Category Archives: Writing

“Whaddaya want?” Asks the barkeep. The cowboy across the counter flashes a winning smile. “Nothin’.” He says with a smile. “I’m perfectly content, I am. Don’t have any cows to herd, chickens to feed, farms to run, criminals to apprehend, friends to save, princesses to rescue from dragons, battles to fight, or wars to win.Continue reading “The Hero Who Wants Something”

Welcome, one and all to the incredibly– Wait, what’s that, you say? This joke has already gotten old? Preposterous! I’ve only used it for three blog posts! Three! Why can’t these readers be content with the same old jokes day after day? It boggles the mind! Why, I might actually have to work to keepContinue reading “The Fourth Pillar of a Great Writer: Honesty”

Only the finest memes for you, my dears. That’s all. Really. Be sure to check out my latest novel, Book 1 in the Praetors of Lost Magic Series, and our Publications page. Plus, I mean, it wouldn’t hurt to check out the Resources tab. It’s full of super helpful material and I promise it will help you out. UntilContinue reading “It’s Never a Bad Day For Memes”

We’re back and it’s Monday. I don’t know a ton of great Monday jokes, but those I do are sure to start productive weeks. Okay, that was actually a terrible joke, but what do you expect from a guy who doesn’t have the courage or decency to google one? Ehh…Mondays… But hey, look on theContinue reading “The Third Pillar of a Great Writer: Ingenuity”

But ha, that’s where you’re wrong, Cthulhu! He’s no narrator…he’s a Dungeon Master! You may be able to break the Fourth Wall, but you’ll never be able to withstand the might of an abusive Dungeon Master bent on revenge! By the way, make one hundred constitutions saving throws. You’ll regret breaking the game…if you live.Continue reading “Best of the Blog: When Metagaming is a Problem (And When It’s Not)”

Welcome back to my unbelievably cliché and predictable (am I always this self-aware, even in my YouTube? nah) Four Pillars of a great writer, the baseline and standard for which every single writer without exception has followed since the dawn of life on earth. There is, of course, no other way to do things exceptContinue reading “The Second Pillar of a Great Writer: Creativity”

We interrupt the Second Pillar of a Great Writer to give you this important news: It’s…complicated. If you want to know how this episode went, it was overall pretty good (with minor complaints I’ll get into in a second), but, as is my wont, I have to give a critique on the whole of theContinue reading “The Last of Us, Episode 9 Review: Thanks, I’m Out Before Season 2”

Wait, hold on: where’s my The Last of Us review? Ah, eagle-eyed reader, you’ve caught me in the act. Daylight savings cut me to the quick last night, and I promise it didn’t have anything to do Octopath Traveler 2. But if I’m honest, I wasn’t really looking forward to watching it, as I don’tContinue reading “The First Pillar of a Great Writer: Fortitude”

Screw it, let’s do something generic. If you haven’t seen something like this before, you’ve been living under a rock since the conception of the human race. We’ve always had programs, plans, roadmaps, step-by-step instructions, manuals, and guiding mentors. The clickbaity “10 Simple Tips to do X” or “You’ve Been Doing Fat Burning All Wrong,Continue reading “The Four Pillars of the Great Writer”

More often than not, vision fuels writing. But the two don’t always coincide: after all, an idea is only ever as good as its execution. If it was as easy to write books as it was to fantasize about great ideas, then 99% percent of the population would be authors (the last 1% would beContinue reading “Writing VS Vision”