Game Design, Book Design: A Tale of Woe
Last week I was very excited because at long last, the video game I backed on Kickstarter in 2013 was finally coming out. The game in question? Armikrog, the “spiritual successor to The Neverhood.” The...
View ArticleI am not Anne Bean, either.
My wonderful former advisor from Goddard College, Susan Kim, wrote an article on the alumni blog about deadlines. Susan Kim is a New York City television writer, playwright, teacher, and more. She has...
View ArticleAnd finish things. Then start new things. Then finish them.
That’s the advice Neil Gaiman wrote down for me in a little blank book. It’s good advice, particularly in combination with Terry Pratchett’s advice from the same book: “30 minutes every day! Every damn...
View ArticleFreak Out in a Moonage Daydream
When I woke up this morning and looked at the internet, I wasn’t prepared to go through various stages of grief, starting with a rock-solid denial: what? David Bowie isn’t dead. David Bowie cannot, in...
View ArticlePrettiness, Confusion, and Bunny Lee’s Confusing Costume
I avoided prettiness for a long time. I know why. It’s a matter of adolescent trauma, that I can sort out objectively in my brain. I grew up attending a homogeneously white, middle-to-upper-middle...
View ArticleFailure and its Opposites
I’ve been taking a fantastic improv class through Seattle’s Pocket Theater. Each class we touch on an essential concept of improv, and a couple of weeks ago we did a whole class on failure. It was...
View ArticleJackie Ormes: activism through comics, resistance through fashion
File this one in the “cartoonists those jerks at Angoulême should have known about.” Zelda “Jackie” Ormes was a pioneer of American comics and the first black woman to have a syndicated comic strip....
View ArticleOn the Nature of the Soul, and Writing
I’ve been rapping for about seventeen years, okay? I don’t write my stuff anymore, I just kick it from my head, y’know what I’m sayin’? I can do that. No disrespect, but that’s how I am. -Young Churf,...
View ArticleSow What You Plant
Or, some ways that being a freelance writer is a lot like gardening. But, like, high stakes gardening where you don’t have a grocery store, so what you sow is what you harvest, and that’s both what you...
View ArticleHarvest
The last time I wrote on this blog was around Spring Equinox. Now it’s nearly Fall Equinox, which feels like a poetically appropriate fallow period. It turns out I have a lot going on in the next few...
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