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Congrats on all the creative work, Wil. And looking forwards to seeing what the secret project in paragraph one is.
Oh, and Bubs would like to let you know he's got a whitie sale on. Whitie sale!
back in flesh
I cleared two pretty big deadlines yesterday, both for RPG-related projects. One of them I don't think I can talk about, but involved a fair amount of writing. It was one of the most enjoyable creative experiences of my life, and it excited and inspired me to pick one of the ideas in my notebook...
Sorry about the double-post. Stoopid browser.
merry smurfin' smurfmas, mothersmurfers
This is crying out for a caption. I'll choose my favorite, and send something neat* to whoever writes it. Submissions open throughout the weekend, one per person, and can only be left as comments here (it's too difficult to track on Twitter or via e-mail). *definition of 'neat' will be at my s...
And then, Smurfs began to erupt from Wil Wheaton's still warm corpse...
merry smurfin' smurfmas, mothersmurfers
This is crying out for a caption. I'll choose my favorite, and send something neat* to whoever writes it. Submissions open throughout the weekend, one per person, and can only be left as comments here (it's too difficult to track on Twitter or via e-mail). *definition of 'neat' will be at my s...
Also, Mrs. Canton is creepy as hell. Way creepier than Ian.
Thanks for sharing some of your fiction, Wil. Really enjoyed it.
Short Fiction: 239 Sycamore St.
While walking through my neighborhood yesterday, I wondered what actually went on behind those manicured lawns and drawn curtains. I wondered how much I really knew my neighbors. This is what my brain spat out: Ian missed living in a city that didn’t keep any secrets from him, where everything ...
You ever seen The 'Burbs?
Short Fiction: 239 Sycamore St.
While walking through my neighborhood yesterday, I wondered what actually went on behind those manicured lawns and drawn curtains. I wondered how much I really knew my neighbors. This is what my brain spat out: Ian missed living in a city that didn’t keep any secrets from him, where everything ...
Not so much a rules lawyer story, but my most memorable experience with a rules lawyer was when we were trying to vote through a new constitution for our university RP club. Ten hours. At least two of which were spent arguing over changing, 'don't', to 'do not'. It spawned the quote, 'yes, I totally agree with the point, I think it is a very good point, but that's not excuse for bad grammar!'
my sword glows blue in the presence of rules lawyers
Around the end of last year, I Twittered: Just read this on Board Game Geek: "My sword glows blue in the presence of rules lawyers." I kind of want that on a T-shirt. I figured that it was very unlikely that I was the first person on all of the internet to combine gaming archetypes with Lord o...
Although I'm probably not a 'writer', I certainly write. Everything I do and think and feel is recorded and stored away somewhere. I've been in the middle of huge arguments with my other half and caught myself recording thoughts and feelings for use in prose. Sometimes I feel like a guy with a video camera, but I typically go decide on something I want to capature from a particular experience, and focus on that. Sometimes it's the room, the feel of the day, or the people I'm with. If I know I'm capturing what I want to from something, I can relax and enjoy it. Then I don't feel like I've got the camera.
five quick things I think you'll like
I'm doing something fun and geeky this morning, but I need to close some tabs before I can really get into it, so I'd like to tell you all that John Scalzi's book Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, for which I wrote the introduction, is now available in trade paperback. I genuinely loved this book, ...
Was he outside at the time? :D
the 2009 year in review, part four
Something something rearview mirror blog posts 2009. This is continued from part three. I told the world what happens when you feed a dog chocolate while he wears a tinfoil hat in the microwave. My friend Mike (@cwgabriel) and I engaged in the great retweeting madness of 2009, which I totally wo...
Thank you. Nanceoir, you're a wonderful human being :)
Memories of the Futurecast Episode Fourteen: Datalore
Holy crap! It's time for Memories of the Futurecast. Memories of the Future, Volume One, covers the first 13 episodes of TNG, so, starting at the beginning and working my way through the book, I picked one chapter a week and performed an excerpt for you. It was mostly from the synopses, which is...
You know, I'm surprised you haven't Arthur Dented that bulldozer.
I'm game! We'll see who rusts first!
Memories of the Futurecast: Episode Four
From the better-late-than-never department, it's time for Memories of the Futurecast. Memories of the Future, Volume One, covers the first 13 episodes of TNG, so each week, I'm choosing something from one episode, and performing an excerpt for you. It will mostly be from the synopses, which i...
Okay, well, do you know if there are any plans for those of us in the UK to see the episode? I mean, I'm sure I could find a site I could watch it at, but I'd spend the entire episode scared of the FBI beating my door down and dragging me off to some dubious 2nd world country for stealing from the great American media industry...
Leverage - The Two Live Crew Job
Early feedback from tonight's episode of Leverage is overwhelmingly positive, which delights me. I'm so happy to hear that so many people liked it. If you've seen the show already, you may get a kick out of the pictures I took during production and just added to Flickr, but there are spoilers, s...
Bechod, Wil. I've lived through 4 cats and I'm not even 30 yet. You poor soul. I'll be honest--I look forward to your tweets as much for the cast--cat, dog, iTunes, Pandora, Anne--as anything else. My heart's with you.
through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
My dog Ferris, who was rescued from a bus stop in Monrovia by my wife Anne almost exactly 8 years ago, had a heart attack and died this morning. It happened very quickly, and I was with her, which is supposed to make me feel better, but at this moment all I can feel is nearly-unbearable sorrow, ...
KITT would spend the nights kicking arse and drinking whiskey with General Lee. The A-Team van used hang around in bars and brag about how they'd sometimes talk to him.
True fact.
from the vault: meet me around back in five, buddy
All of my writing energy and creative motivation continues to pour into finishing Memories of the Future, and Mystery Project X, so I'm reaching into the vault for something fun today. This is many years old, so the style makes me cringe a lot, but the content makes me smile a lot more, so lower...
Well, here's some more advice from a stranger... As Toalie said, replace 'fuck' with 'bang' because it suits the tone better. And maybe add at the end, 'only maybe not any more, because there's families on board'. The line about families on the Enterprise keeping the space herpes in check seemed a bit like it was floating all by itself, and making a reference to it at the end like that would, I think, anchor it.
Also, isn't this the only time in the whole show the battle bridge is used?
Good job though, dude. Don't sweat it: write what you can, take a break from it and then fix the bugs in the re-edit.
"if you treat her right, she'll always bring you home."
On Twitter yesterday, I said, "And now, a useless fact, brought to you by 'I need a break from rewriting Encounter At Farpoint': I loved Mike Tyson's Punchout on NES." I was flooded with replies that were variations of "WTF? Rewriting Encounter at Farpoint? Why?" I can see how, lacking context, ...
I was going to blog about the EBM, now you've beaten me to it. Damn you Wil!
I agree, though: It's going to change the game, if handled right. The less people between the author and the audience the better. It could be to books what mp3s were to music...
more print-on-demand goodness
An imagined scene: You: "I'd like Just A Geek, because Wil Wheaton is funny and charming and he smells of lavender and whatever awesome smells like." Bookseller: "Oh, sorry, but the publisher promoted that as a Star Trek bio, and since those don't sell, we didn't stock it. We can order it for ...
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