• If We Do Not Know Our History (of Dumbass from Our World Ends Up Somewhere Else) We Are Doomed

    to write something silly like, “…before isekai got popular in the West.” Just.  Did they not know? Isekai is more or less portal fantasy and this particular genre is/was extremely popular if the number of books with this set up are any indication. It only briefly went out of fashion because it was “tired” and…

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    • Writing Trauma and Abuse

      To start with, I cannot claim to be an expert on the topic, and I am not in the mental health profession. Most of what I know comes from a combination of writers who *are* in the mental health profession, writers who have experience with mental health issues and special interest. (Yes, abuse and trauma…

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      • Which Boys?

        Friend: Are these your boys? Me: Yes, those are my boys. Friend: They are very cute Me: Yes, yes they are. Friend: *may not know that there are three different books and three different pairings that are coded light colors x red and black  so I decided to promote them.* Me: Okay, three novels by…

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        • Guess What I Found?

          I just found JT McIntosh’s The Fittest on Kindle Unlimited. It is a book I’ve had a love/hate relationship with for years since I first read it as a kid. It is a post-apocalyptic novel in which there is a plague of intelligent animals. (Mice, rats, cats and dogs. There is also a strain of…

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          • What Comes of Waiting (for a Hero)

            writing-prompt-s: You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called “heroes” will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. There are moments…

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