Tag Archive | fantasy
TV Tropes Monday: Atlantis
Tweet of the Day: Walking the Ghosts ——- Want an ancient civilization with fantastic technology/magic/treasure that disappeared due to a world shaking catastrophe because of the hubris of Man. One word: Atlantis. You’re one stop shop for: ancient mysteries, all myths are true, human aliens, ancient astronauts, eldritch horrors and loopy philosophers looking for allegories […]
Genre as Argument: Dark Fantasy
Tweet of the Day: Sword and Laser Anthology ——- This sub-genre of fantasy puts the dark back into the dark ages. It is an counter argument to the idea of an Arcadian past. The worlds portrayed in dark fantasy are dirty, messy, violent and by our standards immoral. All the familiar elements are there, but […]
Genre as Argument: Sub-Genres
Tweet of the Day: Praise the Lord and pass the genre ammunition ——- There comes a time in any life when the student becomes the master. It happens in all kinds of disciplines including writing. So, it is no surprise that as genres mature, those that grew up reading them write their own reaction to […]
Genre as Argument: Fantasy
Tweet of the Day: Dreaming of Souvlaki ——- If science fiction looks toward a technological utopia then fantasy appeals to an agrarian golden age. Fantasy as an identified genre is relatively new, newer than sci-fi, but as storytelling theme it has been around since the beginning of time. This theme can be divided into four […]
Lessons from the Aether: Dragon Age II and how NOT to create a sequel.
Tweet of the Day: 10 Ways for an ADD Writer to be OOH! SHINY!…Productive ——– Sequels are hard. They have to expand, explore and excite while keeping the same “feel” of the original work. The one thing they are not supposed to do is to be money grabbing place holders until the shock of the […]
On the Giving of Thanks
Not much to report folks. Spent most of the day with my dad in the emergency room. Nothing serious, at least for now, he experience some wooziness and nausea. So no turkey for me on Turkey Day. It happens, you roll with it, carry on, etc. But just so you know that I […]
World Building Wednesday: Why World Build?
Tweet of the Day: Building a Near Future World ——– Over the past couple of months a few commentators (?) inb my blog have expressed what can only be described as a “dislike” of world building. “I don’t world build.” “It’s too much work.” “That’s why I don’t write fantasy/science-fiction.” Let me ask you a […]
TV Tropes Monday: My Species Doth Protests Too Much
Tweet of the Day: Little Darlings and Why They Must Die…for REAL ——- It is very common for “species” in spec-fiction to wear hats, be they the logical hat, the warrior hat, the hippie hat or the diplomatic hat. This guy left his at home or added a feather to his cap, either way he […]
World Building Wednesday: Fictionalizing Your World Building
Tweet of the Day: More than Magic & Gadgets- Taking Science Fiction and Fantasy to Another Level ——– Show don’t Tell, or so the old writing adage goes. So much so that I either read or written the line above at least once in the last year. It is one of the reasons why most […]
Ambrosius the Warlord 9: The Grail
Tweet of the Day: On The Topic of Saying No ——- Severus the Rogue – 1 -8 -10 ——- Brave cousin Kay went down Cornubia’s way. Through roads and fields he searched for Tintagel. But on a turn of the road, he met a surly troll that with one swipe of the fist smashed his […]
