Recent content by CupofJoe

Hail and well-met Emerson_Bird Good to have you here. Morphing away from the original idea is what ALL my stories do. It is most of the fun...

Bit of a nostalgic mood over the weekend. So I rediscovered then 13th Floor Elevators and one of the best love songs I know.

You know you are a writer when... you see an argument on the street and wonder what their backstory is...

Hail and well-met The Fictional Sage Good to have you here!

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On the Canary Islands, there is a landslide waiting to happen any moment now [geologically speaking] that would send a tsunami to most of the US East Coast and especially New York. There is something about the sea floor just in front of there that makes the wave REALLY BIG! 300m+ So it is a when...

I’m not a conlang guy – it take way too much hard work to do well. So I usually assume there is some form of “common” or that Babel fish are available. But to add colour I will lift idioms and phrases I like from other languages and translate them into their literal English equivalent. A...

One of my favourite bits of magic is a fire charm that makes its way in to nearly everything I writer. It isn't a fireball or lightning strike that could tear down Castle walls or kill by the dozen. It is just enough magic to set fire to properly prepared tinder or light a candle. Very useful...

Sneaks in for another win...

I had a story where there was a shared story of a comet impact [think Tunguska but much bigger!]. I wanted it to be along the lines of the ancient civilisations here that have similar but subtly different Great Flood stories. In the story, there were rumours [aren’t there always] that at the...

Hail and well-met Ianto Good to have you here This is a great place to learn and share. [I've done some audio recording for my work... It is not as easy as it seems :geek:]

~We use it at work for VR/XR. It is a lot of work to get anything built. But it does look beautiful afterwards. It would not be my first choice of program for map making. If you want to know what 2d maps look like of 3d worlds then have a look at NASA GISS: G.Projector — Map Projections It lets...

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