In the second installment on writing fight scenes, Vaal tells you how to avoid the most common pitfalls that makes even the most action packed sequence dull, boring or even frustrating. Continue reading
Some shop talk about how Vaal gets the many fight scenes from his brain to the page. Learn the nuts and bolts behind starting some violence and getting literary on some fool’s ass. Continue reading
Popular culture in popular culture. A recursive look at shows within shows and how Vaal uses them in the main universe. Continue reading
A more detailed look at a concept I spoke about on my old blog. Also, Batman Continue reading
It’s kind of a thing among amateur writers to cast their characters as if they were making a movie. It’s a fun, harmless little bit of day dreaming, and can actually help to flesh out the character by giving you a base to work on. And it insulates us from the cold, harsh reality of the fact that we don’t get to make that description and no matter who we want, any young non-buff, non-hearthtrob male will be played by Shia Lebouf.
I’m not really good at this game. Literally everyone in the world knows more about actors than I do. People always end up with a list of people from obscure cable shows and art-house movies and I’m left with a list composed mostly of people who get their names on posters for movies uncultured everydudes like me see.
But I am a voice acting buff, so I can and have cast Descendants: The Animated Series. Maybe I should have made this post about that. Oh well.
Anyway, I recently read somewhere that Tita Kubo, creator of the anime series Bleach, assigned theme songs to every member of his very large principle cast and I thought it was an … Continue reading
Kicking off my bloggery with some discussion on two of the tools in my writing arsenal, plus some minor grousing about what they did to Hellion from NXM and also, I use the phrase ‘squatting monkeys’, so you know it’s all going to be oh so classy. Continue reading
Monday’s Update is below, but here’s a funny thing I wrote for Halloween. If people like it, I might do this kind of thing more often. Continue reading
Figured I should start actually putting these out. This is a list of scheduled updates for the month of August.
Wednesday, August 3rd – Liedecker Institute #17 ‘January Heatwave’ Part 5
Friday, August 5th – Rune Breaker Chapter 10: Recovery
Monday, August 8th – Descendants #54 ‘Shadow of the Kurounagi’ Chapter 4
Wednesday, August 10th – Descendants: LA #5 ‘Above the Line’ Part 2
Monday, August 15th – Descendants #54 ‘Shadow of the Kurounagi’ Chapter 5
Wednesday, August 17th – Spider’s 7 #7 ‘The Myth’
Friday, August 19th – Rune Breaker Chapter 11: Sisters, Brothers
Monday, August 22nd – Descendants #54 ‘Shadow of the Kurounagi’ Chapter 6 (conclusion)
Wednesday, August 24th – Preview of Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble
Monday, August 29th – Descendants #55 ‘Beer Money’ Chapter 1
Wednesday, August 31st – TBA, 5th Week Special.
Issue #46: The Juniper Chronicles has been collected and edited.
Watson, come here, I need you.
