An Introduction To Maces And War Hammers

Weapons, weapons, and more weapons.

Where's the craft of writing in these inanimate objects?

All writing is conflict.

No conflict? No story. Snooze.

Conversation between best friends in complete agreement is an ARGUMENT with each working the other to CONCEDE TO and embrace their own bits and pieces of detail as deserving More attention in whatever the issue they already agree on.

It's a scramble for SUPERIORITY (of view) and/or proposed actions they should take individually or in concert.

Step inside the heads of young lovers as he proposes marriage and she accepts.

The both want a whole lot of somethings out of the deal/agreement.

You've got one king hell argument there with both of them fighting inside themselves to bite back what they're dying to ask but don't dare sour their hopes of obtaining through giving voice to it.

Strategy.

How to get past someone else's guard to obtain what you want without getting hit yourself.

Dialogue as argument can suggest all manner of conversational subtleties to foreshadow future reversals, fulfillments with a twist, and additional sub plots to kick your main plot back up and onto its feet.

As more than one disappointed spouse can attest, misreading their partner's intent left them feeling they had been hit by a hammer.

Going Medieval

Swords of Europe, Cut, Chop, and Thrust. Igor D. Gorewicz & Phil Burthem (Miecze Europy)

If you're writing historical fiction and swords are in it,

Hans Talhoffer, Medieval Fight Book, National Geographic Video

15th Century. Not so backwards after all, eh?

Half Swording - Why Grabbing A Sharp Blade In A Sword Fight Is Not Crazy

Secrets of The Viking Sword Ulfbert Documentary HD

Clark Ashton Smith's The Testament of Athammaus, Read It Free

If you don't know Clark Ashton Smith, you're in for a pleasant jolt. In dark, weird fiction he's unsurpassed and quite likely to remain that way for some time to come.

eldritchdark.com makes his work available, free. Nothing to buy, sign up for, or any annoying spam to filter out of your mail.

His short story The Testament of Athammaus tops my list.

You can read it simply as a dark, hallucinogen drenched dream of a master linguist/storyteller, or as I have, many times, a parable about bloated governments even though the villain of the tale is a noxious criminal put to death numerous times by government, he returns, post execution, again and again to inflict himself on everyone.

More recommendations:

The Black Abbot of Puthuum
The Death of Ilalotha
The Last Hieroglyph
The Last Incantation
The Master of The Crabs
Sadastor
The Seven Geases
The Theft of The Thirty Nine Girdles
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan

Video: Viking Voyage, BBC 2008, Sailing The Sea Stallion, A Reproduction Of The Longest Viking Warship Known

Fixes For MS Word's 'Read Only' Protecting You From Using Their Product Which You've Already Paid For

http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-the-'Read-Only'-Status-on-MS-Word-Documents

I began with fix number 2, right clicking on the .docx icon, then at the bottom of the drop down menu I left clicked on properties which opens a dialogue box allowing you to check or uncheck a 'Read Only' box.

Under the General tab heading That Dialogue box, even WITH the 'Read Only' box showing Unchecked I then clicked on OK. This worked fine, until I went back online and some unseen Update/Code Myrmidon not only saved me from from myself again, but disabled any further use of that particular work around.

I had to resort to fix number 4, accessing my docs as an Administrator, to reset all my permissions to actually deal with the issue.

If you're suffering through this too, best of luck to you.