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Continue reading →: Why You Should Publish That Story Anyway
This week, I published a new fanfiction in the Mass Effect universe. There was never a moment, from writing to publication, that I was comfortable with this story. Mass Effect features a sprawling narrative. It’s difficult to find two people who played the exact same way, and the experience is…
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Continue reading →: One Surefire Trick To Improve Your Self-Editing
If writing is a creative endeavor, editing is a logical one. It’s also a ruthless one. It’s where we take a metaphorical weedwhacker to our babies, cut away all the extraneous details and turn it into something we hope everyone will like. This is why we’re better off hiring someone…
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Continue reading →: New Story Alert!!
Mass Effect: The Renegades is now available for free on Wattpad.Following the failed coup against the Citadel, Commander Shepard assembles his most trusted companions for their darkest mission to date. Be sure to check out my other fanfics, including Mass Effect Lost Moments and Resident Evil: Foundations. Thanks for reading.…
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Continue reading →: Morning Reads August 6, 2021
Day seven (eight?) and I’m finally beginning to regain my senses of smell and taste. You really never know how much you appreciate that stuff until it’s gone.I’d made a resolution: if my senses were gone for good, I was going to go on a straight vegetable/health food binge because…
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Continue reading →: Morning Reads August 4, 2021
What a world we have come to inhabit, that a common cold might mean you have the plague even if you’ve been vaccinated against said plague. This is day five with a chest cold. My sinuses are jammed. Being diabetic means I’m immunocompromised, and it’s taking longer to heal. I’ve…
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Continue reading →: Morning Reads August 3, 2021
Here’s some news to get you started today. I’m kind of psyched about this upcoming game that let’s you play as a stray cat trying to get back to their family. Maya Angelou kept an incredible routine that allowed her to balance her mental health while become one of the…
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Continue reading →: Horizon Forbidden West Delayed
This is according to the official Twitter feed. Horizon Forbidden West has been delayed to the first quarter of 2022. No reason for the delay has been given. I’ll update this post as more news develops. Thanks for reading. Avery K. Tingle is a scifi/fantasy author currently residing in the…
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Continue reading →: Morning Reads July 30, 2021
Video games are very near and dear to me. They’ve been the one constant in my life throughout decades of trauma (some of which is self-inflicted, I admit). I cut my teeth on Yar’s Revenge, found myself in Street Fighter 2, and played through the Mass Effect trilogy no less…
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Continue reading →: In Light of the #ActiBlizz Walkout, Will We Finally See Change?
There are toxic work environments, and then, apparently, there’s Activision Blizzard. The company behind obscure franchises such as World of Warcraft and Call of Duty is so toxic that employees walked off the job yesterday. This walkout wasn’t to protest the company’s working conditions. Not exactly. The walkout was a…
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Continue reading →: Three Questions To Ask Yourself After Failure
Let’s get a few things straight, right now. Everybody tries their hardest and comes up short. Everybody falls completely on their face. Everybody fails. For some reason, we’re wired to believe that failure is a weakness and that just isn’t true. Failure hurts, yes. It makes us question ourselves, which…
