This week I wanted to dredge up something from the past and talk about a comic that is effectively dead. Launched in June 2010, rightly featured in October 2010 and last updated with an actual page of content in August 2012. But still one of my favourite comics on the ...
QUACKCAST 336 - Side romance
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2017 LISTEN!
Romances don't always have to be the main focus of a story, infact you can have richer, more interesting romances if they occur in support of a bigger plot issue. It can lend them and the story more weight if they're in a secondary position. Characters can ...
Romance As a Side Dish
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2017
The other day I read a very interesting post by our very own Vickie of Used Books where she was talking about Romance. And what caught my eye the most was her description of the driving force behind romance stories as “relationship-driven conflict”- a very succinct way to put it ...
Damn Lies
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 17, 2017I'm a bit obsessed with “before” versions of characters. Where they start. The damaged dude or dudette who shows up at the beginning of a story REALLY needing a change in their lives, and usually not knowing it.
Even when the plot kicks off, these folks often don't ...
A Drunk Duck Awards News Briefing
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 7, 2017
The Drunk Duck Awards are still underway, there are plenty of people working on presentations for the awards and even more are signing up each day. Recent life developments have come up for our awesome presenter, Niccea, and she is unable to dedicate the same amount of time to the ...
Researching Your Fantasy World
Tantz_Aerine at 5:42AM, July 29, 2017
Goodness, I'm so late posting this, my apologies…
So you have answered your main worldbuilding question, you’ve gone ahead and created your rigging and you’re all set! Now you get to research for your world- you are about to sink your teeth in the juicy, succulent meat ...
Quackcast 333 - Retcon the retcon
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 25, 2017 LISTEN!
The thing with retcons is that the author tends to get an idea which makes them want to go back over their story and redo or tweak the whole thing again, that's what's happened here… well sort off. Banes had some more ideas on the subject that ...
Constructing Your Fantasy World Rigging
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 22, 2017
Every building needs a skeleton in place before building begins, so that the end product will be sound. It’s no different with fantasy world building: before you begin gathering and using your story’s bricks and mortar (= the research) you need to have the world’s skeleton, or rigging ...