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Humor in a Violent Universe

  • Charles McCrone
  • 28 Jul, 2017
  • Siana's War, The Craft of Writing
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I’ve written in a prior blog that the *feel* of Lovecraft’s mythos (though none of his concrete details) was a huge influence on the world of my fantasy novel Siana’s War. But I added to that mythos a most un-Lovecraftian thing: a female protagonist, who has pluck, sass and a penchant for swear words. She 

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Visual Aids for Writing: Three Examples

  • Charles McCrone
  • 18 Jul, 2017
  • Siana's War, The Craft of Writing
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Is it cheating to use visual aids for writing? Absolutely not…a solid analogue being artists using live models to get correct anatomical proportions and realistic foreshortening. Here are three quick examples of my use of such aids in the writing of Siana’s War: I’ve had the character of Twilight, acrobatic warrior, kicking around in my head 

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