May 22, 2020 | Declarations, Thoughts
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog What to the Modern White Guy is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”? I have always been inspired by the story of Fredrick Douglass, a slave who escaped slavery to become a renowned orator and author....
May 9, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Advice, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog The Taste for Realism I have seen, and admittedly indulged in that fan activity I will call the Fact Checking Game. It goes like this: First, you take some work of fiction, particularly a popular one, and you find some...
May 1, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Advice, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog 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,...
Apr 23, 2020 | Thoughts, Writing Advice, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog 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...
Oct 31, 2016 | Thoughts, Writings
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog Monday Musings: Purgatory, Punishment, Purification, and Plumbism Purgatory is a doctrine I usually have little trouble with. It is merciful in its own way, as one no longer has to either deem a sin meaningless or...
Sep 17, 2016 | Declarations, Thoughts
Matthew P. Schmidt My Blog Books About FAQs Blog The C-x C-f Writing Method (sometimes I use c-x 4 f, too…) There comes a time in every writer’s life whereupon they must stand atop the nearest soapbox, milkcrate, or indefinite cubic object to declaim how...
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