Ærick Graham's Blog, page 2
June 11, 2017
June Book Giveaways!
May 30, 2017
Webcomics
If you are a fan of classic Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy, check out these cleverly written and clearly endearing comics. So much fun.
May 21, 2017
RPG's
The next disruptor in my young life, post Legend of Zelda, was Dragon Warrior. It was my first introduction to a role playing game (and a game mechanic called grinding...sigh). I instantly loved it! I loved all the sequels that came after. Even now, I have all these games on my phone. Playing them today is a little bit of reliving my childhood. I have a soft spot for 8 bit art even in the age of XBox and PS4.
And after DW came the hugely successful Final Fantasy, where you could play a party o...
April 30, 2017
A Link to the Past
So to kick things off, I will begin in a time of my life when I despised reading...the 80s. And forget about writing (I had a mother who made me write sentences in repetition for punishment. Good, old-school, Catholic discipline). It was a simpler time, before the internet. A time of analog phones. When computers were just computers...
...until computers became gaming systems! Bless you Fusajiro Yamauchi. My dad had bought an Atari 2600, but even at the age of 5, I knew it was crap. The contro...
April 25, 2017
Creative Disruptors
The Woodcutter King is a reflection of my creative DNA. It is not just about the choices of themes, characters and language constructing the content, but between the words are the influences of my past which led me to be a writer, and specifically, fantasy. This is true with any art, I believe. The created artifact is a part of the creator in a way the audience will never know. And that link is vital.
How else can you explain why George Lucas decided to ruin the original trilogy with a new vis...
April 8, 2017
Best Intentions
I had the best intentions to post once a week, and well, be a writer. Share where I am at in my journey as a new author. I had five or six topics drafted, so should have been simple, right?
Part of the struggle, part of the theme in The Woodcutter King, is about taking on more than you can handle in any given moment and making the best choices that keeps you moving forward.
Those choices imply that you had to leave something behind, something that did not get your attention or effort. Being a p...
October 4, 2016
From Here to There
I begin my blog with a phrase, one my wife said to me coyly when we were dating. I would ask her how much she loved me, and she answered, from here to there. Suggesting an indefinable quantity. A vague notion like from now to forever.
It made me smile because it was a phrase unique to her. It was cute and teasing. The writer in me loves these little details in people’s characters.
So it is this phrase that rings through my head as I look ahead at a career in writing. More specifically, chasing...
