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Set during the second Manchu invasion of Korea, War of the Arrows follows Nam Yi, a gifted archer whose sister is kidnapped by Manchurian raiders on the day of her wedding. I loved this movie. The cinematography is beautiful and the action is awesome. Despite some of the hyperbole that’s typical of Asian action films, it had a gritty, realistic ...

The past two weeks, I attended a class on the medieval art of the German longsword. The past decade or so has seen an explosion in the area of Western Martial Arts called Historical European Martial Arts, or HEMA. These arts are based on a number of fighting manuals from the Middle Ages that have been discovered and translated. Most of them wer...

Joe Zieja is a fellow blogger and member of my current writing group over at David Farland’s Writing Groups. Joe has won an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest, which is no mean feat, and he has recently decided to take a step into the darkness that is self publishing. He’s released his short story A Red Thing on Smashwords. H...

A while back, I blogged about the book Witch Song by Amber Argyle, an author I met at the local convention LTUE here in Utah. I was very impressed by the cover for Witch Song. If you missed that post, go check it out and read about Witch Song. Today, Amber revealed the cover art for Witch Born, the sequel to Witch Song. As much as I loved the c...

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a couple of archery speed shooting techniques and posted some YouTube videos. Since then, I’ve come across a few more videos of archers shooting incredibly fast. These videos debunk decades of ridiculously bad archery rules in role playing games and show that some of the archery stunts pulled by the likes ...

I use WordPress to run my website. It’s free, it’s (mostly) easy to use, and it’s easily modified. It has hundreds of beautiful themes to enhance the look of your site, and it had hundreds of plugins to extend the functionality of your site and your WordPress installation. One area where WordPress has historically NOT been easy to use is the in...

This is one of those times where I post something without saying much about it. The video pretty much illustrates it all. Hilarious and horrifying.

All bloggers do it. That blog post where we talk about our own blogging. As if anyone else but us cared. But bear with me for a moment. There may actually be something interesting buried in here, if you give it a chance. The best blogging advice I’ve seen boils down to the following five rules (though some expand it to ten, these five seem to ...