(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) After an eventful few months, I was trying to keep up on all of my various projects. It was starting to get stressful – one book … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Let me ask you a question – imagine someone is basing a character on you as a writer. How would they portray it, what “writer archetype” … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) We’ve often heard it said The Devil is in the Details, which is certainly true in writing. We can plot and outline all we want, but … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Real fun is subversive. I’m not talking fun that offends. Offense isn’t subversive. Fun that offends is trapped by its need to offend, lacking the sense … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) If you’re a creator – writer, artist, cosplayer, etc. – then there’s probably a list of things you have to do. This list, no matter how … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I hurt my back recently – nothing big – but I did need some physical therapy. It’s been going great, but then the therapist told me … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Recently Serdar and I were discussing what made Great works of art, literature, and anime. We quickly got to the point of realizing that the idea … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I want you to think about video game adventures. There, one goes on a grand quest, and of course one often saves the game to record … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Earlier I posted on how there’s two different ways to connect to Media. I summed it up roughly as follows: Known Connections: A fiction reaches us … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) While thinking over fiction writing, it struck me that fiction is something that we feel a deep connection to. We read a story or a book, … Continue reading