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National Novel Writing Month is going very well for me. Nine days and almost 16,000 words in, this is the longest I’ve ever lasted. Maybe it has to do with my novel being pretty much all over the place. I can sit down and write almost whatever I want and tie it in to the loose plot somehow. But that’s how life is, right? Full [...]

There are certain game composers whose music style is just… theirs. The times signatures used, preferred instruments, the way epics sway and sweep before falling into a perfect loop that’s mandatory in almost all video game music. The one whose style is most noticeable to me is Motoi Sakuraba. His work is unmistakable. I hear a song I’ve never heard before in a game I’ve [...]

A handful of people said they liked the way my last post was written. Comments, chats, tweets, all over the place, but the words were nearly all the same. It’s the power of the free write. Take what is in your mind and bend it, move it, shape it into the things you’re feeling. Good or bad. It hardly makes sense to most people. Some [...]

Almost every year I give National Novel Writing Month a shot, and every year I attempt I also never finished. The longest I’ve held out was a week. Maybe 8,000 words. I just write horrifically slow, not to mention I want to edit like crazy. But that is not what NaNoWriMo is about. As the tagline says, it’s thirty days and nights of literary abandon. [...]