Colors of Another Sky: A Ghost Story

This is a very rough sketch, but… thought you guys might find it interesting. Because right here is a bit of culture clash!

On Writing: Title, Summary, Augh

AKA you wrote it, now what do you call it? And how do you sum it up – whether for a book blurb or a fic-posting site?

Colors of Another Sky: Bibliography Part Five

And a few more books!

Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan, by James B. Lewis.

This is one of the books that let me figure out what Jason did for a living before he got on that fateful plane.

Colors of Another Sky: Outsider POV

One thing that sometimes gets missed in isekai stories is, while we often get to see how strange the new world is from the Earth character’s POV, sometimes we never get a chance to see how strange Earth-related stuff looks to the “locals”.

Plotbunny: Library of Doomsday

I’m still not sure I could reliably write a LitRPG. But a few days ago I got hit with an image of a librarian guy trying to survive a couple years after a System Apocalypse, being threatened in his own library (where he’s hiding a Strange Person he wants to talk to) by some Adventurer-classed guys.

On Writing: Sewing Up Plotholes

One of the writing tricks to get you to the end of your first draft is, when you get stuck, writing “X goes here” and moving on, so that you can get to “The End” before your courage and inspiration runs out. Of course then once you do reach The End, you have holes in the plot to go fill in. This is not quite the same as a plothole, but it can lead to you uncovering plotholes you missed in the hurry to get The Idea down on paper. Which, amazingly, can eventually lead to a stronger story.

A Last Christmas Horror Story

A/N: So… I don’t have the whole story, but I know how it ends….

“Poor Morgan,” Rex sighed. “I really did love her. But she wanted too much.

On Writing: Mental Crop Rotation

You’re facing a blank page, or even a written-on page, and your brain decides Nope, Not Doing This. So then what?

Free Plotbunny: Finding Common Ground

To anyone who wants a Weird West/ West-meets-East story idea: jiangshi wreaking havoc among Chinese immigrants. Railroad workers, laundries, any of the sundry jobs and places they were working; you have a lot of West to play with!

Colors Sidestory Bit: To Weave the Night, Finish

“We will try. But you must be careful, Magistrate Lee.” I gave the two men before me my sternest look. “You have not seen the sun in months. Even a normal mortal, cave-bound for so long, would need to be wary of the sun again!”