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… and my background: with the exception of Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, I’ve seen all of James Cameron’s movies at least three times. Yeah, even Titanic (though the third time was against my will). Understand that simple fact about me first: I’m pretty much the guy’s target audience. Kate and I went to see …

Continue reading “Avatar: my thoughts, my opinions, my recommendation”

Yesterday’s post generated a lot of interest. And emotion, yes, but mostly interest. If I can be allowed to revisit that post for a second, I’d like to sum the whole thing up like so: Ignore questions of infrastructure and the costs of ebook file development; those things are tangential to the current issue. What …

Continue reading “Big Problems, Little Solutions: E-book Publishing Ideas Stolen from Gamers”

Somewhere*, sometime**, D was talking about writing things and said something like: The only scene in a story with no conflict in it should be the epilogue at the end of the story. I know that isn’t it exactly, but that’s the gist of it; when you’re telling a story, scenes should have conflicts in …

Continue reading “Pulling a dick move, and other things that make stories (and games) better.”

Somewhere*, sometime**, D was talking about writing things and said something like: The only scene in a story with no conflict in it should be the epilogue at the end of the story. I know that isn’t it exactly, but that’s the gist of it; when you’re telling a story, scenes should have conflicts in …

Continue reading “Pulling a dick move, and other things that make stories (and games) better.”

Somewhere*, sometime**, D was talking about writing things and said something like: The only scene in a story with no conflict in it should be the epilogue at the end of the story. I know that isn’t it exactly, but that’s the gist of it; when you’re telling a story, scenes should have conflicts in …

Continue reading “Pulling a dick move, and other things that make stories (and games) better.”

I’ve been a bit periscope-down for the last week or so, but I thought I’d pop in for just a moment before my students show up and muse on a game I’m starting up this evening. I don’t normally talk about my gaming on this blog (saving that for Random Average), but in this case, …

Continue reading “Writing for (make believe) television: The Game!”

I’ve been a bit periscope-down for the last week or so, but I thought I’d pop in for just a moment before my students show up and muse on a game I’m starting up this evening. I don’t normally talk about my gaming on this blog (saving that for Random Average), but in this case, …

Continue reading “Writing for (make believe) television: The Game!”

Before I get into this, I need to lay out a couple concepts that I’m referencing here. Concept One: The Long Tail “The Long Tail” describes the “niche” strategy of businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix which can be expressed – in my own words – as “sell many different products, in relatively small quantity, per …

Continue reading “The New Frontier of Indie Publishing has already been Mapped Out (on a Battlemat)”

A few weeks ago, I noticed an interesting comment from someone I follow on YouTube, which went something like this. “This is really great news, which I feel calls for a pretty major deviation from my normal internet posting rules. I know you guys hate them, and you know that I hate them, but just …

Continue reading “The death of the Emoticon”

The second half of the conversation. I haven’t even listened all the way through and I’m loving it — we

This is the first of two podcasts I recorded with Tim, about bringing Indie kung-fu to a DnD game. My