Best Games - Choplifter!The best early 8-bit computer games did a lot with a little. They were written for computers built around MOS 6502 or Zilog Z80 processors. Moderately powerful chips at the ...

Okay. Three weeks. Three stories under 1000 words.While I don’t think that it’s getting any easier to write these things, I think, at least the last one, is a bit better than the others...

Best Games Albums - Geddon Dangerous by Doublegeddon Normally this is the place for games, best games even. I’m just going to drop a link here. If you are going to read this, you should ...

I just tried writing my first flash fiction. Flash is a story that is typically under 1000 words, but I have read that some people consider anything under 2500 words flash fiction. A while ago I tr...

Are you supposed to make resolutions for the new year? I don’t really do that. I haven’t done that since I was a kid. I don’t really see the point. To be clear, it’s no...

It’s Boxing Day where I’m at. I hope anyone reading this had, or is having, a great holiday. See you next week.

This past week, I sold one story and received a request for edits on another. While that is pretty cool, I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk vaguely about editing.There is no gu...

Let's talk about stealing. Stealing ideas. It’s what I do. If you write or code or make art or create anything, you probably steal too.I have written here several times about stealing game id...

Best Games - Pitfall II : Lost Caverns 1984 was a weird year for video games in North America. Atari was the dominant player in the industry by an extremely wide margin, and they were absolute...

It won’t happen right away, but sometime soon, this blog will change. I’ve been undertaking the slow process of moving it to a new home for a while. It will look different, because, well, everythin...