A second job could help me save up for a number of things including a car and an arcade. But can I really make a second job work?Continue readingA Second Job?
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Making a Character Not Like You
Last week on “Fresh Air,” a talk radio show on NPR that generally interviews people in the entertaiment industry, they had Nick Hornby on promoting his new book. Nick Hornby, for those of you who don’t know, is the author of High Fidelity, a book that was turned into a most excellent John Cussack movie.…Continue readingMaking a Character Not Like You
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Romantic Involvements in Writing
After having one of those romantic dreams last night (you know the ones), I began thinking about romantic involvements in the book that I’m working on. I currently don’t have plans on having a romantic involvement in my story, yet it seems to me that this is almost all of what writing is about. I’m not sure I like that, and maybe I leave that out just to try to buck the trend, but then I feel like I may be endangering myself with a large segment of my possible readership.Continue readingRomantic Involvements in Writing
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Organizing Sections in Writing
Early on in my writing, I had the notion that I had to write in the order that it would appear in the book. Therefor, if I was thinking about how section C would work and had some great ideas, I wouldn’t write them down until I could get sections A and B down. I…Continue readingOrganizing Sections in Writing
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The Wrong Kind of Itch
Of late, I have had an itch to work on my game design. This is great in some respects. I love thinking about how MMOs work and it offers me a good number of posts as I start bringing my thoughts onto my blog. Which obviously this blog is about game design in the first…Continue readingThe Wrong Kind of Itch
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The Writing Burn
I will be honest in saying that on a day to day basis, I really don’t have the burn, or even really want to write. I have many great ideas, but honestly I don’t feel like it often. Manytimes, I sit and force myself to write because I realize I have to write from time…Continue readingThe Writing Burn