D4: Things That Make You Say ‘Duh’ I know someone with PTSD. If you do any basic research you’ll know trigger warnings are highly specific…
Telling Stories Worth Retelling
Herbert Nowell Posts
Writing is a muscle. If you train it, it gets stronger. If you use it, it stays useful. If you don’t use it, it atrophies.…
In John Galt’s speech, which I did read every word of the first time I read Atlas Shrugged, he says “A is A. A thing…
D4: Treat your players well Don’t spoil them with too much treasure, but don’t make them wait until level 10 for a +1 sword. More…
The best superhero material being produced today is not in comics. There are good comics. I am really enjoying Silencer which combines an interesting new…
After work, I will be flying out of town for a long weekend. I have three concerns about traveling. First is the TSA work slowdown…
It is a new world for writers of fiction. With the introduction of the Amazon Kindle and Amazon Direct Publishing, the gatekeepers of publishing big…
D4: The Gernsback Continuum Strikes Back Not being satisfied with landing rockets on a fiery tale as God and Heinlein intended, SpaceX is building the…
I have blogged about the HPD–12, my PDP–8 Clone Project. I have had a bunch of thoughts about other retro and homebrew computers. An incomplete…
One typical piece of advice for writers is to understand and respect the conventions of the genre they are writing in. Yes, that includes you…
