Many movies have what I would call a Wrap Around Story, or STory Enclosure, that amounts to the excuse for the rest of the story. The Fifth Element would be one example; big bad amorphous evil coming to destroy Earth, and that is the excuse for the adventures. Great movie, but the wrap around is …
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Combining Fantasy and Science Fiction in Your Writing
Most genre stories are either Fantasy, with wizards and magic swords, or Science Fiction, with space ships and ray guns. Very rarely do you ever find something that combines both, and even then it’s usually done very badly. The old “I got my wand and he has his ray gun” approach. So, how is one …
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Maldene Extras
Okay, so time for more hints, but this time it’s something you can download. If you go to the downloads page you’ll see a few things. While the map in the book is good, the one you can download has a lot higher resolution. The entire world (you could wrap it around a globe), with …
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Thinking Up Alien Names
Fantasy and Science Fiction have something in common when it comes to names; they gotta sound unearthly. Something from another culture unknown to this Earth or any of its languages. But how to come up with them? There are numerous ways, and often the best is to just start slapping syllables together and see what …
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Mark’s 10 (11) Tips For Story Writing
I finally found the file I’d created from whence I got these tips from, so rather than piecemeal them, here’s the whole list at once. Then in later posts I’ll get into some specifics for fantasy and SF worlds. These are my 10 basic tips for writing a good story. Be it novel or short …
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Another plot snippet
Okay, time for another piece of the plot puzzle. If you have read my little sample, you will notice that there is a narrator. All well and good, and about the only time you hear from the narrator is in that beginning Introduction. Likewise for each successive novel in the series; a quick little intro …
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first plot post
Okay, so it’s time for a little bit about the plot. Well, first I can say that this is truly an epic series, far more than just your little trilogy, and more than even Harry Potter (though I admire Rowling). Exactly how much, I won’t say just yet. I will say that this first novel …
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Artists for new cover chosen
Maldene, volumes 1 and 2, will be getting some new cover art. I just finished up today with them, getting rough sketches going, and it really is going to look a lot better. Should be finished by early Feb. Sasha Palacio and Diego Paz have been a team since High School (with Diego only recently …
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The Story
The story starts out simple enough; adventurers seeking wealth. Only, some of the would-be adventurers have quite different things in mind; spurred on by a past meeting with a mysterious gold-skinned fortune-teller, they seek a fate that will bring them up against the most notorious evil ever to exist. They are virtual innocents in the …
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