Author: DylanWest

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. If you’d like to be a beta reader, please reply and let me know, but it would be a massive help if you read Scribes’ Descent and Scribes Aflame first. New Release! Eight of my writing inspiration articles and flash fiction stories have been included in a… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 3

Fellow Science Lovers, We’re picking up where last month’s newsletter left off. How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 1 If you haven’t read it, it’ll give you some context, but it isn’t required to understand this one.  Listening Practice In addition to making yourself speak your new language, you should listen to a lot of it… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 2

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still engrossed with Scribes Emerge edits. Most of my characters learn foreign languages, and I imagine many of you are, too. That’s why I’ll devote the next few articles to the question: How do you learn a foreign language? That’ll give us a nice break from all the… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 1

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still engrossed with Scribes Emerge edits. Metal Donuts? In Terrific Tomorrows, which has my short story called A Cartoon Saves the Universe, we see this line:  “A million people live on this station, which looks like two halves of a metal donut connected by a long cable. I don’t feel it… Continue reading Metal Donuts in Space

Fellow Science Lovers, Book update: I’ve published a short story! You can read A Cartoon Saves the Solar System in the Terrific Tomorrows anthology. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D915GBZZ  I’ve read the other stories in this book. All are clean and easy to read. Many are good, while a few are excellent. Recommended for ages 8 and up. I’ll also be selling signed copies… Continue reading How Does Bioluminescence Work?

Fellow Science Lovers, Gaming update: No updates this time. I’m absorbed with writing and revising Scribes Emerge. Geometric Journey In Scribes’ Descent, we find this headscratcher: Mallory reclined against a sloped column and took in the surreal maze of her surroundings, her fear tapering off into wonder. She’d studied similar shapes in advanced geometry, but never imagined… Continue reading What’s an apeirohedron?

Fellow Science Lovers, Gaming update: No updates this time. I’m absorbed with writing and revising Scribes Emerge. What is an Echo? In Scribes’ Descent, why is there a mention of some rooms echoing and not others? To answer this, let’s take a closer look at sound. Or perhaps a closer listen.   An echo is reflected sound. Unless the… Continue reading Echoless Chambers in the Bioprison

Fellow Science Lovers, Gaming update: I fixed a bug where Mallory gets stuck in her falling animation after getting hurt. And she now spawns in the correct part of the Research Deck when she jumps back up to it from the Entrance.  Turn-by-Turn Directions In chapter thirty-six of Scribes’ Descent, Mallory hears explicit, step-by-step directions from the Voice… Continue reading Mallory Hears the Voice

Fellow Science Lovers, Happy Easter! Gaming update: Still hard at work on book 3. I hope to fix some minor bugs soon (especially the one where Mallory gets stuck in her falling animation after some jumps.) Fish like it Cold? In chapter five of Emolecipation, a gondola mole named Weeb says, “There’s fish. Cold currents from the Quasen Ocean… Continue reading Why Does Cold Water Support More Marine Life?

What’s a Gorizen? The first page of Emolecipation has this: “He’d rather throw himself in the ocean than end up on another gorizen plantation. Gorizen. Now there was a corrupted fruit! One slip of the hand and its poison barbs could kill a man.” And Scribes’ Descent describes it further: “Two concentric shells and poison sap between them, all protecting… Continue reading Gorizen Sap is Dangerous (brutal botany)