Idioms: Friend or Foe?
A large element of fantasy is world-building. You are creating a place, in whole or in part, from your imagination, and describing it to your reader. In theory, you could begin your novel with a treatise describing your world and it's history, cultures, geography, and...
Keeping Time: The Calendars of Tellurak and Veydrus
Time passes, but how do we track it? Here on Earth, the English-speaking world is familiar with January through December, with varying numbers of days in each. It's a convoluted system that developed over centuries, but it's also unique to Earth. It only came about...
Firehurler: the Writing Experience
Now that Firehurler is in the final stages of editing, I think it's a good time to reflect back a bit on how I got here. This is the first full-length novel I've ever written, and I can't say whether or not it met my expectations, because I went into the whole thing...