Interview with Alternative Magazine Online

I was asked to do an interview for Alternative Magazine Online and like I usually do with these things I said yes, so imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail through with the most ever questions for an interview.  Thankfully, most of them were pretty good questions and I managed to get through the …

Writing Industries Conference

I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything this week, I’ve been busy with a few things, amongst which has been the preparations for the Writing Industries Conference on Saturday.  I shall endeavour to blog about it next week.  Because it’s a non-games event I’m sure that I’ll feel a little out of my depth, but I’m …

A Blog Post Every Day?!

I was reading this post, “You should blog every day” over at the Bubble Cow blog, which got me thinking about my own posting schedule – a hit and miss affair even at the best of times. Should I consider posting every day or is that idea a potential hazard?

Rules for Game Writing?

Graham Linehan (@Glinner on Twitter) tweeted a link to a wonderful article on the Guardian website: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. It’s two pages are filled with lots of writers’ rules and tips and I’m sure it’s a good read for writers at all stages of their careers.

I started thinking about the possibility of coming up with my own set of rules specifically aimed at game writing and after thinking about it for a little time my initial thought was that it might not be possible to do this at all.

My Top Twenty Films

This post was actually going to be a list of my top ten films, but I got a bit carried away. And there are still tons of others that could have been included in this list. They possibly might have been if I’d done the list at another time. It’s a pretty mixed bag and there are probably a number of films that wouldn’t be in other people’s top twenty.