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Tag Archives: writing
Alfred Bester on What a Science Fiction Author Does
The mature science fiction author doesn’t merely tell a story about Brick Malloy vs The Giant Yeastmen from Gethsemane. He makes a statement through a story. What is the statement? Himself, his own dimension and depth. His statement is seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Books, science fiction
Tagged alfred bester, hell's cartographers, science fiction, writing
How I Write About Magic: The Gathering
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of previewing some cards from Oath of the Gatewatch for Paste (if you haven’t seen that, it’s here). If you read the short blurbs I wrote about each card, you’ll notice that they don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged flavor, magic the gathering, paste magazine, vorthos, writing
de Certeau on Writing and Death
To write (this book), then, is to be forced to march through enemy territory, in the very area where loss prevails, beyond the protected domain that had been delimited by the act of localizing death elsewhere. It is to produce … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged death, michel de certeau, writing
On Deadword
Deadword‘s homepage reads: Launched in 1995, Word.com was one of the first-ever online magazines. In an era when the word “blog” hadn’t yet come into existence, Word captured individual voices telling honest, funny, weird, sad, and strange tales with a … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged criticism, deadword, writing
Maureen Ryan on the Writing of Breaking Bad
This week is DiGRA so I’m blog-light, but I’m still reading things. So there is this great piece. “Breaking Bad” is an undoubtedly a great show, but, as is the case with too many television dramas, for while there it … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged breaking bad, television, writing
I Am In The New Five Out of Ten
The newest Five Out of Ten Magazine is out today. Edited by Alan Williamson, Five Out of Ten is a magazine of video game criticism written for a general audience of people who, you know, care about that thing. Important … Continue reading
