Saul looked up. “Oh, you wanted to start now?”
“Why not?”
“Because I'm going to kick your ass long before the campers do.”
“Yeah? Try me. I'm no rookie.”
Saul stood then. Even with his bad back, he seemed to grow a foot as he approached. …
Plot holes are generally considered the bane of any storyteller’s existence, and if you read or watch any advice on plotting a story, you would think that plot holes are simply lurking about in the shadows, ready to jump out and e…
Hello and welcome to the bonus World Building installment on Conlanging! Huzzah! What is a conlang, you ask? It’s simply a mashup of Constructed Language. That’s it. It’s a made up language. You can probably already think of a few right off the top of your head. Klingon, Na’vi, Dothraki, Esperanto.…
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Today we’re going to cover Language and Communication. I went back and forth a few times over whether I wanted to include the Conlanging piece. Eventually I decided to keep them separate. So if you’re really not interested in learning about conlangs, thi…
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Today we’re going to cover magic and sorcery. While not appropriate to every story, I still wanted to include it for completeness. And even if you don't have wizards and spells, it may apply elsewhere. I would place Time in this realm, for example.
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Today we’re going to talk about the Science and Technology of your people.
When you hear “science and technology,” it’s tempting to think of computers, space ships, and other elements of the modern day. But science is simply studying and learning ab…
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Now that we’re out of the Social Life segment, we’re going to talk about the environment, world and space.
Now, it’s tempting, when writing science fiction and fantasy, to throw in five moons of all different colors, add in a few psychedelic plant…
Adam and I went on a Redbox spree a few weeks ago, and during this spree we ended up watching a couple of movies that were very similar (yes, yes, most of them are pretty copy-catish, but these were remarkably similar). These were The Mule and Honest Thief.
Spoilers ahead. You have been war…
Because let's face it, you'd rather listen to me (or most anyone else) than any politician right now.
Let's start with the audiobooks.
Free Time is now an audiobook, will be on sale starting March 1. Yay! Accordingly, all of the 10 Facts have been caught up. Sorry, I didn't realize I had fo…
In honor of Free Time being released as an audiobook, here are ten facts about the story, and the story behind the story.
In honor of Stopwatch being released as an audiobook, here are some interesting facts about the book, audiobook, and story itself.
Welcome to the last installment on Social Life in the World Building series. Previously, we have covered childhood through adulthood. Today we’re going to cover old age and retirement.
When is someone in your society considered old? Is there a physical age that must be reached, or a mental stat…
With the release of Windup as an audiobook, I decided it would be cool to showcase some interesting trivia about it, be it story or production.
With the release of Tick Tock as an audiobook, I thought it would be fun and exciting to let you in on a few interesting tidbits, facts, and secrets about the book, from the story itself to some of the production behind it.
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Today is part two of Social Life. In part one, we covered childhood, how your people, be they human or alien, come into existence, how they learn and interact with their society, and how they become adults.
Today we’re going to talk about adulthood, t…
If you don't know that the world has changed in the last year, I would very much like to join you under your rock.
For the rest, these are a few thoughts that have been floating around my head lately.
The Chivalrous Welshman was originally set to be sixteen books. Then it got shortened to fif…
Welcome back to the series on World Building. Today we’re going to talk about Social Life. This will be the first of three installments.
This first installment is going to deal with birth through adulthood, how your people—be they humanoid or alien—grow up, how they are shaped in and by their w…
A few things to say and do, so I'll just run through them.
First, I finally managed to dump Windows and migrate over to Linux. Most of my programs are available in Linux, so there is no problem with any of the writing portion, and everything involving print editions is perfectly in tact.
Tha…
I think it was last summer that I posted a thing about The Lion King, how the new live-action compared to the original animation. I mentioned that I would do the same for Mulan when it came out. Well, we don't have Disney+ and even if we did, we weren't going to pay extra for it, especial…