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Happy Yuletide! ‘Tis the season to be giving, and so I’ve decided to give my own brain a slight break from the hustle. This week, instead of sorting through tabs or pondering literary devices, I sat down and thought about what has helped me be a writer and creator. I remember my first attempts at…
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Winter folklore piqued my interest some months ago when I fell into the rabbit hole of building lore for a northern kingdom in my book series. In particular, I was researching fantasy monsters that frequent wintry escapes. Having a smattering of warriors sitting around a campfire amid the snow-covered, forested hillsides and recounting stories of…
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Forget characterization and worldbuilding, sometimes you just need to dive right into the action. A duel between a couple mages. A secret meeting. A near-death experience. It’s a great way to get a reader’s attention, and that’s the point of in medias res—to start “in the middle of things.” In medias res is essentially a…
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What’s on Tab: How to Feed Your Fantasy…Worlds
Considering the variety of cuisines throughout the world, I expect fantasy worlds especially those of epic proportions to have equally epic menus for our intrepid cast of characters, but there’s almost an overwhelming amount of food to pick from that it easily becomes a reflex to simply choose from the groups of foods we ourselves…
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