With the arrival this month of our fourth installment – “Negotiation, or, The Various and Sundry Businesses of Mister Jonathan Guess” – we introduce a new character and a new tone to the stories. Unlike Palm, Timriel, See, and Gelgarth, there’s nothing heroic about Jonathan Guess, unless you choose...
One of the cool benefits of publishing via Amazon Kindle is that the work can be revised or corrected even after it has moved from our virtual shelf to yours. If we spot typos or grammatical errors, a corrected draft can be uploaded that will be swapped out for...
Plato wrote about the concept of “telos” as being a “perfect paradigm” or “ultimate version” of whatever was being discussed. His student Aristotle and his contemporaries expanded upon the idea, saying that everything and everyone has its own form of telos to achieve, that being their own “purpose” in...
Fantasy stories transport us to other worlds with the power of words. It is the nature of the genre that some of those words will be wholly new inventions of the author. We writers aren’t trying to be difficult, and (most of us) don’t enjoy forcing you to memorize...
I like to listen to music when I write. I think I may have started the habit when my kids were young and the space inside of a pair of headphones was the only solitude I was going to find. Over time, music has become a trigger. The right...
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