Fight Scenes Redux: Convocation
“In other words, I write about violence in order to feel more human.”
Tag: advice
Writing Advice: Beware Absurdly Reductive Writing Advice!
There are a lot of stories you can write. Hordes of them. Seething lexical legions demanding ink-black birth through your mind-womb! That grew dire fast, and I apologize. Anyway, most of us learn early on that there are a multitude of genres with a multitude of options and three principle styles of writing (Low, Middle, […]
Old Dogs and Dead Horses: Warrior Ideals
(Friendly Neighborhood Content Warning: a few parts of this post include extremely graphic descriptions of violence. I’ve realized that my own life experiences have inured me to this, but most readers have not had said experiences. If you’re willing to brave it–you admirable soul, you–then read on.) Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: […]
Missed Opportunities: New World Same As The Old World
They’re everywhere you go. Everywhere you turn. At the other end of each turning page, nestled in the middle of a sentence. Watching you. Laughing at you. You can only read of that other world, but they slip between it and ours. They are ancient and strong beyond human reckoning. The mightiest strongman strains to […]
North’s Whiplash Writing Recommendations: No Questions Asked, Answered Anyway
One of the big problems I’ve seen among genre fiction authors in recent years is an obsession with explaining things no one wanted explained. Some prime examples include Prometheus, because what everyone really wanted from the Alien franchise was a prequel movie entirely focused on humans (down to a ridiculous HUMANS ARE ACTUALLY ALIENS plot point), and that […]
