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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Our Awesome Soft Opening Adventure

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A New Guest Blog and Other Awesome Posts

In case you missed it yesterday, I thought I would direct you all to the guest post I wrote for Bio Break. It is about setting small goals for yourself as a player in order to prevent MMO burnout. While you’re there, don’t forget to check out the rest of Bio Break’s guest blogs so [...]

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6 Tips for Winning World of Warcraft PvP Battlegrounds as Alliance

Since November 2004, I’ve been Alliance. What that means in regard to PvP is that I have to be better than 90% of my team if I have any hope of winning. Because of that, I realized that the following six tips really sum up what makes me better than the rest of my team. [...]

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On Reading Twilight and Harry Potter

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter moved me to rush home and re-read the whole series from the beginning. I also figured that since Eclipse was releasing to theaters soon after my return, I would trudge through the final three installments of Twilight and have a wonderful time writing a series of blog posts analyzing [...]

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Writing My Novel: When Outlines Fail

When I first started seriously working on my novel, I said that “I definitely want to outline.” I knew that going into writing something as complex as a novel without a plan would lead to failure. So I sat down and thought about what I wanted to happen in my novel. I broke it down [...]

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Writing My Novel: The First Draft is Complete

It’s done. Finished. At 85,953 words, the first draft of my first novel is complete. And I feel so incredibly strange now that I want to jump right back in and get back to writing. But I can’t. I have to step back, take a few—many—deep breaths, and just let it sit. My wife is [...]

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Stargate SG-1: Ten Seasons of Awesomeness

Sometimes, I’m prone to hyperbole. I’ll state that Stephenie Meyer is the worst writer who’s ever lived, when I’m pretty sure there are worse ones who have gone unpublished. I might say that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is the best theme park ever created, but I haven’t experienced every theme park in the [...]

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Book Review: “The Red Pyramid” by Rick Riordan

The Red Pyramid is an interesting mix of YA urban fantasy and mythology that Rick Riordan made famous with his Percy Jackson series of novels. And while I have not read the Greek-mythology inspired novels, nor have I seen the movies, I fully expect to since I enjoyed The Red Pyramid pretty well. Riordan also [...]

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Our Awesome Soft Opening Adventure

My wife and I had planned our trip to Florida (our vacanymoon to steal a term from a friend) around the biennial Joss Whedon conference Slayage. We thought we were getting incredibly lucky because Universal Orlando’s new theme park—The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, obviously—had been pushed back to a Spring 2010 opening. When we [...]

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