#new pulp

The Vril Agenda By Derrick Ferguson and Joshua Reynolds 2014, Airship 27

Young Dillon seeks out Jim Anthony, Super Detective, to train him on the ways of Pulp Heroing. Anthony's headquarters are attacked, we get a lengthy flashback, then Anthony and Dillon face off against Sun Koh's quest to reinstate the glory of Atlantis.

The highlight here is the presence of various public domain pulp figures - Dan Fowler is the head of the FBI, Anthony's daughter leads Louis Feuillade's Vampires. Sun Koh was the Nazi Doc Savage, and his team are all German pulp figures.

All of these characters are largely lifeless and interchangeable. Alaska Jim acts like an old prospector, and this is the closest we get to a distinct personality. Other than background details, you could have swapped out Operator #5 or Thunder Jim Wade and barely noticed. Even Dillon felt generic. Some of this may be inherent in genre, given that this is the story of two Doc Savage pastiches facing off. Mostly just led me to wonder how there were so many guys over a century old running around.

I didn't care for the audiobook narration, half the characters had a goofy affectation that I found distracting.

Hello! It's time to properly introduce myself to the writeblr community. You can call me KC if you want. I am a full time specialist as my local library system and I have a Master of Letters in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. For now, this is my writing website, until an agent/editor tells me to build a WordPress or something. (I honestly hate traditional blogs. Weird quirk, don't know why. Also, links are underlined). If I get tagged in things, I will do my best to respond to them and share it forward.

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The intruder was not entirely unexpected, and she was prepared.

Drawing on my enjoyment of Film Noir and Pulp era stories (I write New Pulp stories such as my novel REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST), I wanted to take a shot at doing an illustration that truly invoked the feel of those old pulp stories and noir movies.

After seeing photos on the FANTASY ARTIST REFERENCE and FANTASY ART MODELS Tumblr pages (I hope to support these site better in the future), I knew what to draw next. The drawing soon became a painting. What do you think of?

This was done entirely in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet.

Secret Sagas of the Multiverse: Doc Savage meets the Peregrine

This post is addressed to myself, though read along if you need help editing.

Adverbs and over-description are both symptoms, among many others, of being unable to trust your vision with someone else. In my case, I want to extract an exact image and put it in paper; that way I know I am telepathically linked with my reader.

Alas, that's not how it works. I'm sure when you read a description of a character, you see someone different than I see, and different from what the author saw.

That's okay! Perfectionism will slow writers down. Put in descriptions, but know that too much is as bad as none at all.

Should I describe a romantic love interest in detail from head-to-toe? How important is every single detail?

This circles back to a philosophy I have (from fighting games, of all places): LEAN.

Have fun in your early drafts. Hell, save the most bloated version of your story to read for yourself. For the rest of the world? Get your descriptions, dialogue, and prose lean.

How much weight is added by use of an adverb that wouldn't be added from a stronger word? Does the word necessitate being stronger? Is the adverbial phrase for you or is it crucial to explain the current scene?

I'll bloat my earlier drafts, add a lot more, and then scale back before the alpha reader/editor phase. This will come with time, but I hope you keep these tips in mind.

I've been keeping up with monthly releases of Raygunslinger and Forsaken!