(this is 75% shitpost)
Continue reading “The RoyalRoad Blue Box Metagame”Intros in LitRPGs…and Beyond
There’s something unique and oddly compelling about the first several chapters of your typical LitRPG. Unique, compelling, and…isolated.
Continue reading “Intros in LitRPGs…and Beyond”Thicken That Skin!
They say we feel negative emotions more strongly than positive ones. Maybe that explains why when I receive anything vaguely resembling negative criticism on my written work, I get unreasonably nervous.
Continue reading “Thicken That Skin!”Catgirl System is Now Live…!! (Plus a Brief Writing Update)
That’s right. I’ve started posting it online and slathering additional secret chapters on Patreon. Now that the advertising is out of the way, I can move on to…reflection!
Continue reading “Catgirl System is Now Live…!! (Plus a Brief Writing Update)”Dancercise! …For Those With No Moves
The only way I can motivate myself to exercise until I sweat—and I mean real, droplets-flinging-into-my-eyes-like-I-just-got-out-the-shower sweat—is by dancing with wild abandon. And yet I have no rhythm. That’s why I keep the windows closed.
Wait…my blinds collapsed a month ago. Never mind that part.
Continue reading “Dancercise! …For Those With No Moves”Productivity Talk: My Inner Ned, My Inner Homer
When I have a really successful week followed by a slack one, it’s like New Me seeing Old, More Successful Me across the backyard fence. New Me struggles to assemble a pool while Old Me happily trims the bushes.
“Hidely-ho, neighborino!” says Old Me.
“RRRAAAAAUGH!” screams New Me as the pool explodes.
Continue reading “Productivity Talk: My Inner Ned, My Inner Homer”Blue Box Madness (or: The Dark Side of Writing LitRPGs)
I thought the world of tables would be simple, straightforward. Instead, it is unfolding into a nightmare, corrupting me.
Continue reading “Blue Box Madness (or: The Dark Side of Writing LitRPGs)”The Creative Thrill is Gone?
I declare that my creative zest is at an all-time low.
Continue reading “The Creative Thrill is Gone?”Can’t Make Kid’s Programs Like This Anymore (…And Probably Shouldn’t!)
Quick: name something you can’t put on your TV network for six-year-olds in the United States. “Guns and excessive violence?” That’s old news. “Racism?” Uh, we hope that’s old news. Here are two categories I propose: “things that are nightmarish” and “things that are really gross.”
Let that sink in. Two categories that dominated children’s TV in the 90s and left a long shadow seem to be fading away.
(Also, if you are a kid, please don’t read this, or my PG-13 blog in general.)
Continue reading “Can’t Make Kid’s Programs Like This Anymore (…And Probably Shouldn’t!)”Writers, Here’s Why It’s Impossible to Rip Yourself Off
Recently I realized that I like to repeat not just character types, but character ensembles. And my lack of creativity scared me.
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