Review of the new SJW900 App!
Nailed it! Warning- Lots of swearing.
Voice Dream Reader
I always look for ways to improve my reading speed for books, and recently I came across the iOS app called Voice Dream Reader. It was a...
The Power of Privilege
The concept of Privilege (in the modern social justice sense) was coined by Peggy McIntosh in 1988 in her essay White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal...
TyranoBuilder- Visual Novel creation made simple
I’ve always been interested in visual novels as an art form, to me they’re the idea of Choose Your Own Adventure stories taken to the next level....
Jackie Chan: My Stunts
In a follow-up to my piece on What writers can learn from Jackie Chan from last week, I hunted down a copy of the documentary Jackie Chan:...
Rob Talks the Love of Podcasting with Jack Ward
I recently paid a visit to the Sonic Society’s Sonic Speaks podcast to talk with the incomparable Jack Ward about the history of my podcast- Kung Fu...
What Jackie Chan can teach us about writing action
Following up my post on what writers can learn from Akira Kurosawa, I’m going to do another blog post on writing- this time based on the nine...
FORCEdraft
A while back, I blogged about WRITE or DIE!, which is a devilish little productivity tool designed to counter writer’s block by making noises, showing horrible images, or...
What Akira Kurosawa can teach us about writing
I recently watched an excellent short analysis of some of director Akira Kurosawa’s film-making techniques by Tony Zhou, and it got me thinking about how we prose...
Extra Credits- Sengoku Jidai
Tonight I stumbled across the amazing collection of videos that is Extra Credits, specifically their excellent short video series summarizing the events of the unification of Japan...