I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I will be sharing a new piece... Continue Reading →
Keeping the Darkness at Bay
I’ve been working on fiction as much as I can given the brutal weather in my corner of the United States. I’m used to snow and cold, but over the last two weeks we have had a storm an average of every other day… my house currently looks like the Rebel Base on Hoth. Then... Continue Reading →
On Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may inspire you without the burden of my... Continue Reading →
Epic Music Monday: Two Steps From Hell – Our Last Hope
I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I will be sharing a new piece... Continue Reading →
Gods and Men: Tackling Divinities in Burus and Gora
The topic of religion in fantasy settings is a vast one, and there are already many essays devoted to the subject for those that seek them. Rather than rehash what has already been said, I’m going to focus on what has been important to me as I have been crafting my recent fiction, and give... Continue Reading →
New Fiction! “A Hymnal upon the Wind” is up on Aethereal Engines!
Huddled around a bent campfire with companions as frigid as the howling winds, Aile had never felt a festival of the Nativity as cold as the one she bore tonight. Unseen past the snow and scraggly pines, others are listening in the night... Watching with hungry eyes that craft murderous designs. A Hymnal upon the... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Mid-January Update
Lots of creative forces flowing in the past two weeks! Here is a quick rundown of writing updates: 1. I finished a thousand word short story draft for a writer’s challenge that goes live on the 24th. I’m calling it The Showroom and it is set in my science-fantasy setting of The Exerverse. It’s a... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Bro, Do You Even Prologue?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about prologues lately. Being on several writers groups has shown me that prologues are “a thing” for fantasy novel writers… But are they “a thing” because they are needed? Or are they “a thing” because “that’s the way the other guys do it and I want to be... Continue Reading →
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