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Writing Tip: Weather in Your World

If you are writing an epic that spans the globe of whatever fantasy or SF world you have created, sooner or later the subject of weather will come up. And if you do indeed have an entire world to deal with (or most enough of one) then it is not just enough to start sprinkling …

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Writing Tips: 3 Secrets to Writing Long Novels

There are a lot of tips and strategies that people suggest and use for doing what it takes to write an epic novel, but no matter what fine point or strategy one chooses, no matter what preference one tells you or secret one has for writing that book, it really comes down to three simply …

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Writing Tips: Plotting Multi-Volume Epics

There’s something to be said about a good epic, the kind that spans several volumes. But for the writer, that involves a lot of planning ahead. For myself, I have written a fantasy ep;ic that spans 13 novels, 5.2 million words, and about 250 characters, as well as a smaller Sci-Fi epic at 5 novels, …

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Writing Tips: Messages In A Story

A lot of writers have a certain message they would like to put into a story. That is all fine and well, but it is important to remember that the story must come first. No matter how strong or important a message you may have, it will not be heard if the reader doesn’t finish …

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Guest Post: Epic Fantasy And Modern Mythmaking by Jeff Shanley

As part of a virtual fantasy writer tour, author Jeff Shanley has written up a guest post for my blog. He voices a few thoughts similar to the process behind my own creation of Maldene. So read on, then afterwards go to his site and read some more. Jeff’s Blog site: The Mavonduri Trilogy Official …

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Writing Tip: How To Design A Character

Be it any sort of fiction, a writer needs to know how to design a good character. When should you do it? How much detail should you give it? How much background? These are the questions I’m here to answer today. First, before even starting your book, and assuming you have it outlined or at …

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Writing Tips: Magic In Your World

Fantasy worlds have one standard prerequisite: Magic. But, how does a writer use it in his story? Is it enough to simply have the wizard do whatever needs to be done and all the writer has to do is shrug and say “It’s magic” when asked how? Everything needs a logic, it’s own internal consistency, …

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Writing Tips: Creating Your Own Language

In the world of Fantasy and Science Fiction, one will often have a variety of alien races and cultures. Naturally, not all of such races know how to speak English (or any other Earthly language for that matter), which raises the question, should the author create a language of his own for some of these …

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Character Talk- Sabu

One of the main characters, Sabu is the young wizard who’s mind is nearly always lost in his own intellectualizations. Where others see a cloud drifting by and fanciful patterns, he will be calculating the wind patterns that made it that way. He can calmly calculate the trajectory of a spell required to vanquish an …

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Writing Tip: Your Wrap-Around Story Has To Make Sense

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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