Why aren’t there more women in…
As someone who is getting really tired of “why aren’t there more women in artform X” discussions on blogs like Io9, I decided to answer that question....
Best and Funniest Review of Star Wars Episode 1 you’re ever going to see!
Actually, this is great lesson in both how to tell a story, and how not to do it. Worth watching if you can get over the annoying...
The Numercy of Caring
Today I was listening to NPR’s On the Media, a great show that I sum up as “how is the media lying to us this week?”. It...
Duotrope's Digest
Today while looking through the Podcastle submission guidelines I stumbled across Duotrope’s Digest, a search-able database of publishers for poetry and prose. Free, and very well set...
Rob and Gregg Taylor Discuss Writing on the Sonic Society
Last week I recorded a roundtable discussion with Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre and Jack Ward that will air in 3 parts over the first 3...
Random Stuff for Fantasy
Medieval Demographics Made Easy: (for those planning to write Fantasy) http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm The Series Bible for the Masters of the Universe Cartoon from the 1980’s: http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/exclusivefeatures/exclusive-mastersseriesbible-intro.shtml Enjoy! Rob
Gu Long on writing Action Novels
Gu Long was one of the great WuXia novelists of Asia, and this is a translation from the introduction of Horzion, Bright Moon, Sabre(天涯, 明月, 刀) by...
Fall of the Empires
I’m never-ever going to write another Sci-Fi story about Empires or Monarchs ever again. (Fantasy is okay, but not Science Fiction.) When I started Twin Stars I...
Pathos-R-Us
Continuing my little “villain themed” line of posts (this should be the last one, honest!) I’ve thought of another major advantage to not having “villains” but having...
At What Price Evil?
Y’no, I’m getting really sick of evil. A strange thing to say for someone who loves romantic (in the old meaning) stories as much as I do,...