As November arrived, so did the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). A month-long challenge, participants push themselves to reach the goal of writing 50,000 words in a month, which is essentially 1,667 words, or six to seven pages, per day. The deadline to validate the word count on your novel is 11:59 p.m.…
Thematic Leaps in Video Game Writing
Consider for a moment what would happen if a filmmaker tried to make a big-budget action flick about the Holocaust. That film would be problematic for a whole bunch of reasons. We wouldn’t expect that movie to be met with positive reviews, if not shunned out of development all together. Yet somehow, a video game…
The Artist Spotlight: Susannah Gilbert
Poetry is a divisive form of writing. Some dismiss it as incomprehensible and pretentious while others regard it as a pure and sophisticated exercise in structure and emotion. Regardless of personal judgment, poetry still stands as an important way for many writers to express thoughts and feelings in a way that other forms of writing…
The good, the bad and the fictional
There’s not much good in the world. Allegedly, the good and the bad should even out, but I have never understood how that works. The occasional rainbow does not outweigh the growing ferocity of tropical storms. All the love in the world cannot combat even the tiny sliver of hate found at Lawrence. Good and…