I’ve been nominated for the Encouraging Thunder Award by Sylvia Heike. Sylvia blogs about her writing and publications. She writes flash fiction and short stories, and has a novel on the go, too! Her blog also highlights writing magazines and talks about social media. Pop over and say hi sometime! The …
In my last post in the worldbuilding series I looked at the creation of magic systems. When I moved on to develop my own specific magic system, I found it lead naturally into the consideration of religion. So, I thought it would be helpful to look at the creation of a …
Back to something non-writing related now. I’m a member of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in the UK. The WWT have nine centres over the UK, and I live not too far from the centre at Slimbridge. I’ve had membership for three or four years now, and it means that …
I’m now working on some short stories based on the country I created in my series on worldbuilding. The series of short stories is going to be called The Lannerain Chronicles. To create short stories, or perhaps novelette/novella length works, I think it will be easiest to focus on one character …
At this stage, I’ve done enough basic worldbuilding to start drafting some story ideas for The Lannerain Chronicles. I will add to the series as the need arises, but for now, here is a summary of the posts in this series to date: Creating a Fantasy World (Introduction) Decide on your …
Today we’re going to have a look at the creation of magic systems. The internet has many in-depth resources on this topic, so my aim here is to keep it simple, outline some basic principles, and apply them to the fictional fantasy world I have been building throughout this series. …
I meant to be more organised with the blog the last couple of weeks but: Busy Life + Norovirus = No Writing. So, to amuse you all today, I am going to recommend some books written by fellow members of Scribophile, all of which I have read and enjoyed. If …