Why Every Writer Should Play a Tabletop RPG, and How to Get Started

Recently I crossed the final frontier into Nerd-dom and got into tabletop RPGs (role-playing games). I am slightly ashamed of myself, but I’m having too much fun to care. So now I periodically meet with two groups of friends to roll dice, have magical adventures, and… unintentionally learn about writing!

So if you’re a writer who’s never played a tabletop RPG: today, I want to convince you that it’s totally worth it. First, let’s talk about how RPGs can help writers. Then, I’ll tell you guys about how to get into RPGs as a complete beginner and for free, no Dungeons and Dragons required! (Nothing against D&D, it’s just a little overwhelming to start out with.)

20 Questions Book Tag

Remember last Wednesday, when–uninvited and unannounced–I did the How I Choose My Books Tag? Well, I’m back this week with another book tag and a little more propriety, since Holly at Nut Free Nerd actually did tag me for this one. I love Holly’s blog–she reviews a wide variety of books, including classics (my favorite!) and talks about her adventures studying abroad at Oxford–so you should definitely give her a follow if you haven’t already!

Now then, to business.

How I Choose my Books Tag

Morning, all! Last week I saw the How I Choose My Books Tag on Nut Free Nerd (which is one of my favorite book blogs), and even though Holly didn’t tag me, I wanted to do it, so I did. Shameless, I know. Let’s get started.

Mini-Reviews: All the Books I Read for Literature Class This Year (Part 2) + 1-Year Blogiversary!

Good morning! Last week, we went over the books I read for the first semester of my literature class—The Great Divorce, The Iliad, The Aeneid, and a whole lot of Plato. This week, let’s take a look at my second semester line-up! Once again, I’ll examine the content of the books and then the edition/translation I used.

This semester was fun because the books we read were from the late Roman empire, medieval, and Renaissance periods, and we read them in chronological order. So my class was able to examine the progression of view on matters such as free will and humanism over the years. Let’s start at the beginning, with…