Captain Andrews Blog

                                                            HOW TO GET RID OF WRITERS BLOCK     We all struggle with it.      That overwhelming moment where we wonder, what next? And our minds write up a block, that Kermit the frog meme dressed in a black cloak saying just give up . To this I say don't worry! I have figured out a way to bust through that block like the koolaid man high on sugar.      Well, for this I thank my University of Toronto professor James who told us writer's block didn't exist and if we do experience it then just keep writing. I know you might be thinking, yeah ok James. Thanks for that. Writing will magically cure my writer's block, because that's exactly what I thought when he pronounced this to our lecture hall. But then I tried it....

  HOW TO NOT “TOUR” YOUR WORLD BUILDING by: Captain Andrews Introduction to this post:   When writing your story, it can be so much fun  to create a fictional world  or mock a factual world . However, it is important to be mindful when you  a re world building to do so in a realistic way that respects the place and land it’s inspired by.  This means to be mindful of the Western lens we can often have of other places around the world.   Of course  this does apply more to using real places around the world and less so to fantastical places such as Middle Earth. To furth er explain this idea, I’d like to take the time to explain what I mean by a western lens, tourism:  the place vs. The hype, and how to research.    Note: This blog is written through the analyzation of what was learned from:  Stranger in the Eco-Village: Race, Tourism and Environmental Time Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor  by Rob Nixon. ...