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You could have the practitioners of this religion keep other people as slaves to be sacrificed.

It's not that I want to describe the world in excessive detail in the story. It's that I want a solid idea myself of what the world is physically and culturally and historically so that I can A) adhere to realistic happenings within this universe and B) so I can keep track of what's going on...

I have no personal affiliation with this website, but I've found it invaluable for coming up with names for several characters and locations. I even have a current bank of names I found here that I can look through when I need one. Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.

There's a reason why King Arthur was called Wart as a child. Perhaps names shouldn't mean anything, but in literature, they really do.

Just for perspective, Stephen King doesn't really plan out his novels. He gets an idea and starts writing and then sort of discovers the rest as he goes. And I think it's safe to say he's enjoyed a degree of success over the years. There's no right or wrong way. Maybe try different methods and...

The Miles Between Us

Another question to add to this: how important is it for the chapters of a book to be relatively the same length?

Re-reading The Last Unicorn for roughly the thousandth time.

That makes sense. One of the most impressive things I've found about the Song of Ice and Fire series is the rich history that is established. Also the concepts of the various religions of that world, since religion/spirituality is such a pervasive part of culture.

That seems fair.

I'm writing a large story that takes place during the "Dark Ages" of an entirely made up world. As I've been writing, I've tried to throw in little bits of info about this world as naturally as possible. It helps that the main character has lived his entire life in basic isolation and is...

Hi, everyone. I'm a 39-year-old husband and father of four. I love high fantasy but am very picky about what writing style I can tolerate. I live Tolkien and George R. R. Martin. I've been developing and writing a story over the last ten or so years that started as a short little Grimm-esque...