Especially in coming-of-age stories, but not limited to them, comes the time when one character passes down his role (usually leadership) to someone else. Sometimes it’s planned act, sometimes a necessity. Today, I’ll look into this story element.
Continue readingGender and combat roles in history and fiction
Today, I’ll have a look at the difference when it comes to participation in combat by gender – starting with some look into history and bilogy and then how fiction can change some of the aspects, as well as one of the major tropes.
Continue readingBeta reader demographics
As I was seeking potential beta readers, I’ve began to notice some similarities – and realized there are a few main types of people doing beta reading. So today, I share my personal classification of a kind.
Continue reading3/2020 Writing update
In March, the world went into a chaos, yet I managed to get some writing done – though the situation meant I had little track of it.
Continue readingThe ‘Never have I ever’ tag
These days are quite weird, so I decided to go out of my comfort zone and share something about my writing in this format. So, let’s get to it.
Warning: some answers might be a shocking revelations.
Continue readingOrwellian echoes of a pandemic
Here comes an unusual post from me: a look into how technology once considered out of Sci-Fi could help in the present troubling times, and some other thoughts on the current situation.
Continue readingHiking: the 2020 madness
This year seems to be weird world-wide, but for a while, the only way it impacted me as someone living in the central Europe was the unnaturaly warm weather.
Until February, when things went downhill. And suddenly, the fact this is my worst start of a year hiking-wise in a few years is not as troubling.
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