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Monday, July 28, 2014

You'd Think We Might Learn



But we generally don't.
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A Motorcycle's Purpose

This blog, like a motorcycle, has many purposes. It is not a simple method of transportation or a simple platform, although it can function as such.

Instead, it is a place, and maybe in time a community, to think creatively. The content of this blog will evolve as I create it--from short fiction entries to (probably quite long) rants on the storytelling of games. Anything that is significant to the broader scope of "creation" could pop up here.

It will also, hopefully, be a discussion. Leave a comment on any post or on the "Loud Noises on Nothing In Particular" open discussion page. This site is a conversation.

I have no desire to own or ride a motorcycle. But I look like I do, and I have friends who do. This site is, like a motorcycle might be to you and storytelling is to me, a meditation.

Enjoy,
Dylan Matthias

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One of the reasons I take so long to post is that I proofread and self-edit religiously.

If you see an error of fact or a simple spelling mistake, please leave a comment below the story and it will be corrected.

The Writer

Dylan Matthias
Dylan Matthias grew up in small-town Nova Scotia writing stories about drifts, dystopias, and dragons.

Inspired by Douglas Adams, Brian Jacques and Guy Kay, Dylan enjoys mythopoeia, crafting worlds in space and time. For nearly eight years, he's been mucking about with game narrative because while fiction makes words beautiful, games make them into worlds we can inhabit.

He studied journalism, English, and creative writing for five years at the University of King's College, from which he graduated in 2012 and is now deadly busy at the Centre for Digital Media where he does a lot of writing and producing. He will rejoin society in September 2014.

Dylan worked at The Dalhousie Gazette, North America's oldest campus paper, for four years, including one as its editor-in-chief. He's also or appeared on Haligonia.ca, UNews.ca, The CIS Blog, and SSN Canada. His first short story, The Wonderer, was published in April 2012 in Fathom: Dalhousie's Creative Writing Journal.

Dylan is a chronic user of the serial comma, bad sub-titles, and the awkwardly-placed parenthetical. He also thinks kennings are cool.
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