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Greetings from the edge, Things have been busy here in the broom cupboard. Between the blog, the short fiction, the articles, my computer repair work, the library, and trying to hammer my D&D setting into a professional-looking PDF, I have had very little time for anything else. So I have decided to, rather than just…
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Greetings from the edge, I love dungeons. They are, after all, at least 50% of the game. They are neat, self-contained little slices of your world that can be as flavourful, strange, or dripping with lore as the grandest city or most lavish court. At their very best, they become complex ecosystems, complete with hierarchies,…
