Choose Your Own…Language?

cyoa

As a teenager, I loved immersing myself in Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) stories. To the uninitiated, these are stories where you – the reader – can choose the destiny of the protagonist. Each choice made takes the story in a different direction. A simple example:

Games Writing (Channelling My Inner Ogre)

I had the recent good fortune to land a writing gig at Larian Studios. Myself and a few other writers were enlisted to create scenes and dialogue for the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 game (no spoilers here!). Although I have priors in writing, having published blogs and articles for a bunch of companies – not to mention my […]

The Daily Rot

Big Brother

STARTING MARCH 1ST I’M EMBARKING on an ambitious project which, in equal measures both excites and terrifies me. Some background: Last Summer I enrolled in a Coding Course to reskill as a full stack software developer. As I near the end of the course, I’m finding it quite difficult to land my first developer job […]

I Think, Therefore I Code

developer for hire

5 LOUSY POSTS. 5. That’s all I’ve written in the last 12 months. That return is truly appalling, and I need a Royal (Queen Approved) kick up the Andrei Arshavin for my inactivity. Stalling, and running my miserable blogging habit into a close second place has been my story writing.