It’s no surprise how much I regard author Neil Gaiman. That admiration grew when he retweeted the transcript of his Book Fair speech and after reading his latest book The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Now, he’s impressing me by taking his storytelling to a different platform – gaming. It’s not the first time Gaiman has tried to help in the creation of a game. According to an interview with mashable.com, he worked with game companies in the 1990’s that unfortunately didn’t last. His attempts resulted in a lot of effort with no game in the long run. Now, he’s partnered with the indie gaming company The Odd Gentlemen, creators of “The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom“, and Moonshark to create Wayward Manor.…
Jenn Falls – My Writing Journey
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As a former English teacher, one of the things that used to upset me the most was catching the occasional student who plagiarized their work instead of writing it themselves. The consequences for that poor decision was an automatic zero – a failing grade. Yet I’m surprised to learn that plagiarism in writing is on the rise, and that there are a shocking number of people who believe that it’s an okay practice. Now, there’s Alison Gilmore plagiarizing romance novelist Lorelei James’ work, a copycat tweeter formally known as @prodigalsam, and an alarming trend. Romance author Cat Johnson posted on her blog about how a person using the Twitter account @AlisonGilmore (now closed) was posting on her website free stories. However, those stories were…
Taking the time to transcribe Neil Gaiman‘s keynote speech at the 2013 London Book Fair (both just the conclusion and the whole speech) gave me a more intimate perspective on his overall message. I did the responsible thing in looking up other perspectives on what Gaiman meant in some of his soundbites, and was surprised to find that people heard the downfall of independent bookstores, the end to traditional publishing itself, too much apathy towards the digital monsters killing those latter two entities, and many more sentences of doom and gloom. I find that Gaiman’s message contains all of those sentiments – and none of them. The key to getting the bigger picture of the message comes from looking at how he organizes his speech.…
Falls Into Writing 