This is part of a series on fictional world-building. We've talked about how to get started , how to organize your thoughts , and how yo...

Today, we're going to talk about one of my favorite parts of world-building: maps! This is the third part of a series on world-building....

Last week, we talked about what world-building is and how to get started . Among other things, we learned that world-building is... well, it...

If you're writing any kind of genre fiction—if there are any fantastical or sci-fi elements in your world at all—you need to do some wor...

One of my favorite games of all time and one of the hardest high-precision platformers I have ever played is Celeste . This game asks you to...

Like I said last week, publishing is a difficult business . And there will always come a time when you wonder whether you're wasting you...

In a first draft, we often write things as they occur to us. Maybe some dialogue first, an occasional gesture or action by one of the charac...

I wrote about writer's block way back in the beforebeforetimes, but wouldn't you know I actually learned new things in the fourteen ...

Izanami's Choice comes out in three days. So for the next 72 hours or so, this is me: Interviews and reviews are trickling in, wi...

On Friday, the Torment team released the first Alpha Systems Test, a look at the opening scene of the game and its most essential systems (c...

I actually got this question on Twitter, but I thought it deserved more than 140 characters. Although if you're into the tl/dr version t...

Trevor asks: What's your favorite part of the writing process? My favorite part is the part where I make money, followed closely by ...

Trevor asks a very pertinent question: How do you have time for everything?   Seriously, I see that you have 10 kids, work remotely on ...

(LINK WARNING: The YouTube links in this post are kinda bloody -- accurate metaphors, but bloody.) Last week I got critiques back on two o...

Thomas Hennessey says: I've always figured the best way to be a good writer is to be a great reader first. Is the same true of game d...

Oh, you know, a couple of things...   But inevitably:

The lovely Authoress asks: Why aren't you writing a novel right now?   :) Brian Fargo (my boss's boss) has been quoted as say...

You know those writers who say, "I really need to get back into writing," and then two weeks later they're still saying that? ...

For those of you who don't read every single one of my Facebook posts (it's cool; even my wife doesn't read them), here's a ...

I am preparing, finally, to send Post-Apoc Ninjas to my agent. "Post-Apoc Ninjas" is the title I use for it online, short for Pos...