Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

I won the only duel I ever lost.