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I blog regularly on a wide variety of subjects. These posts are a good way to get to know my thinking as a writer, a teacher, a designer, and a person invested in learning as much as he can from any available source.
Writing and Design
- On Reader Participation – Thoughts on helping readers understand and interact with a text
- Design notes for online journals Part 1, Part 2 – How online journals succed and struggle with design
Teaching Creative Writing
- Discussing Tim O’Brien — Structure and genre
- Student Choice Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 — Students select, present on and discuss the readings
- My students’ final project – Making the most beautiful, amazing thing you can possibly imagine
Learning from Games and Culture
- A review of Fallout: New Vegas – Politics and design
- About Minecraft and Little Big Planet – Recreation and fan works as a way of understanding
- Things I Learned from Anime – The false dichotomy of art and entertainment
- Dino Run – What I learned from one small game
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