Worldbuilding: To Dress Your Mermaids

Okay, one of the nifty things about mermaids is how many different versions there are in myths across the world; from things that are more like simian sharks to haunters of sacred wells.

Quick Music Post

Exhausted and had no particularly good ideas yesterday, so I’ve put together a post of music links for writing inspiration.

For heartstrings. (This is an awesome manga, and now an anime.)

Worldbuilding: The Comforts of Home

Picture a handsome young martial artist, standing in a gaudy palace, dressed in Dramatic red-accented black and growing increasingly more panicked with every Dramatic wave of a hand. “No electricity. No streaming videos. No Wi-Fi!”

Ice and Morning Glories

First – some accidental mini-fridge art?

 

On Writing: How Long Does It Take?

The easy answer is, “as long as it takes”. It’s also the most frustrating one. It may help to think of writing as… well, something like cooking.

Book Review: The Bone Sword

The Bone Sword, by Walter Rhein. Two out of five, max. I’ve read worse, it has a plot, and at least a stab at characterization. If you took that stab in the dark, facing a mirror, striking behind you with your off hand and sweat stinging your vision to a blur.

Stray Thoughts: Setting Priorities

“He shot for the prize, and missed the target.”

It’s been my observation that whenever a company starts pushing its employees to sell credit cards,

Stray Thoughts: Relationship Problems

Comments on one of the most recent eps of My Heroic Husband I’ve watched gave me serious pause for thought. It seems a lot of people would rather Ning Yi break up with Su Tan’er, his wife, and go for the young bandit leader and daughter of the bandit chief, Liu Dabiao (who is being pined after by fellow lead bandit Chen, though she seems unaware of this as he’s a Childhood Friend).

Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

I’d say 4.5 out of 5 stars for this one, with the note that fanfic writers might get even more of a kick out of it than your average movie fans. The way the movie writers scattered bits of background canon info through the movie is exactly what a lot of good fanfic writers do.

Madness by the Yard

Spring has sprung, and the lawn, yard, and garden madness is in full swing. A few tips, from someone pollen absolutely hates.