Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Oh boy, Comedy!

So, I've started submitting features, and maybe articles soon for my college's satirical paper.
Now, I'm actually in the club that I'm making fun of, and the piece does require a bit of understanding of events that have recently happened on campus, but it plays off of the stereotypes of being a Gamer, some of which might be funny.



E-Sports Meeting Minutes
As reported by Mr. Schink

  1. Call to Order: 7:00
  2. Play Halo Reach: 7:01 – 8:00
  3. John yells at everyone else claiming “they cheated” 8:01 – 8:04
  4. Actual Call to Order 8:05
  5. Snack Reserves
    Dangerously Low (and dangerously cheesy, but seriously guys, stop eating all of our snack reserves). 
    Note for the Future: 10 pounds of Hot-pockets and 4 gallons of Mountain Dew: Gamerz Fuel is never enough 
    Possible Option 
    Dress-up like pirates and harvest vending machines. 
    Force all freshmen and jans to work in the hot-pocket mines.
  1. Recruitment
  • The girl to guy ratio is 1:Alot, we might want to change that.
  • Posters
    • Last time we had an event we had about 400 posters, We need 10 times that next time.
  1. Funding
  • John said he got money from student council, but all we have is an I.O.U. Note that smells vaguely of latex.
  • Denny has about $5.50 in pocket change, that's about five times our budget from last semester.
  1. Looks like a fight is about to break out
  • Someone just made fun of John's face, saying it looked like “If some one made a pepperoni pizza and used hot pockets instead.
  • Oh, a nice right-hook from John, his fist has maybe, 10-pounds of force, that's a lot.
  • Here comes Matthew into the battle, it looks like he's carrying a controller of some kind.
  • ...I never knew you could do something like that wit ha Gamecube-controller.
  • Ian seems to be tossing, Dorito chip powder at people while yelling something about “casting fireball”.
  • I really hope they don't notice me under this cardboard box in the corner
  • Oh god, I think they noti
[This report was found covered in soda stains, grease, and pizza bits, the writer has yet to be found.]

Friday, December 31, 2010

A Heartfelt Greeting to those Viewing my Blog.

"Greetings and Salutations!", or whatever other term floats your boat. This is the first post on my new log about writing, video games, and general geekdom, if you couldn't tell from the description up-top.

I'm Will, your guide, your Charon through this River of Styx that we will call my blog. Enough of the melodrama, so basically I'm going to be posting something about a game I might be playing, a show I might be watching, a book I might be reading, or my take on general events in the video game industry.

As this is my first blog, if any of you visitors out there feel like commenting, please tell me if there is any particularly bothersome thing about the format of the blog or otherwise, and I'll try to make a change to it post-haste, I can't please everybody, but I'll do what I can.

As well as posts specific to this blog, if in the near future I happen to get some chances at free-lance journalism, for the enthusiast gaming press, or get a shot at free-lance games journalism, or whatever you prefer to call the people who report gaming news, I'll post a link to the resulting article here.
But seeing as I have yet to graduate high-school as of this post, and am going to college within the coming fall, I doubt that you'll see high-profile articles from me for awhile. But it's never too late to build up a portfolio of work, and to have experience writing to other people (hopefully).

You might get another post from me soon, probably one explaining the name of the blog, and the lack of yellow and black colorization, but for now, I'll leave this post be.