Welcome to the last day of Allhallowtide! This blog post will be an homage to what I'm currently working on, and why I'm scaling back blog posts to once a month.
Now, I'd love to keep doing weekly blog posts. I've been consistent with it since April 24th, and I always have something interesting I could talk about for the week. Unfortunately, as much as I want to keep making blog posts, I've been getting a lack of email sign ups, and these posts take me a lot of effort to create. Furthermore,...
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One of my favorite Halloween movies of all time is the 1994 movie The Crow starring Brandon Lee (who unfortunately died while on set for the movie). In the movie, which itself is based on a comic book series of the same name, is about a man who gets murdered with his fiancee on October 30th, also known in Detroit as "Devil's Night". Devil's Night was a real annual event that happened from the late 1960s up until the 1990s, and often the day was marked by an uptick in crime the night before...
Thank you all so much for your support! To reward you with the long-awaited book, I decided to make this blog post extra special for you all. Here is the prologue of my novel:
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Stephen King once said,
Alone as a concept, it's compelling to imagine that we're not the actual creators of our worlds, but rather the intermediaries through which we allow them to exist and show them to other people. This sounds like a...
Happy October! I always thought of the term "genre-fusing" as strange. As much as art imitates real life, the idea behind genres is the marketability behind a story's aesthetic. Depending on whether someone likes space lasers, dragon riders, or even seeing a world where Bulgaria won the Second Balkan War, a different genre will exist for every person. Very rarely will you find such abstract concepts put together, but just because it can seem chaotic on the surface does not mean it's...
Depending on how you look at this, I knew I wanted to be a writer as early as May 2023, and I begun writing my first draft on November 24th of the next year. Now, I know that between each event sounds like an enormous amount of time, but as the saying goes: time will pass anyway. I'm glad I spent it creating what is by far my most prestigious and complex personal project. I won't dross over too many details about the process, but...
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Red Queen Hypothesis, the name comes from the 1973 paper published by Leigh Van Valen, in which he took inspiration from Alice and Wonderland (more specifically, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass), "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
What does this mean?
In evolutionary biology, in order to survive, a species must constantly run and...
In 1939, tensions in Europe were at an all-time high. The German Reich invaded Poland, and just over two weeks later, the ever-looming Soviet Union jointly invaded from the east. By October, Germany and the Soviet Union had fully conquered Poland, which worried many countries in eastern and central Europe about their independence. While in the west the phoney war was...
Depending on the tools you use (in this post I'll be using MBTI/16...
Though popular, we constantly have to reflect on how historians wrote history. There's the objective truth of history, and there are...
So, death. That's a fun topic! (/sarcasm) Interestingly, there's a reason we have such a large culture surrounding our dead in the West (and historically, worshipping our ancestors). In writing,...
The very first method that is easiest for many to try is by writing out...
While these questions seem overarching, they are legitimate questions to ask when creating a fantasy book. People can spend many years creating a fantasy world before they even write the first page of their book (as is true with other genres, but...
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