Worldbuilding 203: Cosmic distances
In today's blogpost, I go through how big space is - it is enormously huge! With that size comes some common mistakes that I'll help you avoid.
Writing 202: Writing Human Senses
In today's blogpost, Anne talks about human senses and how to write them along with how to deal with characters who differ from the norm.
Worldbuilding 202: Law and Order
In today's blogpost, I discuss the basics of laws and their infrastructure.
Worldbuilding 201: Taxes & Modern Monetary Theory
In today's blogpost, I discuss modern monetary theory and why many writers mistake how states and money interact in modern and post modern societies.
Worldbuilding 202: AI and Worldbuilding
Today’s blogpost is about AI: what is is, how it works, and how to use it for worldbuilding.
Writing 201: Humour
In today's blogpost, Anne and I discuss humor: what it is, why it exists, how to use it in writing, plus we give descriptions of a variety of different types.
Worldbuilding 202: Socialism
In today's blogpost, I discuss socialism and how it is often misunderstood, going through several options one can choose to make their own socialisms.
Writing 202: Savior Stories
In today's blogpost, the magnificent Anne discusses saviour stories, the multiple issues with using them, and the ways you can use them to promote tolerance instead of intolerance.
Worldbuilding and Writing 202: Bigotry
In today's post, Anne and I discuss bigotry in terms of worldbuilding and how to write about it without endorsing it.
Worldbuilding 205: Winners write history
In today's blogpost, I examine the old saying, “History is written by the winners,” and dismantle it to reveal the truth.
Worldbuilding 201 Spirituality & Religion
In today's post, I discuss spirituality and religion along with the basis for making your own.
Worldbuilding 201: Colonization
In today's post, I discuss how and why colonisation has come about historically and how you can use it in worldbuilding.
Worldbuilding 203: Energy and Power
Today's blogpost is about energy and power, including how they work and what they can do, plus how to make up new fictional ones.
Worldbuilding & Writing 201: Speeches
Anne Winchell and I talk about how to do speeches, what makes them work, and what makes them fall short.
Worldbuilding 201: Holidays
I discuss holidays in broad strokes to help you know what to think about when you worldbuild
Writing 201: Conveying Without Saying
Anne Winchell has a discussion about how to show emotions rather than telling them.
Worldbuilding 202: The Big Lie (of society)
Today’s discussion is all about what I call “the Big Lie” which is inherent to all societies and is fundamental to their function.
Worldbuilding 205: Food and cooking
I discuss the basics of food and its role in society, and how you can do even more in alien settings.
Writing 201: Subtext
Anne Winchell discusses subtext and how to use it effectively; I sabotage it, sometimes.
Worldbuilding & Writing 201: Scary stories
I talk about how scary stories can be used to enhance worldbuilding and writing in and of itself, and Anne provides an amazing example.