The Journey to Minimize Plastics
Something that I’ve become more conscious of during the past few years is the sheer amount of waste that comes with living a modern existence. You buy a thing on Amazon and have it shipped to your house, and you end up with a huge box and some bubble...
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Literary Lessons from Bad Two Sentence Horror
I’m a strong believer in you can learn and grow as a writer from any sort of creative work, not just books, and especially not just the types of books you want to write. Which is why one of my favorite Twitter accounts is Bad Two Sentence Horror. It’s...
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Interactive Fiction – UI Elements and Narrative in Danganronpa v3
As I can easily do an entire TED Talk on the subject (and as I have to think about it A Lot for my own interactive projects) and I’m sure others might find this interesting, I’ve decided to start a series of posts on interactive fiction. Specifically, the unique...
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Worldbuilding and Evolution (or the lack thereof)
As this is a topic I’m quite passionate about and something I think that can be of use for creators, this will be the first in a series of posts about utilizing real-world biology in world building. As most of my experience in this is within the genre of...
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My 100% Foolproof Patent-Pending “Will Your Startup Last?” Test
Even before I moved to Silicon Valley, I was already learning all I could about The Industry. I was studying journalism and I wanted to work for someplace like Tech Crunch or Engadget, so I stayed up-to-date on the goings-on on the opposite coast. While I’ve never worked at...
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First Draft is Complete!
Exciting news! I finished the first draft for Enter Humanity this weekend. It’ll now be left alone for a month until I start editing. The shiny new thing that has my attention and will be my writing focus for the time is an idea for a visual novel/puzzle game....
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September and the Final Stretch
Hey, I’m doing these every month like I said I would! I’m currently at 80% complete for Enter Humanity. I actually have a progress bar installed on its page if you like to keep track of progress. It really hit me yesterday just how much I’ve gotten done and...
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Monthly “What’s up?” August 2020 Edition
It’s day 140 of the quarantine/lockdown/what have you. No conventions this year, and the the one in January won’t be held in 2021. That one is really rough, because there are a lot of writers at that one and lots of good panels and networking opportunities. I’m approximately 58%...
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State of Affairs July 2020
If you’re here from the forum, hello! Or from Twitter, Google or anywhere else, welcome. As I write this it’s day 118 in shutdown/quarantine/lockdown in the San Francisco Bay area, and my plans for the years were totally upended. I published a short story in the Further Confusion 2020...
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Modern Zoids 102: Tools for Building
For part two I’ll be going over the type of tools you’ll need to build a Zoid. You won’t need everything but if building plastic models is something you want to get into a hobby I highly recommend it. Only a few things you really need to buy expensive,...
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