Starcraft 2

So I decided to start my blogging career with something not as obviously related to writing, as say a book, but rather something that is a little to the side – and yet relative on this website nonetheless. That’s right, a video game.

And not just any game, but the one and only Starcraft 2, the giant of today’s PC gaming industry. The giant that sold 1,000,000 copies worldwide on its release date, and 500,000 copies the following day. The giant that marks Blizzard’s 8th super-success in a row. The giant that keeps us up at night, like mindless drones who obey the overmind.

So how the hell is this related to writing you might ask? I’ll tell you how. Starcraft’s storyline was written by a department of professional writers, who have spent little over 7 years writing it’s script. And this goes beyond the main campaign. These writers had to create an entire universe from scratch, which is an essential skill for any fantasy writer.

Inception

 Ahh, Christopher Nolan. I've seen what kind  of movies this guy can make. The Dark Knight, The Prestige...I mean what else could you want from the guy, his movies are practically heaven on screen. Everyone I know likes them.

But when Christopher postponed making Batman 3 in order to make a movie based on his own ideas, called Inception, everyone I knew began to doubt.

Could Christopher make another good film? Why yes. Could he make something to live up to The Dark Knight? Ahh well...that's where the doubts came in.

The trailer revealed the movie to be about...a thief of sorts called Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has the ability to enter peoples dreams and extract information from them. His usual scheming life is disrupted when he is given an assignment to perform Inception: a much more dangerous procedure than extraction, which attempts to implant an idea into a persons mind while they sleep.