Alive, despite being one of my shortest stories, managed to give me more trouble than anything I’ve written in months. It started off eight pages long, but after some particularly angry editing I only ended up with two useable pages. I basically had to rewrite the entire piece only a few days before it...
Read more →I thought I had some decent answers to my reviewing problem when I wrote the article the other day, but there was a big snag in it: What constitutes an average game? I’m so used to spending all of my time saying that I love or hate the games I play that it’s rare...
Read more →If you think you see an unusually high number of eights, nines, and tens in game reviews, you’re starting to stumble upon one of the weirder problems that reviews have. Really, this can apply to a lot of stuff that gets looked over by another human being, but game reviewers seem to be having...
Read more →I don’t normally put any kind of constraint of myself with respect to length when I write a story, but I really wanted to shoot for something shorter than four thousand words for this month’s story, Be Careful. If you take a few seconds of your time you’ll find that I absolutely blew past...
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