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Dark Fantasy World Building: Telling Time Without Clocks

It’s 60 or so years after the apocalypse. Countries are trying to rebuild society. War puts the world in chaos. This is […]

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 […]

I talked about plants in the post Creating Fantasy Plants. Now, let talk about creating fantasy animals. Darkness has taken. Its power torments […]

While editing my work in progress, I’m noticing I don’t describe most of my settings, at least not well enough for readers […]

I used to say I hated all that mushy stuff while inhaling fantasy and horror stories with some romance in them. My […]

While researching why most fantasy novels don’t have modern technology, I found one reason was that people believed it’s tricky balancing magic […]

You have an idea for your awesomely new power system. Now we’re going to discuss writing magical beings. In the last post, […]

What happened to the power? Fantasy stories today have a lot less magic. That’s fine. But, I like giving my characters special […]

Along the lines of multiple perspectives- how do you keep several distinct voices in your head? How can one author manage to […]

I’ve said this before, I love atmospheric horror. I prefer stories that use setting to enhance the chills. I looked upon the […]