Mar 6, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
Discworld is perhaps the quintessential example of worldbuilding. Decades of imagination by the late author Terry Pratchett went into creating a land so rich with depth that it has become a lens into our own world. Full Transcript Discworld is one of the most detailed...
Feb 20, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
The Legend of Zelda has used the fairytale formula to create memorable settings and characters that will stick in our memories for ages to come, but it has also added a new layer of complexity to the method in the form of interactivity, the game mechanics. Full...
Feb 2, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
AMC says that the Walking Dead franchise has the potential to last as long as Star Trek has. I have an issue with that. In comparing the Walking Dead’s decade of success to the fifty years that Star Trek has been around, I don’t have much faith in the...
Jan 23, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
The Marvel Cinematic Universe highlights its heroes and neglects its villains. Why is this? Marvel has a history of creating complex comic book villains with rich character depth, but the MCU movies display the bad guys as hollow shells of their true selves, nothing...
Jan 10, 2017 | Paracosms: Know Your Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien did not write his books for you or for me. Middle-earth was a personal project, firstly created for himself and his family. Tolkien originally wrote The Hobbit as a story for his own children, but after his breakout book became a great success he was...
Sep 30, 2016 | Inspiration, Writing
Self-censorship limits creativity, but not all artists are aware of their own. Are you? After listening to a podcast by Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn with guest author Steven Pressfield I got to thinking about my own self-imposed censorship in my creativity. I know...
Sep 23, 2016 | Inspiration
Chaos is the nature of all things. Balance is the will of all things. Where darkness spreads, so must the light. Let’s first look at this literally and through our own eyes. The universe is comprised of too many renditions of matter and wavelengths and an...
Aug 5, 2016 | Inspiration
What an author reads often influences their own writing. Here are a few of the current books on my coffee table. Armada by Ernest Cline Cline’s Ready Player One has been showing up in pop media due to its upcoming movie release. I even discussed the book...
Jul 22, 2016 | Inspiration, Writing
Science fiction and poetry may not be two literary labels you often see put together, but when combined they can create something out of this world. Wikipedia defines science fiction poetry as version of speculative poetry, saying: Speculative poetry is a genre of...
