Category Archives: My Life

Lazy Designer 2: Feedback on Tools Section

If you have the time to review this section from my forthcoming game design book, I’d appreciate it. Basically I am looking for examples of design tools; I’ve filled in the ones I remember using but I’m sure I have missed some. Tools To assess the types of tools you will need look at similar …

January 23, 2012 – 2:22 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, My Life, The Lazy Designer | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Look What I Got For Christmas

This is the starship I always wanted as a kid and now after 25+ year I finally have it. Well, kind of. Technically I bought this for myself last spring but was overruled by the Council and had to set it aside to be used as a Christmas gift for the 6yr old. So it …

January 5, 2012 – 8:59 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (39)

2011 Wrap-up

Overview So how did I do in 2011, writing-wise? Overall, I was very productive. I had set myself a lower word target goal than I had managed in 2010 (I had anticipated having less writing time) but I actually ended up exceeding that, writing over 430 000 words. About 130 000 of those words were …

December 28, 2011 – 11:38 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Cookies!

Looking over some posts from December last year I remembered that I had asked what kind of content people wanted to see more of on the blog. And then I realized I had completely ignored the one suggestion I had been given! More cookies! So to amend that I’m posting the link to a shortbread …

December 24, 2011 – 3:32 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged | Comments (0)

Meat Eater or Plant Eater?

So I was talking with my 3yr old the other day and trying to explain to him that a tauntaun was a herbivore. I was explaining that one way to tell was because it had horns and that predators generally don’t have horns. Which led us to the Wampa. I really don’t think it should …

December 20, 2011 – 11:52 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , , , | Comments (37)

Sad Plant

So, my son brought home seeds from school last year and we planted them and they have grown into this… thing. Anybody know what kind of plant it is? Or what I should be doing for it? It is looking kind of grungy but I’m afraid of touching it… and my son guards it ferociously. …

December 14, 2011 – 7:52 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged | Comments (38)

On Spec Subscriptions for the Holidays (and an announcement)

As a different sort of gift for the readers you know you might consider giving them a magazine subscription. I’ve always enjoyed getting magazine subscriptions, especially when they were to magazine I might not otherwise have known about. If you know somebody interested in fiction — specifically science fiction, fantasy, and horror — might I …

December 12, 2011 – 3:23 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

The Curse of BioWare

So, I’m not a superstitious person. Absolutely and completely not. Except over the past couple years, since I’ve left BioWare, I have started wondering if somehow my leaving BioWare had brought down the wrath of some foul and overly vengeful Writing deity upon my head. I had even begun to think of it as the …

December 6, 2011 – 1:09 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

Why living on a corner lot is a bad idea

So I still managed to get 3000 words written today despite this: It turned out that our neighbor decided to back into the fence. Judging by the damage I actually think the driver was settling some cosmic score between them and the fence. Three full sections of fence destroyed and two posts snapped. I had …

November 29, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (29)

Nanowrimo complete!

So I passed the 50 000 word target for my first Nanowrimo. I’m pleased with my progress. I’ve been writing 3000 words or more on most weekdays (not so much on the weekends as that is family time, though I did add a few hundred words each weekend). Though I’m pleased I’m anticipating this novel …

November 22, 2011 – 1:01 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (2)