powers Archives - Auden Johnson

Leveling Up Your Character’s Magic Skills Part 2

In Part 1, we covered the different ways your character’s power can grow. Let’s dive deeper into that. What does leveling up […]

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 […]

I’ve talked a lot about magic powers. I love, love giving my characters powers. Making their abilities realistic can be a pain. […]

Everything has rules- even a power system. This goes along with the having a weakness aspect I mentioned in Fantasy Powers: Magical […]

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 […]

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 […]

I love, love magical ability. Sometimes, I imagine using my ability as I’m walking to work. The issue I had with my […]

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 […]

For the moment, I’ve stopped working on my second novel, as often, to focus on filling the holes in my world. I’m […]