Show Notes – 11/20/2010

Business
- Breaking up the Daniel Solis Episodes
- Leave me a message! 646-8200- DFL
- Appearance on the Jennisodes, Ep. 12
- New segment for Warpig Radio, coming soon!

Games
- Different games for different coasts, the prevalence of Pathfinder and FATE games.
- Game Chef and Apocalypse World

Travel
- Las Vegas, NV – NeonCon
- Boston, MA – Hanging out with Steve from Postcards from the Dungeon
- State College, PA – Work + Comic Swap visit
- Ellicott City, MD – Judge’s Bench

Creativity
- Prioritizing your own needs

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Last night I did most of the recording of the first podcast. This brief experience has taught me several things, mostly about audio editing (what a pain that can be) and radio personality (it’s not easy, and I say “um” a lot). I’ve got about 12 minutes of content after editing what I recorded, and I want to go back and do another 10 minutes on travel topics before pushing it up.

The other big things are about how important structure is for actually doing topics. I found that I didn’t have a problem when I had some items outlined to talk about, but when I just had a general topic, I got completely lost. So, two solutions: Better outlines, and notepaper to keep track of topics I think of during recording.

In more interesting topics: I stopped at ComicSwap in State College and briefly chatted with some of the folks working there. They were wonderfully amenable to chatting, and I would have happily stayed longer if my parking meter hadn’t been about to run out. While there, I picked up First Wave #1 and the first chapter collection of Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft. First Wave looks really intriguing. I’ve been itching for this to start since December when the one-shot preview came out. I’m pleased to say that I really enjoyed this book. It introduces several stories at once and hints about larger, more involved crossover stories. Locke and Key is dark. Holy cow. But the writing and artwork is frankly amazing, and I found myself paging back and forth to look for clues and hints in the artwork and to re-read sections of dialogue for anything I might have missed. It’s phenomenal and shouldn’t be missed if you want to read a dark and gritty urban fantasy story. This is definitely going on my “keep reading” list.