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Regarding the Nintendo Switch: Breath of Inspiration

So, my blog has been quiet lately.  Not for lack of writing, more for a renewed feeling of focus.  I have several projects I’m working on and I churn out about the same number of words a week as I did when the B.O.S.S.s were in full swing.

But this past Friday something came out that threatened to crush my productivity:  The Nintendo Switch.

I was born alongside the birth of the console system.…

Just a short update to dust the cobwebs off the blog. I am doing NaNoWriMo this year. It’s a different approach from the superhero stories I’ve done 2013, 2014 and 2015.

It’s fantasy. More than that it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, write from the viewpoint of an antagonist.  More specifically, it is an exploration of what it takes for a person to become a villain.

I’ve brought it…

Musing: The Defense of Mighty Number 9 (And me)

  Chance are this article will draw the ire of two kinds of people.   Fans that bash on it after being disappointed by Mighty Number Nine and fans rallying to its defense.   Let me tell you outright.  I’m not doing either.

  Let’s get this out of the way.   By today’s standards of video games, Mighty Number 9 is a mediocre game.  When you consider the sheer amount of budget this game had to work…

Musing: Inactivity as an Activity.

    Call it productive slacking.

For the past two and a half years, I’ve stuck to a schedule of writing.  Musing on Wednesday, short story on Friday, work on the novel three times a week.  What happens when the schedule is disrupted?  Catastrophe?  No.  Progress.

  I’d forgotten the impact a break can make.  It’s like sleep, you need it even if it feels like a waste.  The lapse in blog content…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 7 Despair.

  I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I also have a sizable Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoiler in this post.  So if you haven’t seen it and you don’t want spoilers, don’t go on.

Now with the…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 6 Hope?

  I wrote this post on New Year’s Day and while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars a few times in it, but you’re safe with that.  Nothing I say will be any more revealing…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 5 Redemption?

I wrote this post on New Year’s Dayand while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars a few times in it, but you’re safe with that.  Nothing I say will be any more revealing than…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 4 I win?

I wrote this post on New Year’s Eve and while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars a few times in it, but you’re safe with that.  Nothing I say will be any more revealing…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 3 Hotland and a very angry Skeleton

I wrote this post on New Year’s Eve and while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars a few times in it, but you’re safe with that.  Nothing I say will be any more revealing…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 2 The Waterfall.

  I wrote this post on New Year’s Eve and while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars a few times in it, but you’re safe with that.  Nothing I say will be any more revealing…

Musing: Undertale, a Special Holiday Post, Part 1, The Ruins and Snowdin

This is a special multi-part post for New Year’s Eve moving into 2016 and while I don’t usually put spoilers in my posts I’m warning you right now.  Do not read this post if you intend to play the game ‘Undertale’.  What is

What is Undertale?  A roleplaying game that takes about 10-20 hours to complete to its full capacity.  I’ll mention Star Wars: The Force Awakens a few times in it, but you’re…

B.O.S.S. — Replid Nation, Part 1

Apologies again for the late update.  For now, the posts will likely be on Mondays during the holidays.  However, here’s an NEW B.O.S.S. story for the blog.  — Enjoy

I entered my usual haunt on the fifteenth of February, twenty-one-fifty-eight looking to restock my nicotine supply.  I needed every edge I could get with the case.     It was a convenience store just down the street from my office. …

Musing: Musing: Scrivener Part 2 – The Big Picture

  Oh God, not another tree analogy.  I’ll get to it.

Last week I mentioned a little program called Scrivener, but I’d only dipped my toe in the pool in terms of what it can do.  Scrivener is one of those tools that’s only as good as its user  it takes a commitment to understanding what it can do for you.  Lucky for most people, writing takes a great deal of commitment on its own.

That said, this…

B.O.S.S. — Game of Life 24

Update:  Sorry for the delay.  I lost my draft for his on Friday, and just now recovered it.   Posts will resume as normal this week (barring strange circumstances.

Harriet made her way to the power station without incident.  The only unavoidable camera and the door alarm keeping her from leaving the side exit had an ‘accidental’ lapse in coverage.  The entrance door to the power room had a…

In the shadow of NaNoWriMo, I got a nice deal on a writing program called Scrivener.  I’ve heard about it many times, including getting a heavy recommendation from one of the guys at my weekly writing group, but I never gave it a shot.

  Stay a while and listen.

Like many great things, I wish I had used this sooner.

  Scrivener is admittedly a very dated program, so people that like the…

B.O.S.S. — Game of Life 23

With some careful observation, Harriet had Julius’ schedule down to a fine science.  On top of that, she knew most of the blind spots in the building.   All the cameras worked off motion sensors, making it easy to tell when it picked up activity.

It was fair to assume Julius didn’t set up the system himself.  Such a system worked well for a retail location, but for someone monitoring the place…

Musing: Three is a Crowd

    Every year’s a challenge, but it’s a productive one.

Regulars to the blog may already know, NaNoWriMo project is a bit of a tradition for me.  The Macro Corp is an old concept for me, a group of super heroes I made in middle school.  Writing the characters is always a joy but like any old project, the success often comes from your ability to adapt.

  Today’s post is less about the dangers of…