Question to the four readers of this blog about respectful use of not-my-culture stuff.

I have a new concept I'm working on that needs a whole new world, which is fun and I like worldbuilding a lot. The issue is I am so sick and tired of all fantasy worlds using western-european naming conventions. The  world's culture will be a mis-mash of mores ( Read more... )

Today over a late lunch at our favorite Denny's, Hunnybun and I worked out the plot of the third book in my Familiar Trouble world, counting June n Peaches as number one, and boy did we come up with some cool stuff. Too bad I really needed to plot out the second book so I can start writing it. O.o ( Read more... )

I love my hunnybun, heck I love him enough I married him last Sunday Jan. 30th, but sometimes he needs a whack over the head.

Case in point:

Yesterday, he asked me what an intelligent feline based alien, essentially a lion, would be like. We started discussing their communication, i.e. verbal with some body language modifiers (think tail position), ( Read more... )

Hunnybun and I have interesting discussions. We wander into odd, unusual places.

Today we wandered into the subject of classic bad opening lines. Like "It was a dark and stormy night." Written by Edward bulwer-Lytton in 1830. I told hunnybun that sentence was "telling" and to fix it you would "show" instead. He asked me how I would do that. I had ( Read more... )