Bent on total word domination
The Game Developers Conference Online is being held this week at the Austin Convention Center in the heart of Texas. Oddly, I didn’t consider attending until a bunch of folks I know started posting on Facebook and elsewhere that they were going to be there and wanting to know who might be joining them. Upon [...]
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Raymond Chandler once wrote, “In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” Lester Dent, in his Master Fiction Plot Formula, wrote that, in the second 1500 words, the author should “shovel more grief onto the hero.” In one of my writing groups, I have a friend who [...]
I don’t normally want to post gripes or criticisms. For one thing, it’s inevitably going to step on someone’s toes, offending a reader or fan. Beyond that, though, it projects me as some sort of malcontent who’s never happy, and that’s not generally what I’m about; I’m usually a pretty upbeat guy. Thus, my posts [...]
Things have been a bit crazy over the last year and a half, which was the last time I updated this blog. The best of intentions and all that. This is a fresh start. I have made a promise to myself to do a better job balancing the desire to post more regularly and the [...]