Writing
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Explosions and FEELINGS (and More Explosions) (Guest Post by T. Eric Bakutis)
While I enjoy mindless action as much as the next person, stories where I can genuinely empathize with the folks currently shooting at each other have ... -
‘Conditions for Vision’: Guest Post by E.J. Swift
In the opening essay of her collection On Writers and Writing, Margaret Atwood discusses a series of interviews where she asked writers to describe how it ... -
Write of Way #3 – Writing like Forrest Gump
A thousand more words. You’re almost there, damnit! Gotta keep writing. Your fingers clack on the keyboard with ever-faltering intensity, your thoughts rush with all the ... -
Write of Way #2 – Where You’re Allowed to Write
Gentle background noise, cozy corners, and residual caffeine fumes make coffee shops unique in that they are the only place in all of creation in which ... -
Write of Way #1 – Admitting You Have A Problem
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to finding a solution. If you’re reading this, then you probably have a problem, and a rather ... -
Original Fiction: Neither Fruit nor Flesh by RJ Barker
It was a freak accident and everyone said so: the doctors who treated her, friends, even her family. Everyone. It was an ironic twist of fate, ... -
Magical Warfare
Fallout taught fans that war…war never changes. Military historians, however, argue otherwise. Case in point: the stirrup. Before firearms dominated the battlefield, it’s generally agreed that ... -
High Resolution: Worldbuilding and the Small Details
I have a fascination with the metal buttons on pay phones, the pixels on old Zenith televisions, the writing on IV drip bags, and the lettering ... -
Exploring Vvardenfell: How Morrowind Created an Immersive Secondary World
Back in 2012, I was sitting with a group of fantasy writers at the PNWA conference in Seattle. Everyone had begun rolling off their favorite authors, ... -
The Necronomicon to the Nokizi: Creating Texts For Secondary Worlds
Writing in-world texts offers an anchor for characters, readers, and authors—when everyone is working off the same information, there’s a sense of immersion and verisimilitude, that ...
