Hollywood always seems to be doing remakes – sometimes they work, other times they don’t. There is one coming out that I am looking forward to – the remake of the classic 1941 werewolf movie, The Wolfman. Werewolves rate up there amongst my favourite mythical monsters – far above vampires, or at least their modern [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Fantasy in an Australiana Setting
Posted: December 2, 2009 in fantasy, writing updateTags: australia, fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, World Building, writing
This is something I have touched on before, that most fantasy stories are set in a medieval European setting – or at least what American writers think is a medieval European setting. Sometimes it can venture into an Asian setting, but you don’t see much beyond that. The world of Mist and Shadows does have [...]
November Update
Posted: December 1, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, writing, writing update
And here we are in December already. Apparently we just had November, though in terms of writing I barely noticed it and I’m not sure why. I went from my best month in October to my worst month in November in which I got almost nothing done. It was a little depressing. Only highlight was [...]
