Hello everyone. How was your April? Mine has been rather rough. With the way the weather has been – hot one moment, chilly the next – it was only a matter of time before I got sick. And sure enough it came during the second week of the month. The very next day after I…
Week 3: Lovecraftian Horror Notes: Special guest: Cherie Priest, author of the Clockwork Century series. This episode is recorded at the Writing Excuses Retreat Lovecraftian Horror – hearkens back to Lovecraft’s stories, something that can frighten even an atheist Horror so much greater than the most competent protagonists Eldritch – Horror with the supernatural,…
Week 2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now? Notes: Story that suggest conflict Who can be hurt Painful decisions that the idea can create How the idea affects the rich and the poor How the world adapts to what is happening Start looking at characters Who can be help and who…
On thinking about how to improve my writing, write more and blog more this year, the idea for this dawned upon me. A blog series about going through Season 10 of the Writing Excuses podcast, dubbed the Masterclass Season. The hosts go through all manner of topics on writing, such as brainstorming, writing characters and…
Hello everyone! How was your March? The weather here was been hot. HOT. There are heat waves in parts of the country hitting 40 Celsius. It’s supposed to be the monsoon season here, a time of storms and flood. Instead, I’m sweating throughout the day. Thank God it wasn’t last month, otherwise I don’t know…
So recently, I finished the Horizon Zero Dawn DLC – the Frozen Wilds, and it got me thinking about what the sequel would be like again. I think there’s zero doubt that Guerilla Games is working hard on it (Horizon One Dawn? Horizon Zero Dawn Two? Horizon Two?), but there’s not much we know about…
Hello everyone, I hope February has treated you well! My February was a disaster. I don’t think it might actually be the worse month in my life. Things started well enough with preparations for the Lunar New Year going swimmingly. And then disaster one happened. I had a massive cramp while jogging. The cramp itself…
I’ve decided that 2019 is the year I start to make a dent in the backlog. Last year was pretty bad. I bought a ton of games and finished less than 50% of them. This year is all about buy fewer new games, and completing already owned games. Honestly, it’s mostly because I want to…
Hello one and all. I can’t believe January is already over! It was an excellent month for me. My 27th birthday was last month, which was a little bit more upbeat than the last few years’ were. Spent plenty of quality time with the family. And I got started in some of the goals I…
It’s January and my birthday is right around the corner. I’m turning 27, which means I’m crossing the threshold between mid-twenties to late-twenties. Not a comforting thought. There’s also the 27 club, but I’m neither a rock musician nor remotely famous, so I think I’m in the clear here. *fingers-crossed* Whenever my birthday comes around,…
Hi one and all, and Happy New Year! 2018 has come and gone, and it has been a mixed year for me. It felt like a stagnant year. It doesn’t feel that much different from 2017, which was a huge difference from 2016. I graduated in 2017, started working full time, and started working part…
December is here! It’s Christmas time! Yay! November has been a mix bag for me. The first half was amazing. I got to spend some great time playing Red Dead Redemption 2 while making great progress on NaNoWriMo. However, the latter half of the month sucked. Faced with a fried graphic card, a disrupted internet…
NaNoWriMo is here! And it’s proceeding a little better than I expected, as in I’ve been able to hit the word goals daily. That said it has taken more time than usual for me to hit those goals. Most of that comes from lack of a clear plot, and the rest comes from fat-finger typos…
November is here. It’s the penultimate month of the year, and the month of NaNoWriMo. Stress is in the air. October was an excellent month. I managed to complete a big project at work and deployed it without any issues. Many hours were spent playing games. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey alone consumed about 70 hours. Many…
We’re just over six months into the r/Fantasy Book Bingo Challenge 2018 and I thought it would be fun to do a midterm review/assessment of my progress thus far. It’s not going to be a pretty picture, that’s for sure, but I also plan to outline my plans going forward. Specifically, the books I would…
What is it? Mark of the Ninja is a 2D platformer, with a focus on stealth, developed by Klei Entertainment (makers of Don’t Starve and Invisible Inc) and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released for Windows and Xbox 360 in 2012. The game stars an unnamed ninja of the Hisomu clan. After an attack…
Hi everyone, September has come to an end and the last quarter of the year is here! That means Christmas is just over 12 weeks away. CHRISTMAS! Okay, maybe it’s a little bit too early to be excited for Christmas. Let’s look forward to Halloween instead, which is not a big thing where I’m from.…
A look at what’s coming next from Sony Worldwide Studios in a post Spider-Man world.
Three. It’s been three years since Watch, Game, Read came to be. Three years since that very first post back in September of 2015. *pulls on confetti ball and lit some fire sparklers*
Hello everyone! I’m back! Between work and vacation, July and August flew by like a blur for me. I’ve spent a ton of time with my Switch. I’m absolutely in love with it. Though I somehow managed to crack the screen. My iPad flopped over on top of it. It wasn’t even a huge fall.…
Watch, Game, Read 