I’ve decided to start the year by downsizing. The first to get the pink slip is the forum here. The only traffic it was getting–that wasn’t spambots–came from my play-by-post Dungeons & Dragons game, which has been going on for more than two years. Unfortunately, the pace of the game did not live up to [...]
New Year’s layoffs
Filed under Site News, Writing Journal on January 1, 2008
Tagged: City of Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Filed under Writing Journal on August 15, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, comic books, Jumpstar, superheroes, Top Cow
Issue #20, the final City of Heroes comic by Top Cow, is now available for download. Why should you care? Because it features a short story by yours truly. “A Star is Born” is the origin of Jumpstar, one of the superheroes I play in the City of Heroes MMO, as told by a reporter [...]
Jumpstar lives
Filed under Writing Journal on May 4, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, comic books, fan fiction, Jumpstar, superheroes
I got a wonderful little email from the folks at NCSoft last night. If you remember, I wrote up an origin story for a superhero I created to play in their City of Heroes mmorpg. One of the ways NCSoft promotes the community for CoH is to accept fiction written by fans set in the [...]
You’ll get a kick out of this
Filed under Writing Journal on February 12, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, Shattered Amulet
Well, that was a fun little exercise. The total word count came in about 250 over the limit for submissions, but there was a caveat that exceptions might be made for “good” writing, so I’ll send as is and see what they say. For those wondering about the title, it references the name of hero [...]
A Star is Born (part 3)
Filed under Fiction on February 8, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, Hellions, Jumpstar
Han’s tongue felt like lead, his mouth like it was full of wool. “. . . bones crushed in both legs and severe nerve damage.” “What about . . .” Han tried to open his eyes, but managed only to flutter his eyelids. “. . . only prototypes. It’s too risky.” “That was not a [...]
