Apr 10 2009
Penn State recently released a workplace orientation video about potentially angry students, such as veterans. But which angry students did they miss?
Apr 10 2009
Here are some tips to help you write a super-intelligent character even if you are pretty ordinary yourself.
1. Try not to focus on him talking intelligently– what can he do that’s intelligent? When you’re thinking about this character’s actions, he should be able to come up with cunning plans and brilliant moves. Try to keep these as simple as possible. After the hero carries out his plan, ideally your readers will say “damn, why didn’t I think of that?”
Apr 10 2009
Many (if not most) magical superheroes have day jobs as stage magicians. (Zatara, Mandrake the Magician, Mr. Mystic, etc). It’s a stale and completely obvious choice for a day job. So I decided to do a fresh concept for a magical superhero. By night, he’s a genuine sorcerer. By day, he works to disprove supernatural claims, like James Randi. I think it would be fairly amusing for a sorcerer to resort to nonmagical parlor tricks to convince the masses that what they saw was not, in fact, a magical fireball. (Umm… perhaps it was a steam pipe malfunction?)
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