Epic Fantasy: Peeves and Problems

As I read back on my blog, I realized something.  I haven't made a post about tea in months. So I wracked my brain and decided to find a writing topic that also includes tea. Pacing: Why Breaks are Important Pacing in writing is important because it gives a story balance. You need to find …

Stupendous Sci-Fi: Errors and Rewrites

What Makes Horror A Crash Through the Dark and Scary First of all, apologies for the gap in posts. I had some stuff to do. Secondly: I do not like horror, it confuses and stresses me out but I got a request, so. Here we go! Warning: As Horror Is Quite A Graphic Genre, I …

Stupendous Sci-Fi: Errors and Reroutes

Everyone Can Fly Piloting is a skill that takes years to master. I was in air cadets for four years and I still only understand the bare minimum. Like, I could do it if I had no other choice, but it would end terribly. So in Sci-Fi, why is it that everyone and their grandma …

Stupendous Sci-Fi: Errors and Reroutes

Superpowers The idea was to bring together a group of of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Nick Fury, The Avengers A staple of heroes is that they're above the ordinary, they …

Epic Fantasy: Queries and Quandaries

Outlining: Benefits and Banes One of the big questions that go around writing communities as a sort of ice-breaker is are you a planner or a pantser? It's a fun little game that tells people about their peers, but to an outsider, those are empty words. So let's start by defining them. A planner is …

Epic Fantasy: Queries and Quandaries

The Causes of War http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Ares_(Myth) War is complicated and possibly one of the most horrific things in the world. It pits man against man and it dehumanizes everyone. No country truly ever wins a war. It's an interesting backdrop for many stories because it puts your characters through hell and back. It can be used …

Epic Fantasy: Quandaries and Questions

A redemption arc is a popular trope that helps shift views on characters or simply makes the character feel better about themselves. So what makes or breaks a redemption arc?

Epic Fantasy: Peeves and Problems

Myth Analysis: The Unicorn Unicorns are some of the most beloved mythical creatures in pop culture, perhaps because of how 'beautiful' the modern image of the unicorn is. It's easy to love an animal that's white, sparkly and poops rainbows. But the unicorn is also one of Europe's weirdest and oldest mythological creatures, appearing in …

Epic Fantasy: Quandaries and Questions

Lovecraftian Horror Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.H. P. Lovecraft Let me say this about Lovecraft; the man was a racist, paranoid, shamble of a man. I do not like him. This is undeniable and now that I have established it, I will do my best to avoid the topic. However, I cannot deny …

Epic Fantasy: Quandaries and Questions

The Devil's in the Details Why considering all factors of a culture is important World building is complicated; all the factors that make cultures what they are today took hundreds, if not thousands of years to develop. Religion, food, music, language, economic systems, hierarchies and all of that are all really really complicated. Today, I'm …

Stupendous Sci-Fi: Errors and Reroutes

Space Fantasy and Sci-Fi are both core parts of the geeky world. It's fun to play around with how reality and the rest of the world work.