January 9, 2017December 21, 2020Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips, Mythical Creatures World Building: Creating Fantasy Animals and Creatures I talked about plants in the post Creating Fantasy Plants. Now, let talk about creating fantasy animals. Darkness has taken. Its power torments […] Read more
March 14, 2016June 29, 2021Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips Describing a Setting Readers can Experience While editing my work in progress, I’m noticing I don’t describe most of my settings, at least not well enough for readers […] Read more
August 11, 2014October 8, 2020Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips Fantasy World Building: Balancing Magic & Technology While researching why most fantasy novels don’t have modern technology, I found one reason was that people believed it’s tricky balancing magic […] Read more
November 27, 2013July 29, 2021Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips, World Building Template Fantasy Powers: Writing Magical Beings You have an idea for your awesomely new power system. Now we’re going to discuss writing magical beings. In the last post, […] Read more
November 20, 2013July 29, 2021Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips, Writing Advice Fantasy Powers: How Ideas Are Born What happened to the power? Fantasy stories today have a lot less magic. That’s fine. But, I like giving my characters special […] Read more
May 27, 2013July 29, 2021Anime, Fantasy World Building Anime and Dark Fantasy Weapons As you know, I pull a lot of inspiration for my stories from anime, especially powers, character features and weapons. Now, it’s time for […] Read more
April 26, 2013July 29, 2021Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips Writing a Novel: How to Name a Fantasy World As if naming our characters wasn’t hard enough. On top of that, we have to name lands, buildings, foods, cultures, mountains even […] Read more
May 18, 2012July 29, 2021Fantasy World Building, Fantasy Writing Tips Dark Fantasy World Building: Powers For the moment, I’ve stopped working on my second novel, as often, to focus on filling the holes in my world. I’m […] Read more