This is to announce the release of my computer game, Nothing but Mazes. I started developing it way back in 2005. After many years of working on it, then not, then working on it again, the game is now complete and free to download.
All details about it are on my game’s home page:
gregboettcher.com/mazes
This is a note to the future. I am writing this on January 9, 2019.
I am writing this to people who are googling the term “Fasciola minuta.” There is no reason for anyone to do so today. However, conceivably, people of the future may do so, after the publication of my current fictional work-in-progress, tentatively entitled “Children of the Umber Soil.”
Continue reading Fasciola minuta: a fictitious species within a real-life genus
The whole purpose of this blog is to bring people with me on a journey as I write a short story collection called Animal Stories—a collection in which the first story will be narrated by a single-celled organism, and the last story narrated by a human being.
I began the collection way back in 1995, but drifted away from it around 1999, and then resumed work on it again until earlier this year. And when I resumed that work, I did so by writing the first story for the collection. That’s right, this year I wrote a short story narrated by a single-celled organism.
Continue reading The writing of the single-celled organism story
I am writing this to come to grips with the difficulty I have when people disparage “mere entertainment” as a motivator for creative writing.
Elsewhere in this blog, I have a “story of me” that was intended for members of my family, friends, and so on. It covers my life generally.
In this article, I want to talk about my journey as a writer specifically. There’ll be future articles in which I talk about the book I’m writing, but for now I want to talk about the authors who set me on my current path.
This post is about the 80/20 rule, and how it sometimes stands for the opposite of what most people think, how it tells when and why it’s important to be a perfectionist.
I assert that the 80/20 rule argues for perfectionism in my case, as I write a fictional short story about single-celled organisms. What? Yep, that’s what I’m working on.
I also assert the 80/20 rule argues the same for most works of art.
Continue reading When the 80/20 rule argues for perfectionism