brandie tarvin

Today’s Shadowrun Sundays post is about board and card games. I introduced my peeps to SJG’s King’s Blood card game. This game is about building a genealogy with marriages and...

Today’s writing prompt is about a quick author trick for setting up exposition in an opening hook. FYI: This is a starting point, only. An interesting fact I’ve noticed about...

For today’s Shadowrun Sunday’s post, I wanted to talk about gaming conventions. The small gaming cons don’t get a lot of “con love.” People tend to spend their money and...

So in this weekend’s SQL Saturdays’ post I’m talking about Outlook, not SQL Server. Email is such an essential tool of any job. It’s all about communication and keeping in...

Today’s writing prompt is another “Day in the Life” kind of prompt. The first one got a lot of likes on the Urania page, so let’s see how this one...

I have recently been indoctrinated into the world of playtesting for various items. Okay, I shouldn’t say “recently” because I have playtested before. There is just a different order of...

What is a dirty backup? When I’m developing code for resolving data problems, I can’t always restore the dev database from a production backup. Other people have code in Dev,...

Today’s writing prompt will concentrate on something a little different. Many writers find they function better with a writing routine. Different people have different routines. Mine consists of writing during...

As much as I love to write, writing alone does not pay the bills. I must also sell books (they apparently do not sell themselves). So I’ve gathered some links...

So you want to write for a role-playing game but don’t know how to get your foot in the door? Have I got an opportunity for you! Why am I...