Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So, I do these ahead of time, so sometimes it's hard to plan.

But, if my math is correct, sometime, somewhat recently, I just wrote my 600th column of making magic.

Okay, technically I had my 600th week since not every week I write a column.

But, anyway, 600 weeks is still quite the accomplishment.

I have figured out that I have written 2 million words in my column.

Two million words.

Which is pretty impressive in the sense that I don't know how many people in their life write two million words.

And I managed to do it just about designing magic in this column.

So yeah, today I'm going to talk a little bit about my writing in my column and I don't know, just share some stories and talk a little bit about my writing and my column and, I don't know, just share some stories

and talk a little bit about the ins and outs of doing a column.

So, let's do a little background.

I've talked before on the podcast about how I got my foot in the door at Wizards, and that

was through writing, and puzzle making, I guess.

But pretty much my start at Wizards was, had to do with my writing.

My background is writing.

I'm a pretty strong writer, and I was able to turn things in on time,

and I came up with good topics, and so I ended up writing a lot of stuff in the early days.

Eventually, by the way, I, or pretty early on, I had a magic puzzle column called Magic of the

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