Addendum

Archers would write insulting messages on their arrows if they could. You know the kind.

Runeswords

You'd like to think the runes are full of arcane significance, but you just know they say, "If you can read this you're too close!" That's the kind of thing swordboys go in for. Truckers don't put alchemical diagrams on their trucks; they slap some truck nuts on there and get moving.

Christmas Fantasy

Now that Christmas has started, it's time to start writing fantasy in which people celebrate Christmas. There's no need to explain it. They just do.

Lesson of the Wizard-Saint

An exclusive interview with Rodelon the Wizard-Saint! Mr. Wizard-Saint, how did you attain that exalted position of both wizard and saint?
"The wizard part was just the same as for anyone. Study, more study, expeditions to strange realms, and more study after that. I wasn't very ambitious. Just the one title was enough for me. After I achieved it though, I had so much free time. I wasn't used to that, I can tell you. I decided to try a bit of gardening.
"I can't do anything by half-measures. I spent more and more of my time and attention on my garden. Yes, soon I put all my soul into it."
That's fascinating! Can we see your garden?
"Certainly. It's known as the Blackdread Mire today. That was when I realized my soul needed as much work as my wizard skills, and here we are."
Wow! Any advice for our readers?
"Few of you will become wizards, but look to your soul even so."
Finis

Rules of Drama

"If a sphinx is presented in the first act, it must activate its death laser by the third." - Antoine Checksum

Name Change Suggestion

"Space Elevator" is both prosaic and misleading. Let's switch over to "Cosmic Ribbon."

Addendum

The super-gigantic apples of the future will of course be called hyper apples.

Science Fiction Terminology Issue

In the future, when we've made ponies even littler, what do we call them? Double ponies? Micro-ponies? Horse minus minus? Xonies?

Addendum

But they're so portable! All right, lyres are back.

The Danger of the Classics

I know the old stories are full of lyres, but nobody likes them. We have to give up on lyres.