Those of you who have been subjected to my gaming-related posts here can breathe a sigh of relief – I’ve got a new gaming column called The Casual Gamer over at Difference In Opinion, so most of my gaming-related essays will probably appear there almost exclusively. Now, Difference in Opinion is a website built by a friend [...]
Writing
You are browsing the Writing tag archive.
Ray of Sunshine
On a day when everything is a bit on the rough side, a ray of sunshine appears. There’s nothing a writer loves to hear more than a comment like this, and it certainly pushes the clouds aside a little bit.
I love doing the Reclaimer comic. At the moment I enjoy even more than writing a [...]
Apex Digest and Clarity of Night
A couple of items of note:
Apex Digest is running a subscription drive. They need more subscribers in order to be able to raise the pay rate for contributing writers. If you like science fiction and horror, then I highly recommend this publication. Go order a subscription or three!
Jason Evans at The Clarity of Night has opened his [...]
Writing Prompt #2
As promised here’s this week’s writing prompt. I’m even going to try to find time to whip up a story for it myself. Remember to keep the story at 1000 words or less. Comment here with a link back to your story, and at the end of the week, I’ll compile all the links into [...]
Happenings and Happenstance
Ok, apparently, I’ve been terribly neglectful of my blog these past few days. I’ve actually got two entries in draft form that I just haven’t quite finished yet. So, in an effort to catch myself up on some of my happenings the last few days, here’s a short bullet-list:
Remember when I posted a visual writing prompt? [...]
Flashes of Speculation – Relaunch Examined
Flashes of Speculation has been awake again for less than 24 hours, and already I’m very happy with things. I’ve had a handful of past contributors declare their excitement at its revival, and I’ve had three new stories posted already, accomplished through new registrations and stories submitted for review. That system already seems to work [...]
The Story That Drives the FPS
John Scalzi points out on his blog that the Writers Guild of America has created a new award for videogame writing. This brings into sharp relief again one of the elements that has me so hooked on the Halo series.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m really not an FPS gamer, at least not as a rule. There [...]
Oh So Busy
Well, I’m afraid that my writing time has been at a bit of a minimum the last week or two. In addition, I’ve had no time as yet to develop the new WordPress theme for Flashes of Speculation in preparation for its re-launch. This is due, in part, to the fact that I’m back to [...]
1,000
It’s only taken me four years to do it, but this is finally the 1000th post on this blog. Admittedly, my first two years of blogging were sporadic at best. There was something about the Xanga community that just never really inspired me to write much. I think it mostly had to do with the [...]