Cosplay is perhaps the most visible of the ways people show their love for something. And I don’t mean that in the way that means “the most people are aware of it,” but in the way where, while most fandom
Fandom Aspects: Memes and Gifs
I feel like this has really only become a phenomenon in the last five years or so, probably because of the prevalence of digital images and video which make it easy to make a screen capture of something and stick
Fandom Aspects: Fanart
Fanart is probably the second thing people think of when they think of fandom. As is probably obvious, fanart is when people take (usually) characters from stories, games, movies, etc. and create art around them. Drawings are probably the most
Fandom Aspects: Fanfiction
Well, Squiders, we’ve talked about fandom a bit in the past, but I’ve had a rather worrying bout of it recently. (Not even about anything specific. Just…stuff.) You see, I am going to a con in mid-June and not only
Premise vs Plot vs Structure
Some time ago, Squiders, we discussed Premise and Plot. (That’s a fairly short post, but for those too lazy to click through, the basic gist is that a premise is the idea of the story, whereas the plot is the
Antagonist and Protagonist
Craft post today, Squiders. Protagonist, antagonist. Self-explanatory, right? Well, to some extent, yes. But let’s talk nuances. Your protagonist is the main driving character of your story. It is the person whose dilemma we care about the most. In most
To Word Count or Not to Word Count
So, after last Thursday’s post I got to thinking. And I realized that word count is a major indicator of progress to me. And I also realized that this is probably because I didn’t start finishing novel drafts until I
Now What?
Happy May Day, Squiders! (The expression in of itself amuses me. I am easily amused.) Well, April went quite well. I got all four projects done (including my novel draft which I am apparently still hung up on) and wrote