My apologies to any philosophy majors visiting this page; you will find no actual philosophy here. Instead this page collects my essays and blog posts on the ideas and principles of my field, as opposed to the concrete practice of it (those being found under the Writing: Craft tab).
Genre | Writing | Reading | Issues | Other
- A Cultural Fantasy Manifesto
- Frazer’s Goddamned Golden Bough
- Hard Fantasy
- Magic Versus Science
- Respecting History
- There’s Something About Monarchy
- The Literary Line
- Why Is Faerie Ruled by Queens?
- This Wardrobe Closed Until Further Notice
- Welcome to the Desert of the Real
- My Take on Romance
- Apprentice, Journeyman, Master
- Writer’s Block(s)
- The Heart of It All
- Take Care of Your Snowflakes
- Grammar and Gramarye
- We All Use Language, But . . . .
- Writing as Work
- The Writer at Play
- How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
- A Monument More Lasting than Bronze
- Responses, Reviews, Criticism, Critique
- Aaron Sorkin’s Error
- You keep using that word
- We can’t all be the goddamned Batman
