Monthly Archives: August 2012

An Interactive Music-Making Epic: TweakerRay’s Collector Chapter 02

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Many posts ago, I set myself the challenge of writing something about Sarah Howell’s silent comic. Today I’m doing the exact opposite. I have been given the challenge of writing an article on a music CD: namely TweakerRay’s Collector Chapter … Continue reading →

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Showing and Telling, Ambiguity and Obscurity: Or Author What the Hell is Going On?

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

So I’ve joined a Creative Writing group and I’ve so far gone to my second session of it. It’s actually been a long while since I’ve gone to a Writing group and it’s about time.  It also  seems we are … Continue reading →

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Games I Never Played: Mage and Castle Falkenstein

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

My last post was about the role-playing game that my friends and I have played on and off for some years now. But what began to change my attitudes about table-top role-playing–and what it is actually about–was something else. For … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Batman Rises Once Again

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

I guess it’s about time to pay attention to the Bat Signal. It’s been pretty damned insistent. Cue in the dramatic musical score and … So a few weeks ago I saw The Dark Knight Rises. What can I tell … Continue reading →

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Role-Playing as Interactive World-Building

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

In addition to writing, I’ve been doing some other things with my time as well. A few weeks ago, my old friends and I started another table-top role-playing adventure with the Star Wars D20 system. As you can see, we … Continue reading →

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Full Beings and Perfect Forms: Aristophanes and Plato in Miracleman

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

Before I begin, I would really like to point out that I’m aware of the fact that I’m talking about a comics series that few people have had the opportunity to read: though perhaps there are more readers of Miracleman … Continue reading →

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Frustration, Developments and Other Stories

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

I’m trying to find the best way to phrase this because it’s been on my mind for a while. As a lot of you–old and new readers alike–know, I’ve been improving and developing this Blog as I’ve gone along. I … Continue reading →

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Just Write It: The Perils of World-Building

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

When I was in Grad School, I studied the concept of mythic world-building as the focus of my Master’s Thesis. To study and work with archetypes to build a whole other kind of world–reflective of the one we live in–can … Continue reading →

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Athena Bursting From the Brain: Or Dealing with the Habits of a Creative Mindset

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

When you make things, do you ever have these moments where something just won’t get out of your head? You know: there’s a story you know you should be working on, or an article that wants to be written, or … Continue reading →

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Taking Back My Workshop a Bit and After-Bites

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

Although you could conceivably title this post “Over-Bite” as well. I’ve had The Sleepwalker and A Natural Selection in my written notebook for quite sometime now and I’d been meaning to transfer them onto this online version of my Mythic … Continue reading →

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