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I Suck At Novels (2)
Wow. I’m back. And I’ve been busy. Not busy writing, per se. I’ve been doing that off and on and off (mostly off) for a few months. The reason being I’ve been busy having and raising a brand new baby. So yeah, I’ve had to put a couple things on hold. But now that StarBaby…
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I Suck At Novels (1)
So. There’s a couple of things I’m working through on as I write my novel. I’m hoping getting them down on virtual paper will help me in a therapeutic sense if nothing else. If not, then at least I hope you enjoy reading it. Right now (as we speak!) I’m writing a novel. Working title:…
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Heroes with that ONE SPECIAL SKILL
So there’s this thing that’s been going on in stories for the last few decades where the hero or main character of a story saves the day by using that ONE SPECIAL SKILL he or she is really good at. This one is a subset of the Special Boy/Chosen One trope we’ve been seeing for…
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250 Posts!
Wow. This one really snuck up on me. This post officially marks #250 on this here fiction blog. It’s quite a number. Not as much a number as 500 or 1000, but still. If you’d asked me when I started out if I thought I had 250 posts of anything in me, let alone fiction,…
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The Fetch Quest for Plot Structure
So there’s this thing that’s been going on with movies for the last few years where the story centers around the main characters running about collecting thingamajigs so they can solve the plot (banish the evil, defeat the army, close the portal, whatever) even if the movie’s framework isn’t structured for it at all. Let’s…
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The Grand (Chaotic) Master Plan
So there’s this thing that happened a couple years back where every movie villain had to be a meticulous, devilishly detailed, timed to the very millisecond, chaos magician master planner. If the good guys where competent and intelligent, the villain was even more so, disguising their super duperly complex schemes as “random chaos” that no…
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Welfare Check
1. Noun- A payment made by the government or an organization to a person who needs help because they do not have enough money. Example: StarNinja couldn’t find a job and since his income selling his body on the streets didn’t cover both rent and food (due to his below average appearance and very below…
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A (Super) True History of (Western) Myth: The “Modern” Eras
And once again, the Western mind shifts. No longer a regional force, the West has become a global phenomenon and the faith of yesteryear is slowly, and then very quickly, replaced by Rationalism and a rejection of the unseen world. However, this change did not happen everywhere all at once and the resistance against it…
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A (Super) True History of (Western) Myth: The Middle Eras
Now we witness a shift in consciousness from the pluralistic and the pagan to the unitary and the monotheistic. The old powers and the old magics lose their strength in the face of the vim and vigor of young, energetic faiths. Power both spiritual and temporal is claimed by these monotheistic contenders in the form…
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A (Super) True History of (Western) Myth: The Ancient Eras
And now, with the introductions out of the way, here is a {FICTIONAL PLEASE DON’T SUE} history of myth in a world not quite like yet very much like our own… Dawn of Man Long before history; long, long before, there was an age of Myth that has since faded from memory. If you ask…