Post-NaNo Update: A Few Notes

A few people have expressed interest in “how do you write this stuff?”

Well, first I get a pile of scrap paper….

No, seriously. I find it a lot easier to get started on an idea on scrap paper than clean sheets of paper.

A few Monstrous Compendium thoughts

I love a bunch of the D&D commentary on this fic. Just saying. 🙂

And yes, the players are exploiting loopholes wherever they can possibly find them.

Post-NaNo Update: Making a Splash

Part of the difficulty in the big fight in Seeds of Blood is that it’s several different small fights that are all going to bounce off each other.

Worldbuilding: The Draw of Reality

I freely admit to being drawn to certain types of worldbuilding in the fiction I read. Sucker Buttons, you might call them. One of my main ones is settings where the worldbuilding plausibly, consistently, references historical and natural reality.

Worldbuilding: Research and Headcanons

Someone once referred to writing as “building castles in the air”. Which sounds airy and delightful… and just not solid. Not enough to hang a story on. Stories are slippery sons of so-and-sos, and if you haven’t got a good rope and a place to stand,

Post-NaNo Update: Writing and Emotion

Some say one of the main attractions of being a writer is being able to commit massive acts of violence… on the pages of a book, so no one gets arrested. 😉 Or as one mug put it, “You are perilously close to getting killed off in my next novel.”

Worldbuilding: Kabaneri and a Sense of Scale

By way of a friend, I was able to see Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and I absolutely adore it. But I think I adore the anime for some of the same reasons it gets a lot – a lot – of bad reviews.

It’s not epic.