This year has been a really amazing, fascinating and oddly frustrating for my writing career. It’s been a year of growth, learning, and most of all, patience.
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Worldbuilding: Levels of Industry in Fantasy
Fantasy fiction, when it comes to technology and industry, typically has two settings: Medieval and Steampunk. Rarely do things deviate from those two, unless it’s “urban fantasy”, in which it’s […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Building Blocks and Lists
I’ve talked before about the importance of understanding how agriculture and domestication of animals influences the building of societies. Cultures don’t move past hunter-gather stages without domesticating animals and mastering […]
Read moreTen Books That Stuck With Me
Earlier this week, I got tagged over on Facebook with that “list ten books that stuck with you” meme, and I listed ten books with little additional commentary, save to […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: From the Neolithic to the Agricultural
Progressing from my initial ideas of bottom-up worldbuilding, once you’ve established your geography, your basic flora and fauna, and then had your people rise up and spread throughout the world, […]
Read moreWorldbuilding and the Challenges of the Cosmopolitan City
So, I’ve finally begun the work on The Little East (aka the sequel to A Murder of Mages) in earnest. Without delving too deep into spoilers, it deals with investigations […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
As an old school D&D person, one of the things I loved about the old Monster Manual was that it wasn’t just a listing of monsters and their combat stats. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Pure Bottom-Up Worldbuilding
Since I’m in the process of editing my draft of Thorn II and working on the rough of Murder of Mages II, I clearly don’t have enough on my plate. […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Real World Politics and SF/F
I don’t usually bring up real-world politics here. But it’s been drumming around the circle for a while now, so I might as well address it. I might be something […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Integrating the Top Down and the Bottom Up
I’ll fully admit, the worldbuilding work I’ve done for the Banshee space-opera verse has was done in a strange way. Namely, I did a combination of top-down and bottom-up building. […]
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