Wade Garret's World

That is not a broadsword! In recent days, there appears to be a growing interest in presenting historical realism into fantasy writing. If that’s not your bag then that’s absolutely cool. This blog is aimed at those who want the swords in the hands of their characters to function like historical swords. Fantasy writers that this blog is for: People who want the medieval weapons they write about to be used like medieval weapons People who are writing fantasy but aren’t super interested in spending years reading about historical weapon use Pedants like me It’s not for you if: Historical realism is not part of your book – it is a fantasy after all You prefer to base your weapons use on what you’ve seen in the Peter Jackson LOTR movies You are looking for a blog about gardening. Like seriously, what are you doing here? This blog is intended as a “Quick myth buster” sheet to help out those who want to get a quick grasp of some of the basic, but common...

This Surprising Reading Level Analysis Will Change the Way You Write By Shane Snow January 28th, 2015 Ernest Hemingway is regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers. After running some nerdy reading level stats, I now respect him even more. The other day, a friend and I were talking about becoming better writers by looking at the “reading levels” of our work. Scholars have formulas for automatically estimating reading level using syllables, sentence length, and other proxies for vocabulary and concept complexity. After the chat, just for fun, I ran a chapter from my book through the most common one , the Flesch-Kincaid index: I learned, to my dismay, that I’ve been writing for 8th graders. Curiosity piqued, I decided to see how I compared to the first famous writer that...

Thanks Fiona for taking the time to chat. Here it is. Interview

First, let me say how hyped I was for this movie. I was nuts over it. These characters are my childhood, shit, my adulthood, more so than any other heroes. I was so excited that for the last month I was avoiding everything about it online and Tv; of course, you can't dodge it all, but I did my best. I was even taking the time to workout beforehand all the things I didn't understand, like or agree with, based on the trailers I'd seen (before going Dark) and telling all my friends my ideas as a way to counteract all the negative talk already circling the drain—and this was before the actual first reviews came out. I was supposed to see the movie with one of my best friends, a Die-In-the-Cape Superman aficionado, who like me, also enjoyed Man of Steel. But I'm glad I didn't see it with him, because he was loosing faith early on, despite all my theories and how I fervently denounced hater trash-talking—mostly cause many weren't fans of ...