The most current Video Game console I have is a Wii bought as a present to myself for graduating from college in 2007. Over the years, the back of my mind has flip-flopped between upgrading from my PS2 to a PS3 or X-Box 360. I have looked at the tantalizingly shiny games and awesome gameplay,…
In Part 1 (here it is for anyone who missed it), I discussed travelling in the real world, and the long, endless hours we can take. Great authors realize the lack of drama in hour-by-hour journeys, and find ways around telling the ‘boring parts’. Tension is built by the continuous threat of some antagonistic force,…
I was reading a post from A Pilgrim in Narnia titled The Land Where Oz Is North of Middle Earth and was led to ponder my own love of fictional maps. The first fictional map I remember is from The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. I spent hours looking over the Great Avren River, tracing the path…
The L. Palmer Chronicles 