Recent content by Brian Scott Allen

What do you do when you need to take your contacts out but your infant wakes up if she doesn't feel the pressure of your hand on her chest? Why put the thickest paper back you own on her chest. Thank Brandon Sanderson and his Way of Kings for saving me last night!

Confusing. And the b word (not the one that refers to female dogs either. You know the word.

I wouldn't specifically refer to them as blond, but yes my boy says his eyes turn blond when he fights ghosts.

My two year old has now informed me that ghost hunters eyes must turn blond to fight ghosts. In middle grade/young adult books how cliche is eye color changing? I seem to remember a discussion that effect but I want to confirm that so I can figure out how to avoid its staleness.

Happy fathers day to all you dads, honorary dads, dads that be, etc. May you get the frosty beverage of your choice, to play or do the old man game or activity of your choice (mine was golf yesterday will Old Man Allen (OMA)), and to sleep in.

Well, if the burglars stopped eating his friend bread (as in bread made from his friend's soul) we wouldn't have problems now, would we?

I like the thief eating ghost bread. It also allows for a mundane beginning to turn crazy.

Let's go with the Dad story. He comes home and his goal is to get his son's jamies on. The son fights him, because two year olds are jerks sometimes but its also kind of fun. Kid goes down for sleep then bang home invasion kidnapping. Hook or no hook? (I recognize this is difficult to answer in...

So, I have heard several times that your beginnings need punch, pizzazz, yahoo and how. The punch needs to be emotional somehow. Often times the advice says it needs to happen right on the first page. However, I find myself not really liking those beginnings and I feel like when I try it it's so...

You dear sir are brilliant. I can make ghost gumbo, a banquet of banshees, a corporeal kelpie confectionary!

You'll have to ask my two year old. ;) In all seriousness I'm presently leaning towards making them quasi corporeal. So to steal life energy they have to become corporeal and must stay that way for a certain time. The other option is to have magic swords that make them corporeal but that...

Awhile back my son told me a story of how he uses his sword to cut ghosts to pieces and then eats them. Now I have an idea. Presupposing this is a thing, what if ghosts in my world aren't the literal spirits of the dead but creatures that consume the life energy of people dying and thereby take...

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