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
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
I just discovered that there is a person who thinks I was lying about making my own furniture because I was ignorant about wood glues. JESU IMMANUEL! Cultures have been making furniture without glues for literal millennium, but I am a liar because I don’t use/know glues. I am allergic to most chemical glues and … More Science!
Thanks to COVID, I am doing a lot of reading in bed, and that includes readings I normally would leave on my TBR pile to allow it to riipen a bit further because even though I am interested in stuff like this it is not as fun to read as say, The Kingkiller series (Get … More On Vice
As a rule I don’t read series. Especially not incomplete series. I hate the lack of resolution. Yes, I know this is book one of a slated three – now stretched out to 2 finished books and a finished novella, with the final book promised after a not yet finished novella. And yes there is … More Book Review: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
As most of you know I am a huge fan of Dorothy L. Sayers and own everything she’s ever written, which of course includes the insanely literate and very well written Lord Peter Wimsey books. Wimsey, intellectual detective and Oxford History 1st, made a huge splash in the English writing scene way back in the … More Book review: The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh
Below is a link to an essay I read today in the New Yorker dealing with a novelist and his lies. It resonates with me on many levels and raises some very interesting questions about race, culture, and identity in our modern age and very mixed American society. It is intriguing to me because the … More Some thoughts and questions about identity
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