Recent content by Gospodin

Rotating/Serial Deep 3rd limited, passing the baton only at the chapter boundary has been my go-to for a while now.

Aloha :)

Ah, finally found it. I was ransacking the wrong site. Literature & Latte made the template, not NaNo. My memory is a sieve these days. That's me sorted. Thank you. :)

I didn’t participate last year, and the year before that was the first year I used their Scrivener template that automatically updates the NaNo site with your numbers when you open or close the project. Did they issue a new one last year, or can you continue to use the original template they...

If the story gets threaded through 3rd person limited, I may use contractions in the narrative in keeping with the POV character's use and idiolect. If it's 1st person, very likely. If it's 3rd omniscient, only where it feels clunky to utter each word completely.

It's not that I think there isn't, but rather that my reading habits are more than a bit anachronistic so I'm in doubt either way, yes or no. Much like music, I have an era of writing that feels comfortable and homey to me, and it's an era where Lost Colony trope is rampant, and stories that...

Tropes come and go and the zeitgeist is nothing if not fickle, but is there room for Science Fantasy today? It's what I'm currently writing and I'll be writing it regardless, but am I stoking anachronism? I grew up reading these kinds of stories - Anne McCaffrey's Pern, MZB's Darkover, Julian...

Clarity - I want an intriguing, bold image, but the moment I have to squint through an image that's too busy, especially if it's also competing with the title and other font work, it gives me the initial impression of a narrative that will be confusing. One Title - At the risk of the brickbats...

Unknown: Cave of Bones (Netflix) A beautifully presented documentary concerning the Homo naledi cave burials.

Kindred - Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

It's gotta be sans lyrics. There are tons and tons of ambient tracks on Youtube with lots of different themes, moods, and applications. I usually tune into one of those.

Pace - This was my issue with Lord Foul's Bane, not the infamous incident close to the beginning of the book. I've read the trilogy - I know where it goes - I understand what that early event is setting up. But, dude - you give me that and then basically nothing else happens for the rest of the...

There are flying airships that seem like sea-worthy ships, so I’m assuming there is at least a bit of room for magic in your setting? Can that be applied in some way to the trees from which these ships are built? Is there room in the narrative for jet streams and air currents and cold fronts...