This is not a book, on paper (ironic I know), that I should have enjoyed. There’s so much absurdity and randomness to it, strange conveniences and surprising developments, honestly things that few writers could ever pull off. Yet here we have a book by Brandon Sanderson that, not only includes all these things, but does … Continue reading Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Story Musing: Challenge with Mystery is Key
This week was a bit of a struggle for me. I was trying to write out the remaining chapters of my third book to finally get this draft done. But something just never felt right as I continued to write the remaining chapters. I had the main plot figured out, I had the mystery established … Continue reading Story Musing: Challenge with Mystery is Key
Story Musing: Too much mystery and the importance of explanation.
Originally, I was going to have another book review prepared for today to fit in the usual scheduled cadence that I planned for. However, I felt the need to rant a bit about a writing failure I’ve been seeing quite a bit of. I am a big fan of the game Destiny 2 which had … Continue reading Story Musing: Too much mystery and the importance of explanation.
Author Update: Planning Out The Year
Hello everyone!February was certainly a hectic month. I had a lot to tackle but more importantly I had to rewrite a fair bit of the book 3 draft to make it flow better. I felt a bit defeated but I kept writing and slowly chipped away at the length of what remained. This weekend I … Continue reading Author Update: Planning Out The Year
Story Musing: Additive Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding is one of the most difficult challenges an author can face. It’s a multifaceted problem as it requires a full and clear understanding of the setting being developed for the story to function within. It’s even more difficult when the world the story takes place in is entirely fictional. To consider the complexity a … Continue reading Story Musing: Additive Worldbuilding
Book review: Skyward #3 – Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
It’s been quite a while since I’ve read Starsight back in 2019, but the book was pretty great but didn’t feel as strong as the first book Skyward. Part of that was because the theme shift between what book one was a fight for humanity’s survival against a brutal and unknowable alien race to book … Continue reading Book review: Skyward #3 – Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
Delayed Book Review for next week
Hello everyone, Unfortunately last week was quite hectic and draining for me. I wasn't able to sit down and read the book I had planned to write a review for. I don't want to try and speed read a book in two days so I decided to delay it by a week. Sorry and hopefully … Continue reading Delayed Book Review for next week
My Top 5 Characters of 2022
2022 wasn’t a great year for me to read, review and study very many stories. It was very difficult for me to experience a lot of different types of stories during the year but I did manage to read and watch some that had fairly compelling characters. Unfortunately the times that I did manage to … Continue reading My Top 5 Characters of 2022
Story Musings: Person vs Society
Not a common plot structure used in storytelling simply because it’s rather difficult to pull off. Most stories typically play it safe by utilizing the person vs person structure as it’s a very clear and easy story to write. There is a clear protagonist being opposed by one or more antagonists. It’s a conflict that’s … Continue reading Story Musings: Person vs Society
Book Review: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Lee
Another book exploring one of the past Avatars from the popular series Avatar The Last Airbender, I couldn’t help but pick it up for myself. Something that is quite interesting I hadn’t realized was that the avatar series has a unique advantage for a prequel that many prequels often don’t. Outside of Avatar Roku, we … Continue reading Book Review: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Lee
Raph's Cozy Musings 