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The Humungous!: Competition
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Friday, March 21, 2008. I entered a small writing contest last month, and didn't win. In a way, I'm glad, because I was able to turn it around into something positive. When I first got the news, I was really let down. Then, jealous and angry at the people who'd won. Then, angry at myself for being so petty and thin-skinned. As usual, I started questioning my own abilities. am I a good writer? Do I have any talent whatsoever? What the fuck am I doing this for if I can't even win a writing contest? Glad th...
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The Humungous!: Meticulously Planned Chaos
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008. I was playing Burnout Paradise. It's kind of what plotting a novel out this way is like. I know where I want the characters to be, I know where I want them to start. A lot of the work plot-wise is figuring out how they get from point A to point B, so they can collide at the proper moment to give appropriately spectacular results. Posted by Richard Douek. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I prefer not to. New York, NY, United States. View my complete profile. The Well of Urd.
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The Humungous!: June 2008
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Friday, June 20, 2008. Fantasy worlds. Making them believable is not too hard. It's mainly a matter of internal consistency - does gravity work? So, making it believable - potentially time consuming but not THAT difficult. Making them intriguing however, making them someplace that a reader will be interested in for 500 pages. well, thats a bit trickier. How do they live so long? Why do they shun civilization? Posted by Richard Douek. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Humungous!: Just add water.
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Friday, June 20, 2008. Fantasy worlds. Making them believable is not too hard. It's mainly a matter of internal consistency - does gravity work? So, making it believable - potentially time consuming but not THAT difficult. Making them intriguing however, making them someplace that a reader will be interested in for 500 pages. well, thats a bit trickier. How do they live so long? Why do they shun civilization? Posted by Richard Douek. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New York, NY, United States.
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The Humungous!: December 2007
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Monday, December 31, 2007. I really have to give props to my friend Luke Crane. He designs roleplaying games - the kind you play with pencils, paper, and dice. Luke's most famous game is The Burning Wheel. He's also written Burning Empires. Which has a lot in common with BW, but is it own game. I've written short fiction for both, but that's not why I like them. So, aside from pimping an awesome product, what does this have to do with writing the humungous? Posted by Richard Douek. Links to this post.
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The Humungous!: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Cleaning out the Attic. The good news is, I'm writing again. The bad news, that's not really bad news, is that I'm not writing the Age of Rust right now. I still love the project, I still love the characters, but I can't focus on it. I've tried so hard ove the past few months, but its all been false starts and staring at blank screens. Posted by Richard Douek. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cleaning out the Attic. New York, NY, United States. The Well of Urd.
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The Humungous!: MS Word? I prefer not to.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008. I prefer not to. Just wanted to give a big thank you to my friend Sean Sakamoto, (aka flojin). Fellow writer and nerd. For turning me on to Scrivener. There's also a whole research section of the program that I havent really delved into, but its apparently an easy way to keep all of your research documents and reference photos in one place, kinda like a big clipboard. Out - its a free 30 day trial, and after that its only $40. Posted by Richard Douek. June 6, 2008 at 2:56 PM.
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Nostalgiamania: November 2008
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I was lucky in 1994. My cousin. Was married to a Beastie Boy. And you know what that meant? Backstage passes, boyee! Not just for me, but for my parents, my grandparents (they set up a couch for Grandma at one of their Florida gigs), my friends, you name it. A month later I would come back to NYC to visit, and of course, milk the Beasties/Lollapalooza connection even further. I had no shame! As the cooler weather approached, I found myself returning to NYC at the end of '94. Blackout Books. And a mild ca...
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