Comments for What I've Learned So Far

Comment on Is it writing? Or something else? by Glenda Spain

Glenda Spain — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:21:48 +0000

Good stuff!

Comment on The return of #beastmode. by Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:39:29 +0000

Thanks, Deb — and good work for you.

I should note: I happened to catch the room empty for a moment when I was getting started, but there were two or three other guys in this room — and maybe half a dozen more in other rooms — working out their personal issues at the same time I was.

Comment on The return of #beastmode. by Deb

Deb — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:36:29 +0000

May I admit I LOVE the looks of your no-frills gym. Also it’s astounding emptiness. I’m not sure if my bigbox gym is that empty except from midnight to 3 am.

Today was light bench day. 75%, 80%, 85% of a 5# increase on my 1RM. … Ok, skip the math – it was 85, 90, and 95# for 5 reps each. Then sets of skull crushers, front delt flys, and some (gasp) yoga.

Comment on My first half-marathon experience. by Rachel Strate

Rachel Strate — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:58:11 +0000

Good post, Tim. I like your alternative route idea plus now you know what it is like to do the distance and all the variables involved. Excited to hear about the next race!

Comment on Aboard by Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:09:20 +0000

Thank you, Drew — I appreciate it.

Comment on Aboard by Drew S.

Drew S. — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:56:47 +0000

Of course I shouldn’t be at all surprised, but this piece is polished and engaging, written in the style of a seasoned author. I hope you keep at it, Tim, for all of our benefit.

Comment on Aboard by Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:01:45 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Chris.

Comment on Aboard by Chris

Chris — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:51:38 +0000

There are some severe problems with nearly all of video game story and character writing ever created. Part of it is a shocking obliviousness to the fact that game storytelling is deceptively different than traditional non-interactive narrative like movies or books. It should be deceptive to neophytes, but not experts. The other part is that almost all game writing — even the lauded stuff — is just banal, trite pieces of tripe. Put most any of them on paper next to something like this and they would be turn to ash like a vampire in the Sahara sun.

I know writing for video games wouldn’t really be your bag, but reading something like this just makes me wish writers like you would/could get work writing for video games. Most serious writers would feel like “you should write for video games” is an insult, and that’s my point. Music for games has caught up with the movies, but the writing isn’t even jokingly close. If script writing for games was as good as music is, I think more serious writers would consider it. Alas, catch-22 territory.

Bristling piece, Tim-bo.

Comment on My first half-marathon experience. by Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:25:10 +0000

Thanks, everybody. I’m definitely not done on this front. I want to beat the distance — and go far beyond it — and I will try it with the race-day experience at some point.

Bryan: I went the whole way, 13.8, but by the end I was just hobbling. It took me, without exaggeration, probably 45 minutes to cover the last two miles.

Comment on My first half-marathon experience. by Bryan Person

Bryan Person — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:32:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience, Tim. I’m just *starting* my preparations to run my first half-marathon this fall, so I’m taking careful note of your lessons learned on what to do — and not to do.

But I also have to ask … did you actually end up finishing the 13.1/13.8?