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Our attitude toward Nazis is changing, and not for the better. Ever since World War II, Nazis have occupied a unique niche as the West’s universal standard for evil, and […]

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Last time I talked about good worldbuilding: What it is and, more importantly, what it isn’t. Today I’m going to expand on my third point: Worldbuilding that doesn’t actually make […]

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Let’s talk about worldbuilding. It has come to my attention that my definition of good worldbuilding is drastically different—and far more demanding—than most people’s. So here I present my view […]

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Archetypes are ubiquitous, yet misunderstood. All writers innately know how to use archetypes, yet many don’t realize that’s what they’re doing and don’t understand how they fit into literature as […]

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I don’t like princess stories. I don’t like princess stories even if the princesses kick ass, even if they reject their princessy obligations and just want to lead normal lives, […]

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So if you follow me on Twitter, you may have picked up some vague hints that I kinda liked Mad Max: Fury Road. And you may have guessed that I […]

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Star Wars is such a genre-codifying franchise that sometimes it’s hard to remember that it had its own influences. In fact, Star Wars drew heavily from many sources. When compared […]

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So long had life together been that now the second of January fell again on a Tuesday, making her astonished brow lift like a windshield wiper in the rain,     so […]