Tag: writing
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Building a Magic System: No-Eyes’ Necromancy
Recently, I started work on a new short story that deals with necromancy. It’s the first time in a while that I’ve had to flesh out the details of a magic system, and I wanted to share the thought process that went into it. Narrative & Inspirations First, I want to talk about the story,…
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The Occult Triangle Lab Review: Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
I first heard about this book when reading through Philip K. Dick’s biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead, which took its title from one of the more chilling lines in Ubik. It seemed to have everything I could ever want: existential crises, meditations on eternity, entropy, and the human spirit, and a mind-bending journey through an illusory…
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Hypnotica: New Short Story and Sketches from Joel Clapp
9 months after its inception, my new short story, Hypnotica, is out for submission to fantasy magazines! If you want to learn more about the inspiration behind it and how I fleshed out the magic system in the story, you should check out the posts DREAMWAVE: FANTASY WRITING, QUANTUM THEORY, AND DAFT PUNK and NARCOMANCY: MORPHINE, LUCID DREAMING, AND…
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ERGODICA, Part 2: Interdimensional Necromantic Blues
New, from Chris Mahon’s Occult Triangle Lab: interconnections between Kierkegaard’s existentialism, Buddhism, immortality, Kabbalah, fractals, Godel’s Incompleteness theorem, and a piece of experimental literature about an interdimensional necromancer trapped between two infinities.
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The Occult Triangle Lab Review: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World had 270 pages to give me a reason to keep reading. It failed.
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Narcomancy: Morphine, Lucid Dreaming, and Binaural Beats
Serial Experiments Lain meets Neuromancer and Inception.
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High Resolution: Worldbuilding and the Small Details
I have a fascination with the metal buttons on pay phones, the pixels on old Zenith televisions, the writing on IV drip bags, and the lettering on manhole covers.