Matthew P. Schmidt
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Me, elsewhere.
I’ve been too busy working on the last launch details of C&D2 to blog much, but I have been blogging in other places.
For the crypto nerds among you, I have a post about taxation and DAOs, which I plan to hoist as a I-told-you-so flag if I’m right. Until then, you can read about passthrough taxation and how it may matter to you.
For the LitRPG lovers and Catholics, I wrote a post about the origin of C&D for this Catholic literary journal.
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Philosophical Diversity in Fiction
No, this is not a post about the culture war. Chill.
This post is about writing other cultures such that they are believable–not as middle-class Westerners wearing funny hats, but as fundamentally different worlds.
On Gratuitous Rape
This is not a happy-go-lucky post. If this subject matter disturbs you, I suggest reading something else, or perhaps waiting a few days–I plan to blog more frequently in the future.
The taste of the modern public has been, as of late, for dark and “gritty” fiction. Whether or not said fiction actually is is a subject for someone else’s post, but consider: The Hunger Games. Game of Thrones. The Malazan Book of the Fallen. The Witcher. Actually, I could rattle off a whole list of popular, dark, fiction, and invariably most of them are going to contain rape.
How not to write fight scenes like a teenage boy describing his victory in a video game
I have seen many authors try, and fail, at doing fight scenes. The typical thought–and I say this having thought it myself–is that it’s all about prose and action and explosions and maybe some bad words said at dramatic moments.
This is false.
Oh, I had no idea that you were Catholic, though reading the properly rendered angel in City and the Dungeon gave me a moment’s pause. It’s really cool to run into another Catholic SF/F/genre writer. Makes me glad to support you.
Can’t wait for Tuesday’s release!
Thanks!