As I mentioned recently, I was totally stacking it on my NaNoWriMo. The good news was that I managed to pull it back into line with some of my best days later that week. But, not only did I pull it back, I kept going too. Today’s (before I start …
Surprising as it might be, I really like writing. So much so that I chair a charity that promotes writing and have created countless resources to help writers. It has recently come to my attention that the kids where I live are massively talented and very imaginative. Furthermore, after running …
This year, I’m hitting my NaNoWriMo goals almost every day despite being ill. In what has become a rather stunning change of events, I might be getting somewhat efficient. You know, like a real adult. You can see from the graphic below that day two was not all that hot. …
This week I started what might be my single biggest public writing project ever. Whereas normally I write maybe a two or three part blog post, this is so much bigger. The Author Platforms project is a multi-page write up so big it had to have its own site. My …
We are coming up on mid-week so here is a report about all the things I have been blogging recently. Author Buzz: About pages On Author Buzz, my most recent post was about “about pages” and why they matter. The post features a blow-by-blow account of what you should have …
Now that the blog is back (to stay) I feel like I can get back to writing. It feels good. I’ve promised the readers of the dev blog (both of them) a full explanation of what has been going on. I’m still figuring out how to word that one. Meanwhile …
When you think about it, a GM and an author are quite similar. Both are telling a story. The only difference is the medium and the audience. Of the two, running a game as a GM might be the harder option. As a GM you still have to spin a …
What do I want? Answering that question is the key to targetting your life on what you want out of it. We call that success. One of the questions we raised on Author Buzz recently was “who is going to miss you when you are gone?“. Good question. My answer, …
One of the limits I set myself for the Mad Science setting was encounters without combat. It’s right there in the introduction: There is no combat – solve your problems like a grown up. Encounters without combat: harder than it sounds S3 (which needs a better name) and the Mad Science …
Five things I learned about writing from one chat about translating a short story into a screenplay. I’ve mentioned before about the possibility of one of my short stories becoming a short film. It is a very short short-story called When it Stops. Here are five things I learned today from …
