Dragon Age: Inquisition & Attention to Detail
As always the caveat that there will be spoilers as I continue my replay of DA: Inquisition and continue my musings. ************************************************************************************************************* So last night I tied up most of the...
Dragon Age: Inquisition!
I want to start jotting down my thoughts about Dragon Age: Inquisition, but let me first put up a warning. I can't really talk about this game without spoilers so if you haven't finished, or haven't started the game -- maybe don't read my musings about the game....
Why Spock?
As I'm trying to process the news of Leonard Nimoy's death I found myself reflecting back on original Trek, and what it was about Mr. Spock, our beloved Vulcan science officer, that so touched generation after generation of viewers. For me Star Trek was the first...
Taking a Note
So I'm writing a very emotional scene in my current Wild Card story and George R.R. had given me a note to add in thoughts and mentions of another character and earlier events in a particular exchange. I was trying to answer the note because it's a valid note, but it...
Interesting Advice On Blogging
I got some very interesting advice from a friend and fellow writer yesterday over lunch. She said my essays here on my blog are too long. She explained that people don't tend to scroll. That made sense to me, and gave me an enormous sense of relief. If I don't...
I Think They really Are Gunning For Our Birth Control
It's common among younger women to say "Oh, I'm not a feminist". Which kinda drives me crazy since a lot of us fought very hard to get into law schools and medical schools and not have to be secretaries, nurses and kindergarten teachers any longer. I think in some...
It’s About The Constitution, Stupid
This morning I was doing my usual scroll through various news sites to see what was going on in the world, and I ran across Mike Huckabee opining on how he could have gay people as friends -- big of him. I gather this was him moderating his position that the states...
American Sniper
Last night I watched AMERICAN SNIPER. There had been so much heat and very little light around this movie that I had been feeling ambivalent about seeing it. It's absolutely worth seeing. It's a masterful piece of film making with Clint Eastwood getting out of the...
Is BioWare Insidious? (I Think Yes)
Yes, I have been obsessively playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, and loving it. Great companions. A worthy task that seems far more noble and important then the problems set out in Dragon Age 2. There was a power to Dragon Age: Origins in that you are basically a kid...
Is It Relevant?
I want to give a shout out to Pat Rothfuss index.asp. There is a very valuable writing lesson in his novel A WISE MAN'S FEARS. I had read THE NAME OF THE WIND when it first came out, and now I finally picked up Wise Man's for my trip home to New Mexico for the...
