Category: Matter of Opinion
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My Goal as a Creator: Hope Thesis + Logo Reveal
The last three months have been challenging and stressful and eventually made me want to forget everything and instead create water powered elevators in a virtual Minecraft world where physics is practically nonexistent and where the imagination is fueled with pretty blocks that do cool things. Well, I did make the elevators. But the last […]
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Despite 2020: Space and NASA
I’m not much one for politics, sports, celebrities, news––my mind tends to retreat upon such topics. I’d rather occupy myself with a fictional world than brush up on what’s going on in the real world at the moment. I’d rather be writing a sci-fi novel or watching anime than finally looking up the names of […]
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Suzanne Collins will Give 2020 a Hunger Games Prequel
Whaaaaa? Wait, hold the phone. We’re going back to Panem?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Writing, Sci-Fi, and Speculation
Ever since I decided to become a writer and publish a book, my stories have been all about breaking the fourth wall. No matter who the characters are, what the genre is, or what the story is about, the plot is centered on a main character who is seemingly trapped in reality. Leo from Netherworld is given […]
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Fixing Tropes in Fantasy Fiction
The Google dictionary defines the fantasy genre as “a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.” With fantasy, you have freedom. You can make whatever you want possible. You can create your own worlds, your own species, your own rules and laws. And yet, fantasy […]
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Michael’s Movie Mentions: Storytelling Similarities in Movies and Writing
Did you know that, in many ways, the art of making movies (visual storytelling) is often similar to the art of writing?
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Life Beyond Our Galaxy: In Which I Examine Possibilities and Rant about Sci-Fi
Last fall, I went to an ICR conference (Institute for Creation Research) and got to hear an astrophysicist, Jason Lisle, talk about how science confirms biblical creation. It was absolutely enthralling. The overall topic isn’t related to this post, but he did mention the impossibility of extraterrestrial life forms towards the end.
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Don’t Write What You Know
I’m sure a lot of you have heard the quote “Write what you know.” I believe Mark Twain originally said it. Well, I hate to go against a well known saying by a prestigious author, but I don’t think it’s a quote writers should live by, even though I believe it does make sense to some […]
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