On writing
TV Tropes Monday: Pre-Climax Climax
Tweet of the Day: How To Get By In Elvish ——- This trope is about doing the deed before the deed is done. In other words, it’s about sex. It is a nice way to tie the romantic subplot just before the story ends. But it does have two problems. The first, it might come […]
TV Tropes Monday: Hijacked By Jesus
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture ——- This trope…well this trope goes something like this: “Oh, a new religion. How nice! Let’s see what we can do with it. Okay it has a Sky God, father figure to the other gods and mortals, lays down the law, and is the […]
Lessons from the Aether: Explosions, Lens Flare and Lack of Substance
Tweet of the Day: Mood Swings and Rounabouts ——- It’s May and Summer Movies Blockbusters Season (yes, I capitalized them) is upon us. Time to go to your local theater. over pay for your tickets, sit, relax and let the sub woofers liquify your ear drums while the lens flare melt your retinas. Do […]
Lessons from the Aether: Game Design and the Challenge Curve
Tweet of the Day: It is Pitch Black. You are Likely to be eaten by Paul Ricoeur. ——- One challenge facing any game designer is how to find and maintain the right balance between a players/characters skills/abilities and challenge so as to maintain a modicum of tension throughout the game experience. If the game is […]
TV Tropes Monday: Deal with the Devil
Tweet of the Day: The Duck Sanctuary at no. 17 ——- This trope is as old as…the Devil himself. The deal can be with a demon, godling, wizard, or Da’ Devil himself. A imple trade, your soul for whatever your heart desires, just sign on the dotted line, don’t mind the blood. This is a […]
TV Tropes Monday: Defector from Decadence
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 18b – Bullet ——- The Defector from Decadence is a character who abandons the dark side not because he has suddenly turned good but because the values of his former compatriots don’t match his own. A writer can use this trope to add both narrative and character […]
Lessons from the Aether: Sanderson and Worldbuilding a Plot
Tweet of the Day: Forging a Universe: Worldbuilding Physics ——- Brandon Sanderson is a master of weaving deep, well thought out worldbuilding into intricate fantasy plots. While other writers struggle with the question of how much background information to put in their stories, Sanderson makes figuring out how the world works part of the […]
TV Tropes Monday: Hotter and Sexier
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.15: Narrative Rhythm ——- Want to show that your work is for grown ups, move it Premium Cable and show more tits and ass. Welcome to Hotter and Sexier-land with more serving of T&A per minute than anywhere else. Not a bad thing, unless you equate maturity with sex. […]
Genre as Argument: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Tweet of the Day: Speculative Fiction Tropes: Magictech ——- Once again, we come to the end of a blog post series. I’ve run out of genres/subgenres to write about. I know that I just scratched the surface, but writing posts like these requires a certain level intimacy with the subject at hand and I’m afraid […]
