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Thursday Thoughts
A day late due to schedule juggling this week; I was working yesterday, and while it was an enjoyable day, it was a hectic one spent running interminably back and forth to the ovens (pies, cookies, cheesecake!).Thought I would talk today about my ritua…
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litRPG is not Cyberpunk … Here’s why
Recently, I moderated a panel at a local Denver area Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. This panel was all about Cyberpunk and the newly emerging genre called litRPG. In a way, it made sense to pair these two things together; after all, if you pull up the Cyberpunk top 100 board on Amazon, you’ll…
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Song Styles
One of the backstory characters in Surgeburnt, Tahir, is deceased (we learn this very early on, since the narrator inherited his powers, so it’s not a spoiler), and the character appears only in flashback scenes and in the narrator’s memories of h…
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Cheats for writing great dialogue
Here are some tips for writing better dialogue which I have picked up through my many failures at writing anything decent. Answer a question with a question. Have your character go off-topic. Don’t forget your action beats. Minimum every four lines of dialogue. Be careful when using ‘word sounds’ instead of action beats. Write:…
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Magic is Real
As a fantasy writer, magic is always a part of my worlds. I revel in designing magic systems and exploring how they might change the world around them. Nothing quite stirs the imagination as magic. Yet, with a degree in physics and a long-running fascination with the secrets of nature, I can’t help but…
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Wednesday Wanderings
Alas for the internet, for it has one terrible consequence: it is now almost impossible to go about singing ridiculously incorrect song lyrics, blissfully ignorant of the truth. A single peek on Google resolves (almost) all questions, so we…



