Brandon Carbaugh

You might have noticed a new wordcount bar has been added on the left, and is rapidly filling.  There’s something very addictive and gratifying about publicly updating that count as […]

Emergent Storytelling

UPDATE (2019): Gosh, how time flies! I wrote this post six years ago, and (now that I am a working writer in the game industry) I disagree with pretty much […]

Free Promotion Results

So here’s the skinny on yesterday’s free promotion.  I’ll start with the cold hard numbers, and then I’ll break it down and give the blow-by-blow, and my final impressions on […]

Nanowrimo

November is here!  And that means with it comes a flurry of Starbucks-drinkin, iPhone typin, turtleneck-sweater-wearin yuppies, moaning about their wordcounts and flabby second acts. I’m talking of course about […]

The Book is Out!

What a journey it’s been.  In a previous post I said I felt uniquely entitled to use the cliché that writing a novel is like climbing a mountain.  Well, if […]