Archive for April, 2011
If you’re here only for the flash challenge, then the challenge is this: I want you to write about a good dog. It can be any kind of story you want, but a good dog should be present somewhere in the tale (“tail”). Adhere to those three words (“a good dog”) and you’re good to go. Think of this as a many-author tribute to my dog, your dog, and dogs in general.
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So, the wife and I finished Portal 2. Single-player, at least. You wanna know one of the things I really love about both the first Portal game and its largely-superior — which is saying a lot – sequel? It’s that they leave a great deal to the imagination.
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Anybody out there eating low-carb? Even if you’re not, I could use some recipes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, whatever. (For the record, I don’t eat much processed food, which means no faux-sugars. I like stevia well enough, but the aftertaste makes me think I’ve been licking a battery coated in pulverized aspirin.)
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An alternate title for this post might be, “Things I Think About Writing,” which is to say, these are random beliefs I hold about what it takes to be a writer. I hesitate to say that any of this is exactly Zen, but it certainly favors a sharper, shorter style than the blathering wordsplosions I tend to rely on in my day-to-day writing posts.
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so I give unto you: STUPID WRITER TRICKS. These are little tips, tricks and techniques that bear minimal relation to one another except for the common bond that each are geared toward Finishing The Shit You Done Started, Wordmongers. Let us open the cabinet of curiosities, shall we?
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