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Immortal Wars: The Summoning Part 1 #fiction #throwback

Disclaimer: Immortal Wars was the book I came up with and wrote in high school.  I hadn’t even hit college by the time I wrote the first two books.  That means I hadn’t developed my style yet, wasn’t good at … Continue reading

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Does Fantasy Have to Be Medieval?

Various questions come up when someone wants to write high fantasy and many of them are completely understandable.  They may deal with magic, various races, and creating a world that isn’t Earth.  Yet, there are other questions that you can … Continue reading

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Top 5 of 2019: 7 Tips to Creating Fictional Location Names (#5)

I’m an idiot.  Now I know why I didn’t see a post scheduled for today or any for the Fridays in January.  It’s because there are 5 of them and I was going to do a Top 5.  I couldn’t … Continue reading

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Women in the Lead

Women in the driver’s seat Bathed in the spotlight For more than romance Or to be a victim And nothing more than that * They fight like a hero Make mistakes like humans And get up when they fall Because … Continue reading

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Nothing Planned . . . Might As Well Ask For More Volunteers

With Derailing Bedlam done and Immortal Wars not starting for a bit, I have nothing really planned for today.  Almost didn’t realize this also.  In the midst of writing too, so I don’t want to get into anything complicated.  That leaves me … Continue reading

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Magic Vs Psychic: Are They Interchangeable?

Magical Powers–  The use of arcane energy to get results and effects. Psychic Powers–  The use of mental energy to get results and effects. Those are the two fields boiled down to their basic definitions.  You can have some overlap … Continue reading

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Questions 3: Talk about Talking

The original plan was for this to be a post about the different styles of dialogue.  I ran into a problem, which is that I really only know about how I do it.  Feels wrong to talk about the methods … Continue reading

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Derailing Bedlam: A Look Back

. . . . . . . . . This story began on November 8, 2018 and ended last week.  In a way, this puts the ‘Bedlam’ series on hiatus since I don’t have time to do much beyond the … Continue reading

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7 Tips to Writing Semi-Coherent Dialogue

You would be surprised how often people get confused on writing dialogue.  To be fair, it isn’t easy.  Not everyone uses the same amount or the same structure.  You have a variation of tags and tactics when it comes to … Continue reading

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Using Dialogue in Fiction: This Is a Debate?

I was a little confused when I stumbled onto the debate about the use of dialogue in fiction.  At first, I thought it was the method or amount of use, which is probably how it started.  By the time I … Continue reading

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