Well, I wrapped up the last story for this short story competition thing. The results aren’t all in, but I did… fine. A lot of my stories ended up somewhere in the middle of the list, but they got...

Best Games - Red Baron Anyone who played arcade games in the 80s remembers Battlezone. Battlezone was that tank game made up of vector lines and blocky shapes. It was in first person, felt fully t...

If you read these, you’re probably getting as tired of reading about writing as I am about writing about writing. I just finished editing and submitting a story, so I’m low on words at the moment....

The Global Game Jam was this past weekend. And I didn’t participate. Because I was doing this writing jam. A jam is a jam though. One of the major parts of a jam is that you are given a prompt, or...

The writing competition I am in adheres to a very strict, very tight, word count. It’s pretty easy to blow past that limit and have to walk everything back, one word at a time. I managed to wrestle...

I’m doing another one of those writing contest things. Writing very short stories every weekend for at least a little while. I’ve only just started, so I don’t really have much to say about it yet...

Best Games - Full Throttle The early to mid 90s, point and click adventure games were the hot genre. I mean, sure, there were lots of other types of games out there. Sports games were just ramping...

I hope everyone is having a happy holiday.

I would bet that everyone who writes fiction has some basic rules that they follow. Probably, a lot of them are rules learned from courses or instructional books on writing. At least a few of them ...

I don’t have much to write for this one. I thought about writing some stuff about the games I’m working on, but none of that is in a place to talk about. I thought about writing about writing, bu...