Tag Archives: death

Remnants Left on the Web

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

Words waiting for their day Scheduled to save time May be the last one types What happens if I vanish? No more stories can be told And all my world goes still Though it would trudge along Posts and tweets … Continue reading →

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Death’s Revolving Door Depot

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

Welcome to Death’s Revolving Door Depot where we have all of your character death needs.  We carry everything from permanent death packages to temporary death packages to our ‘I Swear This Will Stick’ package.  A few companies that wish to … Continue reading →

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Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue Cover Teaser

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

So this is part of the cover for SLEEPER OF THE WILDWOOD FUGUE.  Jason will be doing the final touches today, so expect the ‘Book is Live!’ email tomorrow.  Always willing to take more volunteers for this.  I’ll make a … Continue reading →

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Why Don’t You Kill the Hero?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

This is a spontaneous post born from an interesting statement on a review.  The person asked why the villains don’t kill the heroes or why I explain the reason for such an action.  You know what?  I’m betting we all … Continue reading →

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Throwback Post: These Are Not Rules of Fantasy

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

I’m drawing out a popular post from July 4, 2014.  I’m still standing by this, but a year hasn’t even passed.  As usual, I don’t edit these when I put them back up for another look.  I might be doing … Continue reading →

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So You Wanna Kill a Character?

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

I was going to be serious and some of these suggestions will be in that category.  Yet I find myself in a silly mood, which means we’ll see what happens.  So what are some things to consider when killing off … Continue reading →

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Return of Boromir, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

Way back on January 30th, 2103, I wrote a posted entitled ‘Boromir, We Hardley Knew Ye‘.  This was two months after I started blogging so I got no comments and very few likes on it.  It was about killing characters … Continue reading →

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These Are Not Rules of Fantasy

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

A big headache for genre writing is that nearly every reader has their own set of rules about how that genre should work.  They have their favorite authors and all others get compared to those ‘elite’.  Any deviation is met … Continue reading →

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The Crying Scene and The Beloved Villain

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

I just finished watching an anime I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time.  I saw the first version of it and read a lot of the manga, but this was the new version that I finally got … Continue reading →

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Afterlife in Windemere

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

The afterlife of Windemere has yet to come up because it really isn’t a focus of the Legends of Windemere series.  There is an interesting history about it, but that appears more in a later series.  Key point: The God … Continue reading →

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