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Also known as RPG Tsukūru: Super Dante (ＲＰＧツクール ＳＵＰＥＲ ＤＡＮＴＥ), this program was released for the Super Famicom (SFC), the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo (SNES) in 1995 by ASCII. This cartridge allowed people to easily make their own Dragon Quest-style computer RPGs for the SFC system and share them with other players using ASCII's Super ( Read more... )

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Retro review for the beloved computer roleplaying videogame Chrono Trigger (1995) for the SNES / SFC by Square. This version is the Playstation re-release that was part of the Final Fantasy Chronicles (2001) bundle with FF4.

Chrono Trigger was created by Square's "Dream Team" division, which was led by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who created the Final ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm going to start using my Blogger account from now on. The reason is because Livejournal likes to fight with me whenever I want to post a video into this thing, and Blogger has more support for apps ( Read more... )

My film company's first release, Cosplayers: The Movie is available for order on Amazon.com, but soon it will also be available for free viewing on Crunchyroll.com (you'll have to watch some ads though). In the meantime you can watch a trailer for the film on my Youtube account.

On Authonomy, my YA fantasy Twilight Chronicles: DAWN is now in the ( Read more... )

Posted by a frustrated writer in a writer's forum:

"The irony is that agents and publishers wander around telling everyone that they are looking for unique voices, then panning anything that deviates from the accepted commercial wisdom. "

Another one:

"The BBC reported that 300 new vampire titles were published this year, 300 for Christs sake ( Read more... )

I have often came across literary theories that state an author should never use punctuation marks (such as exclamation and question marks), because they build "artificial tension" and somehow make your writing look comical ( Read more... )

From a forum discussion,

"How do you filter through all the seemingly useful crits to find the ones that are actually worth taking note of? I just find myself doubting my own opinion AND that of the critiquers after a while!" My reply ( Read more... )

From a forum discussion,

"I can't remember exactly, but I think Jenny Crusie might have talked about prologues in her Beginnings and Endings workshop. It was either there or her pre conference workshop. But regardless, there I was--innocent little me sipping my tea and thinking about how much I would like a scone to go with it--when she blurted ( Read more... )

On a forum thread about rosy writing in modern literature, someone posted the following:

"Mark Twain said it best: Eschew adjectives."I understand this is an often quoted thing in the writing world, but I disagree with this viewpoint ( Read more... )

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/the-authors-hearts-beat-faster-publishing-was-so-close-now/?ref=books

"According to Brent Lewis, vice president of digital and Internet for Harlequin, editors ( Read more... )