Hello, everyone. This blog is not going to be about video games. Actually, it’s a little bit about video games. But it’s mostly about writing!
It’s been a somewhat productive year. I’ve gotten back to work on a novel, and I have two short stories in various states of editing. I hope to look for a home for one of them over the next month, and the other is…well, it’s certainly a first draft. Sad as it is to admit it, it is the most fiction writing I’ve done since 2019. The last short I wrote before this was wrapped up in February 2020, and due to the Events That Followed That We Will Not Be Talking About In This Post, I will not ever try to sell that piece. Ever. No. It’s not going to happen. Maybe the one I wrote before that deserves a second look though…
I’ve waited a while to write this post in case I had other updates to offer, but that’s the major stuff for my fiction writing. As for non-fiction…
I Was Published This Year!
First up, I contributed an article to GameBook by Paul Murphy. GameBook is a gorgeous retrospective of Nintendo’s little gray brick, complete with the history of the console and several essays from a variety of writers on famous games across the series history. I’m still in the middle of reading my copy, and it’s a fantastic tome, filled with magnificent art and articles both personal and thought provoking.
My contribution to the book is about The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and its origins in Twin Peaks. Of the three pieces I’ll tell you about in this section, it’s definitely my personal favorite. Also, Twin Peaks inspired games are a subject I’m still thinking about to this day. You might see more here in the future after I’ve played a few more from my shopping list.
If you’re reading this, Paul, thanks for the amazing opportunity. I have been utterly annoying to everyone in my life talking about this for the past nine months.
But this isn’t the only writing I did for the fine folks at Ninty Media. I contributed articles to the (sadly…) final two issues of Switch Player magazine. The first of these articles was about Metroid Prime and the second was about Final Fantasy. If you’d like to see me romanticize pixel art or dig into the idea of the bounty hunter, these are fine ways to do so. Also, none of these articles will be added to the blog, so this is the best way to read them. And you should! Not because I wrote in them, but because Ninty Media produces lavish books and magazines, and your support means they get to make more books in the future. Their next release will be a follow up to GameBook, covering the Game Boy Color. If you follow me on social media, I’ll no doubt be running my mouth about this when the time comes, regardless of my involvement in the book.
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