Please forgive a certain degree of incoherence in this post. I’m not drinking coffee this week, and it’s hitting me hard today. I need to confess something about my influences: […]
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Old School Influences
“It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.” Those words either mean something special to you, or they don’t. If they do, then you, like […]
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I’m going deep into the word mines, dear readers, on something of a personal writing retreat. So today you get a small map of the city of Maradaine. Later.
Read moreIndependence Day Worldbuilding Blog Post
So, it’s Independence day. I would like to say I’m a big American History geek, but I don’t know as much about it as I’d like to. (I blame my […]
Read moreBusy Week, Quick Post
Two points: 1. You still have about 36 hours to sign up for the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop: Writers’ Workshop Are you an unpublished, beginning to intermediate level writer? Put your […]
Read moreBook Trailer Reviews
So, I was suggested two book trailers by my friend Abby. In her opinion, the first one is worse than the second. I actually feel it’s the other way around. […]
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Book trailers are a phenomenon that have fascinated me for some time. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, as I am a writer and have a degree in film […]
Read moreWriting Minor Characters: The Story of Citizen #4
I believe that I’m somewhat unusual amongst fantasy/sci-fi writers, in that I cut my writers’ teeth as a playwright. Coming at writing novels from a theatre background gives me a […]
Read moreIntentionally hiding tools in your toolbox.
Interesting bit of “advice” I heard the other day: A stylistic thing: I was just at the Backspace Conference, where in the opening pages agent-author seminar, the agents stopped reading […]
Read moreRevisiting the Fantasy Manifesto
Back when I first started this blog, I did a few posts on the idea of my Fantasy Manifesto– a series of guidelines of what I wanted to avoid in […]
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