Recent content by Dante Dases

I've also been on a SF binge. I can tell I've been stressed and needed the escapism of distant planets and different ideas. I'm currently on Jack McDevitt's Engines of God on Audible. I'm quite enjoying the xenoarchaeology and sense of fun, although the inter-personal relationships do leave a...

Simon and Garfunkel.

It surely depends on what you are writing. I have two 'live' projects at present, one a fantasy, one an alternate history. The latter requires far more research that the former, particularly in relation to historical processes, potential points of divergence, real political beliefs and creeds...

Absolutely. You could read for four hours a day, every day, and still not be able to produce a single sentence of note. Writing and reading must go together. Practice writing alongside consistently reading. Stephen King's summation remains the best: If you don't have time to read, you don't have...

I must be alone in this - I really enjoy writing first drafts by hand. I have a luxury leather notebook which I take with me everywhere. Sometimes I get round to typing up in my digital MSS, but sometimes I don't. When I find half-an-hour at the start of the day at work, when work for the day is...

I'm something of an old-timer on the old site. You're reaching all the way back to 2009 when I signed up, a fresh-faced second year university student with delusions of grandeur, who mostly spent the old site procrastinating in the lounge and occasionally modding (a memorable 2012). Life has...

Someone who uses titles well - to the point they augment rather than detract from dialogue - is Bernard Cornwell in his Saxon stories. 'Lord' is interspersed regularly, but it feels organic and proper, along with other titles as appropriate. I'd recommend doing two things. Firstly, reading his...

At last. A little time. After a morning of shopping, sorting out the car, the washing, making in-roads to the garden, I have finally found the hour I wanted, to begin Andor season 2 at long last. We'll ignore the large professional obligation I need to somehow work on during what is laughably...

Close to KOTOR? I spent quite a bit of time on KOTOR not so long back and loved it, so if Mass Effect isn't dissimilar I'd like to gamble on playing that.