Andrew Moore's Blog, page 74
September 27, 2023
Addendum
Wheel of Time game number two: Dynasty Warriors. That is all. Thank you.
September 26, 2023
Videogame Adaptation Corner
Wheel of Time, here we go: Puzzle Quest clone. That's right, there are different classes such as Green Ajah, Red Ajah, and Wilder. You've got the different types of tokens or whatever you call the things you match, you can have a Warder slot (Greens get 2, Reds 0), you get an angreal slot and a ter'angreal slot, it's perfect.
September 25, 2023
Disputes Over Schools of Magic
The argument: "I have become the strongest Gem Master in the world! My magic is supreme."
The counterargument: "You can't call yourself a Gem Master just because you have a bunch of gems, and being rich isn't magic."
The outcome: After Gem Master Dorol bought the furniture store where Polish Mage Irsen worked and fired him, the argument was proved correct.
The aftermath: Gem Master Dorol's shoes are the shiniest in town. Meanwhile, Polish Mage Irsen isn't starving to death.
Finis
The counterargument: "You can't call yourself a Gem Master just because you have a bunch of gems, and being rich isn't magic."
The outcome: After Gem Master Dorol bought the furniture store where Polish Mage Irsen worked and fired him, the argument was proved correct.
The aftermath: Gem Master Dorol's shoes are the shiniest in town. Meanwhile, Polish Mage Irsen isn't starving to death.
Finis
September 24, 2023
Addendum
"Trianglefication" mostly has to do with romantic plots and ought to be avoided in most cases.
September 22, 2023
The Latest Cool Word
"Rectification." Include that in your story so we know who's down and who's a clown. Don't confuse it with "rectanglefication," but feel free to sneak that in, too.
September 21, 2023
Commercial Research in the Publishing Industry
If you don't think they're figuring out right now a way you can pay them $4.99 to make the hero's sword shinier, I wish I lived in your naive world.
How to Use a Prologue Correctly
Include an antilogue so the reader gets both sides.
September 20, 2023
Addendum
There was no secret message in the miscapitalization of "Often," but if there were, I wouldn't tell you. Oooo! Spooky! No, wait, that's more of a thriller thing. It's a techno-thriller if anyone mentions a satellite.
September 19, 2023
The Difference Between Horror and Dark Fantasy
In fantasy, ghosts are hardly ever a big deal. Have you ever noticed that? OFten they're positively benign.
September 17, 2023
The Essential Sun
Once upon a time, the people created lighting for their cities so well and so artfully that they realized they no longer needed the sun. "Let us fire the sun," they agreed. "We could use that money for more lanterns."
First they yelled at the sun that it had been sacked, but it continued on its course regardless. They wrote a letter explaining the situation, but nobody came to pick it up. At last they decided to send their own messenger.
How they determined who would go fills a dozen more stories you may have heard already, but we follow the messenger. He walked far beyond the world, a long and exhausting journey, and waited for the sun to pass. He waved to the moon, shook hands with the stars, and at last the sun came.
"You're fired," the man told him. The sun glared at him, threw down the reins of its celestial chariot, and stomped away to find a better job.
The messenger kicked the chariot to test it out, but so fine and frail was it that it shattered into thousands of pieces. That is why you sometimes see stars moving in the sky. Those are pieces of the chariot.
One of the children raised a hand. "But what's the sun?"
"I don't know," the storyteller admitted. "It must have taken a big salary though, since we're so rich and prosperous without it." And forever afterward, nobody missed the big, dumb sun.
Finis
First they yelled at the sun that it had been sacked, but it continued on its course regardless. They wrote a letter explaining the situation, but nobody came to pick it up. At last they decided to send their own messenger.
How they determined who would go fills a dozen more stories you may have heard already, but we follow the messenger. He walked far beyond the world, a long and exhausting journey, and waited for the sun to pass. He waved to the moon, shook hands with the stars, and at last the sun came.
"You're fired," the man told him. The sun glared at him, threw down the reins of its celestial chariot, and stomped away to find a better job.
The messenger kicked the chariot to test it out, but so fine and frail was it that it shattered into thousands of pieces. That is why you sometimes see stars moving in the sky. Those are pieces of the chariot.
One of the children raised a hand. "But what's the sun?"
"I don't know," the storyteller admitted. "It must have taken a big salary though, since we're so rich and prosperous without it." And forever afterward, nobody missed the big, dumb sun.
Finis
