I built mine using the Norse legends, and then played with it quite a bit. Dark skin, fine features, fangs, black hair, tattoos, sorcery, and...
Great article. My master class on armor comes at the issue from the opposite angle.
Career military, here, and never heard of it.
I believe that you, as the author, should understand the workings of the magic system, and the reader only needs to understand it as far as the...
Similarly, I point out that the local word for "pegasus" translates to horsebird. Soldiers refer to winged horses and gryphons--both ridden by the...
Tolstoy famously said, "All great literature is one of two stories; someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town." Do what you want with...
There is heavy truth in this. My thinking from here is to keep writing stuff in the vein of The New Magic for independent release, but use the...
I also haven't bought an Amazon ad since January 2019. Everything for me at this point is the Also-Bought algorithm, word of mouth, or someone...
Thanks. And hey, it happens. I should have saved the stylism for another series. It very likely killed this one (granted, it had a lot of help;...
This is awesome, because I didn't know Michael Sullivan had been on this site. He was one of the influences for my business model, at least as far...
No chance. I don't know anything about schools, and I have no kids. (To be fair, I'm a Platoon Sergeant; I have 35 children, though some of them...
First things first: you only aim a recurve bow momentarily. The shot is instinctive; you bring the weapon up as you draw, and you release when you...
Here's the interview with Grey Journal: This Veteran Founded A Self-Publishing Company And Became A Renowned Realistic-Fantasy Author | GREY...
My WIP is already getting comparisons to Stargate because it's about a modern-day Special Ops team and a couple of archaeologists exploring a...
Write it from a different POV. Somebody for the love of God write one of these "wizard academy" stories from a teacher's POV. Imagine the...
A conlang with six noun cases and a trochaic-phonologic meter from Greek verse.
Outlawry was a thing for a long, long time. When someone was sentenced to outlawry, the laws of the land no longer covered them. No one would be...
I have 15 more novels currently plotted using the worldbuilding I've put together over the past ~20 years, in three different genres. (I just...
So, this just happened. This entrepreneurial magazine's "Three Successful Authors Who Self-Published Their Books" are E.L. James, Andy Weir, and...
Content warning: profanity, literary theory. Part 1: The Short and Scrappy Guide to Novel Writing: Part 1 | Joseph Malik Part 2: The Short and...
