Category Archives: Creative Process

Ready-Made and Waiting for Acknowledgement

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

A while ago, I finally finished watching the movie Adaptation. And there was something in that movie about writing, meta-narrative and the very essence of fascination that kind of–metaphorically–punched me in the face. There is one part in the film … Continue reading →

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The Heavy Weight of an Unwoven Twine

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

I’m writing late to state that I finally started working on my Twine game in earnest. It was a long time coming and it is a long time going. This particular odyssey began in the wintertime when I finished reading … Continue reading →

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Practicing Ideas and Dress-Rehearsal Stories

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

There is a character in Sandman who gets to the point where he has so many ideas in his head that he can’t write them out, or express them, fast enough. In my case, I have all of these ideas … Continue reading →

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Observations of a Part-Time Poet

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

Believe it or not, I don’t make poetry often. In fact, poems like Berserker and Necromancer usually come very rarely to me and it is even less often these days that I will post them up publicly for other people … Continue reading →

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A Game of Statues: Amanda Palmer, Persona, Expression and Life

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

When I was in Kindergarten, in a school called Adventure Place, we used to play something called “A Statue Game.” I knew it as The Statue Game. We would listen to this song–which I now know to have been created … Continue reading →

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I Wanna Cast Magic Missile: Art, Science, Spellcasting, and Making Things

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

The Dead Alewives comedy skit reference aside, there are two classes of spell-caster in Dungeons and Dragons that have always interested me. I would imagine that most people who are familiar with the fantasy genre know what mages are. Mages … Continue reading →

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At Night

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

It’s past three in the morning. Usually, with a rare few exceptions, I’m not up this late these days. But I am usually awake past everyone else. It is about the only time I have any peace. At this time … Continue reading →

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Considerations and Experiments

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

I’ve been busy and thinking about some things this past while. This in itself is nothing new, of course. I still have my collaboration with Angela to consider–which I have to flesh out into something like a comics script form … Continue reading →

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What I Got Myself Into

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

I’m sorry this took so long to post, but I underestimated just how potent post-Game Jam lag can be. There have also been some tech issues, so you can look at the previous sentence as a double entendre if you’d … Continue reading →

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A Message from You to Me On An April Fool’s Day 2003

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

It was 2003. I read American Gods two years before and I wanted to read more. I was in my first year of my University’s Creative Writing Program and not too long before I’d finished my unpublished Read Between the … Continue reading →

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