Table of Contents

Guest Posts

TV Shows that Influenced The Shattered Stars

Writers that Influenced The Shattered Stars

What is it like to Cowrite a Science Fiction Series?

Any event can be a near-death experience if you allow it to be

Postpartum is Forever

Love Machine

Making of Mercy

You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun

The 2000s as a Grown-up Emo

The Simple Lives of Fictional Characters

Write What You Don’t Know

CEECEE FOOFOO

Gaming with Kids

Me and Old Godmother

Writing Published Elsewhere

Novellas

• Glossolalia

• Sing, Behemoth, Sing

• Howl

• At Home Inside You

• Colony Collapse

• The Blood Dancers

• Iron Wolf

• Sleeping Giants

• Broken Katana

• Libertatia; or, The Onion King

• Noir: A Love Story

• House of Ghosts

Short Stories

• Cannibal Cabaret - 365 Tomorrows

• Beautiful Boy - Bag of Bones

• Renaissance - Short-Story.me

• My On Fire Girl - Tree and Stone

• Last Life in the Universe - Shoreline of Infinity

• Feline Love - Molecule Lit

• Heretic - Mysterion

• Scourge of God - Old Moon Quarterly

• Ganymede Blues - luminescent machinations

• A Forbidden Affair in Rorei’s Court - Ballad of the Distant Reaches

• Another Fool in Pearl’s String - Ballad of the Distant Reaches

• The Vargjaata - Ballad of the Distant Reaches

• Your Heart Looks like a Fist Wrapped in Blood - Bookworms

• All My Heroes are Russian Folksingers - Untold Stories Anthology

• He sleeps with garlands woven in his hair - Into the Forest Anthology

• The Brother Lorax - Another Name for Darkness Anthology

• Crow (Flash Suite) - Defenestrationism

• New Trees - Hyphenpunk

• A New World - Cosmic Horror Monthly

• My Beautiful Boy - Diet Milk Magazine

Nonfiction

• Four Pregnancies - Bending Genres

• The Opaque Masterpiece: Angel’s Egg - Anime Herald

• the productivity glide - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• Negative Reviews are Good - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• Collaborative Writing - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• the open hand of worldbuilding - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• THE FEAR - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• remember your audience - Broken River Writers’ Collective

• Fermenting Hot Sauce - Autofocus Lit

• To Fill an Open Wound - The Books That Made Us

Substack Interviews

Lucas Mangum

Sujan Sundareswaran

Russell Nohelty

David Simmons

Kathryn Vercillo

Travis Blake

Frederick Woodruff

Redd Oscar

NM Scuri

JD McBride

Kelby Losack

Caleb J Ross

ME Rothwell

Aaron Burch

Videogames

God of War

Mario, Daddy

Super Mario RPG

Super Metroid Built the Future

Dragon Quest XI

Videogame criticism needs to grow up

Guilty by Association

Katana Zero

libertalia

The Games that Define Life

Final Fantasy

• Final Fantasy IV

• Final Fantasy V

• Final Fantasy VI

• Final Fantasy VII Remake

• Final Fantasy XV

Shadow of the Colossus

Zelda 64

Triangle Strategy

Pokemon Fans Hate Pokemon

Videogame Manuals: a ritual

Citizen Sleeper

emotional pyramids built upon fictional people

Boardgames

Root: A Woodland Game of Might and Right

Fury of Dracula

Books

Favorites

More Favorites

I hate it

what we talk about when we talk about style

A Worldbuilding Exercise

narrative flow: a brief writerly lesson

Does George RR Martin Hate JRR Tolkien

Sid Meier’s Creative Act

Negative Space by BR Yeager

Brandon Sanderson and the Metrics of Spite

The Roald Dahl of it all

Walmart Noir

Where to Begin with Kazuo Ishiguro

Berserk

• The Black Swordsman Arc

James Joyce

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Ulysses

Cormac and James and boy

Cormac McCarthy

• Where to start with Cormac McCarthy

• Cormac McCarthy Reviews Mario 3

• Why Cormac McCarthy?

Worldbuilding is a Trap

The Classics are an Escape

The Wheel of Time is a Sitcom

Ray Bradbury never said that

why do writers hate writing?

Lord of the Rings: a lifetime

• Part One

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

• Intro

• A Game of Thrones

• A Clash of Kings

• A Storm of Swords

• A Feast for Crows

• A Dance with Dragons

• Fire & Blood

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante

Mary Toft; the Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer

The Disgusting Disaster of Murakami

Harry Potter

• And the Sorcerer’s Stone

• And the Chamber of Secrets

• And the Prisoner of Azkaban

• And the Goblet of Fire

• And the Order of the Phoenix

• And the Half-Blood Prince

• And the Deathly Hallows

Music

KANYE

autotune

lofi

we were once so young

The White Stripes

Michael Jackson’s Voice

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

torture the audience who loves the artist

Tom Waits

Iron & Wine’s The Trapeze Swinger

TV

Shogun

• Shogun (1980)

• Episode I and II

The Wheel of Time

• Season One

• Season Two

Interview with the Vampire

The Children of Succession

The House of the Dragon

• Episode One

• Episode Two

• Episode Three

• Episode Four

• Episode Five

• Episode Six

• Episode Seven

• Episode Eight

• Episode Nine

• Episode Ten

Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop

• Before

• After

Star Trek: Discovery

Movies

Little Mermaids

PREY

Everything Everywhere All At Once

who is to blame for why movies are terrible?

barbie and all that

100 Years of Encanto

Wong Kar Wai

• Intro

• As Tears Go By

• Days of Being Wild

• Chungking Express

• Ashes of Time

• Fallen Angels

• Happy Together

• In the Mood for Love & 2046

Batman

• The Batman

Studio Ghibli

The Boy and the Heron

Revisiting My Neighbor Totoro

30 Years of Ghibli

• Intro

• Laputa: Castle in the Sky

• Grave of the Fireflies

• My Neighbor Totoro

• Kiki’s Delivery Service

• Only Yesterday

• Porco Rosso

• Pom Poko

• Whisper of the Heart

• My Neighbors the Yamadas