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Plastic Love and City Pop

Apparently an early 80’s Japanese music genre called City Pop is exploding on the internet right now. As a watcher of 80’s anime, I’m used to it, but it is nice to see this music getting it’s due. Everything old is new again!

Plastic Love (the song taking YouTube by storm)

What is Plastic Love (about a City Pop single which has recently shot up in popularity on YouTube)

A Brief History of City Pop

20 Tips for Writing Successful Webnovels

There are a number of survival strategies that Webnovel authors use to try to keep on top of their relentless workload while keeping their audience happy. These are strategies that any serial writer can learn from, although some of them are fairly specific to this meat grinder approach to writing.

Keep the story simple – Webnovels have extremely simple long term goal-driven plots. That goal might be “become a god” or “win the love of a good man,” but they’re always built around simple and dir...

The S.P.I.N.E. of Good Comics

Previously, I’ve written about the characteristics that make up a good story, at least from the point of view of the audience, and how the writer has five key things they offer their audience in a story, which can be summed up by the acronym S.P.I.N.E..

Skills – the audience learns how to do something. Perspective – the audience gains a new view of the world or has their current one confirmed. Information – the audience gains information. Novelty – the audience is presented with something th...

The Importance of the Spine of Action- Game of Thrones and Legend of the Galactic Heroes

The importance of a story’s central activity, or Spine of Action should never be underestimated when writing, especially when you’re writing longer works. Two beautiful examples of this are George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Yoshiki Tanaka’s Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Two very different epic stories which mirror each other in one central way- both authors ignored the spines of action of their works and paid the price for it.

If you don’t know what a Spine of Action is, or ca...

The Task Story – A “New” Genre that’s

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One of the more fascinating things about the internet is its ability to highlight so many different facets of human nature. The internet has brought out the best of humanity in things like charity drives and campaigns for positive change around the world, and it’s brought out the worst of humanity as well, in numerous sites filled with anger, hate, deception and depravity where you can find out worst sides on display.

It would be too far to say the internet has made us more human, but it has...

Stories Made Simple Ep.3 – The Spine of Action (Part 1)

In this episode, Rob begins delving into the Spine of Action, and how understanding it can make your stories better.

Stories Made Simple Ep.2- The 5WH Method

In this episode, Rob discusses the importance of details in stories, what details writers need to include, and how many.

Stories Made Simple- Episode 1: What are Stories?

I’ve been wanting to do a few YouTube videos about storytelling for a while, and finally finished the first one. Let me know what you think!

Rob

DNA PODCAST 060 – CHINESE WEBNOVELS WITH JEREMY BAI

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DNA PODCAST 058 – LIGHT NOVELS WITH JUSTUS R STONE

[image error] The weekend before last, Connie and I had dinner on Sunday night with Connie’s best friend in the whole world, Anita! Anita has recently returned from 6 months of studying English at a school in England, where she had many romantic adventures that included her becoming the star of the show for a Korean male fashion model who was also studying there. Anita shared with us her adventures, and her plans to return to England shortly where her lover awaits her visit for another month. Anita is a s...