January 17, 2007
10:26 pm
From the writing weblog Paperback Writer: “I don’t see what the big deal is,” Jane snapped. “Sure, I know the rules. My protagonist should have been a recovering crack whore hiding from the cops in a flop house room with a sometimes-boyfriend named Wife Beater–“ Heh. That pretty much sums up most of the people […]
I just wanted to post a quick note here to say that if it seems like I’ve been extraordinarily quiet lately, it’s because most of my writing hasn’t been for public consumption. Today saw the publication of a 3,800+ word piece for the members-only C3 Newsletter titled “Winning the Console Wars with User-Generated Content”, last […]
In response to the writer’s block post from yesterday, here’s a couple chunks of raw content hammered out this morning. Be warned, it’s pretty rough. It began the year Jeremiah got shot. The caravan had ventured a little too close to the edge of the void that year, and Jeremiah had paid the tax. The […]
Oh my word, it feels so good to be telling stories again instead of just building websites. Remember last weekend when I posted about the interactive narrative and the video game pitch that were due this week? Well, thirty-odd drawings, at least one 4-hours-of-sleep night and a new URL later, I’ve got both little projects […]
So for various reasons, my brain has been moving further and further from web development and closer and closer to storytelling. This is fitting, seeing as how I’ll be starting classes in Cambridge in three weeks, but it’s problematic since I’m also feverishly trying to cram in all the stuff I want to do here […]
I’m hoping that my grad school program gives me a chance to get back to my storytelling roots, because man, do I miss it. This weekend I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and, as always following a good read, it rekindled my dreams of creativity. For the last five years, my storytelling creative […]
A quick shout-out to my friend Kevin Smokler, whose new book Bookmark Now!: Writing in Unreaderly Times hits the shelves this week. Kevin founded the sadly-missed Central Booking, is a regular speaker at SXSW, maintains a weblog at Where There’s Smoke and is an Inkblots alum to boot. Attaboy Kevin! Kevin kicks off the party […]
I’m not sure exactly what it is – maybe it’s my discovery of the new Cirque du Soleil Ka site this afternoon, but something has kicked my imagination into high gear. Here are some of the ideas that have been flickering across my mind tonight: Kelele Mbosa is the returned soul of the last of […]
Josh over at Epistemographer just totally nailed my current malaise. I’ve been in creative input mode for a while now – although my output has been pretty strong for my freelance work, it’s been absolutely laconic when it comes to my writing. Another great New Year’s Resolution is to get my arse back in gear […]
