Another few months, another set of CDs for my car listening pleasure, and another game of word association, as I string song titles together by links of varying degrees of sense:Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? – Shania TwainThese Boots Are Made F…
I made a new set of car CDs for myself yesterday, and part of the collection is my playlist for Surgeburnt. It’s incomplete, technically – some characters don’t have songs, but beyond character specific themesongs, I have songs for specific relat…
Last week, I brought up the thorny topic (to me) of calendars. To me, our month and day names stand out as products of our world, so they don’t work well in a fantasy setting. (Exceptions would be alternate earths or the stealth fantasy-set…
So when I did my flash-and-poetry boot camp, I generated more ideas than I was going to need so I could pick and choose … but not too many more, so I wasn’t left dithering.There was one idea that I put down and didn’t end up using, but I think it’s a…
Suspension of disbelief is a marvelous thing. It makes possible our immersion into fantastic realms where wizards fly and griffins sling fireballs … wait, reverse that. It even operates in other genres, allowing us to believe in the amate…
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores by Greg KetterMy rating: 3 of 5 starsHow could I resist an anthology full of stories about bookstores? These are all solid, satisfying tales, but the narrow theme is made narrower by the fact they al…