Damon L. Wakes's Blog, page 41
June 4, 2018
Book Chat on Fell From Fiction
I’ve been interviewed by Michael J. Ritchie! Check it out over here: Book Chat: Damon L. Wakes Advertisements
May 17, 2018
Codename Caerus Application Deadline Extended to June 7th
Codename Caerus – my portfolio-building game project – has had a phenomenal level of interest since I announced it a couple of weeks ago, and although I’ve yet to look through all the example pieces people have sent in, I’m now pretty much certain we’ll be able to get a great team together. Every role […]
May 6, 2018
Codename Caerus
So I made a trip to London for EGX Rezzed last month, and up until now I’ve totally neglected to write anything about it for two reasons: I’m still just a little freaked out over just how many people recognised me as “that Girth Loinhammer guy.” The event gave me an idea for something big […]
April 2, 2018
Project Procrustes Has Been Solved
As you might have guessed by the suspicious timing, Project Procrustes (and its accompanying competition) was my April Fools’ prank for 2018. This one was subtle, and unless you worked your way through a substantial portion of the game, chances are you won’t even have noticed what was going on. However, two people managed to […]
March 31, 2018
Announcing Project Procrustes
Project Procrustes is my latest work of interactive fiction, and I’m pleased to say that (besides Girth Loinhammer’s Most Exponential Adventure), it’s the largest yet! It clocks in at 23,649 words according to Twine’s built-in counter, though I’ve put considerable effort into making the text of individual passages react to past choices, so you’re not […]
March 11, 2018
The Story of Captain Redundancy’s Origin Story
The following was an entry for the Hampshire Writers’ Society’s December 2016 competition – “introduce a new comics character” – in which it took 3rd place. You’ll find the judge’s response at the end of the post. Mild mannered jobseeker John Johnson by day, by night Capt. Captain “Redundancy” Redundancy is a superhero whose superpower […]
March 8, 2018
We All Saw It Coming Launch – April 3rd at The Railway
The launch event for We All Saw It Coming will be at The Railway Inn, 7:30pm on the 3rd of April. The Railway is a great venue – I’m there at least once a month since they host the Poetry Platform open mic – and if you fancy catching some excellent stories, music and/or poems […]
March 5, 2018
Making Use of Myths and Legends
Some writers seem to put an absolutely enormous focus on striving for complete originality. That’s not a bad thing, but I also feel as though it’s not entirely realistic. Look closely enough for long enough and you’ll find that a lot of recent work shares striking similarities with things that have been around a lot […]
February 24, 2018
We All Saw It Coming Paperback Now Available
It’s here at last! The paperback version of We All Saw It Coming, my flash fiction anthology for 2017. If you’ve come across previous anthologies in the series, you’ll know the deal: 31 stories, each written on a single day during July as part of Flash Fiction Month. The stories are generally funny, sometimes serious, […]
February 14, 2018
Deviations and Dragons
The Dragon and The Dying Stars, my final piece for Flash Fiction Month 2017, was selected as a Daily Deviation over on deviantart.com today! If you’re not familiar with the site, that means it’s been prominently featured as something that’s worth checking out: it’s not an award as such, but still it’s nice to know […]
