In my worldbuilding efforts, I’m often trying to think of new ways to present the information about different places in dynamic and interesting ways. I’ve considered the wiki route, writing […]
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The Plotless Meander
“Celeste And Jesse’s script… is shapeless and witless, aiming for an offhandedness in the interactions that instead comes off as contrived, or sometimes just bland” – AV Club review of […]
Read moreVillains with Clear Motives
This weekend I watched last year’s premaquel* of The Thing. It was… fine. That’s really all I can say about it. It achieved its goals, given that its goal was […]
Read moreVisual Influences and the Failure of Words
Every writer has their weak points. Visual descriptions is definitely one of mine, I’ll own that. I can muddle my way through describing people and clothing all right. In those […]
Read moreEvolving from a Fandom of One
Back at the ArmadilloCon Workshop, the fantastic Mark Finn talked a bit about that moment that many writers dread: when someone approaches you with “the idea”. Now, in this case, […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Aliens, Form follows Function
Alien life can take all sorts of shapes and sizes. When it comes to the various flora and fauna of other worlds, there’s no limit to where your imagination can […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Stellar Map Time
I’m under a bit of a hammer today, so: SPACE MAPS. Now, I don’t have a good way to display the full scope of the 100-light year radius of space […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: How I Love Spreadsheets and Map Tools
All right, so I’ve talked about mapping things out and alien civilizations, but when dealing with things on an interstellar scale, when you’re talking about 4660 stars within a 100 […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: New Life, New Civilizations and the Mos Eisley Cantina
What’s a Space Opera without some aliens?* I’m firmly of the opinion that once you’ve breached the idea of humans going into space, traveling faster than light, aliens are an […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Geography of the Interstellar
I’m sure my credentials as something of a map geek when it comes to worldbuilding are well established. I don’t know one can seriously do worldbuilding without a sense of […]
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