Why - WHY - is there no decent fantasy TV being produced apart from Game of Thrones? Why can't I have some good TV in my preferred genre that isn't cast in various shades of ash grey and dogshit brown? I am over this, so very much. Someone PLEASE make some...
Everyone asks, how can I become a better writer? The answers are usually something like: read more books in the genre you're writing, write as much as you can, get feedback from other writers and readers. Yes, you should do all those things, and they will make you a...
Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not really very good at titles. I'm good at writing long things. Short things, eh, not so much. That said - I've procrastinated long enough. Time to put my money where my mouth is, or something. I'm announcing the title of my...
So, part of the reason why I started training in the salle is that I needed to know how to fight, like I've said before. But I also needed to know the limits and purposes of various weapons - whether a dagger would be effective against a polearm or a longsword, what...
Or, as I like to call it, Game of Thrones syndrome! I can't really get into grimdark fantasy. Not to rag on George R.R. Martin, but a lot of it comes off as being, well, just there for shock value, and I can't stomach the stuff. But my big issue is that there's...
I have the greatest respect for the fight choreographers of Hollywood. They don't have an easy job of it - and I know plenty of people like to talk crap about the fight scenes in movies being silly and unrealistic, which is especially unfair when those fight scenes...