- Getting sucked into research (in a bad way)
Sometimes when I’m doing research for a story I end up spending WAY too much time looking up various things that are maybe only a tiny bit related to…
- Shadows of the Apt
Has anyone else read this series? A truly excellent fantasy, with book seven of a planned ten published a fortnight ago, it combines classic High…
- Merlin
Have any of you read Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy? I read the first one but had a hard time keeping up with all the characters. I actually had to…
- Food! Real, Partial Fantasy or Completely Fantasy?
I love to work on creating new types of food for my new characters. Even characters that appear to be fairly close to humans, still get food which…
- Real, Imaginary, and Perception
I haven’t written enough for this to come up, but I’m curious about what is treated as real and unreal in your world. Do you write in creatures that…
- Keeping track of POVs
If you’re writing a book with more than one POV, how do you keep track of what’s going on in each POV? Especially if one POV is off doing something…
- Your steps to write a novel
Some of us start with an idea, some of us begin freewriting, some of us write an outline, and some of us start in the middle and add a beginning and…
- The Thursday Series
Has anyone read the Thursday books by Jasper Fforde? I just finished the whole series recently. They were a really easy read. It takes place in…
- Essential Fantasy Novels?
What are the essential fantasy novels? I don’t mean the “best” novels, or the “classics”, but the ones everybody knows (or should :p). The ones…
