Tag: worldbuilding

When it comes to looking at the treatment of mental illness and disability throughout history, all too often, the simple answer is “there was none.”

To the modern, western, medical mind, intellectual disabilities are generally distinct from mental illnesses. But as we’ve already discussed, other frameworks for understanding such problems

In some of these Patreon essays, I encourage writers to explore different beliefs about the world and make them the literal, metaphysical reality of the

For our final essay of the month, we’re going to step a bit sideways from the previous topic and look at a very different kind

As the Writers Guild strike continues into its fourth month, it’s time for us to talk about not just what guilds, unions, and the like

Given the historic strikes pending or going on right now in a variety of organizations, my patrons have given me permission to temporarily delay our

Of course, a country doesn’t spy only on its neighbors.

Turn over the diplomacy rock, and you’ll find intelligence work underneath.

So you need to send someone to conduct diplomacy on your behalf. Whom do you send?

No country exists in isolation.

If there’s one thing that can kick me out of a story — Oh, who am I kidding. There are many things that can kick

Warning: this essay will contain all manner of creepy-crawly critters. Most of us live remarkably vermin-free lives. Sure, my household did extended battle with the