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Zootopia and 7-Point Structure

Apr 11, 2016himselfTools For Writers7-Point Structure, Snowflake Method, Zootopia

So sometime last week Matt Trepal (creator of Fight Cast or Evade) pointed me at a writing technique called “7-Point Structure.” It’s not that far removed from the Snowflake Method/Five Act Structure I’ve already been using, but it is different enough that it can give you new insights on a story. The best breakdown of…

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Zootopia is Legit Furry Literature

Mar 6, 2016himselfReviewsfurry, Zootopia

Not gonna lie: I felt kinda gut-punched by the initial appearance and marketing of Zootopia. When I first came onto the furry scene, I had friends working at Disney who lived in constant fear they would be “outed” as furries and get fired. So now, 15 years later, to have Disney release a movie that…

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The First Rule of Write Club

Aug 15, 2015himselfMy Projects, Tools For Writers, Writing LifeBrigid and Greg, Scrivener, Sky Pirates of Calypsitania

For the past two weeks, when not sending off job applications, most of my time has been spent writing another novel. I had intended to hold off until November and do it as a NaNoWriMo project, but for whatever reason the book said, “NOAP, you will write me NOW!” and so I have been. As…

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The Write Stuff

Mar 27, 2015himselfTools For WritersBrigid and Greg, PG Wodehouse, Scrivener

Over the past few weeks, as my seemingly-never-ending house sale sits instead of going through, and my life is mostly packed up in boxes, I haven’t been able to work on art and have instead been working on one of my various mothballed novels (and making good progress, I’m very pleased to add). It is…

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Kingsman: You Are a Bad Movie and You Should Feel Bad

Feb 17, 2015himselfReviewsKingsman, movies, terrible things

“Jeeves is a secret agent, starring Colin Firth.” I should love that, right? I mean, I have one or two other buttons you could push, but this should be a slam-dunk “instant favorite” for me. Nope. I loathe this terrible, awful, no-good movie. Besides not actually being very good at what I would have considered…

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Her Majesty’s Secret Spellcasters

Jun 12, 2014himselfWriting Lifeflotsam & jetsam, gaslamp fantasy

So the general opinion is that the “necro” in “necromancer” refers to death– traditionally necromancy is the ability to speak with dead spirits, for the purpose of lifting curses, busting ghosts, whatever. This has led to the image in popular fantasy of necromancers being gothy types who hang around in cemetaries raising zombies and the…

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Learning From My Trial By Fire: @NaNoWriMo 2013

Dec 1, 2013himselfWriting LifeNaNoWriMo

Thanks to National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), my third full-length novel, and the first novel-length Michael Macbeth story, Who Tend On Mortal Thoughts, finally has a solid first draft. I actually got to “The End” somewhere around 48,000 words on November 25th, and spent the next three days going back and finding any and…

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I’m Not In It For the Cookie

Sep 7, 2013himselfWriting Lifesocial justice bard, Suburban Jungle

When talking about problematic social stuff, there is a concept that gets thrown at me a lot which, depending on my mood at the time, occasionally really rankles. The first time I was really hit by it was some years ago now, when Drezzer Wolf was revealed to be gay in Suburban Jungle, and someone…

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A Thought On the “Fake Geek Girls” Thing

Jul 27, 2012himselfWriting Lifeconventions, John Scalzi, social justice bard, Suburban Jungle

Yesterday, John Scalzi posted a righteous smackdown upon those who cry “fake geek girl” and demand proof of geek cred whenever someone engages in geeky behavior while also having the nerve to be female. His smackdownery was in response to a specific editorial written by a guy named Peacock, but also sums up well the…

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Adrian Monk Meets Boo Radley: Something Missing, by Matthew Dicks

Mar 24, 2011himselfReviewsMatthew Dicks, Something Missing

Martin, the peculiar hero of Something Missing, is a burglar by profession, but not just that. Martin is a master burglar, who robs the same house again and again over the course of years or decades and never gets caught because, and here is the brilliance of his scheme: he only steals things people won’t…

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