Quick update on the state of the life:

• I’m guest-blogging at Fail Better Games!  Those of you who aren’t familiar with FBG should check out their wonderful browser-based RPG Echo Bazaar, which is the focus of my post, Uncorking Mystery.  Echo Bazaar is a sharp experiment in narrative style and form, wrapped in a browser game shell.  My essay discusses what I think they’re doing, and why it’s so cool.
• Matt’s and my experiment in Chinese Poetry Translation Theater continues at Two Guys Three Hundred Poems!  Matt’s post this week starts his series, which will run through the end of the year, on Li Bai’s Midnight Songs.  I recently finished my series on Zhang Jiuling, which was a great experience, and I look forward to seeing where Matt goes with Li Bai.
• The end of Twin Serpents Rise remains tantalizingly within grip.  I can taste the end, and it tastes like victory.  Unfortunately, it tastes like victory that’s about 20,000 words too long for a novel in this publishing climate.  Oh well!  That’s what many, many successive drafts are for.

See you all around.