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Today’s selection of notes from LTUE comes from Roger White’s presentation, “Putting Technology Ramifications in Your Worldbuilding.” His presentation was structured around four main points. 1. How to think about new inventions First use of technology is the commodity use. This is the original purpose and it usually replaces an old technolo...

Today’s LTUE notes come from the panel “Dialog Tags and Speech Patterns” with panelists Angie Lofthouse, David Butler, Kasie West, Lani Woodland, and Tyler Whitesides. Mistakes and pitfalls: Using too many adverbs on your dialog tags. Example: JK Rowling! She does this way too often. Supposed example from the books: “No!” Ron said objecting...

Today’s LTUE notes come from the panel “The Principles of Suspense.” The panelists were James Dashner, Berin Stephens, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Clint Johnson, and J. Scott Savage. This panel was kind of all over the place, and my notes are correspondingly chaotic. Apologies beforehand. Suspense is when a someone’s walking down the street, and ...

Today’s selection of notes from LTUE comes from the panel “Evil in Fiction: Creating Conflict.” Unlike the past two that I’ve blogged about, this one was a panel instead of a single person. The panelists were: James Dashner, Clint Johnson, J. Scott Savage, Jennifer A. Nielsen, and Al Carlisle (he is a psychologist who specializes in serial kille...

I guess I have to take it all back. Leslie Phillipsen DOES want to date you. When Connor Anderson posted his “Like a G6” spoof “Roll a D6” on YouTube, the internet went wild, and lots of geeks started trying to figure out who was the hot chick in the video. Turns out it was one Leslie Phillipsen, and she was generating a lot of traffic on my bl...

More notes from LTUE. Yay! Today’s selection comes from Larry’s Correia’s workshop on writing action. I had attended the same workshop at LTUE last year and don’t remember learning a whole lot. I went this year because it was the most interesting panel and I was somewhat curious to see whether it would be any better. It was. At least, I feel li...

Yeah, it’s been a while since I posted anything. I’m back. Maybe. I went to LTUE again this year, and it was awesome as usual. I decided to post some of my notes from the various panels I attended. Today’s selection is from Eric Patten’s presentation titled “Build a Bare Story: A Character-Driven Approach to Plot Development.” The presentation...

I’ve never played many computer games. Not that I don’t enjoy them—quite the opposite. Once I start one, I often become completely absorbed to the detriment of everything else. But I’ve never had enough discretionary income to really justify spending much on computer games—especially when there are so many great table-top games to occupy my time...