Archive for March, 2011
A recommendation
By the way, if any of you enjoyed that little fiction snippet I posted here the other day, I highly recommend you read my colleague’s work as well. Matthew Rossi, who you likely already know from either my work at WoW Insider or Nitpixels, has a blog where he’s started posting some of his fiction.
Check it out, leave him feedback, chip him a few bucks via PayPal if you enjoyed it. He’s worth it. And unlike me, he’s actually a legit published author!
The beginning of a thing
I’ve been working hard to reinvigorate my writing outside of World of Warcraft. As much as I love my work at WoW Insider, I can’t limit myself to that. Starting Nitpixels with a few friends was part of that renewal of my writing, but I’m working on another project as well, which I mentioned very briefly in my last post. It’s a fiction project. I’ve been building this world bit by bit for years now, and every time I take the project up I put a little bit more into it and spend some energy bringing it up to my current standards. What I expect out of my writing now is far above and beyond what I expected out of it four, five years ago. I’ve finally decided I’ve reached the point where I can try to tackle this seriously.
I’m still not completely happy with my writing, especially when it comes to fiction, but there comes a point where you just have to roll with it. I’ve decided to put a snippet of the story here for anybody to read. It’s the very beginning of this first story — the initial few chapters will cover this girl’s childhood, very briefly, to set the stage for who she is from that point forward. Who she is, where she’s from, and why she is where she is.
Enjoy! Or don’t.
Nitpixels launches, StarCraft II blog discontinued
I just wanted to pop in here and provide an update on what I’ve been up to recently. A few of my major side projects have shifted around, so I thought it was a good time to do it.
First, I am no longer working on the StarCraft II blog I plugged some time ago. It was fun while it lasted, but I’m moving on from that project.
Second, I’ve officially started up Nitpixels, a general gaming blog, with a few of the other guys from WoW Insider. So far it’s Mike Sacco, Mat McCurley, Matt Rossi and myself. We’ll be doing some writing, but the main focus is going to be the Nitpixels Podcast. It’s going to be an extremely laid back project — we’re all just nerds talkin’ ’bout vidya games. The first episode is up, so you should give it a listen.
Finally, I’m getting back into writing fiction. I realized some time ago that how I write fiction needs some serious work. With how much time I’ve put into my blogging jobs, I haven’t had much spare time to dedicate to improving that particular realm of my writing. I’ve decided that I will make the time for it because it’s something quite important to me. I haven’t decided whether or not I’ll post any of it, because I am writing it with the hope of eventually publishing it legit. Maybe there’s some sort of alternative income method I could use to make it available online. We’ll see!
That’s all, folks.