Video Game Writing Tips #1, 2, & 3

Writing Tip #1: Be the player. When you're creating a video game, you're not doing it for yourself. You're creating something that you hope will please your fellow human beings. Therefore, when you're writing dialogue, skill descriptions, lore bits, or even marketing content, you keep your audience in mind, and for your video game, that's the player. Filter everything through…
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Writers’ Organizations – Why Join?

No matter what kind of writer you are, there’s a professional organization out there just for you. Many of these require that you have a certain number of professional publications, but not all do. You can get into many of them by simply paying the dues, though you may not have full voting rights or other privileges reserved for professional…

How to Break into Game Writing

Make Sure It’s What You Want First, let me just say that no matter what you do, you must love it. If you don’t LOVE writing with all your heart, you’ll be unhappy doing it. Find what you love to do, not what you think is cool. Every career in every industry takes years of skill-building and experience. It doesn’t…

A Cobalt City Christmas Anthology …

I have a story in a Christmas anthology! The book is called Cobalt City Christmas, and my story is "Nutcracker." Nathan Crowder is the author of a series of novels that take place in a crazy metropolis called Cobalt City where superheroes and supervillains run rampant. The main crime-fighting unit is called the Protectorate, but other groups exist as well,…
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Pooka Kithbook – 10 Years Later …

My all-time favorite White Wolf World of Darkness game was first-edition Changeling. Mr. Ian Lemke gave me a break and let me write in Immortal Eyes: Shadows on the Hill, a supplement about changelings in Hawaii. After that, I was hooked. Kithbook: Pooka contains my short story "Lion and the Heart of Wonder," which I wrote using the style of…

Website Samples

  I've worked as a professional website developer for more than two decades. Here is but a small sample of my website work. (Also visit my Writing Samples page for a rounded view of my skills.) Horror.org Visit the site. This site serves a non-profit organization of more than 1500 members. It requires flexibility and ease of use because an…