Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! My apologies. I'm a big Alien fan, so I'm going to blather on about Romulus again. But this is the last time. For now. I have made progress on my targets from last week, will update you later. The second viewing of A:R. Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers. You have …
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Alien Obsession on Display
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The new Alien movie is coming. Alien: Romulus. I have watched the teaser trailer, which was awesome, a few times, and the full trailer once. And one dude reviewing the full trailer, because YouTube keeps you watching. I was excited after the teaser. The full trailer gives me …
Justified and Ancient
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Notes from the week. Fallout Spoilers below in #2. I am back on track, faced my fear and read my manuscript again. I can totally sympathize with the writers of yesteryear who threw away or burned entire books after deciding them to be trash, but I think the …
Why I Write Fantasy: The Games of Fantasy Part 1: Game of Dracula
First things first: I don’t write fantasy because of games. I was entranced by fantasy first, games came later. However, there can be a positive interaction between playing games, exercising imagination, and coming up with story ideas. There is one as-yet unwritten story cycle that is definitely based on something I wanted to do in …
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Why I Write Fantasy: The Influence of Horror
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Fantasy existed in book form, but in other media it was pretty scarce, especially in a UK where only three TV channels existed. For a child looking for images to fit his imaginings of monsters and adventure, it was to the creepy and the kooky that it …
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Roderick T. Macdonald 