As someone who believes that blanket trigger warnings, coddling, and misinformation are hurting us as a species, and as someone who is anti-tribalist, I am going to gamble here on you reading this through, and maybe asking me questions if I am unclear. It is only out of sincere feelings of respect that I choose … More On religion, social media, and self censorship
I’m thinking of giving up social media again for a month soon – this is something I do periodically for my own mental health but wow, today, was a pain. CAVEAT: If you continue reading you will find my opinions – reasoned ones, I’d like to think, but still my opinions. Some of them are … More Possible break notice and micro-rant
Now that we have talked about lots of material things and places to put them the next question is how do we move all those things about. So we need to talk a bit here about modes of transportation and how we can learn more about them. Depending on your period and locale, your characters … More NaNoWriMo VP 6 – some thoughts on getting it there
Today, I am prepping to begin my NaNoWriMo experience. For me that means doing the following things…
Being able to see and hear and touch and taste and smell all of those things for themselves. Being able to turn them in the light and sneeze at the dust upon them or smell the lemon of the furniture wax. Too many writers make the mistake of just telling people that it is raining … More NaNoWriMo VP 5 – It takes senses to make sense!
And that brings us to mystery writers. Sad to say true mysteries are dying out due to the ease of access and glut of technology available to crime fighters these days, with the private eye novel especially being close to extinction, but there are still some good ones out there and some of the rules … More NaNoWriMo VP 4 – Mystery Writers
Shifting temporal gears here, medieval fantasy novelists, friends, you are also not immune. As someone who spent two years in the company of hard core Renn Faire artists and LARPers, let me assure you should really do some research into what your characters are carrying. Take it from me, you absolutely cannot swing a broadsword … More NaNoWriMo VP 3 – What’s In Its Pocketses, Part 2, FANTASY and Sword and Board.
So to begin with item one, in a rather famous dark cave a short little hobbit with hairy feet whilst riddling for his life once asked a seeming little monster with throat issues, “What’s in my pocket?” Okay, as a riddle this was unfair, and frankly Gollum should have called the sneaky, feelthy hobbit on … More NaNoWriMo VP 2 – What’s In Its Pocketses, Part 1
Well hello, greetings, guten tag, moshi moshi and aloha. It’s great to be here this evening with all of you as we create some brave new worlds. Today we are here to discuss one of the more neglected arts of writing, especially in this age of decreasing attention spans, world building. Since this topic is … More NaNoWriMo Virtual Presentation 1 – Intro
So the Universe has apparently decided I will not be doing either the worldbuilding lecture or the NANOWRIMO workshop I was planning on doing. Covid, sick cats, and the collapse of the venue (!!!) have all led to me having a bunch of materials to share and no place to share it. So I will … More My loss, your gain
EVOLVING MALE 