Genre

  • Language Ex Machina.

    As far as fantasy goes, I’ve always been inspired by Tolkein’s scholarly breadth of detail in his worldbuilding, most notably his dizzying work with creating full, functional, quite honestly breathtaking structures of language. Naturally, this is something I’ve always wanted to weave into my worldbuilding for Aryneth, but, as one would imagine, languages are not…

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  • I always love coming across interesting little bit of writerly fun out there. Twitter has been both a source of entertainment and a source of torment for me, but, every so often, one of these pop up that make me grateful I have an account. The Penny Dreadful is doing a neat little Twitter competition…

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  • Art Nouveau and Aryneth.

    One of the most notable after-effects of a trip to the Art Institute is that it never fails to inspire me to try my hand at art again. Now, writing has always been an obvious choice for me. I love it, I’m fairly good at it, I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.…

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  • “Better dead than undead.” “Alice in Deadland” by Mainak Dhar Anyone who knows me well will know that, among my extensive list of Loves, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and zombies are pretty high on the list. I’m sure this is true for a pretty healthy amount of people, too, so I’m sure they’d be just…

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  • What’s your Genre?

    Genre is something I don’t talk of much on this blog, but I know I’ve always had something to say about it on posts from other people. Most of the time, what I have to say is how I’m a big supporter of exploring different genres and how much I dislike the idea that an…

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