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[gridlore]

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.

(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

Blatently stolen from benkenobigal

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[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

A.1. The Incredibles. Or The Ruling Class.

A.2. The Road to Gandolfo -- Robert Ludlum sets out to write a thriller and ends up writing a comedy. It's wonderful!

A.3. Molly and the Tinker.

B. What is your name? What is your quest? What is the average airspeed velocity of a laden swallow? Okay, for real this time:

B.1 Why penguins?
B.2 If not penguins, what?
B.3 How did you get started writing RPGs?

C. Okay.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

1. I did a science report on penguins way back when, and they really fascinated me. A few years back, James Lindsay and I wrote At Close Quarters, a variant (vastly improved) combat system for Marc Miller's Traveller (aka T4.) James lives somewhere in Canada. I was living in San Francisco. We sent sections back and forth over the net. I write in an express train style.. if I try to stop, things derail. I was writing the thrown weapons rules, and was stuck for a third example.. so I used penguins. James came back with rules for balanced and unbalanced weapons, with a comment about penguins resisting being thrown so being counted as unbalanced despite their aerodynamic bodies. We were off and running from there. The insanity spread to the Traveller Mailing List.

2. Probably bears. Always have loved them.

3. I can thank cancer for that. As I was lying in a hospital bed, I had a lot of time to think about my life, and what I hadn't done. I decided that if I lived, I would start writing. I did live, so I began writing. My first pieces were little bits for other writers' books; I think my first real credit is for the ship designs in Imperial Squadrons. From there, I wrote an article for the short-lived rebirth of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (I was never paid), an article for Troll (which folded before publication) and finally for BITS and Steve Jackson Games.