Need ideas for houses in our fantasy or sci-fi world? I was searching Pinterest for fantasy writing tips when I came across this nice infographic about house types. That Octagon House looks pretty cool.
My stories, I usually default to Victorian Mansions:
Knowing history of the real world helps so much with your world building. Looking at pictures of actual place gives you ideas for your settings. I love looking up haunted mansions and reading about the ghosts. They’ve inspired the building in my world. Some of the stories behind these haunted places are more interesting than…
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was about what I expected. Fun. Entertaining. Total Mind-dump. It’s one of those movies you go to when you don’t want to think about anything. It’s pure entertainment nothing more. The plot was shallow and predictable, the characters two-dimensional, the witches slightly comical looking but, it worked for the story….
So much better than the first one. Not the most original plot. It still worked. You know what I love about fantasy and sci-fi movies? The worlds. We get this gorgeous picture of imaginary worlds. I mean, Asgard was amazing. Now, was it as good as Avengers? Meh. It had a good balance of humor and…
Finish writing a book is a proud moment. Publishing it is even more amazing. But, publishing can sometimes drag you away from why you started writing in the first place. I write mostly because I can’t stop. I publish because books helped me. I want to pay it forward. On the other hand, I want…
What do you do when you’re struggling to name something in your fantasy or sci-fi novel? Use fantasy name generators. I’m running out of names. I have a fantasy name list in Evernote but I’ve used most of them. Some of the ways I created names in the past don’t work anymore. With 12 stories…
