Hard or Soft Magic in Fantasy?
Do you prefer hard or soft magic in fantasy stories? Do you care about the detail, the scope, the price […]
Posts on writing genre fiction
Do you prefer hard or soft magic in fantasy stories? Do you care about the detail, the scope, the price […]
A while back, Book-tuber Merphy Napier presented thirteen fantasy tropes readers may hate; tropes so heinous, readers can’t just put
In a vast literary genre, High, Low, Epic, Urban, Paranormal and Romance are all types of fantasy fiction. Along with
If you take your characters outside their fictional world, do they still function as compelling, relatable characters? Drop them into
Right now I’m wrestling with book categories; where do my books fit in the melee of marketing? Who are they
A revelation about my fantasy series: I’m the author as translator. Put another way, my characters don’t speak English… Listen
Magic defines the fantasy genre, but I have no fewer than nine problems with magic. Sure, you can have fantasy
Inspired by Sanderson’s World Building class, we bring you writing Setting as Character. There are certain books where the setting
A common piece of writing advice is ‘write what you know.’ But what I know, I don’t want to write
One important question when writing fantasy: how big a world do you need? Cast around for writing advice in the