Worldbuilding: Your Characters’ Range

Some of the local background noises of interest are the thumps, bangs, and earthshaking thuds as the Air Force and Navy get in the practice they need

Stray Thoughts: In Search of a Villain

One of the comment replies on the Dating Characters post, about old vampires possibly being even more intrigued by new stuff, slotted into a vague idea I’ve been batting around.

TV Series Review: My Heroic Husband

I’m about half through this Chinese costume drama, and I think My Heroic Husband is awesome and entertaining in the five out of five star rage. With one caveat: bear in mind I also shamelessly love Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody.

Happy Easter

Taking a mental health day. In the meantime… This vid rocks.

Writing Fanfic: A Third Weird Trick

Yet another thing easier in fanfic than in canon: pick up your favorite characters, put them in a different setting, time, or planet, and see what happens. Yes, Hercules: TLJ pulled this one off too. The actors playing characters in the French Revolution will never not be funny. All hail the Chartreuse Fox!

Advertisement

Writing Fanfic: Another Weird Trick

Now let’s talk about the neatness of very different cultures or groups running into each other. This is far easier to pull off in original fiction than the AU Villain. Entire books and even series can be made out of cultural clashes; Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold is one stunning example, and C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series is one of my personal favorites to read and re-read.

Writing Fanfic: One Weird Trick

This short series will actually cover a couple of neat tricks. Things that you can pull off in fanfic specifically that are hard if not impossible to do in an original story.

…Unless you’re a show like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,

A Long Road Chapter 14 up on AO3

Chapter 14 of A Long Road, “Not Equal to One Good Teacher”, is now up on Archive of Our Own.

A Long Road Chapter 14 Ficbit – Ghostly Empathy

“Yes! Exactly,” Wei Wuxian nodded. “Ghosts were people. And I know your Weaponsmaster’s told you; you don’t kill people. Not unless there’s no other way to save your life, or someone else’s.”

Worldbuilding: Dating Characters

No, we’re not talking about F/SF equivalents of the Tinder app. (Unless you really want that in your story.) We’re talking about, how do you show a character is really old? Vampire-style old. Highlander Immortal old. Maybe even True Fae old. (Eep.)