Matthew Vines on the Bible and Homosexuality
When confronted with religious condemnation of homosexuality, it would be easy for me to simply say, “Well, I don’t follow your religion,” and leave it at that. Sadly, it’s much more complex than that...
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The Concordia Project
About a week ago, I started brainstorming ideas for a new project — a science fiction story. It started with a desire to jumpstart my creativity again, and turned into two hours of being unable to...
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Project Concordia: Space Station Concordia
The first inkling of a potential sci-fi project came to me a couple weeks before the ideas for the story started developing. A picture of a spaceship I saw got me thinking about the kind of giant ships...
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Project Concordia: A Time and Place
Creating a fantasy setting demands certain questions: Earth or another world? high magic or low? relative technology level? A sci-fi setting has to ask similar questions. Is this a galaxy-wide space...
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Project Concordia: Station Structure
Outside the space station Concordia is a terraforming Mars, and a humanity expanding throughout the solar system. But what about inside the station? Is this city all one united entity, like a starship...
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Project Concordia: Personal Tech
The next logical iteration of the computer-in-your-pocket (which we still call a “phone”) is a computer implanted into you. This I think will be the basis of personal technology for Concordia: a chip...
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Project Concordia: Dragons…in space!
At some point, a sci-fi setting also asks another important question: Aliens? I don’t want Concordia to be a cornucopia of exotic (all rather humanlike) aliens, like you see in so much sci-fi. I wanted...
View ArticleProject Concordia: A Protagonist
When creating the concept for a story, developing a setting without developing plot or characters is silly. It’s the characters that will be the focus of the actual story, creating the narrative by...
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When Escapism Is Not Okay
We need to make better games. I was at PAX Dev last week, the almost-new game developers conference that runs just before the Penny Arcade Expo. We were told not to tweet or blog about the content of...
View ArticleFireside Magazine Kickstarter
I’ve been off the radar a bit recently, but I assure you (because I know you’re concerned) I’ve been busy! And October’s going to be a crazy month for me — I’ll be attending the StoryWorld Conference...
View ArticleThe Time Tribe Launches Today
NEW TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE GAME SERIES BLASTS ONTO WEB BROWSERS TODAY The Time Tribe is an Epic Journey Through Time and Space, For Kids and the Young At Heart Duxbury, MA — February 19, 2013 —...
View ArticleMy Current Creative Struggle
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get an audience. In fact, it’s probably the cause of the majority of my anxiety about the work I do. It came together a bit recently when I watched Becoming...
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New Projects
If you know me at all, it should come as no surprise that I’m starting a new project. ba-dum CHING! Actually, given how long it’s been since I’ve posted here, I think I’ve started a dozen. But I’m just...
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Game of Thrones and Storytelling
A disclaimer: I have read only the first novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series, and have watched the show to the current episode. Spoilers for the show follow. In Season One of Game of Thrones, and...
View ArticleChristmas Letter 2013
Dear friends and family, Well, it’s been another crazy year. As you all know, it started in January. You’d think we’d be used to that by now. It does seem to happen every year. Regardless, we rallied...
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The culmination of a project
When I first got out of school and was starting to develop Silverstring Media, I started a writing project called Azrael’s Stop. It started off as this big experimental thing on Twitter, using a bunch...
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The Inconsistency of Firefly’s Themes
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a series of tweets about Firefly that people seemed to like, so I thought I’d turn them into a brief blog post. So let’s talk about some of the themes of Firefly and how...
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Tales of the Stop author thoughts: Wren Handman
At the end of September, Silverstring Media released Tales of the Stop, an anthology of short stories that I edited to accompany my project Azrael’s Stop. It features stories from ten different authors...
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Tales of the Stop author thoughts: Scott Walker
At the end of September, Silverstring Media released Tales of the Stop, an anthology of short stories that I edited to accompany my project Azrael’s Stop. It features stories from ten different authors...
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Tales of the Stop author thoughts: Steele Filipek
At the end of September, Silverstring Media released Tales of the Stop, an anthology of short stories that I edited to accompany my project Azrael’s Stop. It features stories from ten different authors...
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