Demiurgic

As you may or my not have read at my Facebook page or in another blog, my laptop died shortly after I went on holiday to Newcastle. It was quite a traumatic time for me as the best I could manage was surfing the ‘net at work (which was restricting, by and large thanks to a prohibitive block on anything interesting) or on my phone, which was useful for keeping tabs on Joystq, io9, Facebook and my e-mail. And pretty much nothing else at all. I’ve had my laptop back for a week or so now but catching up on everything has taken so much time I haven’t really had time to blog anything substantial. So I thought rather than write any kind of crappy micro posts I would wait until I could post something awesome. Or, you know, at least something long.

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I honestly don’t know how computer games get their claws into me as much as they do. I have several examples of some very different games that have caused me to lose hours of my life in what I perceive to be the blink of an eye. The first and most obvious game to have this effect on me is Champions Online, naturally. The second game that consumed me whole and spat me out was slightly more puzzling.

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I’ve never really been any good at beginnings, which as a writer is a terrible affliction. Once I get going I’m usually unstoppable (ask my long suffering fiancée). But beginnings have always stumped me, to the point where a lot of projects that I have attempted to begin haven’t begun because I haven’t figured out how to begin them.

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