Originally published in June 2010. A while back, we attended an open rehearsal of my daughter’s middle school string orchestra. They were preparing for a festival at the time, and
Just as with world building in general, there are two ways to approach designing a fantasy religion. The first method is the ground-up method, which we’ll call the Organic or
The newest post on the Helping Writers Become Authors website is on a subject that is near and dear to my heart: writer’s block. In “6 Lessons Learned from 4
A version of this post was originally published on August 8, 2019. In the “rulebooks” of writing, a lot of time and attention is given to the subject of Point
I recently attended the 2022 World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans. On the last day of the convention, after listening to a panel on Food in Fantasy, my friend and