Previous || Next Few elements of style can harm your work the way an overbusy, cluttered sentence can. But reading about cluttered sentences from a theoretical standpoint is one thing -- seeing one such sentence is entirely different. Let's construct a glorious Example: My ratonnastick, being a perfectly good fellow at heart who always knew... Continue Reading →
The lights blinked twice and went out. I strapped the safety belt on, conscious of the blinking lights, conscious, too, of the cry of the toddler several rows back. A long flight, with no end in sight. Next to me on the plane sat my creative writing instructor, a woman roughly the age of my... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPKs3XdKC0 The Butcher’s Circus offers one thing I never thought to see in the Darkest Dungeon – a PvP mode! I could hardly believe it when I first saw the announcement. But curiosity won out in the end, and here I am, sharing with you my impressions – short as they are. The narrator makes... Continue Reading →
Knightmare Arcanist was a joy to read, and went by as fast as any of the novels I've read over these last few months. Shami Stovall has created a readable and endearing world in the setting of her Frith Chronicles, full of magic and mystical beasts, but also countless dangers. ...Okay, I can only come... Continue Reading →
Previous|| Next This series of posts owes a lot to, and borrows from, June Casagrande’s book on sentence style, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. Today, we shall delve in the deepest recesses of the earth, and talk about the abusive step-father of all writers, Grammar Proper. And what's more... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/ptYrGucGVFc In stark contrast to my semi-frequent updates on Hades' development in Early Access, I thought I'd try my hand at delving into a build guide for one of Zagreus' blade aspects, Excalibur! This one relies on two key boons by Zag's Olympian relatives -- Demeter's Crystal Beam upgrade for your Cast ability, and Athena's... Continue Reading →
|| Next This series of posts owes a lot to, and borrows from, June Casagrande's book on sentence style, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. After scribbling, "Subordinating conjunctions can make your writing a living hell," cursing this whole blogging thing for being so time-consuming, and coming away from... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 