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Announcement: Major Site Changes Coming June
I have decided not to continue hosting my website with WordPress.com and am moving over to WordPress.org and a hosting service. I know a lot of my readers found me through the Jetpack / WordPress Reader feature, and it looks like I can use that and add it on my site as a plug-in. What […]
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Correspondences Across Personality Systems
This took a while and honestly I was expecting it to be a little more difficult than it was. In order to line each system up with the number five, all I did was include introversion and extroversion as independent factors for mbti, remove The Luminaries which are a little too broad anyway, and Big […]
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Recurrance in Storytelling
Here we go,From The Solune Prince, Draft 3. Chapter 1 Chloe jumped as the metal latch behind her clanged then stopped, dropping back into place. Whoever it was at the door paused and thought better than to walk in. Then a knock rang out through the heavy wood. “Speak,” She said, almost failing to hide […]
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Small Steps
Many people in my generation have likely heard of Holes, either the book by Louis Sachar, or the film adaptation. What few people are aware of is that it had a somewhat strange spinoff-sequel. This book was called Small Steps. Now, this post is a blog update, not a book review, but I want to […]
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How to Write From the Middle
Of all the books on writing I’ve encountered, Write Your Novel from the Middle, by James Scott Bell is one of the best. Let’s discuss it, and check out some of the writing ideas it gave me. There are some books that should be short but are stretched out to fill some sort of page […]
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Cosmos and Psyche: Ultimately, Neither Explanatory, Convincing, nor wholly Fascinating
The mission of Cosmos and Psyche is grand. A lot of people drop this book after the first section because they find out that it’s about the ancient discipline of astrology, even though it’s written by a respectable university professor. I am not one of those people. I think even those who are skeptical, or […]
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Another Journey’s Step
Though it was one of my less popular update blogs, the previous part of this year’s saga—realizing I may have lost first publication rights by releasing fiction for free here on my site—is the beginning place for this next step forward. Like many, I have been attempting to move forward and find a “Why,” or […]
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Seeding in Storytelling
The concept of “seeding” is fairly universal in narratives. Seeding is when an author inserts clear hints of something that will be coming. I’m not sure if this exact term is used outside of video games, but the relationship to foreshadowing is clear. In the game Arknights, for example, five portraits were given for upcoming […]
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100 Quote Ideas in 100 Days (Part 1)
R. Yitzchak also said: If one says to you, I have toiled and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not toiled but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have toiled and found, believe him. (Megillah 64b) All physicals wars between rulers are small compared to […]
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Dr. Tarnas’s Intellectual Bag of Stars
2006, Richard Tarnas, PhD and professor of philosophy and psychology, releases a work that would have necessarily changed his career… This is to be a short article on my personal response to what I’ve read so far of Tarnas’s magnitudinous book, Cosmos and Psyche. And for those of you who are already familiar with it, […]
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The Developed State of The Solune Prince
I have developed my own new writng method which includes both planning and a lot of spontaneity, and even integrates a third element, editing, into the mix without getting hung up on it.
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Should We Really “Keep Dialogue Short” ?
(Republish, Second Edition) Across blog posts, forums, and subreddits, there seems to be an almost universal rule in the online writing community. That notion that dialogue should be kept short, or even avoided. It isn’t as common as advice like “show don’t tell” or “don’t use the passive voice.” All three rules of thumb are […]
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Of Commonplaces: An Essai for Montaigne
As the ancients said, “Possessed with hellish torment, I master magics five” Mustaine 1990 Are there Commonplaces in my generation? That universal, perhaps conversational, well of references and information. Is it gone? I could call it culture, but if Commonplaces are gone, then that would imply we have no culture, and it seems we do. […]
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Aristotle, Moses, Virtue Ethics, and Cures
An Exploration into Aristotle’s “Virtue Ethics,” with a possible solution to some of its subjectivity. This is the complete essay. Daniel Triumph 13/24 April 2020 A discussion of ethics that compares the thought of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the medieval Jewish philosopher and theologian Maimonides would seem to be unlikely. They are separated […]
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Here Once Again
Another blog regarding The Solune Prince It was unfortunately only six months ago that I wrote a piece like this, addressing the issues I was having in the writing process of The Solune Prince. This blog post has a different goal than that one, though I will give context for anyone who is unfamiliar with […]
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Forgotten Until Further Notice.
Fathoms 1/5 Au.3.2018 (Ma.20.2019) I’ll be a while Because I need to see the sun set What will we do? Who am I to ask such a question? Will we stay two And you know how I feel about you You don’t know all the things I could do I could save me from the […]
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On The Solune Prince
The Solune Prince has been a project since 2016, although inspirations for it can be pulled further back. As a novel, it promises to be grand, perhaps even exciting, but nonetheless it constantly fails to bring itself into existence. This short essay is broken into parts. I briefly look into the history of The Solune […]
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Story of Leah
Book 1 Leah had weak eyes; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren And Leah conceived, and bare a son. “Surely the LORD […]