When religion, relationships and sex collide, life gets strange … and sometimes interesting. As a writer, I get to go to all sorts of interesting places (not as many as...
Today’s Writing Prompt Wednesdays is going to take a page from my actor’s handbook. The most valuable acting lesson I ever learned was that a character does not just magically...
Welcome back to Writing Prompt Wednesdays! Sometimes the best way to learn things about your characters is to write about them in different situations and see how they react. We...
A few months ago, I stumbled across a manga called Glass Masks, an amazing (if sadistic) take on theatre, acting, and the Stanislavsky method of acting (also called Method Acting)....
For the past few Shadowrun Sundays, we’ve briefly discussed worldbuilding (Part I and Part II here). Today we’re wrapping up with the central imperative of every game system: A Higher...
Friends, I need your help. My eldest cat (16 years old) has a tumor on his side that is swiftly filling with fluid. My vet has never seen anything like...
As the publishing industry changes with the advent of electronic books, so too does the electronic submissions process. Gone are the days of deciding between A4 and 8.5″ by 11″,...
Database administrators would be more overworked if it weren’t for the ONE principal that universally governs all database activities (regardless of software brand): ACID. I don’t usually worry about having...
In the last Shadowrun Sundays post, we discussed a basic overview of worldbuilding. I’ve often heard it said that Dungeons and Dragons was originally based on The Hobbit and The...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
