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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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If you haven’t read it yet, I implore you to head to Hyperbole and a Half for her take on the subject of depression. I dealt with that same brand of depression a while back. Though therapy and pills didn’t work, I finally found my corn (and I swear to all that is holy, we
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Each of us, in our daily lives, wear a whole slew of hats. Not physical hats, mind you… though if you’re as cool as I am, then you’ve got that covered, too. Each ‘hat’ is a role we play– and those roles change depending on where we are or what we’re doing. Each one comes
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The weirdest thing happened this week. I was reading a blog post, when this person named SugarOpal invited me to give the subject of the post a shot. In case you haven’t decided to follow the delectable links, it goes like this: An older– now mostly defunct– therapy technique involved showing the subject a series
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Behold the comma: it’s the most dreaded of punctuation marks, and one of the most misused and abused. And for good reason. In the English language, most punctuation marks have no more than two or three uses. A period will always either end a sentence or abbreviate a word. An exclamation point indicates excitement. Commas,
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Until now, I’ve only really used a few features of Scrivener: the goal and wordcount feature, the folders, the ‘split at section’ command, and occasionally the research file. This time I’m trying something different. I wrote the whole of this draft in Microsoft Word. Because I wasn’t using any features aside from the wordcount and the putting-text-on-white-space
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Michelle Huack has asked me to host her cover reveal for her upcoming epic fantasy, Kindar’s Cure, which will be hitting the shelves soon! I got a special sneak preview of the story earlier this year, and I can’t say this enough: read it. This is a world that’ll swallow you whole, full of characters
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Most of the time I try to keep my blog about semi-professional-sounding stuff. Namely the craft of writing. But that’s burnout for me and I don’t think it gives nearly enough content to you, so I’m going to try something a little bit different. On Saturdays I’ll be posting more personal stuff– mostly opinions and
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If you want the basics of punctuation, check out these guys here: Mr. Clements.com Bubblecow.net Fanfic.TheForce.net A step past the basics 1) Avoid using synonyms for said/asked, unless that synonym dramatically changes the meaning of the sentence. 2) British English uses single quotes (‘You’re a wizard, Harry!’) while American English uses double quotes: (“I can
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Head on over and check out my guest post on Angie Sandro’s blog, Oh, The Things I’ve Learned.
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Bioshock Infinite recently came out to a whole slew of accolades– and not just about the gameplay. The characters were remarkable, the story was layered and intricate, and the ending… well, I’m going to talk about the ending, and how it uses really great foreshadowing to present that ending to us. I’ll avoid saying anything
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Author of The Dealmaker’s Gambit, the Urban Dragon Series, and Tatter and Shine
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