Tag: storytelling


  • Greetings from the edge, I’m a bibliophile. A die-hard, hardback, leatherbound devotee of the written word. I like books of all shapes and sizes and read across a wide range of genres, although I am yet to venture into family sagas. One day perhaps. When the Kindle first appeared, I carried that sleek little slab…

  • Greetings from the edge, Every writer eventually gets asked the same question. Not the one about when you’re going to pay the bill, sir, but the other one: where do your ideas come from? There’s a well-worn trope about “the muse.” Stephen King famously describes his as a gruff, middle-aged man who smokes, drinks bourbon,…

  • Greetings from the edge, Got a new article live, and I thought it would be a good idea to expand on it here. The piece is all about how your starting town is the welcome wagon for your entire campaign. First impressions matter. If the village is memorable, the world feels memorable. If it’s bland……

  • Greetings from the edge, It’s that time of year again. The good geeks gather, bathed in the glow of their extraordinarily expensive lightsaber replicas, to celebrate all things Star Wars. No matter your feelings on the prequels’… ambitious love story, or the sequels’ enthusiastic habit of resurrecting old villains like some kind of Force-powered game…

  • Greetings from the edge, Funny thing, but as soon as you tell someone you’re a writer, they ask for advice on how to write. It doesn’t matter if you’re any good or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re published. Once you tell anyone who likes books that you write, after the standard “What do you…