In Part 1, we covered the different ways your character’s power can grow. Let’s dive deeper into that. What does leveling up look like. It’s the same as trying to figure out what your child character will be like when they’re an adult later in the book or series. So many factors contribute to the…
Where are the otherworldly POV characters in fantasy? I don’t mean dwarfs, elves, vampires and werewolves/shifters. I don’t have a problem with those beings. I just prefer characters like the Blood in Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series and the Others from Sergei Lukyanenko’s Watch series. Otherworldly characters are fascinating. I can’t find books I can…
I’ve talked a lot about magic powers. I love, love giving my characters powers. Making their abilities realistic can be a pain. I talked, in general, about powers in the post Fantasy Powers: Magical Beings. Let’s get specific. In The Merging Worlds Series, the characters can use their power to create basic things like shields,…
Everything has rules- even a power system. This goes along with the having a weakness aspect I mentioned in Fantasy Powers: Magical Beings. If your powerful characters can do anything without any consequences, they will be boring and unrealistic. For my series, I listed the rules for my beings. I wrote it like I was…
You’re magical beings have been having their way with their powers and enjoying themselves…at least until those side effect kick in. Let’s take a step back, way back. To the beginning. Where did the power come from. Or, who did they come from. This goes beyond the magical beings in your story. Why does power…
You have an idea for your awesomely new power system. Now we’re going to discuss writing magical beings. In the last post, Fantasy Powers: How Ideas Are Born, I touched on determining who would be using the power. Diving deeper into this will help make your new power system more believable. You have a magical…
What happened to the power? Fantasy stories today have a lot less magic. That’s fine. But, I like giving my characters special powers. I like that those powers have a key role in the story. Give me memorable characters with awesome abilities. How does someone come up with a power system from scratch? This is…
I love, love magical ability. Sometimes, I imagine using my ability as I’m walking to work. The issue I had with my series is how to dish out unique abilities to a cast of over 30 without completely overwhelming the reader. All my characters are experts at molding the Power one certain way, and not…
The Bridge by Gate-to-Nowhere Working on two (or three) novels at a time usually means you don’t finish any of them, at least for me it does. I discovered though, for a Dark Fantasy series, you kinda have to work on all the books at once. Or, at the very least, have a firm grasp…
For the moment, I’ve stopped working on my second novel, as often, to focus on filling the holes in my world. I’m finding Powers to be the hardest part of World Building. It’s so complicated. I’ve been trying to find some way of organizing information to help me visualize it. Outside of putting it on…
