We’ve taken a good long look at why knives are so dangerous and where they’re dangerous; it’s time now to consider how characters can respond to a knife attack when they’re on the receiving end. Due to the vastness of
Knowing where to stab and slash is important. Today we’ll go over the various targets a knife wielder will go for, giving an overview of the attacks that target those areas and the expected effects of the wounds over the
Knives are easy for us to underestimate. They don’t have the range or thunder of a gun; they don’t have the reputation of a sword. When you’re writing, the knife can easily become a tool instead of a weapon for
As I showed last week, we are not bound to strict reproduction of Biblical symbolism. Nevertheless, we must not take that truth as carte blanche to ignore historical and Biblical uses of a symbol in our own use. We must
Christians who pay attention to what their media is saying have a lot of concerns. Fantasy in particular has a lot of critics,1 and a particular trope in more modern fantasy seems worrying: good dragons. Should we write dragons as
Poetry and prose are the two great structural classes of human script-art. Prose is the standard, in our view, and poetry the exception. Historically, poetry has a much stronger presence in the world of art than prose, being much better
Poetry and prose and the two great structural classes of human script-art. Prose is the standard, in our view, and poetry the exception. Of course, historically poetry has a much stronger presence in the world of art than prose, being
Sometimes you shouldn’t write it. No, really. There are parts of every story that you shouldn’t put on the page. Sometimes they seem so attractive, so fun to write, so interesting a part of the story. But you have to
Modernity is myopic. We tend to assume that everybody in the past, deep down, thought in the same way we do, with the same essential premises. Further, we’re terrible at logical (or strategic) empathy, at seeing people through their own
Writer’s block is a pain and a half. You don’t want it, I don’t want it, and we’ve both had it more often than we like to remember. You sit down, you stare at the page, and you realize that