Tag Archive | writers
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Lessons from the Aether: SG-1 and the Beauty of Consistency
Tweet of the Day: Using real history as plot. Not as easy as it sounds? ——– Stargate SG:1 started as a television spinoff of the Franco-American movie of the same name. It ran from 1997 to 2007. Much longer than any of the Star Trek incarnations, either version of BSG plus it had at least […]
Weekend Roundup: February 17-23
Tweet of the Day: What’s The Secret Of A Successful Science Fiction&Romance Combination? ——- It seems I got my groove back. Another week of regular posting, if a bit late each day. In other news a story I sent to an anthology didn’t make it, but I got a nice, thorough reply and an invitation […]
Genre as Argument
Tweet of the Day: I remember Space Quest. Do You? ——– Short post today. In upcoming weeks I’ll be exploring the idea of genre (and sub-genres) as argument. The idea is that each book presents an argument, for or against a given world view, even if the author is not making direct appeals to his […]
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 […]
Space for Rent: The Best Friend and the Worst Enemy
Tweet of the Day: Why do literary novelist love dystopias? ——– An artist can ever have is…the fandom. Be it an individual fan or a group of them, it can be extremely rewarding and downright scary dealing with fans. Nothing boosts the artist ego than to be told, yes, this work of yours is great. […]
Lessons for the Aether: National Novel Writing Month
Tweet of the Day: Designing from the Bones- Otherworld ——- A strange post today, for it is All Hollow’s Eve as well as the day before National Novel Writing Month. What makes it even weirder is that if there is a time and place to learn about writing and what it takes to be a […]
