Writers of the Future
I’m back!
Exhausted. Inspired. Overwhelmed. Tired.
Tomorrow I plan to go through my notes and photos and start documenting what has really been a once in a lifetime experience. I’ve just lived through six emotion charged months… in seven days.
Congratulations to all the other winners. Thanks to the instructors, judges and guest speakers who stayed up late into the night helping to prepare us for what lies ahead in this wacky and wonderful world of writing.
And I lost 5 pounds! Best. Diet. Ever.
Brent Knowles
Former lead designer at BioWare (Dragon Age: Origins, Neverwinter Nights). Creator of Raiders of the Serpent Sea.
17 Comments
Jordan Lapp
Brent,
Great meeting you! Glad you got home safe. I’ll be e-mailing you soon.
Laurie Tom
You lost 5 pounds because of your horrible diet that week! I hope you don’t normally eat like that. ^_^
I’ll likely be bugging you soon as well. I might need another day or two to recover.
Brent Knowles
Jordan — looking forward to that!
Brent Knowles
Laurie — hope you get a chance to relax and enjoy things before being thrown back into ‘work stuff’. And yes I normally eat better than I did down in LA :) (Though nothing quite so good as the lasagna! Thanks again!)
Laurie Tom
Brent, I have today off. I’m busy setting up a blog for my work (doh!) and a facebook page. I edited my LinkedIn profile (haha) and am letting my twitter friends know I’m splitting my gaming twitter from the upcoming writing one.
I really don’t think people who want to follow my writing also want to know about my guild wiping on heroic Lich King. -_-
Brent Knowles
Laurie — Cool, let me know the url/twitter id and whatnot so I can follow them!
Steven Savile
I think I found your five pounds…
Brent Knowles
Steven — See that’s why I was avoiding all the beer!
Shawn Montgomery
Good to see things are going well for you Brent. Congrats. All that time in your writing closet in college paid off. Or was it a pantry?
Brent Knowles
Shawn – Thanks! Haven’t spoken to you in forever.
Don’t really know if I would have called that a writing closet or pantry… kind of just a… space… you are referring to the section of the room that we walled off with beer bottle cases, right?
Shawn Montgomery
No the house after that one. The smelly basement suite. You had a little closet just off the kitchen that you had your computer desk in.
Brent Knowles
Shawn – Ah I had erased that place out of my memory. I remember the room now though!
Shawn Montgomery
do you remember the heat vents being all full of water? And having to go to the camera shop to pay the rent?
Brent Knowles
Yeah, its all coming back now… was it actually water in the vents or ‘something else’.
Think I’ll have nightmares tonight :)
Shawn Montgomery
Not sure, I can’t remember. I remember that year well. had to walk through waste deep snow to get to the college. After that I always made sure I had enough money to keep my truck insured through the whole college year.
Alex Black
Must be something about the workshop. I came back to Portland 5 pounds lighter too, despite all of the restaurant food. Go figure…
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