Today and tomorrow are the last days that my #urbanfantasy thriller series "The Arcane Revolution Trilogy" as well as my tarot-driven #journalling #rpg are on sale until the end of the month, in all print and digital formats. I put them on sale to celebrate my rabbit's clean pathology and surgical recovery!

You can find more information about both projects as well as where to find them at:

https://arcanalabs.ca/writing.html

(sorry, character limit means no punchy blurbs)

#books
#bookstodon
#selfpromo

#AI #sloptimism

Who knows what sort of #ideas will grow in the new #culture being created by whatever AI #slop is releasing into the atmosphere of our digital environment.

#renaissance #homogeneity #handwriting #hobby #journalling #practice #writing #insight #process #evolution #humaningenuity

By the way: a few days ago I finally finished my custom traveller's notebook cover / wallet!

All in all I'm very happy with how it turned out. There are a few things I might adjust or do differently for a V2. For example, the money compartment could be a little wider and attaching bias tape straight is harder than I thought.

I'll have to tinker with the closing mechanism: in theory, there are magnets and ferrofoil in there, but although I tested it and thought it should work, in practice the adhesion through the two layers of leather is so weak that you barely notice it :( Maybe I'll try bigger magnets or a magnetic button.

But still, most things work just as planned in real usage and the aesthetics work as I hoped! I enjoyed working with this cork leather a lot (sadly the shop I got it from closed down, so I'll have to look somewhere else for fuzure projects).

The hardest thing for me about this project was serial decision paralysis. Since I planned this all by myself from scratch, every single measurement and design was a decision I had to figure out. Which was especially hard to do starting from a blank page. For my next project I'll probably do something guided with a pattern to recuperate :D

If and when I'll find the time, I'll sort out and upload my plans, in case anyone wants to make something similar themselves :D

#travellersnotebook #fountainpen #journalling #sewing

Just as a quick reminder to folks, my #urbanfantasy thriller series "The Arcane Revolution Trilogy" as well as my tarot-driven #journalling #rpg are on sale until the end of the month, in all print and digital formats.

You can find more information about both projects as well as where to find them at:

https://arcanalabs.ca/writing.html

(sorry, character limit means no punchy blurbs)

#books
#bookstodon
#selfpromo

So, over the last few years, I've been preparing a journalling #RPG that I have recently become obsessed with all over again.

It's called The Game for Scribes and it is a tarot-driven RPG for one (with optional multiplayer rules) that puts you in the shoes of the ruler of a small medieval-fantasy domain and the chronicaller who keeps the history. The game guides you through turns comprising years, each turn adding a brick to the wall of narrative that helps drive your journalling efforts (or even the background activity of your TTRPG campaign).

I've been periodically streaming gameplay and #journalling from the game on my twitch channel here, including the journaling process in a book I bound' with my own hands.

(Posting this #selfpromo post from Patch this week because my main writerly instance doesn't support markdown or this post length)

This is going to be cozy!

My normal writing stream is being set aside (slightly), and instead I'm going to be playing _The Game for Scribes_, my new Journalling RPG which puts you in the seat of both the chronicler and leader of a medieval territory of your own design.

Personally I think it's a good game. I really do. I'm even pondering releasing a couple expansion rules when I can figure them out.

https://twitch.tv/patcharcana

#smallstreamer #journallingrpg #journalling #selfpromo #indyauthor

I read somewhere that back in ye olden days, people didn't write their journals and diaries in prose like we're "supposed" to do nowadays. They'd just have bullet points, like:

- Got married today
- Had a baby
- Moved across the country

This is the strategy that finally got me to journal consistently. I'll expand into feelings and speculation and philosophical whatever when I feel like it, but removing that pressure made it so much easier...

#journalling #journaling