- Models: Easy to teach, but don’t mistake the map for the territory…
- Asking the next question: A little tip you might find useful in your next writing endeavour.
On Models (In Writing)
Author Archives: bm
There’s Just Me – The Staunisoe Files
Another very (very!) short story written for a creative writing seminar.
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First as Plagiarism, Then as Property
A twelve-minute read on:
- Pre-‘ramble’: Blogging about my postgrad because there’s no good reason not to;
- Who was the bad art friend?: The answer – none of them, and at the same time, both of them;
- The article’s impact: When the debate around your work doesn’t go the way you wanted it to;
- Fine distinctions: When it comes to copyright, the house always wins, and by ‘house,’ I mean ‘copyright lawyers.’
On Epistemic Anxiety and Craft
A little 9-minute something about:
- Epistemic anxiety: When you fear that there’s a lot more to how you know what you know… that you don’t know;
- Craft: Expectations of what your stories should contain that your audience will love
A Binding of Isaac: Epiphany Tier List in the Form of a Response to Someone Who Didn’t Ask
Anyone NOT familiar with the Binding of Isaac: Repentance and its modding scene is free to leave now.
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This Is Not a Linkdump
A sixteen-minute read on an assortment of topics, such as:
- An odd debate on Google’s breakup: The jury is in – Google’s a monopoly. But is it a *gasp* good monopoly???
- Moderation in early MMORPGs: Early reputation systems allowed MMO players to moderate themselves;
- Cocoanuts aren’t nuts (or cocoa!): Etymology of the word ‘coconut;’
- You NEED to play Emerald Rogue (but not before I complain about Discord once more): Another good ROM hack held hostage by the unindexable walled garden that is Discord;
- It is (no longer) Caturday, my dudes: My cat is more handsome than your cat.
I Am Once Again Complaining About the Monomyth
A 10-minute read with storytelling enshittification and pan-galactic quizzifications such as:
- The Monomyth is literature’s cryptid;
- Why it’s not a good model, actually;
- Is there no alternative?
When the Science in Your Storytelling is Sus
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- Oh, it’s THIS guy again: Hey, I’ve seen this one… or so the Monomyth tells me.
- A Story of Science-telling: Criti-hyping evolutionary psychology (without the criticism) to explain storytelling;
- My God, Pure Paleoideology: What were we doing until 12,000 years ago? Was it all just evolution?
- On balance: Surprisingly, authors know what they’re doing. We should hear what they have to say.