Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is an enjoyable, important read. Le Guin’s prose is, as always, a sort of poetry and music, and her worldbuilding shows us…
Naming characters is hard, and not nearly as fun as telling their stories. And, often, it’s not just less fun… it gets in the way of writing. Some writers freeze…
(Quick heads-up before we start: this article contains some light spoilers for the endings to both The Light Fantastic and The Color of Magic.) The Light Fantastic is the second…
(Part 1 can be read here)(Part 2 can be read here) Long-distance communication is an important topic for writers to grasp. Stories are moved by conflict, and most of that…
(Part 1 of this series can be found here)(Part 3 of this series can be found here) Welcome, all, to a communications course that you aren’t getting a lick of…
(Part 2 of this series can be found here)(Part 3 of this series can be found here) When I started doing research for this series of articles, I’d planned on…
There aren’t enough plagues in writing. Epidemic diseases have shaped our world more than almost any other force, whether we’re aware of it or not. They egged on the “Dark…
I’ve been writing a ton of fantasy short stories lately, and bouncing between so many worlds has made me think about the mechanics of worldbuilding. After the last few weeks,…