Jane's assorted writings

My Glorantha writing is my main output, and the assorted stories can be found over here. Some of those are campaign write-ups from wargames set in Glorantha.

I also write in other universes from time to time: even this one! Quite a lot of this has gone out on my blog, and in various games forums, but I thought I'd bring it all together here. Bits from the Far Isles, Renaissance Kingdoms, and even Knight Fight, as well as non-Gloranthan roleplaying and some stuff that's just random.

Poetry

Haiku

Well, things that obey the 5/7/5 rule, anyway... Some about various gaming universes, destined for game forums, some done as part of conversations between the family, some as answers to challenges. On their own page.

Triads

Those Celtic things. One from the Far Isles, one from Renaissance Kingdoms. No Gloranthan ones yet, which is odd, as the site I used to learn about them is very Gloranthan.

Three things to gladden a cook's heart:
The smell of nothing burning
The sight of an empty slops-bowl
The sound of a feast-hall silenced

The Three Great Risings of Lancaster Feast:
The bread before baking
The crowd to greet their Duchess
Drunkard, from the tavern floor
But the Sun at its rising will be greater than the three

Iambic Pentameter

Thus far, despite study, only one of these things: I prefer a more compact verse form if I'm getting formal at all. My usual: start with a self-referential "how-to".

The stress must go on every other beat
"Pen-ta-me-ter" should mean I have five feet
I am iambic, that is what I am
In rhyming couplets, roughly, if I can.

There. Now we know.

Pseudo-Burns

Written for various Burns Night festivities up at Mel's

Pseudo-Chaucer

The Prologue from the Lancaster Tales - entry for a Renaissance Kingdoms poetry competition

A Mother's Day present: Childhood seaside memories
Another RK competition entry: the Ballad of Fred the Mariner

Far Isles things

I'm a story-teller rather than a story-writer in the Isles (Sian, my Far Isles character, now vanished, was an illiterate Silver Branch Bard), but when I find any of my output actually written down, I'll put it here.

Advice to a Pig - Old Welsh poetry
Moving the Cross - held over on the Cartographers and Navigators site
Hunting the Porkenapple - story
Pippa's lullaby - song
A Beowulf translation

Misc stories

Playing cards - backstory for a fantasy RPG character of mine, a thief turned Paladin. Published in the Furnace 2008 con-book.
A back-story fragment for my KnightFight character, Ragna Half-demon. In the game, she's a high-level berserker: no armour, just a very big sword and lots of magic. This isn't really a roleplaying game at all, you just click on other knights to fight them, nick their gold, and use it to make yourself more powerful, but I'd got into some conversations with some of the people I'd been fighting. A Knight of Light had been trying to "redeem" her via the rather limited in-game mail system (and beat her up and nick her gold, every 12 hours), so I put some in-game context and some of his conversation into a story.
Jack and Jill - from the Knight Fight RP forum.
Maybe not - written for a "drabble" challenge, subject "nostalgia"
Down came the raindrops - Another "drabble" challenge. How history can be altered by the weather.
On the move - look, you work out what the genre is, OK?

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