As I am attending WorldCon in San Antonio this year, I’m entitled to vote on the Hugos. As opposed to my qualms about nominating, I have no problem with voting, […]
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Worldbuilding: Constructed languages and how we think
I’m not much one of one for doing the Constructed Languages work. That may seem funny, given how much of a worldbuilding purist and completist I otherwise am, but while […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Mystery Box and the Blatant Misdirect
J.J. Abrams has often talked about using the “mystery box” as a writing tool.* The underlying idea is that the mystery of what’s in the box is more interesting than […]
Read moreWorldbulding: Nation/Culture Building Template
Way back when I first started the Serious Worldbuilding Process for the world Druthal is in, the internet was still in its toddlerhood. So when I first cooked up the […]
Read morePerils of the Science-Fiction Writer: Avoiding Obsolescence
I’ll admit I’m not a big short story reader, nor am I as versed in the classics as I ought to be. That said, I have a certain fondness for […]
Read moreMilestone Entry: 300th Post, and How To Look To the Future
So, amazingly enough, I’ve made 300 posts here. Though I think the main thing that demonstrates is dogged perseverance. If you look at the earliest days of this blog, when […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Geopolitics in the Interstellar (Part Three)
Borders are a hell of a thing in three dimensions. They aren’t lines, of course. They aren’t usually even walls. If anything, they’re planes where spheres intersect. I made a […]
Read moreNominating the Hugos
Since I’m attending LoneStarCon this summer, I’m eligible to nominate for the Hugos. The deadline for nomination is this Sunday, and I’m still on the fence of whether or not […]
Read moreSci-fi and Fantasy, Loud and Proud
Over the weekend I read this blog post by Matt Debenham on What Writers Can Learn from Purple Rain, and it’s brilliant. And not just because Purple Rain may be […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Geopolitics in the Interstellar (Part Two))
Last time, I talked about working out every culture’s homeworld, how advanced they are, and when they achieved FTL tech. So, knowing that, the rest is simple, right? Whoever has […]
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