Tag: worldbuilding

    • Building a Life in the Broom Cupboard

      Greetings from the edge, Things have been busy here in the broom cupboard. Between the blog, the short fiction, the articles, my computer repair work, the library, and trying to hammer my D&D setting into a professional-looking PDF, I have had very little time for anything else. So I have decided to, rather than just…

    • Monday 20th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Still spelunking my way through On Writing by Stephen King. There is so much good information in there, and I am well aware that drip-feeding what I have learned is a bit like describing Dracula as “a bit influential” or saying Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is “quite good”. Simply…

    • Saturday 18th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Stick a fork in me, I’m done. The article comparing the novel The Silence of the Lambs to the film is now live. It’s proofread, formatted, posted, and unleashed upon the unsuspecting public. You should check it out. I’m currently working on the first in what I hope will be a…

    • Thursday 16th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, Deep into On Writing right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thoroughly enjoying The Three-Body Problem, which insistently is not about the problems that arise from needing to dispose of three cadavers, and I’m also really enjoying the alien-eye view of human jingoism and bloodthirsty expansionism in The Word for World…

    • Monday 13th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I’m on a lot of painkillers right now, so putting words on the page is proving difficult. I get days like this from time to time. As a small glimpse behind the curtain, I’m on some fairly strong medication for a chronic pain condition, and there are days when the words…

    • Saturday 11th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I finished 10 Horror Movies That Get Scarier the More You Think About Them late last night, but then got distracted by the return of Artemis II, so I ended up posting the article this morning instead. It’s live right now, and you should absolutely check it out. I’ve now finished…

    • Friday 3rd April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Keeping busy here in the broom cupboard. I’ve already got a new article in the works, tentatively about horror films that get scarier the more you think about them. I’ve decided to go for eleven entries this time. I may frame it as “ten and a bonus track” or something along…