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    Giants

    In one of the books I'm working on the only account of giants comes from a merchant who traveled to the far east of the main continent to the city of Dis. Located in the center of a major desert the majority of the city is underground and four giants stand around the entrance. Each one is buried...
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    Using Patreon to Fund Writing and Publishing

    You typically need steady content in order for Patreon to be at all useful. The most successful examples I have seen are people who make heavy use of "behind the scenes" content so they constantly have something to feed to their patrons. I think it could theoretically work even for someone who...
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    In Need of Plot

    I think one thing that could help is to take one of your characters that you would be most interested in writing about and then setting a timescale and basically imagining what the character would do during that time. Then look at the second order effects, how would the other characters react...
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    Have you thought about your sun, moon and more?

    For the current book I'm working on I've created a fairly detailed cosmology due to astrology featuring heavily into the world's magic system. It's a geocentric model with a rotating spherical Earth surrounded by nine other celestial bodies: a sun, moon, and seven "planets." Planet is a bit...
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    Steampunk?

    If you want to get a good feel for Steampunk you should check out Girl Genius, it's an online web comic that hits on just about every trope of the genre. Mad scientists, cool gadgets, Victorian attire, political machinations, love triangles... if nothing else it may give you some material to...
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