Greetings Fellow Readers!
'The Impossible Man' on Kindle is now on sale in Amazon. Click on the link under Kindle Published Works and get your copy today.
Today is Free 'Shell' Friday, get your free copy of 'Shell' on Kindle today.
'NEWS and NOTES' will be up on August 5, 2013. I'll be taking the week off.
Enjoy your copies of these awesome stories on Kindle.
Until next time...
See ya.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Wednesday Rants: July 24, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another edition of Wednesday Rants. It's Kindle publishing week are you all excited? I am very anxious. Since I am still working on 'The Impossible Man' Kindle Edition, this will be a brief rant, so I'll keep it short as status updates.
[The Impossible Man on Kindle
Everything is coming along fine. One of the scenes that I re-inserted was very tricky because the entire chapter was completely altered when I wrote for Fictionaut, but with a little surgery, I was able to re-insert it without damaging the story. A Little proofreading and it will be fine. Any other re-insertions may be last minute, but I gotta be careful not to ruin the overall story with them.
I successfully redid the opening, now it looks more inviting. Also the ending was very easy to fix. It took a simple omission of lines and now the character in question doesn't feel derailed.
I'm now adding *** for scene breakage for easy reading.
Doing little tweaks here and there for consistency.
The cover is a little harder than I expected. It may not come out pretty, but at least this novel will have a cover unlike the others.
Keep in mind that it will take 24 hours before Amazon publishes it onto Kindle and at least 48 hours for the cover, so I won't announce at any fixed time, just keep an out on Twitter or Facebook for the link.]
[Free 'Shell' Friday
Also a reminder that Free 'Shell' Friday is also this week during the release of 'The Impossible Man' on Kindle. So make sure to grab a free copy alongside 'The Impossible Man'.]
[New YouTube Show
I am thinking about starting a new show series chronicling my board/card games next month. I have not decided and will not post them up on Facebook Event Planner. The decision will most likely be last minute. So I'll keep you posted.]
That is all I have on my mind today. Thank you all for listening to my rants. See you all Friday.
Until Next Time...
See Ya.
[The Impossible Man on Kindle
Everything is coming along fine. One of the scenes that I re-inserted was very tricky because the entire chapter was completely altered when I wrote for Fictionaut, but with a little surgery, I was able to re-insert it without damaging the story. A Little proofreading and it will be fine. Any other re-insertions may be last minute, but I gotta be careful not to ruin the overall story with them.
I successfully redid the opening, now it looks more inviting. Also the ending was very easy to fix. It took a simple omission of lines and now the character in question doesn't feel derailed.
I'm now adding *** for scene breakage for easy reading.
Doing little tweaks here and there for consistency.
The cover is a little harder than I expected. It may not come out pretty, but at least this novel will have a cover unlike the others.
Keep in mind that it will take 24 hours before Amazon publishes it onto Kindle and at least 48 hours for the cover, so I won't announce at any fixed time, just keep an out on Twitter or Facebook for the link.]
[Free 'Shell' Friday
Also a reminder that Free 'Shell' Friday is also this week during the release of 'The Impossible Man' on Kindle. So make sure to grab a free copy alongside 'The Impossible Man'.]
[New YouTube Show
I am thinking about starting a new show series chronicling my board/card games next month. I have not decided and will not post them up on Facebook Event Planner. The decision will most likely be last minute. So I'll keep you posted.]
That is all I have on my mind today. Thank you all for listening to my rants. See you all Friday.
Until Next Time...
See Ya.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Wednesday Rants: July 10, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another round of the once again renamed Wednesday Rants, which sounds a lot better then Bi-Monthly Rants. Today I am going to talk about 'The Impossible Man on Kindle', and why this must be done. Just to quick note for those who missed out last June, on the sidebar link under 'Beyond Logic' is a new short story, 'The Spectral Line' now available on Fictionaut. Click on the link and enjoy the ride. Now for the rants.
[The Impossible Man on Kindle
This was a decision I did not take lightly. For one, as a novel, I sacrificed its Publishing potential, anmd posting it on Fictionaut, was mainly because I felt that the window in which this story was themed on, Japanese Culture, had closed. It was not easy to make, but I did not want to see my novel rot inside my computer for no one to read either. Posting it up for free and not try to make a nominal income to pay my bills was very risky. I had hoped that by posting 'The Impossible Man' on Fictionaut, I can draw a little attention to the small publishers that frequent Fictionaut. Unfortunately, I also have a lot of things on my plate here in the real world.
One of those is employment. Even if I did succeed in getting 'The Impossible Man' published by a House, I would still have to get a job, since big sale are not guaranteed, and that is understandable. Yet, as you all have seen from our economy, it is crap, and very hard for me to find a everyday 9 to 5 M-F job. If I go into retail, then I have to deal with unpredictable hours, as well as the insane stress working at retail brings, and it will hinder my ability to write or create things. I have suffered physically from this before.
Which brings me back to 'The Impossible Man'. I'm putting it on Kindle so I can try to get some sales. Maybe not a lot, but enough, and hopefully I can push it hard enough to make it popular. The only drawback is that it is a self-published book, and not one to really ride on when I start pitching query letter for my other Novel that I never released on Fictionaut. It was written one year before 'The Impossible Man', but there are still some kinks and grammar to touch up, before I begin querying.
So what to expect from 'The Impossible Man on Kindle'?
1 - The return of a couple of deleted scenes that I removed to reduce the overwhelming size of 'The Impossible Man' on Fictionaut. That wall of text. As you have seen, it did not work out as planned.
2 - As always, grammar and spelling, plus the return of quotation marks.
3 - The opening monologue in Episode 1 will be changed to be a little more inviting and friendly.
4 - The ending will be changed a bit. I feel as though I derailed a couple of characters after I had kind gave them a resolution in previous Episodes.
5 - A few touches here and there for presentation purposes, including a book cover, as soon as I figure out photoshop.
The price right now is yet to be determined. Since it is already on Fictionaut, it will not be this overly expensive novel, however, I am going to set it up in the full lending program and make sure that it will have sales.
So those are the plans for 'The Impossible Man on Kindle'. I'll have ready this month, unless a job happens, then I will announce any necessary changes in the schedule, so that everything I said would go into this edition will be there.
Thank you all for listening to my rant. You all have good week.
Until next time...
See ya.
[The Impossible Man on Kindle
This was a decision I did not take lightly. For one, as a novel, I sacrificed its Publishing potential, anmd posting it on Fictionaut, was mainly because I felt that the window in which this story was themed on, Japanese Culture, had closed. It was not easy to make, but I did not want to see my novel rot inside my computer for no one to read either. Posting it up for free and not try to make a nominal income to pay my bills was very risky. I had hoped that by posting 'The Impossible Man' on Fictionaut, I can draw a little attention to the small publishers that frequent Fictionaut. Unfortunately, I also have a lot of things on my plate here in the real world.
One of those is employment. Even if I did succeed in getting 'The Impossible Man' published by a House, I would still have to get a job, since big sale are not guaranteed, and that is understandable. Yet, as you all have seen from our economy, it is crap, and very hard for me to find a everyday 9 to 5 M-F job. If I go into retail, then I have to deal with unpredictable hours, as well as the insane stress working at retail brings, and it will hinder my ability to write or create things. I have suffered physically from this before.
Which brings me back to 'The Impossible Man'. I'm putting it on Kindle so I can try to get some sales. Maybe not a lot, but enough, and hopefully I can push it hard enough to make it popular. The only drawback is that it is a self-published book, and not one to really ride on when I start pitching query letter for my other Novel that I never released on Fictionaut. It was written one year before 'The Impossible Man', but there are still some kinks and grammar to touch up, before I begin querying.
So what to expect from 'The Impossible Man on Kindle'?
1 - The return of a couple of deleted scenes that I removed to reduce the overwhelming size of 'The Impossible Man' on Fictionaut. That wall of text. As you have seen, it did not work out as planned.
2 - As always, grammar and spelling, plus the return of quotation marks.
3 - The opening monologue in Episode 1 will be changed to be a little more inviting and friendly.
4 - The ending will be changed a bit. I feel as though I derailed a couple of characters after I had kind gave them a resolution in previous Episodes.
5 - A few touches here and there for presentation purposes, including a book cover, as soon as I figure out photoshop.
The price right now is yet to be determined. Since it is already on Fictionaut, it will not be this overly expensive novel, however, I am going to set it up in the full lending program and make sure that it will have sales.
So those are the plans for 'The Impossible Man on Kindle'. I'll have ready this month, unless a job happens, then I will announce any necessary changes in the schedule, so that everything I said would go into this edition will be there.
Thank you all for listening to my rant. You all have good week.
Until next time...
See ya.
Monday, July 1, 2013
NEWS and NOTES: July
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another edition if 'NEWS and NOTES'. We now enter July and are halfway through the year 2013. Talk about fast. Without further ado, this months releases.
NEWS:
Wednesday July 10, 2013 on Blogspot at 8:00 PM EST: The Bi-Monthly Monthly Rants
Friday July 12, 2013 on Kindle - Free 'Shell' Friday
Wednesday July 24, 2013 on Blogspot at 8:00 PM EST: The Bi-Monthly Rants
Friday July 26, 2013 on Kindle: Free 'Shell' Friday
Friday July 26, 2013 on Kindle: 'The Impossible Man' on Kindle
NOTES:
I hope you all enjoyed 'Beyond Logic: The Spectral Line' on Fictionaut. Thank you all for your view.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
NEWS:
Wednesday July 10, 2013 on Blogspot at 8:00 PM EST: The Bi-Monthly Monthly Rants
Friday July 12, 2013 on Kindle - Free 'Shell' Friday
Wednesday July 24, 2013 on Blogspot at 8:00 PM EST: The Bi-Monthly Rants
Friday July 26, 2013 on Kindle: Free 'Shell' Friday
Friday July 26, 2013 on Kindle: 'The Impossible Man' on Kindle
NOTES:
I hope you all enjoyed 'Beyond Logic: The Spectral Line' on Fictionaut. Thank you all for your view.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Quick Notes
Greetings Fellow Readers!
'Beyond Logic: The Spectral Line' is now up and running on Fictionaut. Click on the sidebar link to check it out.
'NEW and NOTES' will be up Monday July 1 at 8:00 PM EST.
Facebook Event Planner will be up Monday July 1 at 10:00 PM EST.
That's all for now.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
'Beyond Logic: The Spectral Line' is now up and running on Fictionaut. Click on the sidebar link to check it out.
'NEW and NOTES' will be up Monday July 1 at 8:00 PM EST.
Facebook Event Planner will be up Monday July 1 at 10:00 PM EST.
That's all for now.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Bi-Monthly Rants: June 19, 2013
Greetings Fellow readers! Welcome to another round of Bi-Monthly Rants. Are you all excited for next weeks release of 'Beyond Logic' on Fictionaut? To celebrate next weeks release, I am going to share some of my 'Thoughts on Writing'.
[Thoughts on Writing: Female Characters
Okay, this was something that I had on my mind for a long time. The problem is that being male, I don't know what I can say about females when I have never genuinely gone through the experiences of growing up female. There has been, for generations, all kinds of talk about females, from their rights to how they are depicted in fiction. While although I could share my thoughts, I just don't see the point, because other than showing vocal support for females and reject things that harm females, my words don't really matter. My words does not equal action, their just words, words do nothing. But writing is an action, and if there is one place I can, and have been doing my best, to help out females, is in my fiction writing, and hopefully future game inventions. Instead pointing out all the problems and what is wrong with, I will instead talk about what I want in my female characters in all my fiction works. It is a personal risk to make these statements, because I am human and I could accidental trip up and depict females in bad light without realizing it. I'm not looking to win points or curry, I just want an understanding of where I am taking my female characters in my own stories.
Females are Interesting:
Okay let me start with what is important in character development, making characters interesting. Most of my works have female protagonists because I find females interesting. Think of it like this, males in many action/adventure tend to follow the same formula; punch, punch, punch, outwit, shoot, punch. Yeah yeah that's very narrow-minded, but I did grow up in the 80s with all those action flicks around me and the 3rd grade girls in my class had cooties. Today though, I find that even though The Expendables and looking back at Die Hard, yeah its cool but Aliens is Awesome. Sigourney Weaver able to kick ass and still be feminine, the writers (James Cameron, David Glier, and Walter Hill) made Ripley an interesting character. She was an every-woman who rolled her eyes when the corporation did not listen to her about the dangers of the Aliens. What she went through, I don't believe would have been the same if a different character took her place. There is no reason to not make females interesting in fiction and have them face situations that are out of norm. Fiction is a what if scenario and my question is, "What is she going to do to get out of that situation?" That is when I write to answer such a question.
Females are Human:
We males make mistakes, females do too. We males can succeed and fail, females do too. We males try to find the best solution to an impossible puzzle and tha choice may not be the best, females do too. This is something important I try to keep in mind. Females can make mistakes, can succeed and fail, and can persevere in their life. Just like males, females has wants and dreams but also can lose said dreams. These is what make all of us human. I do my best to give my females motivation, drive, and at times they can make mistakes. I have them learn from it and move forward. I may not be perfect in many of my stories, but I at least try to give them respect as humans and get to them to stand up and push back. This isn't about asserting "strong independent woman" here, it's about them struggling to climb a mountain to reach the top and overcoming the trials that they face in the situation they are in.
Females are Different, and that's okay:
This is a tough one, because I always ask myself if it's okay to approach this in my fiction. Things like menstruation, feminine needs, pregnancies, these are things that do occur in every female and we males really don't know how that feels. We really don't. And sadly, there are some adult males who act like its cooties and not something to touch on. It's like "eeww" kind of behavior and as an adult, that's sad, really it is. For me personally, these things are genuinely personal and takes a modicum of understanding when putting it into fiction. However as male I'll really never know. Now granted, it isn't a requirement to depict these needs in every fiction unless it is relevant, but my point is that these needs should NOT be treated as taboo, by both genders. If such situations fit within the narrative, I won't hesitate to throw them in there. Because let's face reality, this is something that happens to females and should not be treated as if it doesn't exist. Yeah readers can assume throughout the story these are happening, but sometimes, these needs can happen when least expected and should never be ignored or poked with a long stick from a distance. It's just matter of asking, "Is this personal moment really necessary?" If the answer is yes, put it in there and stand by it.
Conclusion:
So yeah, it is very difficult to write an interesting female character do to the subjective nature of fiction. Some readers may take offense and other will say this is a great character female character. I can't sway 100% of the reader population. But what I hope is that when I write my female characters, they are interesting, fun, and most importantly, that they be who they are and be judged by the content of their character and merits, and not as a "female tag". What this means is that if a female a makes choice and its wrong choice, I want my readers to say "She was wrong.", not "Girls, am I right?". And I don't want to see my female characters used as a poster child for an agenda either. That is not why I write females for. Females are awesome.
Well I thank you for listening to my rants. I'll see you all next week with "Beyond Logic", and next months 'NEWS and NOTES' will be Monday July 1st at 8:00 PM EST.
Until next time...
See ya.
[Thoughts on Writing: Female Characters
Okay, this was something that I had on my mind for a long time. The problem is that being male, I don't know what I can say about females when I have never genuinely gone through the experiences of growing up female. There has been, for generations, all kinds of talk about females, from their rights to how they are depicted in fiction. While although I could share my thoughts, I just don't see the point, because other than showing vocal support for females and reject things that harm females, my words don't really matter. My words does not equal action, their just words, words do nothing. But writing is an action, and if there is one place I can, and have been doing my best, to help out females, is in my fiction writing, and hopefully future game inventions. Instead pointing out all the problems and what is wrong with, I will instead talk about what I want in my female characters in all my fiction works. It is a personal risk to make these statements, because I am human and I could accidental trip up and depict females in bad light without realizing it. I'm not looking to win points or curry, I just want an understanding of where I am taking my female characters in my own stories.
Females are Interesting:
Okay let me start with what is important in character development, making characters interesting. Most of my works have female protagonists because I find females interesting. Think of it like this, males in many action/adventure tend to follow the same formula; punch, punch, punch, outwit, shoot, punch. Yeah yeah that's very narrow-minded, but I did grow up in the 80s with all those action flicks around me and the 3rd grade girls in my class had cooties. Today though, I find that even though The Expendables and looking back at Die Hard, yeah its cool but Aliens is Awesome. Sigourney Weaver able to kick ass and still be feminine, the writers (James Cameron, David Glier, and Walter Hill) made Ripley an interesting character. She was an every-woman who rolled her eyes when the corporation did not listen to her about the dangers of the Aliens. What she went through, I don't believe would have been the same if a different character took her place. There is no reason to not make females interesting in fiction and have them face situations that are out of norm. Fiction is a what if scenario and my question is, "What is she going to do to get out of that situation?" That is when I write to answer such a question.
Females are Human:
We males make mistakes, females do too. We males can succeed and fail, females do too. We males try to find the best solution to an impossible puzzle and tha choice may not be the best, females do too. This is something important I try to keep in mind. Females can make mistakes, can succeed and fail, and can persevere in their life. Just like males, females has wants and dreams but also can lose said dreams. These is what make all of us human. I do my best to give my females motivation, drive, and at times they can make mistakes. I have them learn from it and move forward. I may not be perfect in many of my stories, but I at least try to give them respect as humans and get to them to stand up and push back. This isn't about asserting "strong independent woman" here, it's about them struggling to climb a mountain to reach the top and overcoming the trials that they face in the situation they are in.
Females are Different, and that's okay:
This is a tough one, because I always ask myself if it's okay to approach this in my fiction. Things like menstruation, feminine needs, pregnancies, these are things that do occur in every female and we males really don't know how that feels. We really don't. And sadly, there are some adult males who act like its cooties and not something to touch on. It's like "eeww" kind of behavior and as an adult, that's sad, really it is. For me personally, these things are genuinely personal and takes a modicum of understanding when putting it into fiction. However as male I'll really never know. Now granted, it isn't a requirement to depict these needs in every fiction unless it is relevant, but my point is that these needs should NOT be treated as taboo, by both genders. If such situations fit within the narrative, I won't hesitate to throw them in there. Because let's face reality, this is something that happens to females and should not be treated as if it doesn't exist. Yeah readers can assume throughout the story these are happening, but sometimes, these needs can happen when least expected and should never be ignored or poked with a long stick from a distance. It's just matter of asking, "Is this personal moment really necessary?" If the answer is yes, put it in there and stand by it.
Conclusion:
So yeah, it is very difficult to write an interesting female character do to the subjective nature of fiction. Some readers may take offense and other will say this is a great character female character. I can't sway 100% of the reader population. But what I hope is that when I write my female characters, they are interesting, fun, and most importantly, that they be who they are and be judged by the content of their character and merits, and not as a "female tag". What this means is that if a female a makes choice and its wrong choice, I want my readers to say "She was wrong.", not "Girls, am I right?". And I don't want to see my female characters used as a poster child for an agenda either. That is not why I write females for. Females are awesome.
Well I thank you for listening to my rants. I'll see you all next week with "Beyond Logic", and next months 'NEWS and NOTES' will be Monday July 1st at 8:00 PM EST.
Until next time...
See ya.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Bi-Monthly Rants: June 5-6, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! I really, really am sorry for missing the scheduled 8:00 release last night. I did not pay attention to the clock and found myself waking up this morning realizing it. I do have a valid reason for missing it and this would be a good opportunity to use that as the focus of today's rants.
[Cyber Tactics®
So yeah last night, I had an idea for some new card designs. This happened during my taping of Prototype Presentations. Now as you know, there currently three type of cards Sprite Programs, Support Files, and System Tools. Where in early prototypes, there were actually five different card types, and one of those I had been tinkering a lot. Either I'd put or take out with each incarnation of the prototype. It's called the Server Board, and originally it did what System Tools does today. But I consolidated them because of redundancy and made it more streamlined.
Now there was another interesting thing I'm trying to tinker with in the game and that is no monetary cards. See in games like Magic: The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings, they use a monetary system to allow players to place cards from their hands to table. The problem I had was that it was too much of crutch and lacked flexibility. So I never bothered making them. However, some kind of system had to be in place to play cards in order to keep the game balanced. So, I came up with the idea of letting cards pay for each other and not rely on monetary cards.
But, time went on and while this approach does work, I feel like not having monetary cards is the opposite of forcing monetary cards. This was a combination of years of researching game creation from places like Penny Arcade, and extensive playtesting. I came to realize during that recording that I would be cheating players out of something very unique from other cards. Total freedom of creative strategy.
What this means is that by putting in the Server Boards to serve as monetary cards AND keeping the every pays for each other rules, players will be able to freely come up with strategies without the mandatory barrier of having monetary cards in a deck. In other they don;t have play monetary cards if they don't want to. Players can form a deck without Server Boards, or with little Server Boards, or they can rely heavily on it like Magic: the Gathering. Either way, players will have freedom in this game.
Of course there is another bonus to this. I was able to move one of my game mechanics over to Server Boards, because it's nature makes sense. Originally I created three of these cards but because of this change I ended making 4 new additional cards around this game mechanic and it was not easy. It took me all of last night to conjure up these new cards and then strike a balance to keep them from being broken. I also ended up making other new cards for Server Boards expanding on the monetary theme.]
So that is what happened last night and I apologize again for being very late. I am thinking about making a different type of video on YouTube. These videos would be more in depth on all my games and a little more personal then the robotic, sterile sounding Prototype Presentations. I don't know when to begin or how to go about it, but I definately do want to make these videos.
So that's all have for the rants today. Thank you all for joining me.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Monday, June 3, 2013
NEWS and NOTES: Month of June
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to the monthly issue of 'NEWS and NOTES'. This is the first full month of the Facebook Monthly and what do we have on tap, check it out.
[NEWS]
-Wednesday June 5 and June 19 at 8:00 PM on Blogspot: The Bi-Monthly Rants.
Get the latest thoughts and insight from author H-M Brown.
-Friday June 7 and June 8: Free 'Shell' Friday.
Pick up your free copy of 'Shell', prequel to The Geolyth Equation, only on Kindle.
-Friday June 18 on Fictionaut: Beyond Logic.
The Speculative Fiction anthology series is back to take into the all thing surreal and illogical.
Coming soon to Fictionaut.
[NOTES]
- As you can see, 'NEWs and NOTES' will be a monthly posting. You will find more information regarding all upcoming events in my Facebook by clicking on the sidebar link to the left of this page. And I will post up on Facebook and Twitter when these events are posted.
That is all for 'NEWS and NOTES' this month.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
[NEWS]
-Wednesday June 5 and June 19 at 8:00 PM on Blogspot: The Bi-Monthly Rants.
Get the latest thoughts and insight from author H-M Brown.
-Friday June 7 and June 8: Free 'Shell' Friday.
Pick up your free copy of 'Shell', prequel to The Geolyth Equation, only on Kindle.
-Friday June 18 on Fictionaut: Beyond Logic.
The Speculative Fiction anthology series is back to take into the all thing surreal and illogical.
Coming soon to Fictionaut.
[NOTES]
- As you can see, 'NEWs and NOTES' will be a monthly posting. You will find more information regarding all upcoming events in my Facebook by clicking on the sidebar link to the left of this page. And I will post up on Facebook and Twitter when these events are posted.
That is all for 'NEWS and NOTES' this month.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Prototype Presentations and Free 'Shell' Friday
Greetings fellow Readers! The latest Prototype Presentations on YouTube is now up and running. Click on the link in the sidebar under H-M Brown You Tube Channel.
Free 'Shell' Friday is on today. Get your free copy of 'The Geolyth Equation' prequel today.
Monday will be 'NEWS and NOTES'.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Free 'Shell' Friday is on today. Get your free copy of 'The Geolyth Equation' prequel today.
Monday will be 'NEWS and NOTES'.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Bi-Monthly Rants: May 22, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another round of random ranting. There really is not much for me to talk about this week for now, so this session will be brief.
[Facebook Events Planner]
How is this coming along? Has it been helpful so far? Let me know. For those of you just joining me, I have now started a new Events Planner on Facebook listing all upcoming schedules of story releases, videos, and Kindle sales. It is right here on the sidebar link at the top. This basically replaces my weekly 'NEWS and NOTES' into a monthly posting now. Pretty much all future 'NEW and NOTES' will list what is coming out for the month, then you go to my Event Planer and keep track of all upcoming events from there. This will now minimize the number of postings on Facebook and Twitter, and eliminate redundancy for you convenience. Also this should make it easy for all of you to follow me on Twitter and not get peppered with constant postings in one week. These will be done at the first Monday of every month.
[Weekly Rants]
Well as you can see, I officially renamed the 'Weekly Rants' to 'Bi-Monthly Rants'. It's not spectacular but it makes sense at least.
[You Tube]
I am looking into avenues of my videos to make them into something bigger. But just like Twitter and Facebook, my knowledge is very limited so forgive any type of low quality there may be. I'm also going to look to expand beyond the Presentation aspect and may get into short Demonstration type videos going in depth on gameplay and mechanics. It will be more personal rather than businesslike as in the Presentations. Dates will be posted in a future date so stay tuned.
So that's all I have in mind at this time. Thank you for listening to my rant.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
[Facebook Events Planner]
How is this coming along? Has it been helpful so far? Let me know. For those of you just joining me, I have now started a new Events Planner on Facebook listing all upcoming schedules of story releases, videos, and Kindle sales. It is right here on the sidebar link at the top. This basically replaces my weekly 'NEWS and NOTES' into a monthly posting now. Pretty much all future 'NEW and NOTES' will list what is coming out for the month, then you go to my Event Planer and keep track of all upcoming events from there. This will now minimize the number of postings on Facebook and Twitter, and eliminate redundancy for you convenience. Also this should make it easy for all of you to follow me on Twitter and not get peppered with constant postings in one week. These will be done at the first Monday of every month.
[Weekly Rants]
Well as you can see, I officially renamed the 'Weekly Rants' to 'Bi-Monthly Rants'. It's not spectacular but it makes sense at least.
[You Tube]
I am looking into avenues of my videos to make them into something bigger. But just like Twitter and Facebook, my knowledge is very limited so forgive any type of low quality there may be. I'm also going to look to expand beyond the Presentation aspect and may get into short Demonstration type videos going in depth on gameplay and mechanics. It will be more personal rather than businesslike as in the Presentations. Dates will be posted in a future date so stay tuned.
So that's all I have in mind at this time. Thank you for listening to my rant.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Monday, May 13, 2013
NEWS and NOTES: May 13, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers.
NEWS:
-Now on Facebook - The Event Planner is up and running.
Check out all the plans for the upcoming months of May and June. Click on the Sidebar link under 'Facebook Event Planner' at the top to check it out.
NOTES:
-Weekly Rants will now be a twice a month event and renamed Random Rants. To allow me time to build up stuff to say and time to write and make videos.
-Each NEWS and NOTES posted at the first Monday of each month will feature any updates tot eh schedule, so please continue visiting this blog feature
That's all for NEWS and NOTES today.
Until next time,
See ya.
NEWS:
-Now on Facebook - The Event Planner is up and running.
Check out all the plans for the upcoming months of May and June. Click on the Sidebar link under 'Facebook Event Planner' at the top to check it out.
NOTES:
-Weekly Rants will now be a twice a month event and renamed Random Rants. To allow me time to build up stuff to say and time to write and make videos.
-Each NEWS and NOTES posted at the first Monday of each month will feature any updates tot eh schedule, so please continue visiting this blog feature
That's all for NEWS and NOTES today.
Until next time,
See ya.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Weekly Rants: May 8, 2013
Greetings fellow readers! Welcome back to another round of random ranting. I had a very rough April break and hopefully the rest of spring will be kind to me.
[Recap]
The last you all saw me, I got it with a horrific crisis. My computer crashed at the tail end of March just before going into the last week before April break. Well the good news is that I got my computer fixed 2 weeks ago, but it required a whole new hard drive. Thankfully I had most of my stuff backed up, the crucial stuff anyways. So here I am finishing up any last adjustments to the new stuff, which feels weird after so many years, and I'll be ready to go.
[About NEWS and NOTES]
As you may have read in this weeks 'NEWS and NOTES', I was checking out the 'Event' option on Facebook, and I have come to the conclusion that that will be where I will post up all dates for all things I will release. 'NEWS and NOTES' this Monday will be the last the one until the first Monday of June, and the first Monday of every month from here on out. This will make things easier and more convenient and minimize on redundancy. The 'Event Planner' on Facebook will have the Time, Date. and Where these plans will be held. So check in next week on 'NEWS and NOTES' for the first round of dates.
[Prototype Presentations]
Now that my Computer is fixed, I can resume my plan on doing 'Prototype Presentations' on YouTube. These videos will join the rotation on the Event Planner on Facebook, so keep an eye out on the game to be featured.
[Writings]
There will be writings of course, but very few in between on Fictionaut until 'Arcana Magi' Season this Fall. This stories will not be 'Arcana Magi' related as per usual. So stay tuned on it's dates.
[Life]
Yes, life. That thing we all experience outside this internet. I have a lot of important priorities that will keep from releasing things at weekly frequency, especially now with You Tube videos. Those videos are not easy to make especially with outside noise that I cannot control. For now the schedule will be light, but once the real world settles down around me and achieve a routine comfort level, I'll increase the frequency. Hence the Even Planner on Fictionaut. It is not getting any easier out here, and I do need to make money if I want to eat and stay warm. So be ready for any decisions I make that might seem extreme in the coming months.
Well that is all I got to rant about for now. Thank you for listening to my rants and I lok forward to seeing you all next week.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
[Recap]
The last you all saw me, I got it with a horrific crisis. My computer crashed at the tail end of March just before going into the last week before April break. Well the good news is that I got my computer fixed 2 weeks ago, but it required a whole new hard drive. Thankfully I had most of my stuff backed up, the crucial stuff anyways. So here I am finishing up any last adjustments to the new stuff, which feels weird after so many years, and I'll be ready to go.
[About NEWS and NOTES]
As you may have read in this weeks 'NEWS and NOTES', I was checking out the 'Event' option on Facebook, and I have come to the conclusion that that will be where I will post up all dates for all things I will release. 'NEWS and NOTES' this Monday will be the last the one until the first Monday of June, and the first Monday of every month from here on out. This will make things easier and more convenient and minimize on redundancy. The 'Event Planner' on Facebook will have the Time, Date. and Where these plans will be held. So check in next week on 'NEWS and NOTES' for the first round of dates.
[Prototype Presentations]
Now that my Computer is fixed, I can resume my plan on doing 'Prototype Presentations' on YouTube. These videos will join the rotation on the Event Planner on Facebook, so keep an eye out on the game to be featured.
[Writings]
There will be writings of course, but very few in between on Fictionaut until 'Arcana Magi' Season this Fall. This stories will not be 'Arcana Magi' related as per usual. So stay tuned on it's dates.
[Life]
Yes, life. That thing we all experience outside this internet. I have a lot of important priorities that will keep from releasing things at weekly frequency, especially now with You Tube videos. Those videos are not easy to make especially with outside noise that I cannot control. For now the schedule will be light, but once the real world settles down around me and achieve a routine comfort level, I'll increase the frequency. Hence the Even Planner on Fictionaut. It is not getting any easier out here, and I do need to make money if I want to eat and stay warm. So be ready for any decisions I make that might seem extreme in the coming months.
Well that is all I got to rant about for now. Thank you for listening to my rants and I lok forward to seeing you all next week.
Until Next Time...
See ya.
Monday, May 6, 2013
NEWS and NOTES: May 6, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers. April Break is over for me, and the real world really gave me a beating.
NEWS:
- Wednesday's between 8:00 PM EST and 9:00 PM EST on Blogspot** - The Weekly Rants. Check out info, thoughts, and behind the scenes look on all writings and projects by H-M Brown.
- This week I'm going to talk about my scheduling. As you may have noticed, nothing is posted yet. This because I found out that Facebook has an Events feature, so I am looking into it. Also, life. Yes there is a life outside the internet and harsh realities. I will talk more about this in my Weekly Rants this Wednesday. I want to take a moment and iron out my plans before making any final decisions and directions with all of you. So I look forward to seeing all of you this Wednesday.
** Dates and times are subject to change pending any scheduling conflicts.
NOTES:
-No NOTES this week.
That's all for NEWS and NOTES today.
Until next time,
See ya.
NEWS:
- Wednesday's between 8:00 PM EST and 9:00 PM EST on Blogspot** - The Weekly Rants. Check out info, thoughts, and behind the scenes look on all writings and projects by H-M Brown.
- This week I'm going to talk about my scheduling. As you may have noticed, nothing is posted yet. This because I found out that Facebook has an Events feature, so I am looking into it. Also, life. Yes there is a life outside the internet and harsh realities. I will talk more about this in my Weekly Rants this Wednesday. I want to take a moment and iron out my plans before making any final decisions and directions with all of you. So I look forward to seeing all of you this Wednesday.
** Dates and times are subject to change pending any scheduling conflicts.
NOTES:
-No NOTES this week.
That's all for NEWS and NOTES today.
Until next time,
See ya.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Weekly Rants: March 27, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another rund of randon rating. This will be the last Weekly Rant and I'll be off the entire month of April for a special hiatus. Let me explain.
Since my teen years, I've been writing and drawing game concepts. In 1996, I attended Digipen Applied Computer Graphics in Vancouver, BC, Canada studying video game design/programming sponsored by Nintendo. Unfortunately, the costs studying abroad was too high and in February 1997 I left Digipen. During this period I continued writing game concepts and eventually I turned to fiction writing.
During my time back from Digipen, I had been playing trading card games like Magic, Pokemon, Battletech, and Legend of the Five Rings. It was in 2004, that I had an idea for a trading card game. I began extensive research on as many trading card games as I could. It was there I developed and built my first working prototype, Quantum Wave.
Further playtesting left me unsatisfied and continued working with it, taking out the parts that didn't work and strengthening parts that did. Some of the leftover game mechanics were used for 2 completely new trading card games. At this point, I renamed Quantum Wave, Cyber Tactics (tm), and now it is part of the De x Maquina universe officially.
Afterwards I invented a card and dice game. It features 60 independent mini-dice games in neat little cards. Then I switched over to inventing board games 2009, one of which is Eivo featured in my Studio Coqui YouTube Channel.
Studio Coqui was not really something I wanted to reveal yet and I wanted to keep H-M Brown as my channel name, but YouTube wouod not recognize the '-' in my name. So I decided to settle with Studio Coqui to maintain some sense of professionalism.
You see one of my goals with these games that I am inventing, is to have them made into video games, my life's true goal. At the time I attended Digipen, it was the only school in North America that genuinely had classes focused on video game design and programming. Today there are a lot of schools that offer such classes, but I feel I fell too far behind everything both financially and agewise (I am genuinely out of touch with today's computer culture) to return.
However, I have continued to look into programming and researching game engines such as Unity. Particularly now that Nintendo has eased their policies regarding publishing games on their 3DS and WiiU systems. In the meantime, I created a LinkedIn account and am following video game companies. I signed up with the International Game Developers Association. And now I am creating vido presentations of my working game prototypes to that these exist and built.
So during this hiatus I will be working on another presentation to post on YouTube. I haven't decided yet which game, nor will I make any 'NEWS and NOTES' about it so I can take my time making it.
So that is basically my situation. This is where I truly come from. I am more of a game inventor than writer. However being a writer is great because a lot of games tell stories. The years that I have practiced and published short stories and novels have really helped hone storytelling skills for many games.
Well that's all I have on my mind. Thank you all for listening to my looong rants. The links to my YouTube page is at the top. Prototype Presentations-Eivo is up and running. I will see you all in May. Enjoy your April Spring.
Until Next Time...
See Ya...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Weekly Rants: March 20, 2013
Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another round of random ranting.
My hiatus is coming up and writing will be coming to a stand still. The question is why? Well, if you've read on my Twitter profile, it says that I am a card/board game inventor. And that is true. I have been inventing card and board games since 2004. The only reason I haven't said much about to this point was because no one would believe me. Think about, what is the first question you would say if I said I made a board game...
"Let me see it."
But the problem lies in Copyrights. Games have been the center of issues involving IPs and piracy. I had to make there was a good tight security and confidence before I can genuinely showcase my games here on the internet. Remember I am posting fiction stories here, and those can be easily stolen at any time.
So what is the hiatus about, well, this morning I posted up a video called Prototype Presentations on YoutTube. My YouTube Channel is called StudioCoqui. No I am not a company, yet, but Google would not allow me to us H-MBrown as the Channel name, so I chose Studio Coqui to sound professional. It will be there that I will post videos of my invented Board and Card Games. Today's Presentation is Eivo, a Board Game designed to be developer friendly into a Video Game. This is the key part here, I am trying not only to get a board game published by a Board Game Company, but I am also looking to get my games made into a Video Game.
The difficulty of making these videos are very high, which is I chose to go to hiatus, so I can focus on making these videos. Juggling writing and video making... and game making, is very taxing on the mind and body. Making my first Prototype Presentation really hard, but I got it down and you can all see what I have been inventing.
There is no scheduling involved, so the videos will be posted unexpectedly. Hence why no 'NEWS and NOTES' during the hiatus. Same goes for the 'Weekly Rants' in April.
Next week's final 'Weekly Rants' before the hiatus, if my computer doesn't break down and sent to the garbage, I will talk a little about myself on how I came to invent games.
Thank you all for listening to my rants.
Until next time...
See ya.
My hiatus is coming up and writing will be coming to a stand still. The question is why? Well, if you've read on my Twitter profile, it says that I am a card/board game inventor. And that is true. I have been inventing card and board games since 2004. The only reason I haven't said much about to this point was because no one would believe me. Think about, what is the first question you would say if I said I made a board game...
"Let me see it."
But the problem lies in Copyrights. Games have been the center of issues involving IPs and piracy. I had to make there was a good tight security and confidence before I can genuinely showcase my games here on the internet. Remember I am posting fiction stories here, and those can be easily stolen at any time.
So what is the hiatus about, well, this morning I posted up a video called Prototype Presentations on YoutTube. My YouTube Channel is called StudioCoqui. No I am not a company, yet, but Google would not allow me to us H-MBrown as the Channel name, so I chose Studio Coqui to sound professional. It will be there that I will post videos of my invented Board and Card Games. Today's Presentation is Eivo, a Board Game designed to be developer friendly into a Video Game. This is the key part here, I am trying not only to get a board game published by a Board Game Company, but I am also looking to get my games made into a Video Game.
The difficulty of making these videos are very high, which is I chose to go to hiatus, so I can focus on making these videos. Juggling writing and video making... and game making, is very taxing on the mind and body. Making my first Prototype Presentation really hard, but I got it down and you can all see what I have been inventing.
There is no scheduling involved, so the videos will be posted unexpectedly. Hence why no 'NEWS and NOTES' during the hiatus. Same goes for the 'Weekly Rants' in April.
Next week's final 'Weekly Rants' before the hiatus, if my computer doesn't break down and sent to the garbage, I will talk a little about myself on how I came to invent games.
Thank you all for listening to my rants.
Until next time...
See ya.
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