Tag: research

• Ask for a recipe, get a story: cider edition

  

  Mulling over mulled cider. Not complicated.

  K. M. Herkes

  December 14, 2017

  Detours, Whimsy, Writing Life

  kitchen magic, life, not writing, other things, research

• Birds & bees and kissing in trees

  

  Getting it on gets REALLY complicated.

  K. M. Herkes

  February 21, 2017

  2. Worldbuilding, nuts & bolts, Whimsy

  how-to, humor, relationships, research, rough passages, world building, writing

• Yes, But What Do They Eat?

  Life in a super-powered world gets complicated. Speculation is an entertaining playground. Yes, there are big questions to answer, but I prefer to ponder issues that would affect people’s daily lives.  What kind of house paint would work for people who exhale acid gasses? How would the fashion industry cater to scales and tails? Then there are the scientific […]

  K. M. Herkes

  February 16, 2017

  2. Worldbuilding, Authoring, characters, nuts & bolts

  fun, research, rough passages, science, worldbuilding, writing

• Real slang for an imaginary world

  My fantasy world characters toss around a lot of jargon and slang specific to their reality.I love constructing their everyday lingo. I do thousands of hours of language and historical research and write thousands of words in background notes before I settle on the words and phrases my characters use to describe made-up events, issues, and concepts. And then I […]

  K. M. Herkes

  November 17, 2016

  2. Worldbuilding, nuts & bolts, Writing Life

  conlang, fun, research, rough passages, slang, vocabulary, words, worldbuilding

• Superpowers = super tricky

  Making wild powers fit into tame descriptions: not easy.

  K. M. Herkes

  October 20, 2016

  2. Worldbuilding, hIstorical notes, nuts & bolts

  fantasy, research, rough passages, superpowers, words, worldbuilding