Some time ago, I wrote this well-intentioned but, in retrospect, faulty post about female characters called A Manly Male Man’s Primer For Writing Female Characters, By a Man. I won’t lie to you all: while it had its good parts, I believe it’s one of my worst articles from recent years. I like to think by […]
Hello, readers mine! Here I sit, once more, with the chance to write something on the blog, and what better something to write about than subversion? It’s a topic creators of all stripes can stand to learn about, from musicians to artists, but most of all writers. Whether you’re a novelist or a tabletop Dungeon […]
Hello, readers mine! My work this week has again fallen out such that I am blessed with the chance for a bit of writing here on the blog. The Lord of the Rings! You know I love it if you’ve been around long enough. I still believe it’s one of the most cohesive, satisfying fantasy […]
Hello, readers mine! Due to some submissions-related tomfoolery at work, I find myself with spare minutes this grey-skied morn. I thought this a good chance for a quick post about Gnomic Utterances. I suspect for many of you that’s presently an autological term, so allow me to clarify. While the mechanic predates the term, “Gnomic […]
Alright, yes, a fair question! Aaagh–would you–STOP HITTING ME WITH YOUR CAPS-LOCK KEYS! (Hypocrisy, thou blowest from the north, and upon a lukewarm wind because my place of residence forgot how to winter in 2020)–so, let’s ditch the over-tangential style of 2013-2017 North and answer the title question: where have I been? Ach, mensch, I must tell […]
Hey folks, I’m still in recovery from Loremageddon–I may or may not pick up Fringe Elements again next week, might give myself ’til after next Saturday so as to fully recharge–but in the meantime I wanted to highlight a very simple writing principle that can do extraordinary amounts of work for you. I’d like to […]
As promised, readers mine, here’s the all-encompassing post for every single Loremageddon entry completed over the past month. In years to come I’ll establish a page which in turn organizes all these nexus-posts by year. It should make for quiet the font-reliquary, no? Anyway, I hope you all find this helpful, and that you’ve been […]
We’re here at last: Day Thirty, the final day, the last post of Loremageddon 2019! And, in appropriate fashion to this closing hour, I’m focusing on lore itself as it exists within the Twin Spirals. First we’ll do a brief rundown of Canno’s Planelords, but then it’s into all manner of lost and disappearing knowledge. […]
Hello, everyone! I hope those of you who partake in Black Friday have done so responsibly, and that those of you who have to work today were at least able to enjoy your Thanksgiving! For my part, I stayed overnight at my family’s place, so this lore-drop comes later in the day. Nonetheless, I hope […]
Hello, everyone! Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to Day Twenty-Eight of Loremageddon! I could’ve tried to theme this post accordingly, but that just seemed silly. Instead, we’ve got a category of spirits known for hanging out around mystics, a famously-charismatic necromancer, and a group of ocean-going rapscallions with their own agenda. If you’ll bear with me? […]
