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(While the content of this post should be safe in regards to Trigger Warnings, some of the links I post are not. Please click-through with caution because the internet is full of hateful assholes.) There was a time when I thought just being a good man was enough. Strike that. Correction. My idea of what
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I remember when the word was a stigma. When I was in junior high and high school, it was the early days of the Great Geek Uprising, a little-studied sociological shift that started in 1984, sparked by the bonfire speech at the end of “Revenge of the Nerds.” The word “Geek” was not a badge
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I’d like to start by saying I know some weird, weird people. A challenge of sorts was laid down on Twitter earlier today by Twitternaut Georg Greg that read, “ALCOHOL – because no great story or song ever started with someone eating a salad.” Before I knew it, people were rising to the challenge. But
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So, I have a problem with chocolate. It’s not that I don’t like the flavor. I mean, it’s candy for fucksake, so of course I like the taste of good chocolate. I’ve even reviewed a few of my favorites here (the Ritter Sport still my favorite despite the ethical dilemma). The problem is that chocolate,
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Religion and spirituality is a driving force of culture. It provided a way to unify people beyond family or clan or race for centuries before such concepts of Nationalism were invented. The extent to which faith impacts a fantasy world says a lot about that world. This is particularly relevant when working in a genre
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Death doesn’t matter to the dead. No, it falls to us, the living who are left behind to process the loss, make some sense of everything, shoulder the burden then move on. There were times when I was younger where I was sure that Ivan would die a fiery death, victim of his own misadventure.
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Upon finding out that I was writing “Epic Fantasy,” earlier in the week, a friend asked me if it would have orcs in it. This is an understandable shorthand. There is a lot of baggage when it comes to epic fantasy. And while the Ravensgate books will not actually have orcs in it, it’s still in
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The best laid plans and whatnot. I can take comfort in the fact that everyone has a different process, and that what works for one person doesn’t work for everyone. I can tell myself that you have to follow the passion and write what you’re driven to write. I can even admit that there are
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Any town of sufficient size has neighborhoods. Heck, even the dinky-ass tourist town I grew up in had them. When people think of Seattle, they think of the Pike Place Market and the Space Needle. When Seattle locals think of the city, they think of it in terms of Cap Hill, Pioneer Square, Fremont, Magnolia.
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It’s a question that comes up after a certain amount of time in the writing experience. “As an author, how do you handle rejection?” Drinking. I suggest tea to calm the mind, or maybe some coffee to fuel the inevitable rewrite. If you prefer a beer and a shot of Wild Turkey while you kick
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