The barbarian charges into the melee, unflinching and without fear. The Jedi somersaults around the Sith’s crackling red lightsaber. The hero takes a mailed fist to the chin and shrugs it off. Science fiction and fantasy stories are full of exciting, inspiring battles, but how realistic are they? To find out, I asked my friend Daniele Bolelli, martial artist, professor and author of several books.
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You Cast Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
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Cage Match–2012!
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Tim Zahn’s “Judge’s Call”
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith collection
writing
Writing is a drug where a King Kong-size monkey sits squarely on the backs of writers everywhere.
There is only one solution. And each of you have held the product of that solution in your hands!
Next time you talk to a writer, tell them thank you. Because they are drug addicts and endanger their lives every day!
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Experience and simple math told me that I could write a novel a month if I wanted to, but it proved impossible to find a publisher interested in backing such venture. It’s risky to put so much of your resources into a single, mad idea like that, and I understood that reluctance. It would be a huge risk for me too.
Patrick Rothfuss is a New York Times bestselling author but that’s not the reason I call him friend. He has one of the most giving souls I’ve met, and he’s proving it again with Worldbuilders!
Got a manuscript and want it professionally critiqued? Make the jump to find out how you can donate to a great cause!
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The National Novel Writing Month has begun again!
Here is why I think it is an important tool for some new writers.
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In 2004, I attended a writing retreat that changed my life.
Jennifer Bosworth, author of the upcoming novel Struck, also attended that writing retreat.
Here’s how taking the time and money to do what we love shaped us and our futures.
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‘Word Hero’ Jay Heinrich is Here to Bend Your Will to His Liking..And Teach You to do the Same!
Science fiction and fantasy fiction is famously full of amazing technology and magical spells that make the impossible possible. Traveling faster than the speed of light across the cold, starry divide or destroying a kingdom with a gesture are child’s play in the worlds of our favorite authors. We in the “real” world aren’t as [...]
Read MoreI try to be cautious with reality. When my personal life seeps into my work (as it invariably does with any writer) I am careful to use only my own emotions surrounding an experience. I mangle and mash the unstable flux of “feelings” into new shapes and découpage them onto paper dolls and cut-out scenery.
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In one particular episode of Mythbusters, Adam Savage utters the line: “Reality makes a crappy special effects crew.”
You know what else reality often makes? Crappy genre fiction.
Obviously, it depends on the story, and it depends on the reader (or viewer, or what have you). But let me give you an example. I [...]
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