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Clearly Not Gaming the System
When I was in university, I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to learn as many things in as many different fields as I had the capacity for. This meant my electives were things like geology, astronomy, the romantic languages, and Japanese. The only one I regretted at the time was computer science. Computer science was incredibly difficult for me. I dropped it like a hot potato rightā¦
PSA: Keep your High School Edgelord Poetry
I have been out of high school for 17 years now. It was not a nice time for me, and for the most part, Iāve blocked out the memories. However, I recently went to a poetry reading, and it triggered something in the back of my mind. Something I had written in high school. Something I had written in high school and liked. Something I had written in high school, liked, and thought I probably stillā¦
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It's Levi-OH-sa, Not Levioh-SA: Spellbound by the Spoken Word
Recently, I was invited to a poetry reading. An amateur poetry reading. Visions of a room full of beret-wearing college kids filled my mind, all snapping after one word is spoken into a microphone on a sparse, poorly-lit stage. It could be any word, but itās spoken artistically. If you donāt see the way ābalustradeā perfectly reflects the social situation of racial tensions in some farawayā¦
One Person's Trash is Another Person's Treasure. Sometimes.
People donate books for many reasons. The owner could be moving and has to downsize. Someone could have passed away, and their family is clearing out their estate. It could be that the reader has outgrown those particular stories. Perhaps it is related to a deep clean or the de-cluttering of a home. For the most part, though, I feel as if what gets donated has a positive correlation withā¦
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We're Here for a Good Time, Not a Well Done Time
Letās talk a little about guilty pleasures. By definition, a guilty pleasure is something you enjoy, but also feel some embarrassment about. This embarrassment may come about because, for one reason or another, you feel as though you should not be indulging in that thing, or because most other people do not think the thing is good. For this post, Iāll be leaning into and challenging that secondā¦
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Is the Spice Finally Too Spicy?
This post deals with topics of abuse in various forms. If this isnāt something you want to digest at the moment, see you in the next one! I can understand the underlying fantasy. Every girl wants to be āThe Specialā. Picked out of a crowd even when sheās plain. Treated like a princess by someone perceived to hold power. She wants to be the exception to the rules of his behaviour and be treatedā¦
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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
You may be familiar with the story of how Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, was written based on a dream she had. According to her, chapter 13, called Confessions, is essentially a transcript of that very dream. But what other books and media were based on dreams? This has been on my mind lately, so I decided to take a bit of a deeper look. Here is a list of SOME books, video games, and TV andā¦
Why My Job is Safe From AI. (For Now.)
Recently, my company asked whether we could use AI to help generate ideas for our content. Not to WRITE our content, but just to provide lists of material we could use as references or jumping-off points. This was met with different levels of uncertainty, but ultimately, my coworker was the first to sign up and try it. She is the reason for this post. Let me tell you, I was IN TEARS reading theā¦
A.M. to P.M. - The Best Time to Write
Recently, a friend told me he gets up and writes before work. This doesnāt sound too extraordinary as a standalone fact. But he works at 5:30 in the morning. Now, I donāt know about you, but doing anything requiring any modicum of concentration at 4AM is simply out of the question for me. He told me he likes it when the world is quiet. I made a sound of agreement, but I know the REASON theā¦
He Said, She Said
Just like every technique and stylistic choice, there are good and bad ways to do multiple points of view. For some people, the point of view of a book will determine whether theyāll read it or not. I canāt say I have ever personally gone through a phase where I straight-up hated the choice as a whole. Except for in Eldest. (Christopher Paolini, you know what you did.) However. For some reason,ā¦
Is Your Setting a Mary Sue?
The online course Iām taking for video game writing has been talking a lot about worldbuilding. This is nice because it gives me plenty to think about in my job and hobbies. Iāve made several posts about this already, but today Iām going to get to the core of the issue: Prevent your setting from being the most boring character in your book. Or the most pretentious character in your book. Or theā¦
Murder and a Skeleton Crew
This post is about a lot of things. About the Bechdel Test, about killing your darlings, about disposable characters, about fridging a characterās partner, about running your story on a skeleton crew, and about how to navigate a cast of characters in a way that is optimal for the reader. Letās start with some definitions. The Bechdel Test is a pop-culture guide designed to determine if a pieceā¦
Inside Out or Outside In?
The class Iām taking on writing for video games recently raised a point I canāt stop thinking about. To put it plainly, the point was whether itās better/easier to create a character from the inside out, or the outside in. For context, when you are writing for a video game character you are often a cog in the wheel of production. Even as a head writer, you may not have any say in what aā¦
Spellcheck and AI
For those of you who donāt know, I get paid for writing. I know Iām lucky and I wouldnāt change what I do or the company I work for. Even when people tell me AI is coming for my job and how programs like chatGPT will make me irrelevant in my field. Now, maybe youāre intimately familiar with AI programs. Maybe youāre laughing to yourself about how the technology is promising but itās far fromā¦
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Strategic People Watching and Stealing Everything That Isn't Nailed Down
Okay maybe the title of this is a little dramatic, but Iām sure youāve heard the joke that if you date a writer, youāre gonna end up in a book. Or that if youāre a Game Master in a tabletop RPG you steal everything that isnāt nailed down. When I first heard this I was in grade school and thought to myself: āThe author isnāt doing a very good job if the person can recognize themselves as aā¦
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The Only Book I Ever DNF'd
Always curious to me is why people choose to not finish a book. I know people who give a book three chapters, and if theyāre not hooked by then, they put it down and walk away. I know others that if they get bored at any point in reading it, then they put it down and walk away. Yet more that can only handle so much poor sentence structure before putting their book down. Some people canāt handleā¦
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Opinion: New York Times Bestseller Achievement Does Not Promise a Good Read
Maybe Iām old and getting grumpier, or maybe the world I live in is truly getting sneakier and less whimsical. I remember times when I would go to the bookstore and be drawn in by things like ā#1 New York Times Bestseller!ā written on the cover. However, it wasnāt until recently that I learned exactly how one gets on the New York Times Bestseller list. If youāre like me and were living in theā¦
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