There's an odd thing that happens in properties (intellectual properties, or “IPs”, which encompass the entirety of published fictional media) which were created decades before our contemporary social and technological developments went from being fiction to reality. Things we take for granted are mysteriously never added to the official IP, and even fanworks which blend … Continue reading The Droids Have Ears: Surveillance and Technology in the GFFA
Tag: writing
“In Order to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe”
Title courtesy of Carl Sagan Been a while; a lot's changed. I discovered that the worst thing about trying to maintain a weekly blog is trying to come up with things to talk about. I'm still writing, and recently shared a bit of my world-building process with some friends. Another friend asked me for my notes; … Continue reading “In Order to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe”
Relativity
I love maps. If a novel includes maps, you'd better believe I will be flipping back to them frequently to compare locations. The same thing happens in games; the relationships between locations and the projected travel time from one point to another allow for a better sense of scale. I think it comes from growing up … Continue reading Relativity
Remap
I've mentioned before that the novel I'm currently working on is the first for which I've had a full plot outline developed before I even started writing. This is where I admit that I've had to re-outline the story, one year after I made the first outline. It's not as bad as you might think. … Continue reading Remap
Playing at Deities, part 2: Maps
When I was taking Creative Writing classes in high school, one of the toughest parts for me at the time was separating my own work from others'. I read a lot, and I actually read much more when I was growing up in the '90s, since my dad had a strong antipathy towards video games … Continue reading Playing at Deities, part 2: Maps
Exclamation Mask
I was going to follow up last week's post with Part 2, but Real Life rudely interrupted my weekend and Saturday was a write-off for writing. I make no apologies: family is a bit more important than a blog post. I recently read a blog post during the course of which it was mentioned that … Continue reading Exclamation Mask
Playing at Deities, part 1
I had a different post on world-building ready to go last Monday, took a read through it before posting and realised that anyone whose brain isn't affected by ADHD (hello!) would probably see it as a pile of gibberish and roundabout logic. (The fun part about having ADHD: abstract reasoning makes analysis of multiple factors … Continue reading Playing at Deities, part 1
The Writers’ Think Tank
I've been writing stories since I was able to pick up a pencil and form letters on paper correctly, a skill I acquired at the age of three. Spelling came later, but I was already reading on my own, and I distinctly remember when I was five folding and stapling together several pieces of paper … Continue reading The Writers’ Think Tank
To NaNoWriMo or Not
It isn't widely known, beyond a small circle of my friends and a writers' group I drift in and out of on Farcebook (not a typo), but I have actually been attempting to write a novel. I won't go into details about the story itself -- as I tend not to in order to avoid boring … Continue reading To NaNoWriMo or Not
Soap Operas and Stereotypes [DA2]
I ran across yet another article about how people objected to the romantic interactions that occur in Dragon Age 2. The Straight Male Gamer complains there's not enough content for his demographic; the Gay Male Gamer complains about the portrayal of a bisexual (yes, he's bi, not gay; go play Dragon Age: Awakening, it's mentioned … Continue reading Soap Operas and Stereotypes [DA2]
Inqorporeal 