Audrey Watters

I am pretty critical of my writing. I notice that a fair number of my sentences start with a preposition and a dependent clause. I notice that I tend to write extraordinarily long sentences that often require commas (I am compensating for the absence of the semi-colon in non-academic prose,...

I seem to have misplaced my writing mojo this past week, and almost every blog post I composed was a pain to write and a flop upon publishing. As such, I'm struggling to come up with a list of the "best" stories I told this week. I am quite fond...

Having written a story myself that combined the motif with OK Go, I admit I always get a real chuckle out of the "lessons learned" posts that folks write. Nevertheless, the headlines below, I'm afraid, are for "lessons learned" stories that will forever remain as drafts: 1. Never Have a...

My little brother called this afternoon, just as I was editing my final RWW post for the day. I let it go to voicemail, then when I made sure that I'd spelled everything correctly and that I'd closed all the brackets in the HTML, I scheduled the post and I...

I find Google Maps a blend of the useful and the creepy. Point me in the right direction, thank you. But I needn't have close-up photographs of every few feet of road along the way. Google's Street View adds this extra layer of mapping, as it aims to let users...

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed," said Hemingway. Maybe that's why I'm so exhausted. I wrote a lot this week (highlights: Hacker Angels, Posterous/Ambition, New Domain for Google Secure Search, Nimbula). I finally wrote a review of the Humble Indie...

The first game I decided to try after installing the Humble Indie Bundle onto my new Macbook was Samorost 2. And it was playing the game that prompted me to write this (belated) review series on the bundle. Samorost 2 was immediately enjoyable -- visually, intellectually -- and I knew...

I won't lie. I'm still stuck on playing World of Goo. I've got several video game reviews I'm trying to write this weekend (I know. Rough life.) And yet, I keep returning to World of Goo instead of moving along in my other game-related writing projects. I say that, because...

I feel silly as I type this: The World of Goo, a game involving building climbing structures out of balls of goo, is one of the most enjoyable games I've played in recent memory. I mean, I've killed a lot of dragons and shot a lot of zombies. I've deprived...

Sometimes when you skip across rocks across a stream, your foot just aces each jump and you bound across effortlessly. Sometimes you hesitate. Sometimes you stumble. Sometimes other people -- not you, of course -- just stand there, throw up their hands and give up, and decide they just can't...