I’ve mentioned once before, in my “Why I Write” essay, that gaming got me started scribing things. Well, I hope today I might be able to show you why it worked as it did. I’ll preface this by saying that it’s an unfortunate coincidence I was playing as Germany during the events of this story, […]
This is going to be one of those “North notices a pattern and launches a textual crusade against it” posts, just be aware of that going in. Things may get caustic. Or, er, moreso. I’ve noticed a bit of a trend in writing advice from recent years. Not so much in academic circles or stemming […]
Think about any book you’ve ever read that featured a protagonist you might call “hero.” They may not be swept up in the dragon bothering, dungeon defiling antics of a high fantasy romp or heading up the clash between rival starfleets, but they’re the ones who give events their shape (or around whom the plot […]
