Ah. You’re late. Sit down. No, no, I’m sure you have a fine excuse. This is not the Midway. You are not a customer in a worldstore. This is a lecture hall and your late arrival has disrupted a lecture on the patterns of world formation when looked at through the lens of storytelling. InContinue reading “The shore… or the sea?”
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The Showman’s Hat Droops
Come one, come all! Come see the freaks of nature survive in a world they didn’t create! See the man who can communicate only through his taste buds attempt to navigate a world of sound! Laugh as the human camel frolics among the clover! Shock as a child no older than the sun burns youContinue reading “The Showman’s Hat Droops”
Creating Worlds (using as few words as possible)
Come meet a woman so audacious she became an author! Come, marvel at her combinations of sounds and syllables so symphonic they supply simply sumptuous stories! This is wicked Wendy Nikel, the wizard of words who creates worlds out of imagination and yarn! She’s produced two novels (one of which I discuss here), and youContinue reading “Creating Worlds (using as few words as possible)”
A Tour of Worlds 2018: Worlds Crafted by Friends
Ah, my festive friends! Yes, yes, my account of the tour of the cosmos from this past year is nearly complete! But I flew some friendly skies and visited worlds crafted by friends, and I wanted to spotlight them a little more than I have some others. You see, when you know the craftsman orContinue reading “A Tour of Worlds 2018: Worlds Crafted by Friends”
Worldseed in My Hands
I hold the worldseed in my hands. It is the beginning of every story, the possibility of myriad roads through countless lands under untold stars. I hold my new child. Today I have set aside the tall, tall hat of the showman and the cigarette of the worldstore salesman. Today I am simply me, aContinue reading “Worldseed in My Hands”
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