Category Archives: My Life

San Diego SeaWorld

This is part 2 of 3 detailing our recent family vacation. The first entry discussed the great time we had at Legoland. Downtown San Diego The first night after leaving Legoland and arriving in downtown San Diego, we took it easy. Our hotel was located near all the public transportation, so I was a bit […]

July 29, 2014 – 9:48 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Vacation – Legoland

We recently returned from a vacation to San Diego and I figured I’d give a quick overview of our vacation — broken across a couple posts as I’m super busy, catching up on what I’ve missed while I was away. We spent about half our time at Legoland and the rest in downtown San Diego, […]

July 25, 2014 – 9:17 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Rewards and Incentives…

When I left BioWare, several years ago, I thought my time best spent pursuing a writing career and so most of my “deliverables” were writing related. Each year end I planned what projects I wanted to work on over the course of the next year. For the most part I exceeded my productivity goals. I […]

June 29, 2014 – 4:22 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (5)

The Basement Disaster

No, this is not the title for my next novel. A few weeks ago our sump pump failed and we had a bit of a basement flood. We caught it early and no furniture or possessions were damged, but the insurance guys still decided to tear the carpet out. This is what our basement looks […]

June 4, 2014 – 10:23 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (2)

Slender Man

The other day my eldest came home and went on and on about a new game of tag they were playing at school. They called it “Slender Man Tag” and as he detailed all the weird rules they had created for it, I have to admit to no small amount of confusion. I had no […]

May 22, 2014 – 11:26 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Sin and Toil in On Spec Magazine

My story “Sin and Toil” is now available in the latest issue of On Spec Magazine! You can buy the print copy (or subscribe!) here or check out their ebook version here.

May 6, 2014 – 12:17 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Time Travel!

Well, not really time travel. Sorry. Haven’t got that figured out just yet. But I noticed that David Gaider (you know that writer guy from BioWare that I used to work with) recently posted a discussion of the early days of Dragon Age. I thought some of you might be interested. http://dgaider.tumblr.com/post/76176525033/on-the-early-days-of-dragon-age There’s also a […]

February 11, 2014 – 8:23 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (2)

Toys!

I totally forgot to post some pictures of the toys that the kids got over the holidays. Here’s some highlights: (Does posting pics get me out of needing to actually write a post today? For those who want an update… book 4 of the Lazy Designer is done… I’m just doing some final tweaking and […]

February 6, 2014 – 8:47 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Children of Minecraft

So my kids love Minecraft. However, when they started playing with friends, online, I noticed that the servers they played on were filled with a fair bit of inappropriate conversation. Given that I didn’t want to be looking over their shoulder the entire time they played I eventually created my own server. I still monitor […]

January 28, 2014 – 2:38 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

Welcome to 2014

Yeah, I know January is already (almost) over without an update from me. I’m just busy. Very busy. (More on that later). I’m *almost* done the fourth book in the Lazy Designer series… just finishing up final edits on that over the next couple weeks. For now, instead I’m just going to post a few […]

January 21, 2014 – 2:46 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , | Comments (0)