Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Eeeeeeeeeeeevil…Man, this just says it all…My Word Account TallyI just checked and realized that of the 100, 000 words I’m allowed to “spend,” I’ve already used up 21, 000+. Bah, only 79,000 left. Must.Be.Stingier…
Oh, That 80’s Fever…
In the name of the new novel, it was time for me to get in touch with my childhood and make sure I had my facts straight about which music groups were in existence at the time, and whether they wore clothes like this, or that. It’s one of the weirder aspects [...]
Retroactive Pride
It’s a teensy bit dated, but nevertheless, I feel compelled to pimp the Fiance with a recent interview with her that appeared here.You will note that trying to stalk her on the Internet not only yields far more substantial Googles than what you get with me (Then again, anything is more substantial than “I [...]
Sometimes Ya Gets LuckySo not just ten minutes ago, I’m sitting around cranking away at the new novel, and thinking about a script that I have to crank out by Saturday morning when I get a call from one of the editors over at my game magazine gig, “GameAxis.”The conversation goes something like this:Him: [...]
Real Commercials For Real PeopleIn a more sensible world, I think television, and commercials in particular, would finally come to understand that while making people feel bad and insecure about themselves may generate a market of fear, appealing to that sense of alienation and bringing people together to pick on the people that have marginalized [...]
ACK.So I wrote back to my agent and told him “By the way, I’m working on a new book,” and told him about the basic story with the caveat “And this time I’m going to try to make it short.”I figured that an acceptable “short” would be 450+ pages since in my past two novels, [...]
MegasushiThis game is making my forehead bleed.The full name is Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, and it’s probably one of the more difficult RPGs I’ve come across in the last five years. The name, which is difficult enough to keep in my head, has more or less become reduced to “Megasushi” thanks to the [...]
Random EpiphanyI only just realized that the 19th century’s “Gay 90’s” had a resurgence in the 20th, only not the way our predecessors might have imagined…
When Did I Become An Outsider In My Own Kingdom!?!I ask this question, because it’s a thought that’s been burbling in my head ever since I set foot in the comic book store to purchase tickets for the impending arrival of Neil-O (All hail, our wise and learn-ed master, give us this day our daily [...]
My One (And Hopefully Only) Comment About Paris HiltonAs the “old” internet adage wisely goes, “Don’t feed the trolls.” I’m not going to do much to contribute to the Paris bandwagon as it already has tons of momentum going for it, ad nauseum, but I will say that not too long ago, I finally got [...]