Recent content by Tholepin

Cruise ended. Living in the Berkshires.

Mythic Scribes and Scribophile seem to be the most active and timely writing forums in this genre. Quora is a great resource for writers building persona and figuring out how, for example, a narcissist may handle being bullied in clown college - or whatever hell you, the writer, have dreamt up...

Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea - Brian Jacques's Redwall and many sequels make up a critter-based world at once sweet and terrifying. Worth a look. At first read you'll decide to take an afternoon off and write one yourself, then you'll discover it is akin to writing a good fable.

One approach may be an exploration of Bauhaus design(s), that is, shapes on a page and allowing the design to include the spine as well as the front cover. The next component is the font and typeface -- equally important.

From which country is your cradle language? I find your english skills are poetic.

Folkloric Forays, despite its name, is a solid resource. And not just for wee folk. Ms. Carolyn Emerick has been teaching and researching folklore for years and has built a staggering amount of data. It's all free as well. Best of luck.

Suppose you find a La Grange point between the Sun and Mars and erect a solar wind blocking shield. This would allow the planet's existing mechanism to redevelop a magnetosphere. NASA has plans to actually do this.

Tell them what you're going to tell them, then tell them, and finally tell them what you've told them works fine in the classroom - it's good, sound teaching. When writing, as Mr. Asimov says: show the effect. Let the readers emotions fill in whatever you've shown them. Too much telling; Show...

An excellent source are: A Pirate of Exquisite Mind (Dampier) by Diana Preston; William Dampier written by W. Clark Russell; A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier. A source-book about pirates written by a gentleman-of-fortune. He wrote the first travel book, gave us the word...

One remark that managed to stick is: Start your story as close to the end as possible. Editors love it!

Mark Twain was a master of writing dialect. Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful example. Subtle elides, emphasis, sentence structure and vocabulary change from parish to parish. I've read where one knowledgeable critic could pick each location by reading Twain's dialogue. That is something to...

Every enclave, if sufficiently cut-off from other societies, must and will construct a "God," or "Supreme Being(s)." Organisms "need" that component in their journey. It is important to write a collective conscience of the peoples you imagine to give a logic for their actions. This balances the...

One of the best resources for illuminating other realities. You've only just begun.