Category Archives: Thoughts

Revisit: So, Jamie’s Got a Gun (Part 2 of Weapon Series)

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

This post was published on July 12, 2013 and I realize it was a guest post.  The person who did it knew a lot more about guns than me.  So, he offered to write it up and use his own … Continue reading →

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Revisited: Pointy End Goes Into The Other

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on July 17, 2013 . . . I have no idea why I didn’t note that this was part of the ‘weapons in fiction’ series.  Took me 5 minutes to figure out where everything was after gun post.  I … Continue reading →

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Revisited: Unlimited Ammo and One-Handed Greatswords?

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Originally posted on July 10th, 2013 . . . It seems this was my first big theme that carried for a while.  I’ve become a lot more lax about this topic, but not with my own writing.  Keep needing to … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Dangers of Writing with Children

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Originally posted on July 3rd, 2013, this is the companion to Monday’s post.  Clearly, I hadn’t settled completely on sticking to 7 items per list.   This is part 2 of possibly 2.  Last week I talked about the benefits … Continue reading →

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Revisited: Benefits of Writing with Children

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on June 26, 2013, this was apparently part of a set that I did for a few weeks.  I haven’t written about writing and parenting combined for a while.  So, it seems like a good time to repost it.  … Continue reading →

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Revisit: When One Book Just Won’t Do

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Originally posted on May 1, 2013 . . . This one tries to hit everything, which shows where my mind was.  I was more interested in promos, poems, and random stuff as if this was a Livejournal.  Yet, flickers of … Continue reading →

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Revisit- Conflict: Fancy Way of ‘Good vs Evil’

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Looks like I first talked about conflict on April 17, 2013.  I’m surprised I had a thought list since it looks like I was all over the place back then.  Some posts only had one line and I assume a … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Because Good is Dumb

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on March 25, 2013, I do have more to say on this.  Now, the topic is how my heroes are unaware of what the villains are doing.  I’m sure it was meant as an insult now, but I do … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Child Protagonist . . . Parenting at its Best

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Published on March 13, 2013 and I did better than I thought on this subject.  I know I did another post years afterwards without remembering this one.  Still, this is from when I went big with my non-promo and poem … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Religion . . . in Fantasy

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Originally posted on March 6, 2013 . . . Well, it was definitely something.  A true precursor to when I started to real story-crafting posts.  Looking at how I was posting multiple times a day with poems, random stuff, book … Continue reading →

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