It's all fine and exciting when using lore and myth to create new stories. Especially when it comes to modern genres like urban fantasy, it can yield pretty alluring and impressive results! From ancient Greek mythology to all kinds of Asian myths and legends, to Norse mythology and Egyptian ...
Religion As Mythology
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 11, 2020Chris Claremont
Banes at 12:00AM, April 9, 2020
Classic X-men reprinted the Chris Claremont stories and included new Claremont stories A+
Chris Claremont is one of the all-time greats in comic book writing, and probably my favorite comics writer.
He's most famous for working on the Uncanny X-Men series from the 1970's to the early 1990 ...
QUACKCAST 471 - Fantasy
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 24, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we're having a chat about fantasy fiction! Mainly books and the fantasy writing that inspired us and that we love! Faves like Tolkien, Fritz Leiber ...
Believing the Unbelievable
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2020The suspension of disbelief happens automatically in readers and audiences if a story does its job.
Audiences WANT to believe in a story when they start reading or watching it.
I mean, you can' t count on everyone. I remember going to see the Benjamin Button movie and my friend ...
On Writing Therapists 1
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2020
I've already written a bunch of articles on writing mental illness, so I figured I should write about writing therapists as well!
Oh, the woes for therapist representation in narrative works! All the stereotypes are there: from the shrink that is actually a little (or a lot) loopy and ...
Motivation, Ideology, Action 4: Your Thoughts
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2019
Having completed the (very quick) foray into the workings of motivations, ideologies and behaviors, the time has come for a look-see of all your amazing comments, from all three articles!
I haven't done this before so I'm not entirely sure how to present them. I'll wing it ...
QUACKCAST 455 - Religion in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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We're talking about how religion is portrayed in fiction and a bit about WHY. This was a surprisingly fascinating topic. I came up with the idea ...
Demographics
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2019Who's it for?
In writing instructional books, there used to be this bit about deciding who your story/screenplay/series is FOR. This is a notion used in the industry (so I've read) to figure out who the audience is going to be for a given project. In ...
Beginner offense
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 29, 2019
I've mentioned before in other articles how Twitter, and often comics/art Twitter especially, can be a total dumpster fire with flame wars erupting every two hours or so.
There have been many analyses on why this is happening, from efforts of established comic creators to gatekeep the field ...
QUACKCAST 418 - Many kinds of love
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 19, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are many kinds love. Love is a great thing to include in your story for all sorts of reasons: it's an easy way to develop ...