Fantasy Writer’s List of Cool Stuff

Here’s a list of stuff I like. I’ll write about why I like some of this stuff later, but I want you to know some stuff I like because maybe you like some of this stuff too. If so, we should celebrate the stuff.

The stuff, in no order worth noting…

• Reading outside my genre
• My boots
• Movies with triumph at the end
• Movies with cool hinge-moments in the middle

Writing bad reviews of…

• Books
• Beer
• Quirks in consumerism

Writing good reviews of…

• Music, especially if it’s little-known
• Small businesses
• I like community-building, especially if it’s around creative endeavors
• Architecture
• Feeling overwhelmed by nature

Complaining vociferously about…

• Quirks of consumerism!
• Sports
• Odd human behaviors
• Learning new knowledge
• Food and cooking
• History
• Watching other people win, but only if they earned it
• The word “shiny”

I’ll go into all of the reasons I like all that later on, but the point here is one of the foundations of my cool factor: shiny syndrome and piracy.

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Fantasy Writer's List of Cool Stuff

I’m Oliver, and I write books. I’m a fantasy writer and a metalhead. I’m querying my novel to agents. My full manuscript is in the hands of one of them now.