Nicholas Reicher

Where do you get your ideas from? It’s the question that haunts writers. The problem is, they have a book they want to write….

You know, if you really want to feature some highly skilled – and VERY bizarre – sword fighting, the Rajahs of India should be…

What’s the most important part of all kinds of sword fighting? Tai Sabaki. Foot movement. A great deal of time in Kendo is spent…

I’m falling into my previous trap of using roman numerals, but I’m hoping to be done with this part before I run out of…

Sword fighting. This means different things to different people. To the Chinese, it means a springy sword with a lot of stabbing action. To…

I’m doing a lot of research lately on Expletives. I thought – like everyone else does – that expletives are curse words. Well, curse…

Every now and then, I see a beginning writer get frustrated when you explain the rules to them of story structure. “I don’t want…

Genre, like theme, brings up bad memories of  often bad English Lit teachers, who managed to take what should have been a good experience…

I have a collection of classic novels on my computer, usually read through as I eat my lunches on the weekend. There’s something about…