Category Archives: Writing Resources

A Writer Stops for Nothing

I was so eager to finish the first draft of the Lazy Designer II that even a faulty keyboard could not stop me. Have you spotted the problem yet :)

January 27, 2012 – 8:47 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Comments (30)

Priced to Die

“Why We Should Fear Ourselves More Than Pirates” So now that I’m seeing reports of SOPA and PIPA having been defeated by overwhelming negative opinion many are breathing sighs of relief. And others are cursing violently (but generally silently). Among game developers and writers, my two primary areas of interaction, opinions are mixed. Many are …

January 20, 2012 – 3:34 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, Technology, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (57)

Lazy Designer

Work is progressing well on the second volume of the Lazy Designer, my series of books on working in the videogame industry. If you have not read the first book and are curious about a career in game design check it out on Amazon. And if you want to be notified when the second book …

January 14, 2012 – 2:55 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Illustrators of the Future 26

The winning art for Volume 26 of the Writers & Illustrators of the Future contest, is now available for viewing at the Writers of the Future website. One of the coolest aspects of winning the Writers of the Future contest was that each winning story received an illustration by one of the illustrators who had …

January 10, 2012 – 12:54 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (8)

Flush Fiction

This is the sale I mentioned at the end of last year. Thrilled to have placed my flash fiction sci-fi piece ‘Proof in the Pudding’ with this latest in the Uncle John’s series of books. And you can already preorder the anthology from Amazon!.

January 9, 2012 – 3:55 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , | Comments (28)

Submissions 2011

Here’s a graph of my submissions over time. I noticed that I had overreported subs in a previous post… this graph is more accurate than the other number I used (which is the number of submissions *and* planned submissions). Also I used a different submission system in the 90s so there’s a few hundred other …

January 4, 2012 – 6:52 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Comments (0)

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)

The Novel is Finished

About six weeks ago, at the start of nanowrimo, I wrote my first words for the novel I’m still affectionately calling ‘Novel #4′. Today I wrote the final words*. All told, during these six weeks I’ve written 126 000 words, a few more than the 100 000 I had been aiming towards. Why did the …

December 15, 2011 – 11:00 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

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)