Category Archives: My Life

Sale: “Slaying Dragons” to Plasma Frequency Magazine

Plasma Frequency Magazine has accepted my story “Slaying Dragons” for publication in an upcoming issue of their magazine! I am not sure which issue it will appear in, but when it is available, I’ll make another post. For now, consider heading over to their current issue and checking out some of the stories. Free downloads …

May 13, 2013 – 9:59 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (27)

My Spring Office Has Opened

This is where I did my writing today. Very pleased to be able to brave the outdoors now that the snow is gone. Also, do take a look at a recent post by Drew Karpyshyn on his blog where he talks about the process he uses to write novels. Drew has written Star Wars and …

May 10, 2013 – 2:02 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged | Comments (25)

Lazy Designer Book 3 Exploration and Gameplay Is…

Not finished yet. I am working on it. It is just that it has so much more content than the previous two volume combined, that it’s more akin to finishing one of my novels. Which means, it takes time. That said, I have finally finished my giant grammar pass through all the sections and have …

April 26, 2013 – 1:26 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, The Lazy Designer, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

This is Today

Don’t really have any more to say than this.

April 13, 2013 – 8:54 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (0)

Very important: A Book Bomb for Ben

Ben Wolverton, age 16, was in a tragic long-boarding accident on Wednesday the 4th, 2013. He suffers from severe brain trauma, a cracked skull, broken pelvis and tail bone, burnt knees, bruised lungs, broken ear drums, road rash, pneumonia, and is currently in a coma. His family has no insurance. (see the Original Facebook Page) Ben is …

April 10, 2013 – 8:58 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (2)

Not Another Lego Picture

Still no real news to report so here’s a bit of a status update. First, progress on the Lazy Designer Book 3 is slow. And it has decided to reproduce. This is the book on gameplay and it seems that I have more to say on the subject than I initially imagined. I have almost …

February 16, 2013 – 7:22 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Lego, My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Lego Crawler

Some Lego creations for your perusal. Notice the use of old and new bricks*. *Yeah… I have no real updates for you.

January 31, 2013 – 11:12 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Lego, My Life | Comments (3)

Snowy Fence

The backyard view a couple weeks ago. Also: I’ve finished the second draft of Novel #5. Should be ready to send off in a week or so. Now I must go shopping…

December 21, 2012 – 10:29 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged | Comments (4)

Word Goal Reached

This week I passed the 300 000 word mark for 2012′s writing effort. Most of this work has been on novel #5 and Lazy Designer #3 but I also wrote more stories this year than I have in any other one year period. I am light on words, compared to the past two years (last …

November 24, 2012 – 3:54 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Guest Blogging over at GamrRank!

GamrRank has posted a guest blog I wrote for them: http://blog.gamrrank.com/2012/10/15/the-new-high-scores/

October 15, 2012 – 6:27 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, My Life | Tagged | Comments (6)