Recent content by Tuxedo Mark

I recently read "The Winter Queen" by Devin Cary. Most of the characters' names were probably real but not very common, but there was one character named Tommy, and that just bugged the hell out of me.

Not directly, but Sonia does make some kind of statement/prediction that those that know the fall happens a few years later will "get". Oh, I put in a musical box/clock that Sonia receives as a gift from her mother. It's probably anachronistic, but I thought it would be nice to have in there...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'll try to address some things: The game specifically occurs in 1450. It's not mentioned in the game or the manual, but it was published in a timeline in a Japanese magazine fairly soon after the game came out. So, yeah, the movie occurs in 1450. I'm not...

I'm currently writing a screenplay for a Castlevania fan film that I hope to someday make. It's based on "Castlevania: Legends" for the original Game Boy and is about a rich aristocrat named Sonia Belmont that goes to kick Dracula's ass after her mansion is hit and her grandfather killed. Her...

I primarily write in a series-of-short-stories format, and I have a few series that have been going on for three years (I've managed to finish only one of them so far). A few months ago, I got the sudden inspiration to write a story that, while the subject matter is fairly "small" compared to...

Personally, I have trouble keeping track of characters, whether on TV or on a novel. I just watched episode 03 of "Game of Thrones" today, and I finally was able to memorize Stark's first name as being Ned. I believe the king is named Robert? There are also these blond guys named Lanister. Other...

I was wondering if anyone else has created a spreadsheet of their stories and prices. I created this one to figure out the words-per-cent value to the reader as well as how many words that I wrote to get 1 cent. All titles are sorted in descending order by reader value. Titles in blue are...

I'm currently writing a novel. In it, there's nothing obviously fantastical that occurs in the waking world. However, three of the characters have dreams (visions?) that influence their actions in the waking world. Their dreams are fairly similar to each other's, and, if they weren't...

I'm currently writing the first story in my pseudo-medieval fantasy setting. I'm trying to figure out the calendar and time, and I need some suggestions. I'd like to keep things as evenly divided as possible for simplicity's sake. I'm thinking one of their seconds will be equal to one of our...

Not too much so. I usually listened to the audio at double speed and paused only to make a cut at the beginning and end of a segment and whenever there was dead space or flubs (which was quite often; I'd suck at a live podcast).

Something that I decided to do for fun while writing my medieval fantasy stories was to create a virtual tavern. I added an old parchment background image to OpenOffice Writer and installed an "Olde English" font to type my stories in. I've downloaded videos of fan-made medieval tavern music and...

It occurs to me that I forgot to mention politics in my previous post. While, in general, I consider politics to be a bunch of crap, I do tend to be liberal, so my stories reflect that. In my "Vampire Killer" series, my MCs don't carry guns. Most of my female characters are lesbians, and two of...

I think it might be a neat idea to have either a weekly or monthly fantasy-themed podcast. Segments could include News, New Releases, Interview (whenever we could get any, such as when someone might be at a con), and Review (novel, short fiction, whatever). The first two segments could be...

I'm officially Roman Catholic, but I've also been into Wicca for ten years, because I find the idea of worshiping a young, beautiful goddess much more appealing and cool. However, taking a cue from the eastern approach to religion, I've simply declared the Lady and Yahweh to be the same being...