Riddle: When do gaming and editing services meet? Answer: At Dexcon, of course! Ann Stolinsky, partner in Gemini Wordsmiths and owner of Gontza Games, attended the July 2019 East Coast annual gaming convention. When she told the attendees that she is a game designer and play-tester …
What’s Holding You Back?
You have a short story, a novel, your memoir, a poem storming about in your head. What's preventing you from putting it down on paper? Maybe your writing is good enough for you to be on the next episode of Oprah .... but you don’t realize it. You have no self-confidence because your …
Is History Repeating Itself?
Today’s 80-year anniversary of Kristallnacht—“Night of Broken Glass”—often acknowledged as the beginning of the Holocaust, cannot go unmentioned in light of the madness that is occurring in our lives these days. Thank God my parents are not alive to relive this. They survived the …
The Pen Is In the Other Hand
I normally don’t have the time to write for pleasure, but I found some time recently and submitted a short story to an online magazine. The magazine sent me a rejection email, but with comments. The agent stated, “The story has potential” and suggested I “tighten it up” and resubmit. …
Metatopia 2014
My background in game design, along with my professional editing skills, gives Gemini Wordsmiths a unique perspective in editing game rules. Last weekend, I attended METATOPIA 2014, a convention devoted to game designers and play-testers. The convention was incredibly energizing. According …
A sale that is out of this world!
GEMINI WORDSMITHS CELEBRATES THE CELESTIAL MIRACLE NAMED AFTER THE EARTHLY MIRACLE, GEMINI WORDSMITHS. Once a year the constellation GEMINI produces a radiant that emits meteors called the Geminid Meteor Shower. Gemini Wordsmiths thinks this is reason enough to run a sale! For all new …
Come to a book launch party!
Watching a book develop from concept through finished product is like watching a baby grow into an adult. The book we’re referring to is the “baby” of the collective Main Line Writers’ Group. Approximately a year and a half ago an idea to publish stories from the members of the group was …
Deadlines and Pressure
How do you handle deadlines? Everyone, not just writers, has deadlines. Do you need to make an appointment for a baby’s three month visit? You can’t wait until the baby is three months old to schedule the appointment. Do you need to have your car inspected before the end of the month? …
Game Design Course
Good news! Folks in the Upper Dublin, PA area who would like to take a very basic and brief course about the non-electronic game industry as well as game design, can take a look at this link, course number …
DEXCON
I just (literally) got home from DEXCON, the game convention I highly recommend to everyone on the east coast – or anyone willing to come to the east coast in hot July. The attendance this year was approximately 1,600. The majority of the attendees were die-hard gamers who enjoy all …