Alternate Roots
I’ve been feeling a little unenthusiastic about writing these posts recently. By “recently” I mean that I’ve been feeling it gradually over the last few years, and more acutely over the last few weeks. There are a few reasons for…
Tag Writing
Making Tracks
As you may have noticed, posts have slowed down. Well, stopped. There are a few reasons for this – my writing habits have been interrupted by getting distracted by holidays and other projects, by my usual writing space being temporarily…
Making Tracks
As you may have noticed, posts have slowed down. Well, stopped. There are a few reasons for this – my writing habits have been interrupted by getting distracted by holidays and other projects, by my usual writing space being temporarily…
The Life of Language
I’ve seen a lot of people treat the concepts of puns and wordplay with contempt, and it’s an attitude that I disagree with but also find interesting. So much of humor boils down to some form of word play: Mishearings…
The Corruption
I find most game stories extremely obnoxious. Beyond the irritations with craftsmanship and cliche, beyond being merely bored and annoyed, there are patterns I see over and over again in intros and cutscenes and store pages that are distastefully tedious…
Telling Stories in School
After watching through Better Call Saul I apparently decided I still didn’t have enough anxiety in my life and subsequently binged through Barry – a comedy series following a hitman, played by Bill Hader, who stumbles into a Los Angeles…
Bound City DevBlog, October 2022 – Little Lives
This has been, to my chagrin, the least productive month of the project so far. I’ve already talked about most of the things pushing back against my progress, and all of those continue to do so. The arc of progress…
Message Mixology
When I was taking a mediocre English class, one of the things that I was taught, one of the things I subsequently rejected, was that a story must have a message. Some while afterwards, I changed my mind: I decided…
Bound City DevBlog, August 2022 – Incomplete Completion
First thing’s first: I didn’t hit the deadline. I didn’t honestly expect to, but it was worth a shot, and I think just considering the project in terms of a deadline helped guide my efforts in the right direction –…
Bound City DevBlog, July 2022 – Deadlining
The end of June and beginning of July were dominated by travel, several trips in quick succession over about 3 weeks, over which I made very little progress on the project: Perhaps a few ideas popped up, a plan or…