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Ing over at Blog Ing just wrote a post about Deadliest Warrior, and it reminded me of another similar show I’ve run into recently. It’s called Weapons That Made Britain, and it’s cool because it mixes historical fact with modern weapon testing by a medieval weapons expert. The guests on Deadliest Warrior are called experts, but sadly they don’t ...

The other day I ran across an interesting piece of software that helps novel-writers who use Microsoft Word. The software helps you keep track of chapters and assemble them into a book. It presents you with an outline view of your chapters where you can drag and drop them to rearrange, and it automatically renumbers the chapters. (I imagine you ...

I still have a few things to mention about this seminar, which I attended at Life, the Universe, and Everything at BYU last month. The fact that I’m writing three posts just on this one seminar should tip you off to how much I liked it. Yet I fear that if you watch the video recording of the seminar, you won’t get the same reaction I got. I’ve w...

Suck. I just spend half an hour composing a post about a new band I found, and then my browser blew up when I tried to embed a video. So this is all you get: Go visit Sirenia’s home page and listen to The Mind Maelstrom. Or go to their MySpace page and listen to Seventh Summer. I love this stuff. Thanks, Ing, for posting about a band I didn’t ...

Aside from the stuff I mentioned in my previous post, there are several more things that had an impact on me from the workshop on How to Write a Story that Rocks at LTUE. But first I want to continue for a bit on the idea of writing what you love from my previous post. The presenters recommended an activity that I mentioned briefly, and I want ...

This topic was prompted by Ing’s reply to my previous post. It’s something that I’ve given a fair bit of thought over the past few weeks. Do I really need a magic system? First, look at how that question is phrased. I’m not asking if you need magic itself. I’m asking if you need a system. If you’re wondering about magic at all, then you’re prob...

And now you get the first of my reports on LTUE. I’m planning to write brief summaries of some of the sessions I liked the best, along with some specific things I learned. I have a horrible aural memory, so this is also a way for me to try cementing some of these things in my mind. I hope you also get something out of them. How to Write a Story...

After attending LTUE a few weeks ago, I decided that I need to start a new story. Something that I’m really passionate about. Something cool and awesome. Something epic and fantastical. On my way home from the first night of the conference, I had several cool ideas that excited me, and they’ve been brewing in my mind ever since. I finally had en...