This is a mirror of my Dreamwidth writing blog, reposted here for safekeeping. Because it's ongoing, I switched to the HTML Blog format, just in case. Hope this helps!
For shorter, more personal journal entries from the same source, see my writing page.
Worldbuilding
- Why I like and use the Translation Convention
- On the rarity of wizards in fantasy
- Worldbuilding with humility
- Writing sci-fi wars
- Pour boiling oil on that old myth
- Musings on magitech
Other
- On language in fantasy writing
- But who's the enemy?
- Good Heinlein, bad Heinlein
- Cultural appropriation and knee-jerk reactions
- Coding, writing and make-believe
- The best writing advice isn't about writing
- Story writing techniques
- Culture versus language
- Sci-fi was never not political
- When words grow scarce
- The map is not the story
- Problematic subjects versus problematic fiction
- When webcomics defy genre: Wish & Will