Welcome back to “Keeping Score (at Home)” I haven’t built one of these in too long, but I feel like I’m back to making some progress. It’s been a stressful month on many fronts, but writing helps. It’s not just focusing on the story, or the characters, or even the craft. Rather, it’s not any […]
Welcome to TekTalk with Psykout! Again! For those of you who missed the first installment, I go by the moniker Psykout when I’m making the streets safe with my buds in the Lodge of the Wolf. I’m the resident tech savant for the team, if I do say so myself. I won’t be revealing all the secrets […]
Welcome to TekTalk with Psykout! For those of you who don’t know me, which is likely most of you, I go by the moniker Psykout when I’m making the streets safe with my buds in the Lodge of the Wolf. I’m the resident tech savant for the team, if I do say so myself. I […]
I love research. I love libraries. In a different time, I think I would have happily become a research librarian. Now my research is talking with people that have experience in areas I don’t and wading through websites. So many websites. It becomes very easy for me to spend hours researching a topic with only […]
Conventions No, not the comic book kind, although they are a lot of fun. Genre conventions may or may not be a lot of fun. On the positive side, if you understand that the conventions for writing in the high fantasy genre are considerably different than cyberpunk, then genre conventions provide rails for the writing […]
Veiled Space contains multiple Story Worlds, each with their own personality and background. The Jagged Earth is the first to be explored in a published work, but I have notebooks of world-building information. Creating the ground rules for how the world functions on a fundamental level is very important for me to be able to […]