Hello everyone! You may or may not notice that I’ll be posting on here more frequently. For about two years I’ve been posting some articles
Category: Writing
Concluding Thoughts From a dissertation on Speculative Fiction
Through this dissertation, US speculative fiction is examined as a discourse on migration under the assumption that the imagined worlds are predicated on the real
Chapter Two: The Expectation of Assimilation in American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is a difficult novel to classify. In the introduction to this dissertation, two questions were asserted to decide if a
Chapter One: Nationalism and the “Other” in A Game of Thrones
The A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series by George R.R. Martin has become a cultural phenomenon since its first novel, A Game of
An Introduction to Speculative Fiction Theory
The term “speculative fiction” is relatively new. As such, it is important to begin this dissertation by defining speculative fiction, arguably the most important term
Creating Story-Driven Characters for Dungeons and Dragons
While different groups have different focuses, I run a story-heavy game. Central to the game is not combat, but the arc of the campaign and