Tag Archive | fantasy
Tales from the D&D Table: Not the Best Man for the Job.
Tweet of the Day: Why Characters Need Choices in Fiction “You’re going to be late,” Liandra said, her nose buried in her book. I adjusted my pantaloons, “I will not be late. I am never late.” “Just like you were not late for Da and Ma anniversary?” she asked. I tucked in my shirt, […]
We Are Orcs
Tweet of the Day: Nine Adorable Pets in Space Illustrated She answered the insult with a swift stroke of her sword. The severed head left a bloody smear in the fresh snow. Gasha planted a foot on the prince’s corpse and bellowed to others, “Orc women are smart because orcs are smart. Orc […]
My Story? I Got a Million of Them!
Tweet of the Day: Musings on HBO Westworld Episode One My story? I got a million of them! Should I tell you about the child of the handsome elven ranger and the saucy daughter of a gentry farmer? Or perhaps the one about laughing rogue who stole the heart of a pretty […]
TV Tropes Monday: Our Dwarves Are All The Same
Tweet of the Day: Inappropriate Nice Guys ——- Welcome to your Standard Fantasy Setting. Everything here is vaguely Western European Medieval, with Kings and Queens, Swords and Sorcery and everything in between. Here you have the your Elves, that run the gamut from ethereal tree dwelling bow wielding remnants of Celtic lore to spoiled urban […]
Tales from Sanctuary: TerraKata
Tweet of the Day: Want a Page-Turner? You Need a Deep POV ——- Dwarven legends tell that when the Dark One, the Unmentionable One tore the Great Mother Astarte in two, the hot blood of creation rained down upon the Earth, like fiery comets. Whenever they struck, the land split asunder. One of those […]
Tales of Sanctuary: The Seven Books
Tweet of the Day: Beware of the angry white male public intellectual ——- Sanctuary, the Great City, the Eternal City, has always been, and always will be. Armies rise, fires rage, but she is all there is. A place with many hearts, a multitude of souls, but one singular mind, the Great Library […]
TV Tropes Monday: Alien Geometries
Tweet of the Day: Book Review- Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz ——- Want to freak out your audience? Throw them in a room where the walls close on them, the angles are just wrong somehow and add the the term, “non-euclidean geometries” into the mix. Welcome to Alien Geometries, where everybody enters by no […]
Tales of the Sanctuary: The Four Lions
Tweet of the Day: Three Things: Things to Read ——- Sign Posted at the Door of the Four Lions Tea House We are always open, day or night, rain or shine. If you want service, ask for Shana. All of our girls are named Shana. Politeness gets you served, rudeness gets you kicked out the […]
Tales from Sanctuary: Duatha and Talisa
Tweet of the Day: Grow Reader Empathy By Showing Your Protagonist’s Vurnerable Side ——- From the Annals of Xhin Gon, Leader-Scribe of the Third Expedition to Daqin (The West), Chapter 3, Myths of the West, Translated by the Scribes of the Great Library of Sanctuary Dedicated to the Peerless Son of Heaven, Sovereign of the Three […]
Dear Brother….
Tweet of the Day: How to Decide How Many POV Characters Our Book Needs ——- To Athos von Klaus, Knight-Errant of the Most Holy Order of Shielding I know we did not part in the happiest of forms, for you expected young Aton instead of this upstart. Yet, I am pleased to inform you that […]
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