"Rain!" His voice was clear, deeper than it had been at the beginning of the year and a little rough now in anticipation of the mating...

This is a short story that's still in progress, but I'm pleased with the concept, and I"m looking forward to finding a good ending for...

Callused toes curled around the edge and her stomach tried to pitch itself into the void, but lodged in her throat like a hot stone. The...

She walked the barren hilltops like a ghost of the old world, her pale skirts billowing around her as the remnants of a proud banner,...

If you love Harry Potter, or if ranting puts you off, skip today's post. It's not worth your time. I'm about to rant about the magical...

Here we are again, looking at the ending to this novel I'm trying to write, and I think I've figured it out (with a lot of help from that...

There's a thing that happens in my brain when I want to end a story. Roughly half of my brain says "This is a nice way for a story to...

Long-time followers will know that asking questions is a huge part of how I write, and maybe that seems strange, but there you have it....

In my quest to worldbuild a dystopia that integrates a "live-action MMORPG" and the concept of eugenics applied on a large scale, I have...

There is, or at least there should be, a limit to how long I spend on organization (outlining, note-taking, brainstorming) before I get...

We've talked about a series of topics, all within the concept of building a fictional world. What questions do you start with, what...

This past week, I've started working furiously on the second draft of my novel - the same story I was working on last November. There...

I can't be the only one out there that hates running. It's uncomfortable and usually pretty boring - and on top of that I really don't...

Do you remember that scene from a while back, where Charlie the Thief was caught mid-thievery? Well, I was thinking about that in light...

This is not one of my strengths, so this will be a learning experience for all of us. Everything has a name - or almost everything. A...

At this point, I've gone far enough that I have a very decent idea of what the world is like, but I don't have a story yet - and while...

So now that I have a rough idea of what I'm aiming for, I need to figure out how this would actually work. Because what good is a world...

Today's rambling is brought to you by last week's dream. Skip backward to this post if you don't know what I'm talking about. We'll call...

Under most circumstances, I don't advise using settings from dreams, mostly because they're largely incoherent, and when they do make...