Riddick was more like Pitch Black 2 though it did touch on what happened in The Chronicles of Riddick. It mentioned a character from Pitch Black and it went over my head, at first, since I hadn’t seen that movie in awhile. Before seeing Riddick, you should brush up on the first movie of this franchise. The first half of…
Another Insidious: Chapter 2 clip was released today. Despite the whole curse of the sequel thing, this one looks like it might be as scary as the first one. I’m so excited for this movie. Insidious, the first one, had actually scared me. It was so creepy. Hopefully, the second one lives up the hype. It…
Since this one appears a lot in anime, I figured it must have some root in Japanese mythology. Image Credit: tvojtatkooo There are different nine-tailed foxes with different stories. For this post, I’ll focus on the Kumiho. A fox that lives a thousand years turns into a Kumiho- like its Japanese and Chinese counterparts the kitsune and the…
Reading Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey got me thinking about the growing popularity of apocalyptic stories. Think of all the summer movies. How many of them are either apocalyptic or post apocalyptic? The whole zombies taking over the world has become so popular there are even zombie apocalypse survival guides. Let’s not forget Stephen King’s…
It’s nice to back away from the novel for a bit and write something silly and pointless…well not pointless, everything we write has a purpose even if we don’t see it. Writing a dark fantasy novel can sometimes feel like a chore, at least for me. World building can be such a pain. Don’t get…
I’ve been having like a nerd- week. It’s awesome. In the post, “Writing is About Giving Your Blood” (TAP!), I said I attended a publishing conference in Orlando. There, I won a year subscription to Adobe Creative Suite. I was like okay- I’d never won anything. This is cool. I didn’t realize what this actually…
I don’t like Superman. He’s just so…good. Annoyingly so. I’m more of a Batman fan. He’s far more entertaining and far less self-righteous. In a book I read, the female protagonist’s life was being threatened by a group of psychopaths. A male saved her by killing them. She called her savior a barbarian because he killed the guys…
Why is it, in the 21st Century where we eat, sleep and breathe technology, we, fantasy writers, still build tech free worlds? Urban Fantasy doesn’t count. From the books I’ve read in this subgenre, the setting is familiar. It’s like an alternate version of a places we already know. I’m not looking for anything advanced…
You know what’s harder than building a world from scratch. Destroying it and then rebuilding it. I know, kind of a depressing topic but, I’m a dark fantasy writer. We gotta go there. With New York in the path of yet another “once in a life time” storm, it’s really hard not to think about the end…
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” For years now, I’ve come across this phrase, Cthulhu Mythos, but never the definition. It must be one of those things everybody knows. Authors have been using it in articles and blog posts, often, but they’ve never taken the time to define it and, me being…
