Jul 3, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
eSports is an untapped well of creativity and storytelling. The competitive gaming scene is growing at an exponential rate, so where are the stories? Video games have been the subject of countless novels and films over the years. Tron is an early standout that many...
Jun 12, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
Some authors live to write, and some write to live. Others fall somewhere in between, and a few just seem to fall into it. Mark Twain, author of multiple Great American Novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, encapsulates all of those traits, yet somehow...
May 30, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
The monomyth, now more popularly known as the Hero’s Journey, is a common structural pattern that serves as the foundation for countless stories. It has been a basic form of storytelling for as far back as humanity can remember, laying down the plot structure for...
May 15, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
Ever since Game of Thrones was published in 1996, fans of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series have ceaselessly asked “Hey Georgie boy, Georgie from the block. Mr. R.R. Martin, when’s the next book coming out?” His responses, summed up, have been usually...
