Longwinded Literary Inanities

Saw a big spike in blog visits (and book sales!) after yesterday’s post.  I presume most of the new traffic is coming from Hugh Howey’s generous link to the article […]

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 […]

Climbing a Mountain

Here’s a simile I think is far too common, and for that has lost some of its meaning: “Such and such is like climbing a mountain.”