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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Inauthentic Voice Undermines Your Narrative
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It's the 17th of September in 2025. A right wing organizer and talking head was gunned down onstage. In the chaos, the shooter seemed to...
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Using Real World Slang and Swearing In Your Fantastical Story (Dos and Don'ts)
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This week I want to talk about a very particular trend that seems to be cropping up in a lot of books. It is, simply put, the tendency that ...
Friday, January 12, 2024
The Purpose of Storytelling is Communication (If You Aren't Doing That, Fix It)
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When we write a story, whether it's a piece of short fiction or a massive doorstop of a novel, we often get wrapped up in what we were t...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
You Can't Change History Without Changing Your Language (A Modern Fantasy Pitfall)
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Most modern fantasy stories that you come across use the hidden world trope. From Vampire: The Masquerade to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere , ...
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