This is the continuation of my Twitter story written through the daily VSS365 word prompts. You can read Part I here. Follow me on Twitter @GaxTZ to catch up each day. I climb up into the graveyard but have to prompt John to follow. From the way he is acting, I'm starting to think he's … Continue reading Who Lives Beneath: A VSS365 Story (Part II)
Author: Gareth Ellis
Writer and player of things.
Actually Doing University Work
This week, as the rest of the university, is off to prepare for assessments, our course was also given the week off despite us not having any assessments for a while. For one of our lectures, we were given some work to prepare for a group presentation. This is the first “proper” work that I’ve … Continue reading Actually Doing University Work
Love or Hate: Open World Games
Open-world games are one of many genres of video game that is out there. These days there are many massive games where you can freely explore a map as long as you want without it having an adverse effect on the story. I asked my gamer followers on Twitter if they enjoyed open-world games or … Continue reading Love or Hate: Open World Games
It’s NaNoWriMo Time Again
NaNoWriMo What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It is a challenge to write 50,000 words on a new novel or your current WIP. You keep track of your progress on the website, where you can see how everyone else is doing. You don’t lose out if you don’t manage to do the … Continue reading It’s NaNoWriMo Time Again
Why Play Video Games?
Video games have been around for many years now, from Pong to Mario Bros. to Skyrim; they have captured our imaginations and, for some of us, have been a part of daily life for as long as we can remember. But why do we play video games? I recently posed this question to my followers … Continue reading Why Play Video Games?
Books I’ve Read This Year (Reviews)
Books, books, books. Books everywhere. They're on bookshelves, in drawers, on my phone and my Kindle, and yet so far this year, I've read nowhere near as many books as I would have liked to from my list. This is because of a few reasons, some being writing my own stuff, gaming and reviewing and … Continue reading Books I’ve Read This Year (Reviews)
Awkward Trophies: Skyrim Edition
If you read my gaming blogs you'll already know that I'm always up for a good trophy hunt, especially if some of those trophies are a but of a pain in the arse to get. I recently posted about some awkward trophies in the games Vampyr and Fallout 4. Below are a selection of the … Continue reading Awkward Trophies: Skyrim Edition
Making Time to Write
I posed the question "When do you write?" to my Twitter follows and got the below responses. Whatever you write, making time to do it, at times, can be extremely trying. We all have things going on our lives, whether it's a day job, kids, family, friends, hobbies or a whole host of other parts … Continue reading Making Time to Write
Alan Wake Remaster (Review)
Alan Wake is an action-adventure horror game that was released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PC in February 2012. A remastered version was recently released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. In the game, you take control of Alan Wake, a writer that has come to the … Continue reading Alan Wake Remaster (Review)
Sleepless in Wigan
Well it's another Monday, so it's another start of uni week. I'm going into this week a little behind on sleep. In my post on Friday, I talked about how we would be picking up the new member of our family - an 8 week old German Shepherd - on Saturday. Well, Saturday came and … Continue reading Sleepless in Wigan
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