The Scribner's Hovel

  Above: From Shutterstock Now, this is the fun part of my writing series.  Well, how do you guess one would get inspiration? Books? Movies? Paintings? Your feet? It sounds daunting trying to know what works best with you, but it requires practice and some patience. For me, books, movies, paintings and music work very well. But I also get inspiration from reading history. I know, I sound snooty saying that. Those are just some places that I regularly enjoy consuming. And the inspiration just comes out of the experience. it is like achieving enlightenment without the mortification. The more you consume things, the greater the chance is that some of the very disparate and mismatching ideas fuse together into something new, coherent. That is what inspiration is like. But how do you deal with the occasional, but very real Writer's Block? I've addressed the writer's block problem before, but in the case of finding inspiration, it is just that you're looking to art and entert...

  Well, it is that time in my life. I am a gamer, as are many younger writers. I like games because they are a fun pastime. I usually prefer playing something like Minecraft , role-playing games like Fallout 4 , and Real-Time Strategy games like Age of Empires II (the Definitive Edition), but I sometimes check out games on any sort of platform. What I was always curious about are the YouTube Playables that had begun appearing recently. Are they any good? Well, I checked out a few of them, and it turns out that many of them aren't up to par to what I expect for a video game, but there are still plenty of enjoyable games out there. Let's jump right in. State.io The first of these games I played. It's definitely fun, but after a while, it becomes a grindy game where you can easily overpower your enemies once you know how many are on the map for each level.  Supreme Duelist Stickman Easily the most fun out of all those games. yet it kind of feels devoid in fun little aspects. I...

 Just to know, I haven't been as busy for the last two weeks because I recently resumed school. For the mean time, I will try to post a short review on a number of YouTube Playables I had checked out recently.

  Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Casper van Dien, Clancy Brown, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside Studio(s): TriStar Pictures Release Date: November 7, 1997 MPAA Rating: R I am a fan of Paul Verhoeven's work. He made fun, campy science fiction films like Robocop and Total Recall , which are known for their satirical nature and their intermittent shock-value instances of violence. Verhoeven also made other films, like Basic Instinct  and the stripper film Showgirls  (which I am never going to see). His science fiction films are undeniably the ones he is most known for. The equally campy, nitty-gritty feel of those films give them a memorable tone. Robocop 's blood and gore really take home the idea that it is still a violent crime thriller, despite the inclusion of things like funny in-universe commercials and the very cool design of Robocop himself and the security robots. Total Recall  keeps in the spirit of the surreal Philip K. Dick style mindscrew (which that...

 What I forgot to address is that necessity, or to a more common, realistic extent, pressure from a relative/friend/significant other is another major driver to write. For the lazier folk in the world, it is only pressure from others that they could actually manage to do something useful with themselves. It is this that can cure depression and tiredness, because if you actually try to put your mind to doing something that others would want you to do, it will give you enough of a drive to go work on your craft. Pressure does not have to be forceful. In fact, it often comes from being thrown into different situations where an opportunity to fully understand what you like comes from others playfully challenging, or encouraging you, to strive. After all, Tommy only got out of his childhood funk after one Elton John challenged him to competitive pinball; it revealed that Tommy was a prodigy at that game. As a writer, I always had the knack to write well, but it was not until I met my me...

 Why should I write? This is the question every writer asks.  Is it worth it? Will I get paid for it? Those are highly varied concerns that every writer has when they start out their craft. Not every writer starts their journey early, and there are many writers who only seriously begin writing because that is what they have chosen as a career path. There are many reasons why one would write. Writing for fun is definitely one of the main reasons, especially in the youth or the older generations that were more reared by the written text rather than the TV screen or the virtual text. It is never easy to learn how to write, so it helps those kinds of people to find joy in the writing process before they jump right into the real work. For those who don't always write for enjoyment, or struggle to find time for it, how would I give myself the drive to write when I don't have the time or don't the energy for it? There are plenty of strategies. Setting Goals This is the first major...