Hospital update: Not to step on Ned's metaphor (I thought of it independently): there's not yet a discernible light at the end of the tunnel, but I think we might safely say we're now in a tunnel and not a bottomless pit. I am reminded of a sequence in The Right Stuff that described how, when the planes that test pilots such as Chuck Yeager were flying would lose all aerodynamic stability and start tumbling like a thrown stick, the pilot hoped it would go into a tailspin - because they knew how to get out of one of those. The spin was good news, of a sort, and we might be experiencing about the same.
I have been holding onto this cartoon for some time, but since I have been thinking of self-publishing a little booklet ever since Comixtravaganza, and since we have so many writer types amongst us, I thought I would just toss it out.
(I wish I could remember where I found it...)
2 comments:
I wish more good indie writers would lend their talents to video games. Video game writing is largely atrocious... which is a shame. Games are so much more fun when there's a solid backbone of good writing.
the problem with getting good game writers is that most writers tend to think in terms of linear storytelling, which isn't the way good games work. If choose your own adventure books were still popular, those writers would be ideal candidates for game writing.
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