Paranormal Fantasy Guide
Paranormal fantasy is a subset of urban fantasy that has become so popular it is now a genre all of its own. Must Haves: Must...
Paranormal fantasy is a subset of urban fantasy that has become so popular it is now a genre all of its own. Must Haves: Must...
The Hero’s Journey is a story structure based on Joseph Campbell’s seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, where he lays out the commonalities...
If you ask a thousand fantasy authors what makes a good magic system, you’ll get a thousand different answers. I am not going to give...
Genres are a fascinating part of the writing profession. They mean nothing and everything; they are both limiting and freeing; they are arbiters and arbitrary...
If you’re an independent author, you’ve probably done a lot of work on your title, blurb, and cover. Don’t screw it all up with the...
I am going to get right to the point and tell you the secret of writing action scenes: It’s not about the action. Like everything...
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman Way back when I was...
More and more, books and publications that were once exclusively science fiction or fantasy or horror are calling themselves “speculative fiction.” But what is speculative...
I had to take a break from working on the site to finish up my book due on Dec. 31. But I’m back now, in …
We talk a lot about how to write better and the tools you need to do that, but we don’t talk a lot about the...