And we’re back to my bread and butter – getting uppity about writercraft. Continue reading “Author Voice vs Character Voice”
Top Ten Hardest Writing Things — and NaNo Debrief
I’m going to start this post with a little personal update. I said at the beginning of this NaNo that I was going to go for a stretch goal, but wouldn’t be disappointed if I didn’t quite make it. Continue reading “Top Ten Hardest Writing Things — and NaNo Debrief”
Welcome to the End
Yes, this is technically a day early. I know.
But because there won’t be anything posted tomorrow: Welcome to the end of NaNoWriMo. Continue reading “Welcome to the End”
Sprints and Marathons
And why you stretch before you go reaching for that metaphor. Continue reading “Sprints and Marathons”
NaNoWriMo and the Mushy Middle
It’s now about halfway through NaNo, give or take a few days. I won’t talk about how many words should or shouldn’t have been written by now. Honestly it doesn’t matter – as long as you’ve learned something new by this point in the month, that’s really the only thing that matters. Continue reading “NaNoWriMo and the Mushy Middle”
The First Week is Over
First week is done. It’s over now. Time to put it behind you. At this point – brace yourself, I’m about to mention wordcounts – you should have written about 11,669. Continue reading “The First Week is Over”
I Want to Try New Things
This one is very personal, and I don’t think it’s really going to be of interest to anyone else, but I couldn’t think of a writing problem to get snobbish about, so here we go. Continue reading “I Want to Try New Things”
Mass Effect: Flavours of Immortality
And this brings us to the end of me ranting about this game. Thanks to people for sitting through all of this – I hope that this has been as entertaining to read as it was good to get off my chest. Continue reading “Mass Effect: Flavours of Immortality”
Mass Effect, Alien Design and the Unknowable Other
As mentioned in the intro post, this is one of my pet topics so hold onto your hats, kids. Please note: Later I say that I am about to spend a paragraph spoiling the original Mass Effect trilogy. This did not end up being the case. As of writing this edit, I’m about 1,000 words into that particular rant, so if you don’t want the original Mass Effect trilogy spoiled, it may be best to skip this post altogether. Continue reading “Mass Effect, Alien Design and the Unknowable Other”
Generations
Wilom tried to count the people for a while, to try and get some inkling of how much time might be passing. He never seemed to be able to count much past twenty, though — for some reason as soon as he thought he had an accurate count, he’d remember someone else he’d taken, or realise that one he’d counted had actually been from long, long before, and he’d have to start again. Continue reading “Generations”
