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Brandon Sanderson describes good prologues as promises of what’s to come. I happen to really love reading those kinds of prologues (like the one for Eye of The World), so I’m surprised to find that they are not well received by publishers. It’s like a little bit of action that gets you hooked...

Hi, I also love the Wheel of Time! I’d recommend The Realm of Elderlings series by Robin Hobb. It’s a string of trilogies that are related but you don’t have to read them all in order to enjoy them separately. If you liked the politics, and character development of WoT, I think you’ll find Hobb...

I can’t believe I’ve found this forum, I just started writing and brainstorming a fantasy novel after not writing for several years. Brandon Sanderson brought me here, after a fashion, as I was watching one of his lectures on writing and googled a term (“pyramid of abstraction”), for which the...