Joi Massat

Running Around in Video Game Levels You’ve Completed Already For No Apparent Reason (and Then Also Looking at Maps)

It’s a time-honored tradition.

How to Write After You Break the Streak

I told the world I would write every day. Then I stopped for a week. And now writing is scary again.

Going Back to Gen 1 Pokemon Warped My Brain

This is what real strategy looks like: skewed and archaic.

A Talking Cat!?! Finally, A LitRPG Heroine We Can Believe In

Meet Taipha, the star of my LitRPG series in progress. She’s a cat. She’s a girl. Will she rule the world???

Read on to learn more about her…and her world!

What Is a LitRPG? A Simple Guide for the Deeply Confused

LitRPGs are like books plus video games. And while most websites defining them will assume you already know a lot about video games, I’ll pretend you’re my mom, who hates them and has no idea what kinds of books I’ve been editing for the past several months.

This explanation will be slow and methodical.

Writing a Small-Scope LitRPG?

I’m striving to create a world that’s small but rich with hidden secrets. We don’t always have to save the world!

Oops! My “Quick Side Project” is Consuming Untold Years

How’d I get here, and what can you do if you’re in my shoes?

Fluke (1995): More Like This Movie Was A Fluke

Ah, Fluke. Yet another bizarre, oddly compelling movie that has no right to be oddly compelling. Or bizarre, really. I mean, it’s a dog movie. All it had to be was a dog movie.

Platinum the Trinity Looks So Cool (And I Hate It)

BlazBlue sucks, last time I checked, but in my teenagerdom BlazBlue and its characters were just iconic.

Who Was Ms. Wood? (or: Why Am I So Tactless?)

I enthusiastically told my fifth-grade teacher that my fourth-grade teacher was my favorite.