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World Building Wednesdays: A Sense of History


Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 9a – Saskia ——- Yesterday I came across this blog post concerning a new literary movement within speculative fiction called “The New Weird.” The blogger did not focus on the definition of this new movement (at least new to me) but he did touch into something that […]

Space for Rent: The History of Story Endings in Video Games


Tweet of the Day: Does Your Story Need Subplots? ——– And what it can teach us about our writing. History time children! Back in the olden days of video games, where quarters and cartridges ruled, all you had to do was sit in front of the screen, drop a coin (or plug in a cartridge) […]

Point of View: Multiple Points of View


I don’t like the omniscient point of view.  Too stiff, too distant and too unwieldy. I don’t feel comfortable writing that way. But what if I want to expand the POV beyond one person? How can I inject a sense of a larger world, epic in scope and meaning? What if I want a wider […]