Paul
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Butler to a Core Lord was my first full story published on Royalroad, so I thought it would be fun to do a little review of the story writing process. (There are mild SPOILERS ahead. I don’t think there’s anything big enough to ruin the story, so if you are curious about my thought process,…
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I came across another reddit post where people were discussing why people enjoy the litrpg genre. Those threads tend to reoccur on a regular basis. The usual answers are that people like to “watch numbers go brrrr” and that people like rule-based hard magic systems. I agree that these are the most obvious surface reasons,…
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I’ve seen a lot of websites pop up that purport to serve as directories of litrpg and progression fantasy stories. To be honest, I don’t really pay attention to most of them, as another long list of books isn’t particularly useful or interesting to me. However, this new site prog.fan by reddit user jmattheis is…
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I only a small fraction of the books I read or try to read. Some of the reasons for that are obvious, others less so. As someone who wants to write and publish stories, I think it’s a little gauche to review anyone remotely resembling a peer. Also, there’s the old grandma advice about not…
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I recently reread Worm by Wildbow, all million plus words of it. This was my second time reading Worm, and one of the very few times I have actually reread a book, let alone something that long. The first time I read Worm, I essentially put my life on hold and inhaled it with a…
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Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff is the sequel to one of my favorite surprise finds, Empire of the Vampire. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite like the sequel as much as the first book, which also means I may less enthusiastically recommend Empire of the Vampire in the future. Ordinarily, I tend to avoid reviewing…
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I tend to read in spurts, both in terms of actual reading and in terms of what genre I am reading. That means I will read random things for a while, then I will go through ten or more litrpg books in the space of a week or two. I read A Summoner Awakens by…
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I didn’t know there was another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie made in 2023. It seems like a new one of dubious quality pops up every now and then, and I don’t really keep track of them. I’m a bit surprised that TMNT is considered a popular enough franchise to keep pumping out movies, since…
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I was pretty excited to check out Phil Tucker’s newest book, Krieg Chess, as I like both chess and fantasy. The only other book with chess in the title in this genre I’m aware of is The Crafting of Chess by Kit Falbo, which I very much enjoyed, but that one isn’t really based around…
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There’s been a trend of high-profile Youtubers quitting or scaling back recently. I don’t particularly follow Youtubers or watch Marques Brownlee, but I thought his video about a creator’s career and avoiding burnout was pretty apt for authors, too. I think it’s an age-old recurring idea, nothing new, that you dream of making something like…
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Blue Eye Samurai was pretty good. I also liked that it was only eight episodes long, meaning I could binge it before my attention wandered. It’s a dark and gritty show meant for adult audiences. It reminded me a little bit of Afro Samurai with the tone and whole outsider samurai. I guess that’s common…
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There’s been an explosion of fantasy and sci-fi shows for streaming content to the point that I hardly keep up with shows these days. That’s not even counting anime. I caught a few episodes of Scavengers Reign and had to mention it for its weird and wonderful worldbuilding. You should definitely check it out if…
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I debated before whether to keep a blog versus a social media profile. Blogs are kind of…quaint these days. Some might say that they are obsolete, even. I know that conventional wisdom is to go crazy on every social media site because that’s where modern eyeballs are. I don’t quite have the energy or interest…
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The Pariah by Anthony Ryan is the first book in the Covenenant of Steel trilogy, available HERE. Bloodsong is one of my all-time favorite books, but I never read it’s sequels because of the negative reviews surrounding them. I know, I know. I should have just read and judged the sequels for myself, but I…
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There used to be a time when I would religiously watch any live action anime. Sadly, those days are gone. I never made it past the second episode of Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, despite the original being one of my top anime of all time. I did, however, enjoy all eight episodes of the new One…
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Industrial Strength Magic is one of the latest works by the prolific Macronomicon, which is, as of this writing, still completely available for free on Royalroad HERE. The basic premise is that the teenage son of a techno-genius villain and magic-wielding heroine begins his entrance into the superhero scene. Paradox, the main character, comes from…