If my fingers aren't rapidly tapping away at my keyboard, chances are they're curled around my rose gold DualShock controller, indexes poised on the triggers and thumbs nestled in the slightly concave groove of the sticks. I've become an avid gamer as an adult, my favorite title of all being Red Dead Redemption II (as longtime readers of the blog can attest). I've played through the main storyline a total of four times now and virtually live in the post-epilogue. There's some

*Ding Dong, Bing Bong* Ahem... Hope's Peak Academy School Trip Executive Committee has an announcement to make... This post contains MASSIVE spoilers for all of the Danganronpa games. There will also be mention of violence and death. ♡ Please proceed with caution and take care of yourselves! ♡ via Wikipedia Danganronpa is something I might call one of my guilty pleasure games. It's not perfect, and portions of it haven't aged well, but there is plenty I like about its writin

It can be such a punch in the gut when a Found Family falls apart.

Outside of writing, one of my greatest loves is video games—as you can probably tell from many posts on the blog. While I have played some recent titles upon their release, my main focus as of late has been playing games I missed out on when they came out because I didn't have the console needed. My latest catch-up has been the Uncharted series after picking up The Nathan Drake Collection (games 1-3) and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End at a thrift shop not so long ago. Uncharted i

Protagonists are at the center of a story. Their conflicts are the motivation driving things. No matter if you're writing in third-person or first-person , in past tense or in present , your readers will be alongside them for the journey, so it's important to foster a connection between them. This has plenty to do with likeability. Readers want characters they can root for. We want to celebrate their wins and lament their losses just as they do. Even when they are far from

With recent posts about Pantsing through Elden Ring or why the giraffe scene in The Last Of Us , it's no secret that video games are one...