I’m sitting on a train grinning like a loon because a podcast episode made me laugh. Funny how a simple laugh can make you feel so much better. For those who’ve been following this blog, you know the last 2 years for me had been one long battle. Life is Read more…
I like elves, fairies and dwarfs but I’ll sometimes roll my eyes when they show up in a story. It’s more interesting when an author creates their own race, calling it something new. My story, The Marked Hosts, has dragon shifters but they’re called Sencial. The Del’Praeli in my Merging Worlds series Read more…
It’s 60 or so years after the apocalypse. Countries are trying to rebuild society. War puts the world in chaos. This is life in my WIP, Book 4 of The Merging World Series, The Sciell’s Legacy. The world is dangerous for everyone. Characters build their own villages to stay safe. Read more…
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 Read more…
I talked about plants in the post Creating Fantasy Plants. Now, let talk about creating fantasy animals. Darkness has taken. Its power torments people. Animals and plants slowly evolve to thrive in this dangerous world. In Book 1 of my Merging World series, you learned about glowing plants. You discovered mutated Read more…
While editing my work in progress, I’m noticing I don’t describe most of my settings, at least not well enough for readers to get a good sense of place. You want readers to become so lost in your world that they feel like they’re traveling with your characters. They have Read more…
While researching why most fantasy novels don’t have modern technology, I found one reason was that people believed it’s tricky balancing magic and technology. One would disprove the other. I’m not talking about Urban Fantasy. I mean fictitious worlds with magic and technology. I understand why most fantasy authors write Read more…
As if naming our characters wasn’t hard enough. On top of that, we have to name lands, buildings, foods, cultures, mountains even treaties and wars. The list goes on and on. Here’s your guide on how to name a fantasy world 1. Pay attention to everything around you. You may come across Read more…