Given the tagline of this website, an alternative to dual-wielding seems appropriate: Arsenal Firearms has created the first double-barreled .45 pistol. I'm not sure I'd want to fire the thing, but I have a few characters who could. It is a more practical weapon that I originally envisaged one group of characters carrying—let's just leave it at "Metalstorm Pistol". Secondly, there's been an idea sweeping the blogs of the authors I follow. A manifesto, the originator of the idea calls it. ... Read more »
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Where do we go from here?
So, with another year finished (though I'll admit to not remembering exactly what day I started this blog) I'm spending a bit of time considering on writing and this blog. Over christmas I was moderately successful with my 'add horror' project with ONSET, which I'm hoping to finish by the end of January. Sadly, reworking the first book like this has led me to the conclusion that I actually dislike my long term plan for the series, so I will be sketching an entirely new, probably much ... Read more »
To make up for some of my lapses in posting, here's an excerpt from my 'adding horror' project on ONSET: “This video clip is from late oh seven,” he told them. “It is camera footage from the commander’s Leopard Tank of Delta Company, Armored Battalion Thirteen of the Swiss Panzerbridge Eleven. They were carrying out training exercises in the Alps, when, well… watch.” The teacher hit a button, and the video clip started. For a moment, all that the gun camera showed ... Read more »
Christmas Projects
So, to my great surprise, I actually have two weeks away from work for Christmas. For those wondering what happened to this blog, 'work' is the only answer I can give, so this break lets me get going on a few things I've been thinking on. Firstly, the project thats up in my re-write of ONSET: To Serve and Protect. There's a few agendas going on in this re-write, one of them is adding more of a horror aspect to many parts of the story (which involves taking a degree of agency away from my ... Read more »
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
So my last couple of weeks has been devoured by video games, distracting me from many productive things I should be doing (writing, editing, accounting projects I actually get paid for once I've finished, that kind of thing). The primary culprit of this distraction is Square Enix's prequel to Deus Ex. The original game, while flawed, was an epic foray into the mix of FPS and RPG elements with a intricate cyberpunk conspiracy story that was thoroughly engaging. The original sequel, while ... Read more »
Once Upon A Time
A seventeen year old boy set out to write his second novel. It was better than his first, and some people figured it could be published. It got shopped around a bit by him, and later by an agent, and eventually fell into the category of 'well, this isn't getting published.' Being in that category, an older and wiser agented but unpublished author decided that it would make a good foray into the world of self-publishing by e-book. But, being responsible, occasionally sane, and by gods not ... Read more »