Why Not Both?
👋🏻 My review for Bungie's Marathon is live. Not that it is a video essay, but if you want a cool 5,500~ words about Bungie's best video game just know ya boy...
Is A Video Essay Alive?
👋🏻 I hope you don't mind a little creative soul searching disguised as a newsletter. It's been seven months since I last published a video. I can't seem to...
The Persona Gap
👋🏻 I miss working on my essay. I think that's a good sign. I'm sort of treating it like Persona 5. That game took me three years to beat. There were multiple...
My Long Dormant Destiny-Pilled Brain
👋🏻 I've had a come to Jesus moment with myself and the balance of editing this Memento/TLOUPII essay. I've realized that I did not set a hard enough deadline...
Everything Everywhere All At Once
👋🏻 It has been quite the 10 days since my last letter to you all. The opening sections are getting tighter. I am feeling good about it. I think I am ready to...
Clip By Clip
👋🏻 You ever just stare at a timeline and think "How am I going to fill this up? There is so much to do. Maybe I'm not cut out for this..." That was me a...
Time to Talk
👋🏻 The script is done. And by done I mean it is in a review process. I've given it a go with the red pen, some friends are taking a look, and I even chucked...
Anne and Akira
👋🏻 Two quotes for you before a brief script update: "What I do at this point, as the panic mounts and the jungle drums begin beating and I realize that the...
Crappy Drafts and Cheap Highlighters
👋🏻 Apologies for the radio silence into 2026. I wish I had a more meaty update for you all (and myself), but 2026 started off on a devastatingly wrong foot...
Canning Ragnarök
👋🏻 The God of War essay is dead, long live the God of War essay. I just can't bring myself to finish this Ragnarök essay. I've never been satisfied with the...
Old Ideas
Still in that self-induced state of limbo. Since last, I have recorded my voice over. I just did it one morning and haven't touched it since. It's been a...
Self-Induced Limbo
👋🏻 These Stephen King breaks are not working for me. That's probably because I fail to work on anything else essay related during that window. The wind has...
A Year-ish Later
👋🏻 First things first, the first draft is done and in hibernation. Initial feedback is good. I am curious what I'll think of it when I pick it up next week....
Languished Hesitation
👋🏻 Okay. I continued to play Alan Wake, beat it and its DLC just a couple days ago. I promise I am not diving into American Nightmare or Quantum Break...yet....
Hiding in Bright Falls
👋🏻 After a successful start last week, I sputtered out. Turns out while AI can read some 40,000 words in a script, it can't watch gameplay and compare...
Searching Ragnarök
👋🏻 Progress on the God of War script is coming along. I'd say I am half way done with it. My plan is to have a first draft seeded for comments and tucked...
Two Essays, One Book
👋🏻 I started reading Story by Robert McKee yesterday. Not to be hyperbolic out of the gate, but Story is coming off to me like a sacred Jedi text. I am...
Prime Packaging
👋🏻 I think the outline is locked and loaded. And for the fun of the process, I have included a screenshot of said outline. Subject to change of course, but...
To Meme or Not to Meme
👋🏻 Feels good to have the essay and its behind the scenes post out. I love writing those deep dives. They might be the most valuable thing I write for...
Behind the Scenes of "How Astro Bot Broke the Fourth Wall"
👋🏻 Hiya readers. For the uninitiated, after each essay I write a huge Behind the Scenes article focusing on the process and lessons learned. It's posted on...
