Jim Stitzel

Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of Words

Excerpts from Life

Owning the N-Word

WP: Wayans’ hip-hop line rejected - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com Damon Wayans takes the phrase 'owning the n-word' to an all new level. Of course, he's not the first to try to get a patent on the word, but he is possibly the most recent and the...

Advent Rising

I was finally able to complete “Advent Rising”:http://www.adventtrilogy.com over the weekend. While the gameplay mechanics were a bit clunky and frustrating at times, the story was one of the best I’ve seen in a video game. The developers did an excellent job of writing a story that flowed well and of creating dialogue that sounded natural.

And if you are planning at any point to play the game and don’t want to have the story spoiled, this would be a good place to stop reading.

Storytelling

The art of storytelling is as important to the story as are the actual _details_ of the story itself. Perhaps that is why I loved Advent Rising (which I finally finished over the weekend, I might add) and The Village so much. The story, in both cases, might not have...

Fiction

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