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The Interactives "The Book of Masks"  : A high school student discovers a grimoire that can make magical disguises."The Wandering Stars" : Sequel to "The Book of Masks.""Student Bodies" : A high school student is turned into a blue goo that can possess people.For non-WdC Members "The Book of Masks: Archives" : Dodges the "Servers Busy" barrier!"The Book of Masks (Abridged)" : Introductory storylines for new readers.Community "BoM/TWS Message Forum" : Community for readers of the interactives."BoM/TWS/SB Wiki" : Notes and documentation for authors. Spoilers!Current Polls None The Latest 4/29: Interactive: "Some Will Act Where Others Dare Not" 4/29: Public: "Some Will Act Where Others Dare Not" + "Third Thoughts" --> "Casting for a New Part"
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| So I hope everyone else had a good Christmas. Mine was good, though it did feel like I spent most of it hand-washing dishes. (Washing them while helping prepare a family Christmas meal, and washing them up afterward.) I'd tell you about what I got, but I doubt anyone (except maybe rugal) wants to hear about Peter Brown's The World of Late Antiquity or W. H. Lewis's The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV. What, you thought a guy who writes Book of Masks would be normal? Anyway, there's a new chapter up: Interactive: "The Businessman" Public: "The Businessman" I didn't publish anything yesterday, maybe you noticed. I didn't know know that I wasn't going to, and it wasn't until after washing all those dishes late in the day that I had a moment when I could, and by then I was all just, like, the hell with it. It wouldn't have been much of a holiday chapter, and it's also not much of a non-holiday chapter. Frankly, except for the last sentence, there probably isn't much point in reading it. If I wanted to, I could have cut it entirely from the branch sequence. I don't even know why it's there. Okay, that's not true, I do know why it's there. It's there because it just has to be there. I am not an outliner, I think I have mentioned in this blog before. Typically I don't know what is going to happen until I write it, and that was certainly true in the case of this chapter. Even as I writing it I was asking myself, "What's the point of all this?" And the only answer that made sense was: "The point is that it has to be there. Taking it out would be worse." Maybe that's a good answer and maybe it isn't. Maybe it's the wrong answer. All I know is that it's the answer I'm stuck with. * * * My thanks also to Easy and That One Guy for some absurdly generous Christmas gifts. |
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