Dissecting Literature

 Hi there! It’s time for a good, old fashioned Dissecting Literature post since we haven’t done this for quite some time. As we said in the last post, editing and life carried us away, but there are many interesting topics left in the world we’d like to cover.  This post was in my mind for quite some time, I just didn’t want to stick my head into a hornet nest with today’s topic – religion. But live at let live is a great motto, so now I’ll try to stay objective and keep away from anything judgemental (it’s a great way to find peace with others and yourself).  Religions exist from the beginning of human culture. It’s in our nature to seek answers about the world, because – as H. P. Lovecraft put it – our greatest fear is the unknown. On a practical side, every religion tries to answer the same questions: the beginning, the end, and what happens in between. Science can answer most of these to a certain level, but there will always be more questions.  A professor of mi...

  Hey there, traveler! Some of you may have been wondering about the utter radio silence for the past weeks. Well, a few things contributed to that – lack of ideas, late-autumn low mood and a bit of buzz about our WIP. As you might have seen on Twitter, we got around to have a professional edit Shackles of the Storm, an oh boy, was it not an experience! So much so that I decided to write a little something about it, if any of you are still waiting for this step.   First of all, a round of applause: our editor did a fantastic job. She was thorough, she went into details and she didn’t pull her punches when that was needed. To top it, she did it with a pinch of sarcastic humor that made us laugh many times (on our own incompetence). Her work is even more impressive when you consider how many things she needed to fix, and to do that, I’m going to publicly humiliate myself by sharing our most prevalent flaws. Okay, maybe I won’t humiliate myself, but I think if you learn what we f...