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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
—Francis Bacon
Digging deeper into the technique of show, don’t tell, let’s look at a couple good examples of showing a character experiencing an emotion rather than telling us that character is exp...
This morning I finished reading A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver, and can heartly recommend it to anyone ready to journey into the world of writing poetry. But you know me… everything I read—well, almost everything—ends up being filtered through the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, s...
Let’s spend this week blasting apart another unsupported notion flying in and around the book or book-adjacent corners of social media. This time it’s the notion that books are worse now than they used to be, often due to a belief or “acceptance” that no one has the attention span to read a book at all anymore, much less a book with the slightest bit of intellectual or litera...
It’s been more than a month since I posted my most recent video at the Fantasy Author’s Handbook YouTube channel, the 41st episode showcasing books I’ve been reading as I progress on my 100-book challenge journey. Over the course of that month I’ve finished reading seven more books, but have not made videos for those. I’ll get to why in a bit, but for those just coming in, a ...