How to set Hope’s Last Day up in Roll20
Roll20 is a great resource for people who want to enjoy a tabletop roleplaying game session but cannot physically get together with their fellow hobbyists. It’s a virtual tabletop application …
Afraid Of Needles
I did have another strip where I was going to introduce Jeremy, but this one just fell out of the end of my pencil first!
How Your Dream Crew can Help your Solopreneur Meetings
The dreaded M-word. No one really wants to go to meetings: A bunch of people droning on about targets and metrics, goals and actions, grinding axes and scoring points. (What’s that …
Management Meeting – with Giant Robots
This is a result of the Hangout I was part of on the morning of Tuesday, July 9th. We were talking about how you organise your personal business and having …
If I Were Doing NaNoWriMo 2012…
I’m not, by the way. Too much on. But supposing I were… (Yes, this is what I was hinting at back then.) Whaddya reckon? NaNo 2013?
Applying the Hollywood Formula: The Protagonist and Act Two
As I explained in my post before last, I’m practicing the writing of an outline using the Hollywood Formula as a template. In order to get a feel for how the …
How Halo: Combat Evolved Brings More Adventure Than Any Other First Person Shooter
Ten years. Has it really been that long? In some ways, it still seems like yesterday that I bought my first ever gaming console and played through that epic campaign. It’s …
Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 6
I’ve spent a good chunk of the last couple of weeks dissecting the plot of the movie Aliens by seeing whether the three-character, three-act Hollywood Formula holds true within it. We’ve …
Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 5
And so we come to the final act of the movie Aliens, where, according to the Hollywood Formula, we’ll see our Protagonist resolve her issues with her Relationship Character and, in doing so, …
Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 4
Welcome back (or welcome, if you’ve just stumbled across this series) to my analysis of how the Hollywood Formula plays out in the plotting and action of the movie Aliens! As of part four, I’m …