I need a break from considering weighty matters like my complete lack of skill in basic areas of craft, so I bring to you: peculiarities. Mine specifically, but you're welcome to comment with yours ( Read more... )

So, theme. Cutting the last post off here sort of inflated expectations for the theme post, so prepare to be disappointed. I only have a few things to say about it and none of them are particularly awesome. In fact, I can summarize everything I want to say in one sentence: I believe theme is an equal but separate force to elements of craft ( Read more... )

This compiles all the Xenogears "meta" I thought was worth leaving a direct link to, and also translations.

I think my FE posts are way more awesome, but that's just because my Xenogears posts are older.

( 2011-2012 replay, translations, so-called meta, all right this way... )

Some time ago queenlua wrote about different approaches to writing, in which she outlines the three main elements that might drive a story: character, plot, and theme. "If plot is what's driving a story, the first thing the author thought of while writing the story was probably, "Wouldn't it be interesting if X happened?" [...] If character is what's ( Read more... )

I wish I could say I've been doing tons of work, but really, I've been doing some work (not the work I should be doing), sometimes the minimum, and not always because of backaches. But! At least for once LOTRO wasn't the cause of my slacking ( Read more... )

"One Hundred Essays on the Creative Process" is just a really pretentious way of saying, "I'm going to write a bunch of posts about my attempts to become a better writer." If there's one thing I write about all the time, it's, well, writing. (And me, and myself.) And sometimes the best way to work out a dilemma is to talk about it. I run into ( Read more... )

It has always been hard for me to split my time. We all know (well, many of us know) how terrible I used to be at managing my time for school work, but the problem doesn't end there. I'm bad about chores at home, which doesn't affect many others besides myself, and I'm terrible at managing when I should (or want to) work on something of my own ( Read more... )

Since the movie will be coming out this year, I thought I'd revisit The Hobbit. I read it some time during my last year of high school and can't remember a thing beyond "Smaug dies" (SPOILER?), "Bilbo gets some awesome equipment," and "a bunch of dwarves crash his party at the beginning of the book" - his single hobbit party, that is ( Read more... )

If you happen to like Crimea and Gallia, please do continue on - that's okay by me and I'm not trying to change any minds. It's been forever since I played these games, anyway; maybe I forgot something ( Read more... )

Whoa guys, breaking news: the herons aren't ripped off from Tolkien - rather, clearly, Tolkien traveled forward in time and ripped off Fire Emblem! See here:

[Sauron] chanted a song of wizardry ( Read more... )