I'm pulling away from the curb because I had to do a chore.

We all know what that means.

It's time to my drive to work.

Okay, so today my topic is writing preview articles.

I'm going to talk all about my history of writing preview articles and how I write them and

what's important and everything you ever wanted to know in 30

minutes about writing preview articles.

Okay, so I'm going to start with a little bit of history.

So prior to my working at Wizards, I used to write for television, but I'm a writer.

So when I first got involved with Wizards of the Coast with magic,

I wrote for the Dueless magazine.

Once Upon a Time, Wizards produced a magazine about magic.

The very, very first thing I did were the magic puzzles.

But shortly thereafter, I flew myself to Gen Con of 1994, which is where the very first

World Championship for Magic happened.

And I went there to pitch...

So the editor-in-chief was a woman named Catherine Haynes, and I wanted to write articles for

Magic.

I was doing the puzzle column.

So basically, I met up with her at the event.

And I said, I'd like to write articles.

And she's like, okay, well, pitch me good ideas.

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