Your characters are on an adventure or simply walking around town. They encounter a foreigner with a heavy accent, speaking a language they don’t understand. Maybe they do understand. Or maybe, your characters never encounter foreigners. It’s your story. You could create a world where everyone speaks the same language. The history behind that could…
Fantasy novels are often set in a Medieval Europe-inspired location. Even I tend to default to that location because I come across that more often when reading fantasy or even watching fantasy movies. I need to read more fantasy book set in non-Western locations. Months ago, I read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, a fantasy…
You’re in a new place, exploring it, taking 100s of photos. At the end of the day, you look over the photo and delete ones that don’t work. World builders, you might want to think a bit before you delete those bad photos. It’s like when you’ve written a terrible story. You don’t delete it….
If you’re writing a post-apocalyptic story or a tale set in the Middle Ages, you might’ve found yourself doing some plant research. The Sciell’s Legacy: Book 4 of The Merging Worlds Series involves this kind of research. In The Lost Sciell: Book 3, we see the world slowly crumbling as war begins. In The Sciell’s Legacy, the world’s ended….
A couple of years ago, I was walking to the library with A Little Faster by There For Tomorrow playing on my device. Suddenly, I’m picturing a character, Josephine Royal, from my Merging Worlds series. Her power, her Lifeblood. lights her body on fire. I realized that form (lighting her body on fire) was her…
I like elves, fairies and dwarfs but I’ll sometimes roll my eyes when they show up in a story. It’s more interesting when an author creates their own race, calling it something new. My story, The Marked Hosts, has dragon shifters but they’re called Sencial. The Del’Praeli in my Merging Worlds series were inspired by vampires. How…
Five characters in my Merging Worlds series, all children, find themselves on a ship- transported there by the enemy. Now, I need to realistically write their experience. I’ve been on the water a couple of times. Once, I was on a cruise ship in the middle of a storm. That was awesome until I saw…
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…
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…
Please welcome Julian North author of the dystopian novel Age of Order The best books are those that you’re still thinking about after you turn the last page (or power down your e-reader). A good book will keep your mind too occupied to sleep. You might still be thinking about a great one years later. And…
