The next instalment of The Severis Tales is up. The sixth story, Terrence Gets Painted, concerns Terrence Howard in an adventure with his own painting, one that causes a lot of unexpected attention and stress when his painting, done by final year art student Leah Evans, attracts a wide amount of attention from the media. They must take… Read more »
When I began creating a fantasy world, called Elineer, that would serve as the basis of a large range of media, I wanted to create a trilogy or series of books of a very important point in time of the history of that world, but shape it so that there can be content before and after… Read more »
In another Sunday human RAM dump, I thought I’d take a break from opinions on creating your own worlds and instead focus on a topic that makes the difference in how you write: your environment and your kit.
In this week’s un-planned and mainly unedited Sunday post, I wanted to share some thoughts about what is considered “truly unique” when we create something. There is no need to overstate the fact there are millions of books and stories floating around the Earth at any given moment, be it sitting idly on a long-forgotten… Read more »
Many people collect books. Sometimes, they collect a lot of books. Maybe, they collect too many books, and they have no place to place them. They sit in boxes, or they sit on top of shelves and on top of other books. Either way, a library of books shows what type of collector you are.… Read more »
Today, while on a break during real life work (a real thing), I got it into my mind I could write poetry. So, I wrote one, called OCD. This prompted me to create a new section on the website under the Works & Reams menu to put anything poetic in general in this section. Click here to access the… Read more »
On Remembrance Day 2019, the transit of Mercury will occur, when the tiny planet passes between the Sun and the Earth. In context to astronomical time, this occurs semi-frequently. This is, in contrast, to the transit of Venus: the last transit took place in 2012, and the next one is due in the year 2117, roughly… Read more »
In a bit of a series of observations related to building a world, spread across a year or so, I thought I would follow up with another topic, this time on the common fantasy stereotype of medieval food, why it’s such a common trope of fantasy works, and why a full-out new menu of food… Read more »
And now, another memory dump of rambling thoughts, this time about personal correspondence. I’m fond of proper mail. Not the spam type of stuff—flyers, applications for a credit card, notification of enrolment for jury duty. No, none of that. I’m talking about opening up your mailbox, and seeing a blue and red air mail envelope… Read more »
The following is something I found particularly useful in world-building, so as an opinion and piece of discussion, it may either interest you, or bore you on your coffee break at work enough to think about that pay rise. It is also a lot of rambling, so forgive me if it sounds redundant or nonsensical.… Read more »