Author of the Small Worlds series
With the end of Game of Thrones, fantasy has been on my mind a lot lately. Fantasy, as a genre, is an interesting beast. It revolves around the fantastic and the impossible, without the constraints of pretending at science like even the least grounded sci-fi, which means in theory that it should have limitless possibility …
Continue reading Hard Vs Soft Magic – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Which to Use
A little while ago I did a blog post about three youtube channels that are good for writing research. This is not a continuation of that blog post. As important as dedicating time, effort, and energy are to writing if you want to make a real go of it, it’s also important to have fun. …
You’d think, today being the last day of Game of Thrones, I’d be doing another post about the show. However, I’d prefer to talk about shows I'm still enjoying, so I’m going to talk about some CW shows. We live in a world where CW is producing genre shows with more consistent quality than HBO. …
Well, this season of Game of Thrones has been controversial to say the last. Some people still love the show. Others are starting to be...less than happy with the direction things have taken. I’m in the latter camp. Wait, wait, don’t go for that back button. This is not the 2,000,000,000th article analyzing this season …
Continue reading Restrictions Breed Creativity: Lessons from Game of Thrones
So, if you follow movie news and reporting, you probably heard the term ‘superhero fatigue’ being bandied about - the idea that the general audience is getting sick of superhero movies due to overexposure. Usage of that term seems to have dropped off steeply since 2018, which isn’t surprising - 2018 brought us Black Panther, …
Continue reading Why Superhero Movies Might Never Die – and That’s Okay
This week, if you hadn’t heard, is National Teacher Appreciation Week, the week where we remember to appreciate one of the most under-appreciated professions in the country. Now, I’m not a teacher - I went to college with the intent of being a teacher, got into a high school classroom as a substitute teacher right …
Continue reading 3 Things You Can Do For Teacher Appreciation Week
Camp NaNo has come and gone, and the final numbers are in: 57,311. There were about 3,000 words I forgot to track near the end of the month. Overall, I should be happy with these results - 57,000 isn’t anything to sneeze at, 60,000 is an incredibly solid number. However, I’m not happy with that …
Continue reading Redefining Success – A brief Camp NaNoWriMo Roundup
