iTunes Warcraft Promo
Just a quick head’s up for all the Warcraft readers with Apple Devices. Read more…
Writing Illidan Part Four
I had worked out what I wanted to say about the characters. Or at least I had a starting point for it. More always gets revealed as you write. Now I needed to start building a framework for the story. Most of this was already there in the Blizzard briefing document, and in what I knew about Illidan’s life from Warcraft 3 and Burning Crusade. Most WoW players know what happens at the end of the Black Temple raid and most of us know the events that lead up to it. We know that Akama betrays Illidan and Maiev is Read more…
Writing Illidan (Part One)
I’ve been a Warcraft player since the very first Real Time Strategy Game and an enthusiastic World of Warcraft player for about nine years. When Sarah Peed from Del Rey got in touch early last year to ask if I was interested in writing a tie-in novel for Blizzard, I was intrigued, to say the least. When it was revealed that this was to be about Illidan, I could not refuse. Read more…
Life in the Clouds
I finally gave in and took out a subscription to Spotify. I’ve probably listened to more new music in the past couple of weeks than I have in the previous couple of years. I haven’t really regarded myself as a big music fan since my teens, when I was obsessed with 70s rock. (Well, it was the 70s.) Even so I have somehow over the years acquired well 40 Gb of MP3s from iTunes, Amazon and my old CD collection. If you combine this with the 40 GB plus of RPG PDFs I have acquired over the years, my gigabytes Read more…
Review: Lenovo Ideapad 100S
I bought this machine for my upcoming trip. I don’t fancy traipsing through hostels and tourist areas with a top end MacBook Pro or a Surface Pro and this looked like a good solution. It was very cheap– less than £170 for the basic version and just over £200 for the 64 Gb version which is what I bought. It’s light and it comes with Windows 10. It’s basically the modern equivalent of the netbook. What I did not expect was that I would like the machine so much. It looks great. It’s well built and it has an excellent Read more…
Whatever Happened to Daily Posting?
I’ve not put up anything here since the start of the month. So whatever happened to daily posting? In part, life got in the way. A sick child, an interesting business meeting that overran by a couple of hours, a deadline and suddenly days had gone by without anything being done on the blog. That was only part of it though. Some of it was intentional– honest! I wanted to see how things went without the discipline (or perhaps tyranny) of the daily post. The answer is that, as far as my work is concerned, they went very well. I Read more…
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