Half a year between entries once again. Shock and awe for anyone who knows me.

Cliff's Notes of life in G-funk Land (and website updates) -

Dynasty Warriors 5 is still my favorite in the series. I wrote this retrospective love letter to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

Here's another fond look back on Milon's Secret Castle, a childhood favorite game ( Read more... )

I like my job. I like the people I work with. I like walking there, although it's officially too hot to do so in dress pants. This is why we have bathrooms and changes of clothing. My duties largely focus on cobbling together data from various sources into a useful form for department staff. This involves some interesting problems of database ( Read more... )

I spent the last few days in the glorious realm of Nothing Constructive Whatsoever. Sort of. NaNoWriMo left me with a whole mess of ideas to refine and rework, so I've been poking at all the unanswered questions it raised. This is all quite encouraging and fun - reminiscent of the August/September heyday when my Wire-fueled brain was happily ( Read more... )

I signed up for a Tumblr account several months ago. Like any new and confusing social media, it got largely ignored until I figured it was time to sit down and understand what it was good for ( Read more... )

Title: Straight Shot
Fandom: Fallout: New Vegas
Characters: Arcade Gannon, Craig Boone
Rating: T/PG-13 (swearing)
Length: 4500 words

@ AO3
@ fanfiction.netBecause Arcade and Boone are awesome, as is awkward male bonding. Those two are like oil and water in some regards, but they share a certain guarded loner vibe. My sense of man-related humor ( Read more... )

Words, words, words, words. Huh huh huh. It says use on wood.

So there's a wuxia fiction anthology accepting submissions. Paid. The organizer isn't fussy about first rights or claim to yours - he only requires you to not publish elsewhere during a short window of exclusivity ( Read more... )

This is the second time I've worked with a writing concept surprisingly summed up by a Rush song. The first is my NaNoWriMo draft from five years back, which will get overhauled one of these days because it has too much good stuff to waste. It would help if I could keep my brain in atmospheric horror mode for more than a day at a time ( Read more... )

I recently asked for speculative fiction recs to help inspire me for a story. I've only scratched the surface of those, but I can safely say that I like Neal Stephenson's style. I had fun reading, poked at some thoughts, and came up with little more than a pile of Do Not Wants for my own work. Sometimes that's all you get out of a R&D stint, but it ( Read more... )

I really should be getting back to that video game meme. For now, I'd rather blather about my latest joy ( Read more... )

Say hello to my most ambitious writing project to date.

Tempered Will [T/PG-13] - 40,000 words

How did an unruly teenage boy grow up into one of Wei's greatest commanders? A coming of age tale mixed with military drama - my researched take on Cao Ren's maturation from ordinary youth to leader of his own army.

Cross-posted to AO3 and fanfiction. ( Read more... )