Recent content by A. E. Lowan

How are we defining "better?"

As a Lang and Lit junkie, I find this entire progression to be fascinating. Skip may box one of my ears for this, but having watched English go through its growing pains over the last thousand years and twist itself through form after form, I really don't think we can lay claim to any hard and...

I spent years as a progression end-game raider in World of Warcraft and really did play D&D in the 80's and 90's, and I had to look BBEG up. I just call it the Big Bad. The Boss, complete with a rogue's gallery of sub-bosses and suddenly we all know how I tell stories. lol

If it works, it works. There no right or wrong. There is only one rule: Writers write. All else is process. What I tend to do at this phase is to hit Pinterest and start looking for whatever pricks my interest. Then it's like dumping random elements into the pot to see what sort of soup they make.

Okay, a little perspective before anyone gets tempted to go all in and tempt large international corporations to take offense. This is also known as "fuck around and find out." Right or wrong, good or bad, win or lose, lawyers are expensive and the caliber of lawyer who can take on Nintendo...

My team runs on average 7 - 9 POV characters per book. It takes a lot of organization and planning. Sure, there are a couple of people who can pants something this complex, but not a lot and not for long. Pantsing at this level is like playing the cycle-racing game from Tron. Eventually you'll...

No. Of course not. "Cockygate" and those whole copyright shenanigans have proven that single words really can't be. But, and like I said I'm not a lawyer but I have been in this business for a long time, and the combination of the three words immediately conjures images of Majora's Mask. At...

Not a lawyer, but I think you hit enough unique points - the milk, the name, and mostly the fermentation - together that I would change it. There isn't any good reason to poke that tiger, and Nintendo doesn't have a sense of humor that they're aware of. Also, look up Alcohol Poisoning.

Fairly sure that's what Devor said. But if you would like to add something constructive, we'd love to hear it. Also, even as convenient as password minders can be, you can't go wrong with going old school. When they learn to hack paper is the day we'll truly be in trouble...

Covers. Covers can be one of our biggest expenses, after cons, but most of the time you get what you pay for, and we paid for these. It wasn't egregiously pricey, but still dropping several hundred dollars on each cover stings a bit, especially because we're still in very early days with the...

I've got a couple. "Strangers Have the Best Candy" is seen on a t-shirt. "English is a stupid language," is from our faerie knight who speaks seven or eight languages, of which English in its current form isn't his first. And we have the new one. "Entropy comes for us all." But, my absolute...

Yes, any time a publisher wants money from you, it's a scam. Full stop. In Publishing, money flows from the publisher to the writer and not the other way around. Indie involves spending some money, but it's you the author giving money to you, the publisher. No professional traditional publisher...

I think maybe it's closer to 'driven' than 'inspired?' I know that holds true for me, most of the time.

For me, genetics had a lot to do with it. I come from a long line of Irish writers on my mom's side so I can dazzle with literary gymnastics, and from my dad I got charm and a whole lot of bullshit. Which is which? Well, one of my mantras is 'if you can't dazzle them with dexterity, then baffle...

Totally agree. Comic relief is always welcome. Got to train the war bears on something. :D