Ivalia Eli wanted to say they were lost. It wold be easier if they were. The land wasn’t showing them the way out. “How long will it make us wait?” Ivalia was tired. “Asking a hundred times a day isn’t going to make it easier., Raav Kani growled out. “Please. I can practically hear the anger in your…
It’s tough writing a story with a big cast. You want to give characters the right amount of development but you don’t want to confuse your readers. I’m still struggling with this. One of my beta readers got confused with the characters and their relationship. They were reading Book 3 of The Merging World Series….
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. Several questions come up while…
She was suffocating. No matter what she did, life wrapped steel arms around her and squeezed. Neta Avra always felt at ease by the water. The chains loosened as she started at the reflections. Her little brother, Lin, was playing in the shallow end of the lake. Callias Rez, her friend, was making sure Lin…
Some magic can have dangerous consequences. Kiran, En and a team of magical investigators travel to an island to banish whatever haunts the old schoolhouse. It takes them no time to realize the building isn’t the problem. The island is. As Kiran’s power develops, she becomes a danger to herself and her team. Will they…
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…
Designing the cover for The Unburned Island has been a ride. It’s taking me over a month. It’s one of the hardest designs I’ve worked on. I’m close to being finished but I’m having trouble getting the right font color. I started this process with some rough sketches to get an idea of what I wanted…
It’s always fun learning what inspires other artists. Welcome fantasy author V.M. Sang … Hi. First of all I would like to thank Auden for allowing me to post on her blog. I appreciate it. I always enjoyed writing essays and stories for school as I grew up, and when in my teens I wrote…
I’m looking for fantasy and horror writers to guest on my blog. I’d especially like posts about social media marketing, the writer’s life and world building. Nerdy topics are cool too. If you’re a writer wanting to talk about your video game/anime inspiration, I’d love to hear from you. If you want to talk about horror books…
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 animals in Book 3. In…
