Natural Disasters, Endurance, and Observation

Hurricane Michael missed us. Fortunately. All we got was a lot of high wind, rain, and frayed nerves. People well east of us… were not so lucky.

Manga Review: Dr. Stone Vol 1.

Dr. Stone Vol. 1, by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi.

Two out of five stars. Help. Someone’s Artistic License for Science needs to be revoked.

Evidence of Wildlife

Leafcutter bees are awesomely neat, but almost impossible to catch in the act. Still, they leave evidence behind.

Worldbuilding: Flying Islands

We see them in fantasy art, videogames, and sometimes anime – SAO and Dog Days have a few. But I haven’t seen flying islands written into many fantasy books.

Fanfic Worldbuilding: DtB/Bleach

Has been a hectic day, so… have some stray crossover worldbuilding thoughts.

The most visible obstacle in crossing Bleach and Darker than Black is the moon.

On Writing: Things I Won’t Write

There’s the advice to write what you know, and the further advice that if you can’t do that, then research enough to know what you write. But useful as those are, they leave out something critical

Anime Review – Phantasy Star Online 2

Hmm. I think I’d give this 4 out of 5 – with the caveat that as a writer, I sometimes like things that do not work perfectly, so I can poke what works, what doesn’t, and what ideas/techniques I can either adopt or avoid like the plague.